#Town Portals, Reputation & Player Homesteads

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terse roost
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💡 Suggestion: Town Portals, Reputation & Player Homesteads

Towns in Everwind currently feel like one-time stops rather than places to invest in. As travel distance increases, returning becomes impractical—creating a “loot and leave” loop.

🌀 Unlockable Town Portals

  • Earn via reputation + short questline (e.g., helping an Arcanist)
  • Unlock fast travel from your airship
  • Makes towns persistent and worth revisiting

🏡 Homestead System
Unlock housing via light reputation + questline
One active home at a time (can relocate)
Encourages long-term investment in a town

⚒️ Town Crafting Bonuses

  • Each town has procedurally generated bonuses:
    • Smithing, Alchemy, Upgrades, etc.
  • Higher altitude = stronger/multiple bonuses
  • Crafting at your homestead grants the bonus

🎯 Benefits

  • Towns feel meaningful, not disposable
  • Adds progression and strategy
  • Encourages exploration to find the best town

➡️ Shifts towns from temporary stops → long-term hubs with identity and value.

vocal wharf
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Hey, that’s a really great suggestion, something like this could possibly show up in the future in the AI & villagers update that you can see on the roadmap

terse roost
mild bronze
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great suggestions, +1.
Maybe high rep would allow to hire NPCs that could tend crops for the player in town, tend a general store that sells some of the loot of the player,
pilot the ship from waypoint to waypoint or to specific biomes upon request (npc skill and speciality related)
Follow and help the player.

muted quiver
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+1

brazen ice
bold yew
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+2 🙂

wild nebula
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I love the idea of having town reputation
Would be useful to have reputation be more than it is currently
Would also be nice if there was a way to win back negative reputation so you don’t have to abandon an entire village after accidentally hitting a villager once

wanton spear
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+1

glass dagger
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+1

mild bronze
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Adding. FGetch quest (and any other quest if ever implemented) would give you reputation, maybe giving discount and/or access to "unique" buffed equipments from vendors. Also town chief or another NPc could give you coordinates to another village; something like " you should go see my cousin (or whatever) who lives in whatwhat village down at XXX:YYY:ZZZ.

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oh and yeah. Names for villages

pastel tinsel
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+1

wanton sundial
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This is really a good idea, this also could lead to farming, would be nice to have more food recipes on the game and create those animals on a island on your house.

smoky storm
wraith pendant
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+1