Bring back perm housing.
Maybe once a year option?

I mean, allowing them to be bought again just refreshes the unfairness. If the goal is fair then those would have to be left to only be earned via RP, but obviously staff cannot retroactively take something people paid money for.

Then allow it after a certain amount of time as a member. Reward loyal memberships.

Many phenomenal players can't afford to allocate $200 to Sindome for a special perk. I support large unique pads but please don't gate them behind a paywall.

Then they should be more easily accessible. Ive been playing sindome since 2013, and I have never once been granted one. Even though ive had characters that have affected the Sindome world to this day, items still exist from things previous characters have done and even for those characters it was not granted. So it makes me wonder. Do the rewards actually exist?

(Edited by Rillem at 8:21 am on 2/17/2026)

Switch to the GTA RP model of selling businesses / high end gear / homes and special vehicles for real life dollars. Beyond the burden of having to build new permapads and come up with some kinda RP to give it to someone, I don't remember the reason that they stopped selling them. Having to earn a spot through RP is cool and all but it seems to be a lot of effort for a place that is temporary / based on glazing your boss?

At long as large pads are affordable I'd be happy with that. As it stand right now such a low population can afford them, they might as well not even exist. A donation drive does sound like a fun idea.

I started playing while permapads were still available, and I am slightly embarrassed to admit how much the regret of not having jumped on one bothers me. From tailoring, to custom chrome, tattoos, character descriptions and redecoration so much of what so many of us love about this game is, for lack of a better term, playing dress up. I adore it. The meticulous construction of a character precisely to our taste and inspiration. It is just the best when played out over time as they grow, become more successful, or less, as the story unfolds for them and for the world.
To me, currently, the state of apartments feels like a missed opportunity. Either they should all be -quite- uniform so as to lean into that particular angle of cyberpunk, or more disparate and unique and strange. Permapads, or purchased large pads, feel to me like an opportunity for the latter option. So, from a world building technique there's that. Perhaps for cost sake there's an opportunity to earn them through volunteering?
From an emotional side, I just feel sad that I don't get that particular option for character highlight that some others did, and continue to enjoy. Granted, it is possible to gain through RP, that they exist for others, however inconsequential to Crooknose's point, makes me feel envious to the extreme.
Even if donation for a large pad was gated behind having been a part of this community for a year, or five. Or if it was an option only ever several years, that it was even possible at all would make things feel a lot better, and it would get more of those pads being used! There are so many empty ones.

I guess I've never felt like I needed a large pad? Does it actually add much for anyone's RP that can't be found elsewhere? And if it does then why is it hidden inside of a pad that is only accessible to one person?

I feel like it's fine as-is. Maybe even assign some of the NPCs to them and some @puppet-requests can take place in there so that they are more accessible for RP.