Large Houses, Add access to the balcony with the door please.

[Edax]

I'm also not crazy about this wooden screen that blocks my view of Shirogane and would love for it to be moddable somehow in the "remodel exterior" option. Adding a watchtower to the roof is mostly pointless, but the balcony I feel is more important for player creation. I guess it would be like the awning add-on?

[Ramesses]

I'm also not crazy about this wooden screen that blocks my view of Shirogane and would love for it to be moddable somehow in the "remodel exterior" option. Adding a watchtower to the roof is mostly pointless, but the balcony I feel is more important for player creation. I guess it would be like the awning add-on?

Now that you mention it, I reckon this really should be modified.

[AshiraKita]

They did at least test out a balcony door once upon a time. You can still see the interactable 'orb' on the balcony door from the inside of the home on this housing promo video they released in 2013 (as well as our eventual dodo message book). Watch this from the 40 second mark to about a minute in and they show both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr11_sh5BYw
We did get the message book eventually, so maybe someday? I can dream, lol.

[Mysticales]

Bumping in hopes Devs could add this in still.. so much this could do for us.

[FoxyAreku]

Yeah, I've wanted this since 2.0. Why have the door if it can't be used?

[Kanitezz]

You guys have balconies?!

[Jojoya]

The issue of the balcony door in mansions was addressed in the Q&A at the EU FanFest. The door leads to a balcony that's part of the instanced house area, not into the ward, and so wouldn't reflect what's going on outside the house. They are working on technology that could change that but they have no estimate on if/when it might happen (stressing the if - they want to make it happen, they don't know if it will work).

[AmbienNightmare]

Yep if they make us have that ugly door then it should be usable...it’s not even centered. We should have access to the balcony

[Pinworms]

This needs to happen!!! But what would we put on it?

[Naychan]

Given the number of people/FCs that actually have large houses, this would be a complete waste of dev resources.

What resources, the code is already there for entering and exiting the house since they are instanced. A few simple changes is all it would really take. Just have it lead to the Ward and let people put furniture up there.