Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

I feel like the mailboxes, gardens, chocobo stalls, npc vendors, retainers, and miniature aetherytes should not count towards our item limits. These are basic functions of housing after all. If you have a small house and put just those items in your yard say goodbye to 1/4 of your item allotment. Also can we have different designs for those items (retainers are of course not counted in this) like we do walls and fences like primal mailboxes, single or triple chocobo stalls, and allagan aetherytes?

Being able to design your own wall art (portraits) utilizing screen shots. I would like to have some of my favorite locations and in game people hanging on my wall instead of npcs. Perhaps an in game pictograph machine. This is defintely something I could see as an optional service money maker.

Perhaps offer 3/4/5,custom portrait slots per house size with an option to increase with optional services (I would pay for this )

If this isn't an option then perhaps hold a screen shot contest every patch cycle with a specific theme. The winner having their screen capture converted to an in game portrait available via esoterics or something. The current wall art is lacking.

http://i.imgur.com/WSNrieH.jpg

For the love of Hydaelyn, can we get an option to remove the post (or is it beam?) in our house/chamber please? Too many times have the post (or beam) came across me and my designs.

Also, on top of the ever requested "chameleon" partition, I'd love to request again for half and double length partitions for more design freedom.

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Originally Posted by SokiYagami

http://i.imgur.com/WSNrieH.jpg

For the love of Hydaelyn, can we get an option to remove the post (or is it beam?) in our house/chamber please? Too many times have the post (or beam) came across me and my designs.

Also, on top of the ever requested "chameleon" partition, I'd love to request again for half and double length partitions for more design freedom.

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YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! I FULLY SUPPORT THIS! It has made my corner parlor fireplace area unsatisfactory D:

Couple more request:
1. Half partition that extend downwards from the ceiling, so we can duplicate this:
http://i.imgur.com/xjITYtX.jpg

2. Some sort of "floating" square tile/plank (wall mount) that is nearly half the thickness of the partitions. Image included below to illustrate the idea:
http://www.dynamichomedecor.com/mm5/...rown-Set-B.jpg

As you can probably guess, it will need to be far away from the wall such that tabletop/wall lamps wouldn't clip into it.

3. Fourth interior option to change the ceiling. Even dyeing solid color would be fine.

4. A grid UI (Similar to the HUD layout one) overlay on the floor for more precise arrangement.

5. Ability to lock X/Y axis (so it only move in one direction) of the furniture, so we can line things up perfectly.

Whats about an Alexander Lamp?

I really do like the light in Alexander (except in A7). Would be nice to have this in my house.

You know what would be nice? Dyable wooden letters in Eorzean script. Think of all the potential for Indoor (or outdoor) signs!

Sorry if it has been asked but for us healers, could we have an healing dummy? I wouldn't have to ask my friends or partner to go get hit just so I can test my heals every time I want to try a new skill or rotation or strategy.

Give us the option to preview a piece of furniture/wall/flooring/chandelier before we bother to craft it and it just looks tacky because those little icons don't serve the item much justice.

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Originally Posted by Decoy_Wolff

Give us the option to preview a piece of furniture/wall/flooring/chandelier before we bother to craft it and it just looks tacky because those little icons don't serve the item much justice.

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You're welcome. ;)

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Originally Posted by SokiYagami

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You're welcome. ;)

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That is great but I would much rather prefer it to be something you can preview in a blank screen much like you can preview gear instead of visiting a website.

Fair enough, I do think that having some kind of Ikea furniture store (at gold saucer maybe?) in game where you can view all furniture would be really nice. However, I do think that the fan sites would be sufficient in the meant time and I rather SE fulfill other heavily requested items first, like increasing item slots and housing for everyone, etc.

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Originally Posted by CuteWhisper

Sorry if it has been asked but for us healers, could we have an healing dummy? I wouldn't have to ask my friends or partner to go get hit just so I can test my heals every time I want to try a new skill or rotation or strategy.

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But...you can heal people even when they aren't hurt..o,ô
You can even try most of it on yourself, no need for a second person at all.

Any chance more furniture can become "tabletop"? Like Lalafell vendors, Dead Man's Chest, Head of the Dreadwyrm, just to name a few.

This one is just on me, but is it possible to lower the volume of Shower Stand please? It's far too loud (imo). Or maybe keep the sound to when it turns on only?

Also, please, please, please, please remove the "Destroyed upon removal" thing already... From the 3.3 patch notes:

"*Removed flowers will be permanently lost."

Yoshida forbid me to change the flower on a daily basis. Seriously, please remove this. This is probably the second most sought change I wish to arrive someday, right after increasing item limits.

I would like to request the materials for the large garden pond be changed either to 8 unbreakable rocks, 8 mossy rocks and 8 terminus putty or to large stacks of fewer raw materials. Remove the fieldcraft demimateria from the list altogether. It takes 27 inventory slots just to craft it because the rocks don't stack and additionally I don't see anything to justify more than double the rocks from the regular garden pond or the requirement for fieldcraft demimateria. In addition please add some life to these ponds so they look more naturally placed. Some grass fronds around the edges and some lilly pads floating and some cat tails while a dragonfly hovers around would all go a long way (and THAT would be worth fieldcraft demimateria).

I would ask for a limit on how many houses a person can buy per account, one per server (excluding FC houses, that would just be One per FC) as to prevent house monopolies and house flipping.

I would like to ask for:

- more vintage inspired itens, with some rococo/art nouveau inspirations.
- autumn decoration, such as: orange trees, leaves in the floor, etc

Now with a lot more Asian theme furniture. Asian theme windows, doors, roofs, fence. More customizable housing exteriors and not just entire skins that aren't customizable ^^

Also a mote and draw bridge as a fence please

For the love of god increase the amount of outdoor furnishings :(

Don't distinguish too much between the public housing and private housing. Don't make any housing content "exclusive" to the private housing areas. It's already extremely stupid for people who pay the same subscription to never be able to access a very heavily advertised feature of the game just because the developers decided to strictly limit the supply to a portion of each server's population in an almost permanent way.

It will make people question if Yohi-P is still a gamer at heart if he keeps using everyone's subscription money to provide content that is practically permanently locked away for the few to enjoy.

@Curious Crop exchange:

Love this feature. Love what I can get out of it. Love how quickly they grow. Hate how I have to sit there trading in 24 flowers one at a time... Similar problem to how buying Coke/etc. worked at Grand Companies, can we get a similar solution?

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For the love of god increase the amount of outdoor furnishings :(

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Don't forget the indoor furnishing limit, too... I've been sitting at 200/200 for a while now, and this patch added a lot of little things I can't really make room for...

How about some kind of a rose bush by combining a round shrub with 20 or so of the new full grown rose plants? They grow so fast, there needs to be some things to consume large quantities of them.

Why can the Encyclopedia Eorzea be put on a table, but not on a shelf ? :/

Also more outdoor furnishing, I agree, need some table and chair to set a decent tea party ! Also I didn't try but I guess no tabletop food outdoor ?

What would be really great is to allow us to apply a wallpaper onto partition, just like we can use a dye

You know what would be a good idea for Lighting? The Rainbow effect form the Aquapolis

I'd like to see paintings of the game's antagonists. The Primals for a start as well as portraits of the likes of Regula, Livia, Gaius and Varis. A lot of people - myself included - prefer the antagonsts to the protagonists and since Livia's/Nero's magitek mounts have already been added to the Mog Station I think it's safe for them - and other protagonists - to 'live on' through portraits.

After making a little park area, I'd like to have more natural lighting options so how about a swarm of lightning bugs that move about for the yard.

More "dark" furnitures, walls, lamps like VA. I want to make an haunted theme house but kinda hard at the moment

Are there any plans of placing a garden Orchestrion? I kinda wanna have a different tune once we enter the garden to match its theme. Probably hard to implement I know...

And since we got beach chairs, any plans to implement an outdoor pool or ground/sand terrain? Or more beach themed outdoor furnishings in general.

Probably most of this can't be done but oh well just for fun a bunch of random musings on things I would like to see for housing:



Lighting toggle for each floor separately. So if you wanted you could have the lights at 0 in the basement and say level 3 on ground floor; controlling each floor's lights separately.

A wash basin item for bathrooms or even kitchens. We do have a shower stand so a bathroom/kitchen sink might not be completely out of the question either I suppose. Wash basin is just a no indoor plumbing alternative.

Wall mounted and tabletop mirrors. Making them actually reflect might be difficult so I would settle for it just looking like a mirror. To hang in bathrooms/bedrooms.

Simple tabletop items like empty glasses/plates/silverware.

A guestbook (that can be placed inside or outside) where visitors can leave a message to say they stopped by. It could have a list of premade friendly greetings to choose from and signed by the characters name. Some examples like...
"I just stopped by to say hi!" -Miste Vaer
"I like your decorating style!" -Tifa Lockheart
"Come see my house too!" -Zidane Tribal
"Let's share housing ideas sometime!" -Summoner Yuna

The ability to toggle more lighting objects on/off. Some lamps are permanently on and cannot be toggled at all currently.

The ability to have the fireplaces either lit or unlit. Right now the fireplace is always lit, which is mostly fine just a random thought that if its summer or something you might not light it.

The ability to toggle the white arrow off of toggle objects. The house would look a lot nicer if you could turn these off. Its for people who already know which objects they can toggle you don't need the white arrow anymore as long as you can click on the object still its easy to check if you can interact with it or not.

The ability to dye wooden wall and flooring types. If its made out of wood there should be no problem with dyeing it since a lot of other wooden creations in the game you can dye. It would greatly increase our wall and flooring options by just having some more palette swaps which I think would be easier to do than whole new walls/flooring. You could even make the wallpapers dyeable too!

The ability to use different colour lights in the ceiling lights. Now I am not sure how to do this maybe being able to dye certain ceiling lights to make the light they emit a different colour. Either that or make different crafted versions with different colours. I notice some lights give off a yellowish glow, some are bright white, some are redish/orange, blue/purple for the shiva one. Sometimes I like the ceiling light a lot but the colour of light it gives off doesn't look good for the room its in because of the walls/flooring etc. Like personally I would love if the Star Chandelier could be changed to emit a bright white light instead of yellow.

More dark themed walls/flooring. There is a lack of darker style walls and flooring. Most of the walls and flooring choices are very vibrant/colourful and/or generally very light themed.

More object space for the lawn of the house. Small and Medium isn't too bad; mostly its enough object space to make the lawn seem fuller. The large house though you really have to use large objects too much to make the lawn look full and not so empty. I think it needs maybe 5-10 more spaces tbh. 40 is just a little bit too small.

Make the chronometers actually have an interaction menu where you can set a short alarm to go off at a certain Eorzea time (or even local time too). Choose to alert yourself for a gathering node or for local time it can be a "you've played too long go to bed now" alarm at midnight or "stop playing you have to get ready for work" alarm lol. Of course you'd have to actually be in your home to hear it.

The ability to move and/or add more ceiling lights.

More paintings that aren't portraits. Add more landscape or some still life paintings.

Access to the balcony in large houses. (There is a door already there for it and everything!)

Windows that you can actually see out of would be nice; I can see issues with it but....yeah it would be cool. Or also being able to open the windows to let more natural sunlight in during the day.

More outdoor garden type items like more different kinds of flower plots like the Lupin/Sunflower ones. Roses, lilies, tulips etc.

More oldrose colours.

If/when they add swimming a backyard with a pool....yeah probably not going to happen but it would be fun lol.

Or...maybe an INDOOR POOL?!

More garden patches, the deluxe parch doesn't fit at all with my exterior decorations

log-out in private chambers, inside your FC's house, like we can in the inn/hotel and receive the same exp bonus.

that was the only reason I bought a private chamber, only to find out that it's merely for fashion.
mildly disappointed :(

PS: I know this has been requested several times before, but this thread has become so big.
mention it one more time can't hurt.

We need fish tanks! I would kill to have a big beautiful fish tank in my home lighting up my life. I've already mentioned it in the feedback page, but seriously! I want so bad ;A; I imagine it to work like flower pots, but with fish!

The ability for characters to change their pose while in /doze would be wonderful. My Miqo'te lady certainly does not sleep with her legs popped up, propping her head in her hands, thank you.

EDIT: I imagine it should behave like /sit or the idle pose, where you can change between a number of postures. Sleep on left side, sleep on right side, sleep on back, sleep in that weird pseudo-superman-pose on your stomach kind of sideways with one leg crooked, etc. In hand with this, I'd like it if we could control whether our character's eyes are open or closed at given points.

Hammocks outside, so for once we can actually log out at the house without standing like wierdos on our lawns when we log back in xD

I would love to see more tree types and bushes for the garden and plant plots like (lupin plot) : example common cattails they would fit so good near a pond. and lilies please >_>

There are so many plant assets in game I would love to see more of them as outdoor furnishes.
A second layered pond that is higher then the normal pond with (waterfall would be nice to have to :P )

The two main things I've wanted for a while are;

1.) A mirror/ flip option for furniture easiest examples are the L shaped sofas.
2.) A Partition which takes on the look of the wallpaper currently on the wall.

There are a number of other things aswell but these are two big ones for me personally.

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Originally Posted by Jpec07

The ability for characters to change their pose while in /doze would be wonderful. My Miqo'te lady certainly does not sleep with her legs popped up, propping her head in her hands, thank you.

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The Live Letter at E3 confirmed this for 3.35

When is the Junkmonger going to be updated with Heavensward bait?

Allow me to invite my alts to my house. Basically I'd like to keep my house locked for everyone except my alts.

Your own character portrait as a painting. Although it seems farfetched, it would be a nice addition to the currently very limited amount of paintings we have in-game.