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I'd like to point out that public houses don't get keys, making them useless for trying to lock anything down.

This is actually for a very good reason. A house that is public can be quite the dirty trap if you can lock things down while it is public. Imagine if you will, advertising a new vendor in your home and sitting patiently next to the inside of your door for someone to buy something. The first customer comes in and you press a macro key that tosses a box down and almost instantly locks it down. Now the customer is stuck and can easily be killed with the element of surprise. Cool tactic it may be, it is a little too dastardly for my taste. Not because I don't mind people tricking players but because boxing ghosts is messed up and I know people could easily do it in this situation. Yeah there is a stuck option but that has limits to prevent abuse so someones gameplay could be ruined under the [s:3cremjx7]right[/s:3cremjx7] wrong circumstances.

Also, is there an expected price for the statics?

I plan that the final price of statics is going to be 3k for outside a guarded area and 4.5k in towns - prices may vary on location and are subject to approval by the staff team.

That said, I find 3k per tile a tiny bit too much off the bat as the shard just opens and I would like people to have a chance to settle into statics they may have owned in the past. So until the first of June or 30 days after the first static is bought, whichever comes first, the prices will be 1.5k per tile outside town and 3k inside town. This is the likely price, not absolute as this does again vary based on location and approval.