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Voidfather Feb 9, 2020 @ 10:47am
Question on buying houses that are already taken. Beeeeeeeeep!
The title says it all, I was wondering is it possible to own a house that is already occupied with the "Residential" label? the reason I ask is because I live in Mongrel and the only houses that I see for sale are the small pill box homes. Ive done some research on the game on good places to start from the beginning and Ive seen a lot of talk about going to Mongrel and buying the Y home and mutiple people have said this but the only Y homes in Mongrel is a armor shop and another that has a bunch of drug addicts that is only labeled "Residential" if I was to assassinate these people would the house eventually go up for sale? or is there a chat bubble to talk to someone? or is it just to early in game for it to go up for sale? or did they patch it so the only homes in Mongrel for sale are the small homes? any advice or tips would be really appreciated ! My melting pot of a clan needs to find somewhere to make the money and start my farm research so we can take out all the slavers and the racists! FOR BEEP!
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Originally posted by Radiosity:
I learned this recently (yesterday in fact): the game has a random seed generated when you start a new game. This seed determines which houses are available to purchase, and different houses can be available in different games.

The Y-house in Mongrel is normally available for me, but if you're seeing a shop there, that means the seed randomly generated that house as a shop instead of a purchasable home. You can try starting a new game, but that'll mean running to Mongrel every time which isn't ideal.

Alternatively, boot up the editor and create a custom start. It's easy to do, just look under game starts, find the one that most closely resembles what you want (Freedom Seekers, Man and a dog, or whatever), right click and create a duplicate. Rename it, then use the dropdown to select a specific starting town, choose Mongrel. Use that start in the game and you'll spawn in Mongrel every single time and can restart until you get the Y-house available :)
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Shidan Feb 9, 2020 @ 10:50am 
No, nothing you do with make a house that is not for sale, go for sale.

That said, essentially any residential building should be marked as for sale in vanilla. If it's not, I'd wager that's a mod resident.
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Radiosity Feb 9, 2020 @ 12:15pm 
I learned this recently (yesterday in fact): the game has a random seed generated when you start a new game. This seed determines which houses are available to purchase, and different houses can be available in different games.

The Y-house in Mongrel is normally available for me, but if you're seeing a shop there, that means the seed randomly generated that house as a shop instead of a purchasable home. You can try starting a new game, but that'll mean running to Mongrel every time which isn't ideal.

Alternatively, boot up the editor and create a custom start. It's easy to do, just look under game starts, find the one that most closely resembles what you want (Freedom Seekers, Man and a dog, or whatever), right click and create a duplicate. Rename it, then use the dropdown to select a specific starting town, choose Mongrel. Use that start in the game and you'll spawn in Mongrel every single time and can restart until you get the Y-house available :)
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