Housing Changes

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House blueprints have been replaced by the new House Placement Tool [yardstick currently]
Houses now place as a preview prior to confirming or denying the placement, but will automatically decay after 30 seconds if not confirmed
Players will be charged from their bank at the time of placement, and partially refunded (20% loss, due to change) when demolishing, directly to the bank
House plots sizes are now predetermined, and houses no longer utilize large yards
House models that cannot be customized are marked as 'Classic', otherwise all other models will have parts of them that are customizable and blueprints can be obtained to unlock those options [TBD]

House Menu redesigned
Mailbox has been removed, but may return as an optional feature
Houses will now be refreshed automatically when a player logs in on a plot or in a house that they are at least friended to
Doors will now refuse to close when someone is standing in the way of the door [known issue with this not working right now]
Can no longer lock down/move items outside of the house, except for vendors
Cannot place vendors or lockdowns too closely to the house door
Reduced max-height decorate limit to prevent pushing things thru the new roofs (subject to change)
Vendors and guild stones can placed in a small section of yard in the front of the house for houses that have yards
Lockdown, Secure, Release buttons added to Decorate UI + options to place/move a Guildstone and a trash barrel
Demolishing a house will now automatically release all lockdowns; previously players were prevented from demolishing with items locked down

House Storage Changes

When you lock down a container it is no longer "Secure" and is just "Locked Down"
New speech command: "i wish to secure this" to Secure containers
Items dropped into a locked down container will automatically be locked down; they can be released, but then can be taken by anyone
Secured containers can have items taken from them freely, by those with proper security permission
There is no limit to how many containers may be secure in your house [unlike UO]

Houses now have a total Maximum Storage limit that is shown in the House Placement Tool window & in the house menu
Secured container contents do not count against the lockdown count, but will count against the total storage limit; this allows you to store more items in secure containers than you would be able to lock down individually, while still enforcing a total max limit
Every object locked down/secured in the house and/or inside of a container, counts towards the total storage
Houses now have a separate Lockdown limit that limits the amount of items that can be locked down individually in the house
Weight is no longer taken into consideration when attempting to drop items into containers in a house
You will not be able to lock down a container if it's item count would exceed the house's lockdown or storage limit
You will not be able to drop items into secure or lockdown containers when the storage limit has been met

Fixed an issue preventing players from adding friends while standing outside the house
Fixed an issue preventing co-owners and guildhouse co-owners from adding/removing friends
Fixed house placement (possibly others) not checking for bank checks properly
Updated names of roof pieces per feedback
Fixed sometimes being unable to start another trade after completing a house transfer (potentially others)
Fixed an issue with co-owners being able to change Owner-only secured objects to a lower security level
Fixed an issue with co-owners being able to release objects marked as Owner
House Privacy Setting has been disabled for now, and vendors can be placed in all houses now
Fixed being unable to move vet flags (potentially others) inside of house

The veteran banners deco seem to go outside of the walls slightly, for an unintended feature allowing you to hang your banners on the outside slightly
Walls, foundations, roof, will have a floating name like HOUSE, Roof, Walls for now during the testing phase, they will go away soon
Door currently does not block being closed when obstructed, and is being worked on