So, the Firmament...

I'm soooo excited lets buiiiiild it...I'm imagining an old command and conquer game where you build your base and farm resources from scratch. :cool::cool::cool:

From what Francel says during the introduction to the Firmament and him specifically asking you about adventurer housing, it really feels like it's going to end up as a housing ward now. SE could just be throwing a curve, but I'll keep my hopes up for my friends who want to move there.

the German patch notes flat out call it a housing district btw

My understanding of it was that it will be housing wards, and servers that complete restoration first will have advance access to the housing.
I do not believe this of course, it is just what it sounded like from what i had read and heard

I'm fairly certain the upgrade process is designed such that we complete all there is for a given patch long before the next patch arrives. The playable area we currently have access to is tiny, as with all the versions of this we've had before (Doman Enclave/Idyllshire/etc.) they've require a patch to expand that playable area before we can continue. We'll fully upgrade this area long before the next patch adds more spaces to upgrade.

As such, I fully expect Firmament Housing to simply be dropped in whatever patch it's scheduled for. Everyone gets it at the same time, because everyone will have finished all the Reconstruction efforts long before the patch that adds the Housing Wards in proper drops.

What I'm hopefully looking forward to, is the revelation that Firmament Plots are effectively purchased with Skybuilder Scrips, rather than Gil. I'm sure the community would love that, so it'd be entertaining to watch. Really though, it would create a barrier to entry that Gil really doesn't provide these days, which would slow down the rate Plots are snapped up. Not to mention it's a fitting reward; You helped with the Restoration, earned a lot of Scrips in the process, so you have an easier time getting a Plot there. Sticking with the current status quo would mean you could effectively put a lot of effort into the whole process, but miss out on Housing there entirely because people who didn't participate at all managed to swoop in first with a fist full of Gil.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

I'm fairly certain the upgrade process is designed such that we complete all there is for a given patch long before the next patch arrives. The playable area we currently have access to is tiny, as with all the versions of this we've had before (Doman Enclave/Idyllshire/etc.) they've require a patch to expand that playable area before we can continue. We'll fully upgrade this area long before the next patch adds more spaces to upgrade.

As such, I fully expect Firmament Housing to simply be dropped in whatever patch it's scheduled for. Everyone gets it at the same time, because everyone will have finished all the Reconstruction efforts long before the patch that adds the Housing Wards in proper drops.

What I'm hopefully looking forward to, is the revelation that Firmament Plots are effectively purchased with Skybuilder Scrips, rather than Gil. I'm sure the community would love that, so it'd be entertaining to watch. Really though, it would create a barrier to entry that Gil really doesn't provide these days, which would slow down the rate Plots are snapped up. Not to mention it's a fitting reward; You helped with the Restoration, earned a lot of Scrips in the process, so you have an easier time getting a Plot there. Sticking with the current status quo would mean you could effectively put a lot of effort into the whole process, but miss out on Housing there entirely because people who didn't participate at all managed to swoop in first with a fist full of Gil.

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The problem is that the scrips currently cap out at 10,000. I can make that in a few hours of work. They'd have to uncap it and charge a high price if they use scrips.

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Originally Posted by Ryaz

The problem is that the scrips currently cap out at 10,000. I can make that in a few hours of work. They'd have to uncap it and charge a high price if they use scrips.

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Nah, they could just implement a token system like we've seen plenty of in the past; 100 Skybuilder Scrips for 1 Skybuilder Token, 10,000 Skybuilder Tokens for a Plot, or something like that. Very easy to circumvent the currency cap.

Imagine you get your ishgard house only to have a paissa, moggle, carbuncle, castle house in your neighbour... the feeling xd

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Originally Posted by Miminming

Imagine you get your ishgard house only to have a paissa, moggle, carbuncle, castle house in your neighbour... the feeling xd

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Well, it's not like we could actually make the housing districts thematically distinct from one another beyond their mere layout or road tiles or not make each lot an identical empty grass lot or the like. That'd be heresy far surpassing that of, say, joining a violent cult centered on the drinking of dragon blood, right?