How do you acquire houses? If its the usual way and you have to buy them, are they expensive? Do workers need a house?

Via the map, you click on the city which you want to have your house at and lodging for your workers. Without lodging you cant hire workers in said town.

To purchase any building you simply need CP and some silver (around 1k), You can filter with the map tool to show all the locations where you can buy a house or workers lodging in the city and simply purchase it by selecting and clicking.

You can also purchase storage, and all kind of workshops to create bars from ore, costumes, tools and more.

The more storage you purchase, the more storage you got in the bank.. all you need is a BUNCH of CP  (or cash to buy storage slot extensions)

Housing isn't unique to the person, and a whole server can own the same room (but it is theirs in that they can decorate it, and have other people visit their house). It's pretty cheap to acquire tho and they serve some super important functions (processing, worker digs, storage capacity increases and the like). 

5 minutes ago, [CM] Simon said:

Housing isn't unique to the person, and a whole server can own the same room (but it is theirs in that they can decorate it, and have other people visit their house). It's pretty cheap to acquire tho and they serve some super important functions (processing, worker digs, storage capacity increases and the like). 

Thats good. Considering other mmos overcharge for houses that dont serve a purpose

If not mistaken you can buy furniture at a npc or was it Pearl items? 

19 hours ago, Astolti said:

If not mistaken you can buy furniture at a npc or was it Pearl items? 

Little bit of column A, little bit of column B I think. 

1 hour ago, [CM] Simon said:

Little bit of column A, little bit of column B I think. 

I see

You can buy furniture from a NPC, you can buy it off the market, You can make it yourself with a workshop, and there's cash shop furniture that's a lot more fancy