Rentable rooms at the Open Door.

[Egon the Monkey]

I'm really not sure the Ticker Guildhalls are doing what they are intended to, not least as they've been largely unused through most of the time I've played. They now have a massive deposit on them which means you can't use them as a launchpad to get rich, you have to be rich before you can use them. Whereas the Burgage offers no-deposit rentable property that offers most of the functionality.  It's ironically far better for starting a business or faction, despite not being the business hub and being loaded with 5 Associations already.

In Ticker, you have to put down a 20k deposit on a Guildhall (Not sure if this is refundable or pays your rent or what) and for 1k a week you get:

• Storage (5-10 spaces)
• A lockable meeting space.
• Free resting
• Enough space to run events (though not combat ones as you risk AoEs hitting NPCs there)
• Some form of benefit like a buff-vendor sorcerer, a pub, or a crafting bench. But you don't know what until you hire the place

Plus you make yourself well known enough it's harder to just skip out on the 1k a month tax.
I've seen four of the Ticker spaces so far.

In the Burgage you need to put down no deposit and pay 400 a week for:

• Storage (5 spaces)
• A lockable meeting space
• Free resting

I definitely don't feel the Burgage is underpriced, if you aren't making use of the storage and resting, you'll lose money. But there's 20+ rooms there, and none in Ticker.

One of the running problems I've seen with Ticker is it lacks much of an identity. I think that a number of rentable rooms in Ticker would allow smaller Guilds and other PC factions to have a "starter HQ" and get themselves off the ground beforeing renting a bigger HQ with specialist facilites.