Expanding mog house!

[kingfury]

Love the illustrations Kingfury, I hope someone on the team checks them out!

I was talking to LS mates a while back about MH stuff, I'd love to see the expanded houses for each nation and maybe the ability to have one in Jeuno ( or the style of the houses in upper Jeuno with multi rooms )

I also think an area like how chocobo circuit is set up would be amazing if it were an outside area for a small neighborhood maybe a few LS people in each one. Block party go! I'd like to see your house have a lawn for your raised chocobo, wyvern or carbuncle to idle in. Or a pet bed in your house where they can idle in. I always wonder where my pets go. and letting your moogle plant outside (like the greenhouse mentioned above),maybe on the other side your lawn a crafting furnace hosted by your NPC fellow.

That or i'd be happy with a penthouse overlooking port bastok. I'm sick of living in a basement studio apartment. lol

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/kneel ^^ Thanks Misi /salute

I gotta say, I wouldn't mind any of your suggestions for an entire homestead! lol Great images flooded into my head after reading your suggestions so if you don't mind, I'd like to visualize a few if I can. Hopefully the Devs have already got the idea from all the feedback in this great thread that players want another level of "Role playing" inside FFXI that gives us a place to call "Home" instead of a place to crash for the night. I know it would be on pare with developing something like an expansion development time-wise, but lets hope in the coming years with the future of FFXI in mind they truly hear the outpouring of request for something this cool and include it with a possible future expansion.

I was a big fan of the Phatasy Star III game element that allowed for you marry and settle down while passing your responsibility and problems along with your war-ridden life onto your offspring lol.

Copied from the Phantasy Start III Wiki:
"The feature that mostly separates Phantasy Star III, however, is that the story spans three generations of characters. At critical points throughout the game, the main character is given the option of marrying one of two women he has encountered during his travels. This choice determines the new main character of the next generation -- the child (or children) of the previous lead. The choice also affects the gameplay, as the main character may be Orakian or a mix of Layan and Orakian, which differ in their ability to use techniques and their level of proficiency with them. Two paths in the second generation in turn lead to four paths in the third and final generation, and depending on which of the four main characters is played, the ending will vary."

It was such a strange/cool concept back then playing that game to see a new, yet similar, face that you can continue to progress through the game with ^^. Who knows, if FFXI incorporated something like what Phantasy Star III did above, it could solve the whole "Let us Change our hairstyles" dilemma lol @.@ In any case, we would have a real home to retire in complete with the lawn and chocobo ranch if we so chose, or even if we didn't "retire". Really cool stuff. ^^ /

[Misi]

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/kneel ^^ Thanks Misi /salute

I gotta say, I wouldn't mind any of your suggestions for an entire homestead! lol Great images flooded into my head after reading your suggestions so if you don't mind, I'd like to visualize a few if I can. /

By all means, go for it. I'm really bad at drawing architecture. Seeing what others envision from some ideas is always fun.
it would be great to have upgrades, now would be a good time to do them since more and more people are setting their home points back in starting towns with the AH fix and abyssea npcs being local.

There was talk about UI changes, if those happen then maybe possibly they could add in things like hairstyle changes and the like. I think the Phantasy star idea is cool, but i'd feel like a bad parent every time i'd go out to kill monsters. it would be crystal war all over again. lol if they did something abyssea-like with that it could work, especially with how WOTG set up their story for Lilisette.

btw, I love the fish tank, its too cute. I'm surprised we haven't seen a witty furnishing like that in game so far. keep up the great work!

[kingfury]

There was talk about UI changes, if those happen then maybe possibly they could add in things like hairstyle changes and the like. I think the Phantasy star idea is cool, but i'd feel like a bad parent every time i'd go out to kill monsters. it would be crystal war all over again. lol if they did something abyssea-like with that it could work, especially with how WOTG set up their story for Lilisette.

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lol Well the concept was IF you decided to get married and have a child, that child would take up your original character's mantle allowing that character to study war no more and you would now control that offspring character, so you wouldn't be a bad parent... technically speaking... after all, you are forcing your innocent offspring into a life of never-ending battle... Hmmm... not sure how that falls in the whole good/bad parenting picture lol.

btw, I love the fish tank, its too cute. I'm surprised we haven't seen a witty furnishing like that in game so far. keep up the great work!

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Thanks again ^^ /salute
It is amazing that we don't have those yet lol. Devs, add Crag fish tanks to the your to-do-list please

[Linh]

Altana finally got caught in my Pokeball for Prankration. I found out the chocobo I've been raising can fly. King Arthur said if I needed him and his 12 homies all I needed to do was text. And I finally reached Lv100 yesterday.

So what am I missing? An Expanded Mog House.

[noodles355]

Just want to echo the few posters that said they would like furniture to not take up Mog Safe space. Please pleas please so much please do this. I think 29 slots in my mog safe are taken up with furniture. It looks nice but I'm hurting for space!

Also KF's mea crag fish tank pic was awesome. They need to add that as an item in game.

[kingfury]

Just want to echo the few posters that said they would like furniture to not take up Mog Safe space. Please pleas please so much please do this. I think 29 slots in my mog safe are taken up with furniture. It looks nice but I'm hurting for space!

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/Agreed with this 200%! Make it work like Automation slots or something please Devs ^^ where you can use the menu to easily remove/add the funiture and so forth.

Also KF's mea crag fish tank pic was awesome. They need to add that as an item in game.

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/kneel ^^ Thanks Noodles /salute
Only thing I forgot to add was little scaled down Dhalmels walking around which would be pretty cool to see in that scene as well lol.

[Wibbly]

Try to focus folks.


Yes, it would be nice to add all sorts of things, but keeping the mog house contained and inside at the very least limits the things the dev team needs to do to make the entire thing work.

[kingfury]

Try to focus folks.
Yes, it would be nice to add all sorts of things, but keeping the mog house contained and inside at the very least limits the things the dev team needs to do to make the entire thing work.

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No worries Wibbly ^^ From what I've seen throughout my time here on these boards is the Devs will indeed focus on the main subject of a suggested thread and respond accordingly, but nearly every response is followed by something like "please continue to give us your feedback" or "keep posting your ideas and feedback" and so forth. Rest assured, the Devs probably have "Expanded Moghouses" pinned somewhere on their "can we get into the game" idea board.

It's very natural to be inspired by great ideas and have even more ideas spring forth that are in line with them. While other ideas seem as though they are straying a bit away from the original concept, they are most likely being included by the Devs to add to any and all possibilities for the main suggestion. I say think of it like this:

So long as the ideas and suggestions in fact include an expanded mog house or a satellite concept that goes with it somewhere, they're supporting the OP's topic even it calls for a front and back lawn or an out house lol.

The Devs will reel in anything that's too far fetch while processing the potential is what I've seen. The more ideas the better since no one knows how far the Devs may be willing to take the concept in terms of implementing the idea. It could very well be a major part of a future expansion one day! o.o In which at that point, could have every single great suggestion posted here included.

To be honest, I want an entire piece of land now! lol It would be much more fitting to reward the saviors of the world with their own piece of real estate I would think especially for those of us that don't prefer city living lol. Perhaps a choice, eh? Where would you like your Expanded Mog House to be built? within a city's walls, or outside in North Gustaberg?

/Kingfury points to North Gustaberg ^^

[Wibbly]

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To be honest, I want an entire piece of land now! lol It would be much more fitting to reward the saviors of the world with their own piece of real estate I would think

Hmmm.... While that is true.... It's also very needlessly complicated...

Well heck. Make it an expansion like the abyssea sections, adding a few specific areas including a home zone... Although at that point you'd have to make the homes more than just expandable. you'd have to replace the entire thing. then it comes to customizing that big of a space, maybe the entire thing and adding in NPC's and being able to place pets and things out there....


BLAH. Big idea. Not that I would be opposed to having a workshop for crafting or a fishing hole for fishing..

[kingfury]

Hmmm.... While that is true.... It's also very needlessly complicated...

Well heck. Make it an expansion like the abyssea sections, adding a few specific areas including a home zone... Although at that point you'd have to make the homes more than just expandable. you'd have to replace the entire thing. then it comes to customizing that big of a space, maybe the entire thing and adding in NPC's and being able to place pets and things out there....


BLAH. Big idea. Not that I would be opposed to having a workshop for crafting or a fishing hole for fishing..

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starts fiddling with expansion names.... homes... vana'diel... homes of--

"Homes of Vana'Diel"! ^^ lol j/k j/k

But seriously, they could opt to go as far as an expansion for this suggestion after their focus from developing all of the content needed for our 90-99 lvl cap has been be secured and fleshed out.

Actually, if they could REALLY have time to work on this concept, it would honestly be worth an expansion truly. Including a full laundry list of new animations like sitting, lying down, feeding fish tanks, perhaps watering/tending to plants, and heck maybe even sweeping the floor lol. All of which could have variations of each so to make it as interesting and entertaining as possible. I tried to show some of that variance with my illustration of the linkshell meeting inside the Mog House with folks sitting differently either folding their arms, or leaning forward, or very postured. Even having the animation that shows a character napping in a chair. All would be awesome to have.

They could be coded to trigger different animations like /seat 1, /seat 2, /seat 3 etc. ^^

I believe it has the potential. ^^