Your points are all correct and need to be considered. The hard part as a developer is you pick doing things one way and people second guess you for years to come. I don’t mind that. I just want to make sure that the reviewers understand that the whole world is not possible to us as it is to them. There are always time and money restrictions which are easy to forget about when brainstorming.

There are no bad ideas when brainstorming. And articles like this one help a lot when creating the next generation. Nice work!

I do not have the knowledge of a programmer of great Home stuff like you, so I can only go by what I have seen on Home.

I believe that the tiger could work in the same manner as the floating robot pet in the Neptune apartment. There is an area where the pet resides. When enter that area it begins to follow you. If you go back to that area it will stop following you. If you happen to get yourself cornered by the robot, I believe it recognizes when you come near to it and it moves out of the way. I don’t see why the tiger couldn’t behave in the same manner.

Personal tastes is a tricky one for sure, but if a segment of your market is ignored, they will eventually leave or worse stop buying things. So how do allow one to easily skin or personalize the look of the space. Even though it was limited in the number of selections, I really like the ability to change the wallpaper in your studio apartment. I like subdued, dark colors, so slate works great for me. For others this would probably be too drab. The Mansion could have similar approach with different themes: hip-hop, classical, etc., where statues, appliances, etc. could have a different look.

To have baked in furniture it not is another trickery one. I would like to see survey numbers on this (maybe I will create one in the Sony forum). The preference may be divided along gender lines. Almost all of my female friends are very proud at showing me how they have decorated such-and-such place. I understand that some on a budget may prefer baked in furniture, much like a furnished apartment, but this is a mansion. I am rich, why should I have a limited ability in decorating it. Doesn’t make sense to me.

I acknowledge that if these things were incorporated it would probably drastically increase load time and may not even be possible under current memory contraints, but larger spaces have been released recently.

You have peeked my interest in what 1.65 might bring to Home in the future.

Thank you for your comments from your vantage point as a developer.

You want to reduce the gaudiness. How will that effect sales? Will they be higher or lower? There seems to be a big market for anything hip-hop or gangster. And the Mansion definitely has its “Scarface” moments.

You don’t like the baked in furniture, others loved it. How do you resolve that? And you can see some of the furniture through a window from the pool. If people placed their own furniture, it would have blown continuity.

All four spaces maxed out the memory limits of the time. So even with a dynamic loading/unloading system, it could not have been done. And BTW, it would take at least 4 times as long to load if you could do it. Possibly way more if the space kept getting bumped out of the local cache because it was so big.

Reasonably priced obviously is negotiable. I feel the first space cost is high. But when you average out the cost of all 4 spaces, it is reasonable. They still are some of the best spaces in Home.

People were haters of x7 and yet that made the Top Ten for selling short term tickets. Cutthroats was a huge win and didn’t place anything in the Top Ten. It is hard to say for sure what will sell and what won’t. I thought that the crowd that would go into x7 would also own the Mansion.

Pop music is called that because it is popular. Yet many people say it should be less sugary sweet. Are they right? Are they making it for themselves or to sell to others? David Bowie, hardly a sell out, once was asked if money ever came into his equation when creating music. He said he couldn’t speak for other artists, but he made music for a living. If he wasn’t making money, he wouldn’t be making music, he would be doing something else.

All that said, I think there is room for another Mansion. It is odd that going to another part of the same space kicks people out. Maybe it would have worked better for some as a Club.

I hope if they are working on a new Mansion, they read this article and think about what you said. Your points are all valid. I imagine they will learn and improve the next one where they can. Improvements are coming fast now. I am still looking at all the things in 1.65.