Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

We'd like a Roomba for our house. :) With a cat riding on it.

Allow culinary class to make "fake food" to put on tables. Bottles of wine, etc. Casks of ... beverages.

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Originally Posted by Bernhardt

Casks of ... beverages.

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Miqo'te 's Delight, Liquid Catnip

to be placed near the bath and bed, for no apparent reason.

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Originally Posted by AlexRow

I would really like to see more moving NPC's in the towns. Right now they seem really empty even with a bunch of houses in the ward, so why not make townspeople NPC's that walk around the town to make it seem more alive and not like a ghost town :)

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My FC just purchased our house and unfortunately, it had to be in the 2nd ward which is going to be empty for a while. The zone feels completely dead and unwelcoming and is going to be that way for the foreseeable future.

I really think that wandering NPCs, even if you can't interact with them would be a huge addition to the zone.

My ideal wish would be to have any plot that is not purchased by player characters have a basic house frame on it with NPCs lounging about, coming and going from them, just wandering the areas. Maybe have them able to do basic emotes if you emote towards them. It would be pretty amazing to walk out of the house and be able to wave at a neighbor and have them wave back at you. Have them mostly wander around during day/evening hours and be gone for the overnight hours.

Please add fish tanks. There's so, so many fish with no use what-so-ever. =(

I'd love a few seasonal event themed decorations, maybe crafted.

There were so many decorations around town during the seasonal events,
and it would have been amazing to have a few to decorate our own houses.

Doesn't have to be much, say around 5 items or something like that.

And maybe a few decorations around the ward as well, same like in the city states.

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Originally Posted by Iya

Please add fish tanks. There's so, so many fish with no use what-so-ever. =(

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A wall-mounted fish tank would be so awesome. There's so much unused wall space in the medium and large houses.

How about fish tanks as a separators? (or IN a separator wall) You often see that in hotels and restaurants and I love it.

But lets not get ahead of ourselves and start with just any fish tank. Heck, I'd be happy with a bowl to keep my copper/silver/gold fish.

As it stands, people in your company that do not have the rank to access your estate hall can still turn lights on and off if the estate hall is open to the public. Obviously if I close my estate, they can not enter to do this. People have decided it's fun to switch all the lights off when I'm asleep, which it is! But I think that ranks that do not have access to the hall, but are still able to come in as members of the 'public' should not be able to fiddle with lights. That, or just make it a separate permissions tab. In a very large FC, the lights go on and off more than a bi-polar traffic light.

I didn't even know you could do that. Haha. Learn something new each day.

Just increase the god damn item cap and I'll be over the moon. Why have you not mentioned anything about this at all Camate when this is by far the most asked for improvement to housing? If there are no plans to increase it at least tell us.

A LOT more wall items would be much appreciated but also kind of redundant without the cap being raised.

Low dining/coffee tables please. Would really like to have a floor sitting area. Saves on piece count too with no need for as many chairs to make it look right.

I was wondering..if possible - could you make it so we experience the "rain/wet" effect when we are in the hot tubs/baths and when we get out for a few minutes or so.

Also long tables...like a long, fancy dining table.

Edit: Can I request please for /doze on the couches and rugs (in front of the fireplace)

Can we please have the windows on the inside of the house match the outside ones? It's kinda weird that our glass-panelled door is solid wood from the inside.

Dunno if been suggested before... But can we get new housing items with seasonal events available only during event matching the theme,

Sorry if this is a duplicate. Just wanted to suggest mount stalls for player housing. Like maybe a yard or basement feature where we can show our mounts in stalls (like horses).

Also will there be something like skyrim where we can place certain weapons on a wall mount? Maybe a glass box for rings etc...

Skyrim has very cool housing options. I also thing it would be awesome to have a house in the coerthas highlands or something like that.

I think it would be adorable if we could "release" our minions inside the house. Minions that are not following us could be allowed to run around and interact with the environment and other minions.

Larger rugs. Large houses could use larger rugs.

Skimmed this whole thread and only saw one thing similar regarding different types of partitions.

Everyone suggests increasing the furnishing limits but in case that doesn't happen (its getting increased for small housing though), I'd like to see double length partitions added. It would probably save quite the bit of space for houses (probably most larges) with many rooms or hallways. Plenty of houses have used 2-4 partitions side by side I'm sure, so I doubt a two in one wouldn't be too hard to add compared to adding scaling options.

I'd like more variety of like... actual flowers to use outside the house. Flower beds, bushes, hedges, etc, none of this exotic weird stuff like coral, anemones, flytraps, etc.

We only have 2-3 actual flower pots for the outside and they are extremely tiny.

Also maybe some way to lay down a walkway would be nice, might be weird with how some houses are oriented but maybe the walkway could just be tiled and we could place them how we like.

Fishing a very rare fish is useless so it would be great if we can transform these fishes in fishing trophies or put them in an aquarium/pond to admire or stock them.

I'd would like kitchen furniture too (an house without a beautiful kitchen is not a house) and an outdoor barbecue.

Don't know if it has been posted yet...

Since we will get a personal housing later. I would like a personal room inside FC house, same as inn but modifyable like FC house.
Not that I don't want a house but being separated from the FC house doesn't feel right for me.

Make it an option either personal housing or personal room with less gil to build.

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Originally Posted by SylbharF

Don't know if it has been posted yet...

Since we will get a personal housing later. I would like a personal room inside FC house, same as inn but modifyable like FC house.
Not that I don't want a house but being separated from the FC house doesn't feel right for me.

Make it an option either personal housing or personal room with less gil to build.

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This is a great idea and I was disapointed when it was not released with individual rooms already installed

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Originally Posted by Nifixe

Fishing a very rare fish is useless so it would be great if we can transform these fishes in fishing trophies or put them in an aquarium/pond to admire or stock them.

I'd would like kitchen furniture too (an house without a beautiful kitchen is not a house) and an outdoor barbecue.

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This is similar to what I was thinking, including mounting weapons like a trophy fish on the wall (over a fireplace etc)

I'd like to see the option of getting mini games for your free company. Kind of like a mini arcade for company members.

It's also been a really long time since I played it but I remember really liking the card game from FF 8. I could see collecting and hunting for cards to play with in this game as well. A card playing table would be a nice thing to add to our basement, along with some mini games.

I would love personal housing in Mor Dhona.

I'd like to see plot expansion options. My FC has a medium house, and that little teeny front yard is just so...teeny. And/or perhaps the option to place a medium house on a large plot, a small house on a medium plot. More yard!

Also, the ability to place old weapons on a plaque and hang it on the wall would be nifty.

Here is an idea I have for Individual Housing:
Allow another player to live together with the owner, this player has access to all the housing options excluding the Removal of the House & Relinquishing of the Land. Any buffs granted by the house & furniture is also applied to this player.

While an F.C. House basically has all the things we (me and another player) need to live together, but having other people in the F.C. with the same rights as us able to modify it and simply walk in whenever we do our thing is a little annoying.

SE, how about some new partitions to match the new wallpapers you added :mad:

Rather than have dozens of themed partitions, I wonder if it would be possible to just have a singular partition item which just took up the image of whatever wallpaper that floor was using.

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Originally Posted by Kio

Rather than have dozens of themed partitions, I wonder if it would be possible to just have a singular partition item which just took up the image of whatever wallpaper that floor was using.

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This would be nice. It's mildly frustrating that even with the existing partition and wall sets the partitions don't quite match the walls if you're in a different neighbourhood than the set's default neighbourhood because the pillars, skirting board and moulding on the walls all stay to the default style of the house.

Hey I didn't read everything so sorry if someone has posted this.

I think there should be some kind of Housing Commendation system, Where we can vote on House's that we like the most. Could possibly get more players into Housing. Doesn't really have to be any rewards, But maybe could make it so if you get a certain amount of Commendation for your FC house you get some Company Points? Like 10 Votes give 1000 points, all the way up 500 votes maybe like 100k FC points (10,100,250,500). Could be FC Achievements. Of course no FC members can vote for their own place. Of course FC members cannot Vote for their own FC. To make sure there would be no Abuse like Leave FC and Vote and rejoin, make it so players cannot Vote on a Former FC, Also you can only Vote for a FC once.

IDK if it could be implemented but I think it would be pretty cool.

EDIT Another thing could be some House Furnishings for Rewards?

Another housing request from me.

Stronger lights for large ground lamps and the wall ones. I have a few rooms that are a bit dark. And I would love to make them brighter without having to remove partitions.

Strongly request 2nd floor or attic for S Houses because the outlook shows that there should be 2nd floor or attic, it is a disappeared area according to the outlook, mystery!

Otherwise, we should be able to change the root to a flat roof which we can stand on or put something on it. By doing this, the mystery vanished area issue could be resolved.

I'd like to be able to craft a stage, like a theater stage that is big enough to fit some furniture. Putting it together with like 10 tables hurts.

1. Please increase the item limit for FC Housing (Large), since the number of items able to be placed is disproportionate to the size of the house.
2. Please have a separate FC Chest set exclusively for House furnishings/floors/doors/windows/plants/etc. Similar to the requests for a Fishing Lure/Bait pouch for Fishermen.
3. Please allow access to the balcony. In one of your previous Live Letters, you created a video of the Large housing and it showed an accessible glowing ball for the interior balcony door. Why it wasn't there in the present is beyond me. Is this a bug?

I really like having the npc characters for the house but I originally thought it was going to be more. This led to this idea:

To create an addition to the free company house that a hired npc would inhabit and sell wares made by the free company for everyone else. I see this as being a stall outside but attached to the house in some way. Half of the money from the sold item would go to the company and the other half to the crafter who made it. This would help raise money for the company and give reason for people to see the other housing areas and interact with other companies while shopping and searching for deals. Plus it might increase the traffic in empty wards.

I plan on building an in-house crafting area for new crafters in our medium sized house but it would be nice to have an outlet for the goods other than the marketboard.

Hello, decorating aficionados!

Disappointed that you couldn't show off your patriotic side by placing a painting of Merlwyb on a partition in your house? Well, get ready to deck out all the partitions with her painting in patch 2.3 as we will be making it possible to place wall furnishings on partitions. :)

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Hello, decorating aficionados!

Disappointed that you couldn't show off your patriotic side by placing a painting of Merlwyb on a partition in your house? Well, get ready to deck out all the partitions with her painting in patch 2.3 as we will be making it possible to place wall furnishings on partitions. :)

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Thank you team! You guys are awesome. May be please have next (or a word on) any of these?

1) Snap-to-Object
2) Show Gridlines
3) Snap-to-Half Grid
4) "Flip" Object (as like flipping in a mirror, especially good for L-shaped items)
5) Show Rotation Angle (e.g. 30deg., 60deg., & so forth)
6) Option to Move/Remove Side-Wall Supports
7) Better Centering on Side-Wall decorum (or allow us to move it)
8) A vertical grid-snap (as opposed to horizontal-only)
9) Increased Item Limit for Medium/Large Housing (equitable considering Small Houses get a free Basement)

I like the idea of having a shop at FC. FC's with shops inside could have signs outside displaying their status. Additionally the sellers should be able to list their wares on the global market and the buyer can be given an option to pay for the delivery of the item or go pick it up him/herself. I think this would satisfy both roleplayers and non-roleplayers.
Part of the tax paid on these sales or all of it should go to the FC.
And I also think that we should be able to limit to who we sell our wares on these retainers.