Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

There are no plans to add a market board as a housing item at the moment. Doing so would serve to further increase the load on the housing areas. Since market boards are already available in the housing areas, they would like players to utilize these instead.

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http://xivdb.com/screenshots/item/70...2845f4aa51.png

I would love if you gave us placeable tile for the outside so we could create sectioned patios.

Even a new exterior, customization slot to be able to change Grass Type.

Lastly, we need a visual-tool to see selected Item Angle of Placement.

A "Snap to Half Grid" Option (for those pesky odd-wide items).

And a "Mirror-Flip" Option (for those L-shaped items you want to pair length-wise... looking at you Oasis Couch!)

I'd like to know if there is a update on the Uldah furniture placement issue along the walls that was commented on awhile back? Would very much like to see that fixed.

Still waiting to logout and login at the bed of my house like its possible in the inn room.

Also would be nice if others could see my sleeping char in the bed :)

Does make me wonder what makes adding the aesthetician bell so complicated. I mean it's already in the game, the item and the function both. So...? No, really, simply curious.

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Originally Posted by BigPapaSmurf

I echo house-sharing.

Please don't make it only with the Eternal Bond partner either though...

Let it be anyone on our friends list we choose...

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Please this. I have a friend that I'd love to share my house with. (And I don't want to Eternally Bond either)

Two other suggestions that have probably already been suggested but:

1) White wallpaper or just non-patterned wallpapers. There are patterned wallpapers, but I've always wanted a plain white one to complement my environment.

2) An option to have your retainer (those with the land permit or whatever) offer private sales. For example, merchant goods only on the lawn rather than have the goods be reflected also on the marketboards. I'd love to offer personal discounts at my house.

It would be great if you could dye wallpaper.

Can we please have either some more Partitions that match the wide variety of wallpapers we now have, or a Partition that matches the wallpaper you currently have in that room.

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

Greetings, everyone,

I was able to get some responses to a few requests, and I would like to relay that information to you all.

There are no plans to add a market board as a housing item at the moment. Doing so would serve to further increase the load on the housing areas. Since market boards are already available in the housing areas, they would like players to utilize these instead.

The aesthetician bell is planned to be released in the future; however, there is no exact time frame on this.

Fish tanks have been requested for some time now and rest assured that the dev. team is looking into it, but they have no updates to share at the moment.

As always, keep the feedback coming and I’ll keep talking with the devs!

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WOHOOO !!!!! XD

Need more decorative rocks and cactus-type plants!

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

There are no plans to add a market board as a housing item at the moment. Doing so would serve to further increase the load on the housing areas. Since market boards are already available in the housing areas, they would like players to utilize these instead.

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I fail to see how this would increase the load on the housing areas. all it would do is add another node for us to access the market board honestly. you're not going to get more people because there are more market boards. no offence but this excuse seems rather silly to me.

I would rather the devs just say "we don't want to do that right now, we will explain later"

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Originally Posted by Wildsprite

I fail to see how this would increase the load on the housing areas. ..SNIP.. I would rather the devs just say "we don't want to do that right now, we will explain later"

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To allow the feed of market board information to every single house would blow the servers up lol. Whether or not you have access is not the point because that only allows you to toggle the interface to see the MB... the information is being streamed regardless. Also you completely defeat the purpose of having a neighborhood if you didn't need to go outside which they obviously don't want to do because housing is not designed around a you and only you instance.

So part of it is yes, it would increase the server load but the other part is yes, they don't want to do this because it goes against the purpose of what they've designed so far.

Ok, so you have the regular Armoire, which stores rare/unique stuff on a limited list, but it has a max that is basically already filled. But then you have this tall closet thing like a Serpent Armoire, right? and it just sits there, doing nothing.

But what if it had a very specific use, like the Armoire, but instead of storing things like a Luminary Pickaxe or Class Ring, it stored Company and Wolf Gear? Things like Direwolf Robes, Serpent Elite's Knives, and so forth, with the same Restrictions against dyes, spirit bonding, and repairs for Armoire being in place, to conserve memory?

People with Houses are always looking for more Closet Space.

Simple:

Some mid sized and big sized houses you simply can't get to the roof of them. I want higher and more stair options so we can get to the roof of any house. The only stair that exists now is only high enough to get you to the top of the Chocobo Stable.

There are many options! Things like spiral staircases, etc etc.

blitzball for gold saucer!!

This is a wonderful thread, everyone here some awesome ideas and I hope SE is very much alert to its contents!

That said, I add my point every so often so its not too buried.

PLEASE COPY RIFT SE

They have one of the best designs for housing with dimensions,by far the most customization and especially creative thinking. With ffxiv superior graphics , housing could be outstanding with Rifts core design.

I would love to have 100% freedom to actually create something unique from nothing and the ability to add/control/manipulate and create anything I can imagine!!

Please rethink housing..it could be soooooo much more engaging and satisfying ;)
tyty

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

Greetings, everyone,

I was able to get some responses to a few requests, and I would like to relay that information to you all.

There are no plans to add a market board as a housing item at the moment. Doing so would serve to further increase the load on the housing areas. Since market boards are already available in the housing areas, they would like players to utilize these instead.

The aesthetician bell is planned to be released in the future; however, there is no exact time frame on this.

Fish tanks have been requested for some time now and rest assured that the dev. team is looking into it, but they have no updates to share at the moment.

As always, keep the feedback coming and I’ll keep talking with the devs!

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How are your servers this bad? It should not be any more server stress to make an NPC that redirects it's purpose to an existing NPC. It would be like talking to it from a range.

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

Does make me wonder what makes adding the aesthetician bell so complicated. I mean it's already in the game, the item and the function both. So...? No, really, simply curious.

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The bell in the inn is "safe" as noone but yourself can access the same instance as you, so there is no chance of someone interacting with you while you are occupied with the aesthetician... however, in a FC house, there are people running past you, poking you etc.. so they probably needed to change the coding somewhat to ensure your character wont bug out while stuck in the aesthetician interface.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Can we have a garden storage where we can store all the soils and seeds? ^^

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THIS... and being able to click on the garden patch and "Tend All"..... gets really tedious having to tend/fertilise every plant individually

Some housing / Furniture ideas:

Window Curtains. (I really like these old style curtains, makes it feel like castle window curtains)

http://dreamcurtaindesigns.com/image...g-services.jpg

Updated: Room Light sensor = option to turn down lighting in the room. (See image below)

http://s10.postimg.org/84eioff3t/room_light_example.jpg



More Landscape paintings, and bigger please!

When will we be able to lie down on the couches and floor? :(

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Originally Posted by Meier

When will we be able to lie down on the couches and floor? :(

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your adventuring days are not over yet!!! dont you know a dragon war is brewing?!?! get up and fight!

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Originally Posted by MistyMew

PLEASE COPY RIFT SE

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Quoted for emphasis. The UI for Housing right now is incredibly bad. I'm fighting just to highlight objects to move it or rotate it. And I'm constrained by the small spaces of a small house.

I know you love WoW SE... but please, please play Rift and copy what they have done. It is the definition of flawless housing

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Originally Posted by MistyMew

PLEASE COPY RIFT SE

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wow... so i finally got to sit down and check out some vids and pics of rift's housing...

Most of it is impossible because of the very nature of our housing but holy sheet! the amount of customization is ridiculous. You can literally build anything like in minecraft, the tree houses and gardens are so amaze. At the very least SE should sit down and brain storm some ideas from this stuff.

Here is my list of features I'd like to see:

1. The ability to share your home and house functions (aetheryte, garden, house decoration etc) with eternal bonded spouse or friend.
2. The ability to turn off the lights to your home
3. The ability to dye interior walls
4. Partitions should be able to look like interior walls
5. The ability to log off inside your home
6. A juke box that allows you to add music to your home
7. Addition of doors that can open and shut
8. Addition of curtains, blinds and drapes

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Originally Posted by Domira

Here is my list of features I'd like to see:

1. The ability to share your home and house functions (aetheryte, garden, house decoration etc) with eternal bonded spouse or friend.
2. The ability to turn off the lights to your home
3. The ability to dye interior walls
4. Partitions should be able to look like interior walls
5. The ability to log off inside your home
6. A juke box that allows you to add music to your home
7. Addition of doors that can open and shut
8. Addition of curtains, blinds and drapes

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Just wanted to point out that your #6 has been long promised by the devs (and will likely make it in sooner or later) and your #7 is already in game (there's a sliding Asian style wall that opens when you approach and closes after you step away) although I don't know what it's called.

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Originally Posted by mbncd

Just wanted to point out that your #6 has been long promised by the devs (and will likely make it in sooner or later) and your #7 is already in game (there's a sliding Asian style wall that opens when you approach and closes after you step away) although I don't know what it's called.

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Yeah I know they added a sliding door. But I'm talking about more variety of them. Like opening and shutting doors with glade, rivera and oasis thems etc.

You know how we can adjust the size of UI elements (120%, 100%, 80%, etc.), can we have that for furniture? So we can toggle the size of something before placing it, great for making some things fit or filling more space with the same stuff. Great for Lalafell too, I'd imagine. It would be an easy way to make furniture for little people without actually having to make any new furniture.

Not going to lie, I mostly just want to ramp a Stuffed Moogle up to as big a scale as possible for lawls, but it would seriously fix the lack of furniture for small characters.

Why you do this SquEnix?

https://i.imgur.com/HYtQi93.jpg

Also can we change the front door to being a zone line? Would be convenient to just have to run into the door to enter rather than selecting and going "Yes I'm sure I want to enter, why else would I walk up to the door?" every. single. time... At the very least make "Yes" the default... Seriously, who the hell walks up to the door of their house and goes "Am I sure I want to enter?"...

Aaaaand I just noticed that the Junkmonger does not sell Clear Prisms. Please fix.

Housing / Furniture Idea:

Room: Jukebox / Music Box

http://www.epictoon.com/blog/wp-cont...se-jukebox.jpg http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/...20141217082750
( Images from FFXI: Mooghouse furnitures.)

A working Jukebox that plays any music selected from the game.
(For fun, these could be unlocked by completing dungeons etc)

I'd really like to play the theme music for: "The lost city of Amdapor" in my room.

ooh that harp is gorgeous! I really wish we could get some of the XI furniture into this game

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Originally Posted by Meier

When will we be able to lie down on the couches and floor? :(

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they ought to put a node or 2 on a few carpets for the floor part

Can we some how make guest access settings for personal housing be able to be unlocked for friends or FC members.
The Free Company that's next to my house, usually has like 5 - 7 members who enter my house and basically sit in there, iv asked them politely to leave but they don't and are rude about it.
I know most people are going to say "Lock your house then" but i keep it unlocked because my FC members or friends like to visit and give helpful opinions on decorating, and i also don't want to keep locking and unlocking the house.

I really want the share feature. I'd be happy just to have it with my eternal bond partner for now. I made a thread today about the possibility of a Real Estate market to help promote relinquishing of land. Waiting for replies to see what others think. Dev team, care to weigh in on that thought?

Can we get this furnishing? I've seen people asking for a Vanity. This one is within game and the stool is already available.

http://i.imgur.com/eiGlK7p.png

Also wouldn't mind seeing some dining room type furniture like these (The one on the right and left)

http://i.imgur.com/p4iNst5.png

is it possible for the aetherial wheel to place able in the personal house ?

I'll just leave this here.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nd-the-Jukebox

What about a glamour dummy that can show x looking gear off you got from x dungeon. Meanwhile x gearset won't show up in someone's "dummy" if they haven't completed that dungeon. I guess a sort of way to show off your fancy gears when your not at home. /shrug.

+1 for the aetherial wheel in a personal house. i really did think we would be able to use it.

Here's my suggestion for the Devs:

1) Go play Sims 2, 3, & 4
2) Have a meeting about said gaming experience
3) ?????????????
4) Implement.
5) Profit.