So... gotta ask; what's the point of having a apartment? It's not like V gets any bonuses for sleeping there, and the cache is nice and all for storing Iconics, but that pretty much sums up all your get out of your apartment.
There needs to be an incentive to return to your apartment. Maybe make it to where you have to use the internet in your room to learn up on the location of your gigs, sleeping gives you bonuses to your stats, the cache is fine, eating a meal grants a longer/better boost, etc. Just something that makes your apartment WORTH returning to. Heck, your love interest moves in to your apartment or at least can be found in your apartment. The shower is just RP, make it so that cleanliness impacts your social (I'm a katana build right now, I'm pretty sure nobody would want to talk to someone covered in blood).
I know the cellphone has it's purposes, but maybe your apartment is the only place you can select certain gigs. How about making crafting and upgrading be something that requires a workbench that you have in your apartment?
There's a lot of potential for the apartment being more than just a idle location you may occasionally visit. I'm hopeful that CDPR can do something to make it worth returning to your apartment after Act 1.
Well, there are few small decorations V can learn which are automatically added to V's appartment, even now.
Thing is, i am firmly AGAINST any ideas which would limit V's current capabilities. Like crafting only in V's room, getting some gigs only in V's room, being able to clean up blood only in there shower, etc - all that is bad, BAD idea. Why? Because you may like it, i may like it, but great many casual gamers will whine about "CDPR taking away my freedom!". And that's bad. The game has enough bad publicity as it is. If not for this situation, it could work, perhaps.
INSTEAD,
i think it'd be best to do two things:
1st, to _add_ new functionalities which is only possible to do from V's place, instead of limiting any already-available functionality to be only available from the appartment. And there's lots possible things to be added, which feel very natural! Like:
- how about allowing V to call in a number of joy toys to have some fun with V? Currently, we must go to Jig-Jig street to pick one up, but it'd be nice to also be able to call some for "room service", ain't it?
- how about adding several SEPARATE inventories to store all kinds of different items into them? Currently, with just one inventory for everything, it's one big mess, especially for any hoarder, to get through it all. Heck, even in WoW, which is soon 20 years old, we had different inventories ("bank", "bags", etc). Indeed, where else this kind of dedicated storage would be located, if not in one's home?
and 2nd, what Fallout 4 did rather well: namely, to provide ability for players to show off their posessions much, MUCH more than just few small decorations and couple short walls with guns.
I mean, did you ever visit Adam Smasher's room on Ebunike? Heck, that one has better weapon show-off than V's appartment, and not just weapons!
So,
i'd say, allow us to "place" and/or "drop" items we collect - and get them saved inside V's apprtment, possible to pick back up at any time, but otherwise just standing there shining their pretty models out.
In particular,
How about some wine stands like huge wine "walls" we see in luxury clubs and hotels in the game? There are 31 kinds of alcoholic beverages in the game possible to loot and buy, and some of those bottles look really nice. What if we could "decorate" with hundreds of those bottles, putting exactly "my own personal favorite" bottles in whatever patterns we want? Neat, ain't it?
How about similar thing for apparel? We can collect and keep dozens, even hundreds pieces of clothing, and some few of them are even looking quite fancy. And yet, in V's appartment, it's merely a few static pieces of clothing in a single half-open closet. How much better can this be made be? Tons better!
How about whole new area for all sorts of canned and otherwise packaged food, drinks, medicinal items? Heck, my V ends up with over a thousand healing items just from playing the (hoarding) way i do. I bet lots players have excess things they'd want to be able to show off.
You may say: "dude, but V's appartment is way too small for such things". And it is. But, as one no-cliiper discovered and published, there is whole unfinished FLOOR in the mega-building where V's appartment is, and it looks like that whole floor was intended to be for V to use!
Perhaps, future update will allow us to "expand" during the course of the game from a single appartment to bigger and bigger areas, where things like i proposed above would become possible? I hope it will!
