Can I build a house with my gf?

[crestacuervo]

I wonder if we can play this game together sharing progress in terms of housing. I mean, can we both contribute to the same house regardless if we both are online?

[Quarantine]

Originally posted by PopPopPopCat:

Sadly you cannot. We cannot trade furniture whatsoever, so all furniture is unlocked solo.
She can move objects, water/etc your garden, cook with you, contribute to the materials of a building in progress, that's it.

You can't share crafters except for cooking tables, you can't place your own items on another plot, you can't share an inventory or trade (only request a maximum of 5 things a day and they must be materials you've picked up before).

All progress and questing is also only for your own character, even the temples are solo instances.

Ouch prob won't be playing this then lol.

[Euphytose]

The fact we cannot "share" the same farm is what made me stop playing when the game released outside of Steam.

I was hoping this had been changed, but with the reply above, it's pretty clear it hasn't.

I will still retry the game once it releases here, because the fact we can't share a farm was the only flaw I found. But it's kind of an important one. I was hoping we could at least create a new "common" farm for several people at once and each could work on it whenever they felt like it. If they add that, in my opinion, the game would be extremely good.

[crestacuervo]

Originally posted by PopPopPopCat:

Sadly you cannot. We cannot trade furniture whatsoever, so all furniture is unlocked solo.
She can move objects, water/etc your garden, cook with you, contribute to the materials of a building in progress, that's it.

You can't share crafters except for cooking tables, you can't place your own items on another plot, you can't share an inventory or trade (only request a maximum of 5 things a day and they must be materials you've picked up before).

All progress and questing is also only for your own character, even the temples are solo instances.

Thanks for your reply. So sad then. I think there should be a way to share mats and build something together (even if technically the property has only 1 owner).

[Joe, aka. The Man]

I really hope this will be changed.

[mastergara_07]

well that is not entirely true, granted you will both have to be online, furniture can be placed on the ground, however, the plot owner has to be on the plot, furniture can be traded, by placing it on the ground, and going from there. but sadly yes, if the owner is not online you will not have access to the plot. unless it is your plot

[ZeroGiven]

Originally posted by mastergara_07:

well that is not entirely true, granted you will both have to be online, furniture can be placed on the ground, however, the plot owner has to be on the plot, furniture can be traded, by placing it on the ground, and going from there. but sadly yes, if the owner is not online you will not have access to the plot. unless it is your plot

No, furniture can't be traded. No one can pick up items from your plot, except you.

[Balsover]

They have purposely designed the game so that there is no economy, or trading.

You must do everything yourself, there are no rich, or poor players, and no way to buy/sell materials between players.

[Euphytose]

Originally posted by Balsover:

They have purposely designed the game so that there is no economy, or trading.

I understand the reasoning behind it, but I would really prefer it if you could work on the same farm with several people.

Currently it seems that everything is basically for solo play and there's no real incentive to play with friends, which is strange in an MMO.

Last time I played was last year at the very start of open beta, so it's possible things have changed since then.

[Balsover]

Originally posted by Euphytose:

Originally posted by Balsover:

They have purposely designed the game so that there is no economy, or trading.

I understand the reasoning behind it, but I would really prefer it if you could work on the same farm with several people.

Currently it seems that everything is basically for solo play and there's no real incentive to play with friends, which is strange in an MMO.

Last time I played was last year at the very start of open beta, so it's possible things have changed since then.

No, its still the same. There is no reason to play with other players, solo is king here.

[Euphytose]

Originally posted by Balsover:

Originally posted by Euphytose:

I understand the reasoning behind it, but I would really prefer it if you could work on the same farm with several people.

Currently it seems that everything is basically for solo play and there's no real incentive to play with friends, which is strange in an MMO.

Last time I played was last year at the very start of open beta, so it's possible things have changed since then.

No, its still the same. There is no reason to play with other players, solo is king here.

That's really sad. I enjoy Stardew Valley a lot because you can co-op with friends and work on the same farm.

Was really looking forward to Palia as a sort of "3D alternative", but sadly this won't be it.

I will try it again still, but for co-op I will likely stick with Stardew.

[Sierran]

Ouch, thanks for asking this question. I will probably not get this game anytime soon. Do we know if this will be added in the future. This seems to be an easy fix, just give same access as the plot owner.

[Sisquinanamook]

It sadly is not an easy fix, because it would open up the possibilities to circumvent the "No Trade" feature. If you allow people to put items in their inventory, from your plot, then you can basically just place the furniture you made and they can put it in their inventory and leave. Same if you allow them to collect items from your crafters, or pick crops from their farms. Trade is not allowed in this game, so this is something they try to prevent.

But you can help with building the rooms. So when the plot owner places a blueprint of a room, you can go to the foundation and add the required resources (something like 100 wood and stone, or something), so that the owner doesn't have to farm it by themselves. And then you only have to wait 1 to 10 real time hours till the room is built and you can start decorating. Again: only the owner can place decor and the editor can move the decor, but not add it to their inventory. Because that would be trading and trading is not allowed.

[Sierran]

Originally posted by Sisquinanamook:

It sadly is not an easy fix, because it would open up the possibilities to circumvent the "No Trade" feature. If you allow people to put items in their inventory, from your plot, then you can basically just place the furniture you made and they can put it in their inventory and leave. Same if you allow them to collect items from your crafters, or pick crops from their farms. Trade is not allowed in this game, so this is something they try to prevent.

But you can help with building the rooms. So when the plot owner places a blueprint of a room, you can go to the foundation and add the required resources (something like 100 wood and stone, or something), so that the owner doesn't have to farm it by themselves. And then you only have to wait 1 to 10 real time hours till the room is built and you can start decorating. Again: only the owner can place decor and the editor can move the decor, but not add it to their inventory. Because that would be trading and trading is not allowed.

So the issue is no trade or share object that can be used outside the house it was made, cause trading gives u an advantage ? I would just flag the object, blocking it from being used anywhere else. You can build upon this flag and use it in different ways I guess. Can only be used in the house owned by Sierran or who ever owns the house. Or if you have a house together, the flag could just block the party that owns the house from using it outside the house.

And if it’s an advantage to have a party, make it slower to progress if u are in a house with a party so it matches a solo player.

I just feel like, a game like palia want to be casual and get people to play a casual game together, or atleast that was what I expected, wouldn’t this decisions they made remove a big piece of the potential player base. It’s a social game but you are not allowed to team up.

Maybe I don’t understand the full picture here or maybe it’s just my ignorance speaking.

[Sisquinanamook]

The original reason why they didn't allow Trade in this game is because they thought it would prevent Bots from being in the game. If you cannot trade anything with anyone, there would be no use for botting.
Of course there still were Bots for a while, it is f2p after all.

I do not agree with their decision of no trade. It is in fact one of my major pain points I got with the game since Alpha. But the past has shown: no matter how many good or logical solutions you present, they won't listen.

There is no Trade. Only "Request". They decided that a long while ago and it will probably never change.

I wish it would. I wholly do. Because Palia could be a nice community driven game. But so far, it sadly is not.

[[ SegafreakTwo ]]

Cant build a house with my gf and my twin bro.
Ok thats lame :)

I go back to Palworld :)