Request: Remove from House Function

[WandererSabaku]

The Final Fantasy XIV community is an amazing community capable of amazing things. From theatrical productions to RP story-lines that rival Eorzean lore and amazing F.C. families, but the community is lacking in tools to control its environment.

Player housing has two options. Private or public. Using F.C. and tenancy helps bridge the gap; however, this game is not a game where only a few friends may want to come and go in housing areas. Unfortunately, this means for those who are hosting great events, one single player is given the right to impede on the enjoyment and obstruct the game-play of others. This is an issue that GMs struggle with, community members struggle with, and has not been addressed appropriately yet. Having to leave a plot totally locked for the unforeseeable future is not an option.

While GMs can address griefing/harassment, it takes a certain amount of proof that's not always available and takes an immense amount of time to process often resulting in too little action too late. Additionally, the call volume for housing related incidents is something that could be freed up with a little bit of simple innovation.

I am asking on behalf of the community and the supporters found in this thread for a solution. I have provided options below, but please read through this thread for others:

1.) Introduce a feature to open up the sub-menu on a character and select an option "Remove from House" to force the target to load into your yard, effectively booting them form the house. This could easily be implemented as a private house command and as a FC rank permission.

2.) Players on your blacklist are unable to enter your Private housing, apartment, chambers, etc.

Edit: To prevent abuse of the function, it should be only an option on non-FC members and non-tenants, that way it can't be abused (i.e., keeping someone from accessing their room or FC features unfairly) and that if it needs to be used properly, you would want to FC kick or remove tenancy first, then use the option to remove them from the home.

[Rydia_Misuto]

This would be immensely helpful. My free company has had people interrupt events in the past, and it makes it hard to coordinate meetups and leaves people hesitant to run public events. All it takes is one person to throw things out of whack, and while you can report people to the GMs this sort of function would make that unnecessary and cut down on their workload. I feel like anything that reduces the load customer support has to deal with is a good idea.

[Izzi-Drake]

Agreed! This is a feature that needs to be in the game!

[LeekWhibble]

Yes please \o/

[Feeny]

Absolutely for this!

I can't count the times abusive people have come into a fc or personal house I have been a part of or visited that have harassed the houses occupants. This really will help make the community a better place (Especially with Shirogane housing coming up)

[Arcian]

Thirded. There are more than a few people I know who've run into issues in that vein, and I've also had to deal with it myself.

[LanceAurion]

This is a feature in other MMO's and would be greatly appreciated here.

[Nemene]

This is a much needed feature o7

[Kathulu]

This is definitely something I would love to see implemented in the future. A swift removal of a griefer by the player hosting an event would free up time for both GMs and participants. Please SE!

[Titor]

I'd like this feature too