Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

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Originally Posted by HeyMcFly

Increased interior item limit for apartments and housing

Fully Customizable house interior - We currently are stuck with pillars, ceilings & wall molding based on the ward we are in- suggestion: Let us have fully customizable interior

Let us have different music per floor

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SO much these two!
Having the built-in pillars cut into furniture you wanna place is so frustrating. Also, not being able to put deviders/partions up against the side of staircases is annoying as all get out.
Being able to mirror-flip curtains (and other wall decor) without needing to use a stage panel to glitch things would really cause much less headache.
Being able to put wallpaper on partions. It looks SUPER odd when you partition off to make rooms and only the outer wall have pretty wallpaper on them, while the partitions are dyed in an attempt to at least match ONE of the colors of the wallpaper.

AND...
When you float items through floors (like the imitation glass thingies), for the love of god, do NOT let them show in the ceiling on the lower floor! HUGE yikes, visually!

Hello! I think I'm in the right place. (I think, lol.) First off, so much yes, and I'm gonna take a better gander at this thread once I get this out. XD I'll try not to make this too lengthy, but it might be worth a looksy.

Okay, let's talk about Mannequins. Still have your attention? (crap..lol) As a seller I have been using them pretty much since I started my trip down the rabbit hole. No taxes for anyone yay! Oh wait...no one can see I'm selling it on one unless I sell it as a set. AND you can only see the set if you click advanced search every time you load the pricing. Also, /tell? What if I'm not online? Lol. Therein lies one dilemma. The other is our nefarious and out of control botting problems we've had over the years like weeds. Both need to change.

What I propose is:
- Making any and all items sold from a mannequin have a similar icon on the marketboard as they do when they're sold directly off the mannequin in the history.
- Make the advanced search a toggle function we can turn on and off as we please.
- All items sold from a mannequin in any estate/abode can only be done so if it's set to public. (If it isn't already, I forget, lol.)
- Regardless if the /tell function is left in, add a 'Teleport to Estate' so they can come access your wares.
- And definitely don't touch the zero tax on the wares.

Though I wouldn't mind a small tax if it was still significantly lower, but incentivizing players would lead to more engagement to any individual's estate. (Could also draw them in to that retainer you got sitting out in the cold trying to sell your biscuits.) By making all items from mannequins visible and teleportable, any bots trying to utilize that system would have a way harder time trying to navigate a system like that. And thus players engaging more with each other (or not if it's not your thing, lol), along with overall lower prices; They would stick out like sore thumbs if they tried. 'Excuse me Vjdfrtgiughi Vfkbhikf, where's your pants?'

The goal is to both see neighborhoods flourishing and, at a minimum, add a layer of transparency to the Market. So regardless if you're pulling the 'Obtaining Signature' sorcery, or you are actually Obtaining Signature, it's there for all to see if you wanna use em. Personally I don't care my name's on everything. It's gone once they put it in the chest, lol. 'Yay my name for all t-!'*poof* Not anymore! xD

But that also got me thinking about expansion the function. All of which would work essentially like the mannequin and scale on quantity of machines per estate (private1/cottage2/med3/large4:

- Something akin to Vending Magitek: Can hold up to 10 stacks of 99 of any Food/Drink per machine.
- A case that allow you to display bigger items like trophies and another with shelves for small items like minions.
- Two words: Saddle Stand.
- A Silo: Can hold up to 10 stacks of 99 for items mined.
- Another silo(lol): Can hold up to 10 stacks of 99 for items harvested.


Of course they scalability could be 0,1,2,3, but I don't think that's be fair to all players. Or even just one of each across the board. I suggest 10 per, but I'm just spitballing here since there would be less placement compared to mannequins. From my personal experience in all the seeing and selling I've done from crafting and gathering, some of us have our niches and we should have furnishings that allow us to sell in such a manner. If we're gonna have these fancy exteriors, about time they can live up to reputation, lol.

All of this is bubkiss of course if the real deal is not addressed, lol. If anything, just make it potentially worse. I almost wanted to make an independent thread for the Mannequin changes, but saw this and figured I'd give it a shot 1st. IMHO improving the functionality of that system would not necessarily end botting, but it would create more hurdles they gotta jump through to keep up with the actual player base without exposing themselves. And I went and got lengthy, lol. Happens every time.

Need more partitions with doors - only 2 I can think off with door is glade door partition and paper partition - where are the door counter parts for the other partition types including marble arched partition?

And outdoor flooring - default can be grass.
But have:
Limsa stone flooring
Ul'dahn stone flooring
Gridanian stone flooring
Costa del Sol sand flooring
Marble stone flooring
etc

Small hill house cosmetic with round doors!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdG5cgZW...g&name=900x900

I'd like a horizontal square platform that we could use as a landing with the wooden steps, enabling us to turn a corner with them. A straight flight takes up so much wall space!

I can see 2 ways of doing this:
Either add a new set of steps with the landing attached to the top. In wood and stone too, please!
or
A simple, dyeable, square platform we can float, which would be trickier to use but more versatile. I could see these being used for smaller lofts or even laid down as large floor squares for a game-board effect.

They should add the glamour dresser in houses

More Housing Slots please i see people with L house using half for 1 floor because the have 300 slot does people dont need space the just need slots.

More item slots for all houses

Round door partitions

Round windows

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e6/1b/ff/e...20cef99db8.jpg

Vegetable themed house

Giant Pumpkin house

Tree house- similar to the great Deku tree from The legend of Zelda

Lakeland & Dohn Mheg themed houses & furniture

Not sure if this has been suggested or not. But could we get a full set of the Convocation of Fourteen as plushies wearing their masks and in their robes.

I love the look of the new All Saints' Wake area and would love several of the items (the mushroom jack-o-lanterns, tombstones, etc.) and a housing exterior based on it. （*´▽｀*）

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Originally Posted by unjourneyed

A continuation of missing residential-themed furnishings like partitions, partition doors, lanterns, and including but not limited to flower vases. The addition of blank partitions, partition doors, and archway partitions would also be nice to have.

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In addition to this from months ago, I ask for doorless residental-themed partition doors as well for a sense of openness in houses and apartments.

Also, about the new Sil'dihn Kitchen Shelf ... At the moment, the housing item is categorized as furnishing. Being labeled as furnishing limits it to ground placements only and can only be raised using floating glitch methods. If it was categorized as tabletop instead, it could be used for both ground placement and surfaces without any loss. Would it be possible to change this item?

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

I love the look of the new All Saints' Wake area and would love several of the items (the mushroom jack-o-lanterns, tombstones, etc.) and a housing exterior based on it. （*´▽｀*）

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This! Please also have that space open all year long.

option to increase how size from SM to MD to LG.

Increased item size limit for all house types

Glass roof/ windows placeable on ceilings. Seriously, I was mad when I couldn't put stained glass on my ceiling
AKA: green house glass/ Atrium glass windows
Windows I want to put on the ceiling: Broken glass, stained glass, regular nice looking glass-- but where I can add scenery to it so it's not just a 'white light'
Slanted scenery glass- similar to the phasmascapes (WITHOUT THE UGLY BORDER PLEASE, STOP ADDING THE UGLY TRIBAL DESIGN ON PHASMASCAPES- IT'S UGLY)

Stone & wood Ishgard pillars- Ishgard Partitions (seriously, why aren't these out yet??)

Thavnair furniture (specifically from Radz-at-han)

Bay Windows

Lattice windows

Crystal ball item

Curtains we can apply designs to- floral & filligree curtains

Lalafell Sized furniture- Tomra furniture, windows & doorways

Stuffed Livingway or Loporrit housing item please!

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Also please save my wrists and add a "water all" button to gardening plots

Ishgardian/Sharlayan/Thavnair banners

• each of the four high houses
• temple knights
• Ishgardian crest
• Sharlayan symbol (like the one found in Baldesion Annex)
• Thavnairian
  standard (the eye motif banners hanging from Alzadaal's Peace in Radz-at-Han)

If we can get a Sil'dihn banner of all things, surely we can have one for the rest of the city states/organizations

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Originally Posted by Minneyar

Ishgardian/Sharlayan/Thavnair banners

• each of the four high houses
• temple knights
• Ishgardian crest
• Sharlayan symbol (like the one found in Baldesion Annex)
• Thavnairian
  standard (the eye motif banners hanging from Alzadaal's Peace in Radz-at-Han)

If we can get a Sil'dihn banner of all things, surely we can have one for the rest of the city states/organizations

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This right here ^
Yes

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Originally Posted by Minneyar

Ishgardian/Sharlayan/Thavnair banners

• each of the four high houses
• temple knights
• Ishgardian crest
• Sharlayan symbol (like the one found in Baldesion Annex)
• Thavnairian
  standard (the eye motif banners hanging from Alzadaal's Peace in Radz-at-Han)

If we can get a Sil'dihn banner of all things, surely we can have one for the rest of the city states/organizations

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Agreed! And as I've asked previously: Ala Mhigo, Garlemald/Empire, Eulmore and Crystarium banners as well for completion's sake (I'd add a banner for Amaurot to that mix too but, it's unclear what Amaurot's ancient symbol actually was, or if the Convocation had one to identify themselves - that strange pattern on the floor inside the Capitol's entrance?).

Mainly I just want an Ala Mhigan banner - please Yoshi!

Could we have a "blank rug", similar to the blank partitions, that allow us to have small sections of floor in a different flooring pattern? Specifically I'd like to be able to put brick or stone around my fireplace. :)

Not exactly a furnishing addition, but I would like some form of player camera collision for Wooden Loft (and its variants) and White Screen furnishings as they do with walls. If you use these furnishings for ceilings and walls respectively, the camera will just 'go through' the furnishing. I've been using stage panels and floating beds to prevent the camera from doing this, but as I have an apartment with a 100-furnishing limit, it does take a massive hit on what I can place. If this change were to happen, I could easily knock out a good 7-8 of these furnishings to take advantage of new items in the future.

Please allow me to change the windows in my apartment. The items already exist and work for regular houses.

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Originally Posted by Devotions

Could we have a "blank rug", similar to the blank partitions, that allow us to have small sections of floor in a different flooring pattern? Specifically I'd like to be able to put brick or stone around my fireplace. :)

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This is a great idea, and I hope we get to see a blank flooring item in the game someday. I would definitely use this item a lot.

But if you don't want to wait for that day, it may be possible to get the effect you want using a flagstone loft. If you mount it as low as possible on a wooden beam and then lower the wooden beam as well, you can sink the flagstone loft into the floor so that it acts as a rug/flooring mat. That's the trick I did to create a paved patio in my FC room.
https://i.imgur.com/kiDJhx6.jpg

Solid curved staircases/ stair wells fit for all sized houses & apartments
Curved balconies & lofts to match the stairs for once. (I want what's shown in this image)

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/21/f6/8b/2...65e4280b43.jpg

Arcane carpets and symbols
Ishgard beams, wood & stone

Curved beams, lofts, railings to match curved lofts and stairs

More winter themed outdoor items (for ishgard & those who like snow themes)

Snow dusted bushes/ greenery/ hedges

Smaller snow-dusted trees

snow dusted path

Crawling ivy/ Vines to go outside the house

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One thing we need is more pathing that comes in various shapes; due to the nature of the placement with many houses, depending on if your house plot is either center, turned side-ways or left- we need more pathing options to fit these designs
The problem currently is that if you have a house that is the center of the plot, you can just add a straight pathway while with the other house placements, you have to get creative which often leads to folks using more item space to get the desired path which also means less to put in your yard- Many paths are too large or don't fit the ward theme or the path type doesn't yet exist.

Please, I want to see curved walkways/ paths along with more straight pathways (different shaped pathways of the same type)

I want a small, narrow cobble stone walkway for my tiny Ishgard house. I want small/short, snow covered hedges that line the path.


I would like to see smaller trees & foliage, more flower gardens & watering holes/ mini-oasis areas

Thavnair/ Radz-at-han based items

Loporrit house NPC's

More Ishgard house items- Stone and Wood beams, More lattice windows, Aged wooden lofts
Small cauldrons and small cobblestone fireplaces (with optional flames)

Stone and wooden archway partitions

More Tavern themed items- hanging mugs, intricate carved wooden beams

Lalafell sized doorways/ beds & tables

I don't know if other FC's suffer from this, but it would be great to have a marketboard available indoors for FC houses so that members actually hang out inside the house rather than outside by the marketboard. Just a small concern.

Round doorways

https://i0.wp.com/thehobbitry.com/wp...38&ssl=1&w=640

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Originally Posted by Naria

Stuffed Livingway or Loporrit housing item please!

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Also please save my wrists and add a "water all" button to gardening plots

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Loporrit mender and vendors as well as a gemstone trader would be nice ^^

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Originally Posted by HeyMcFly

Solid curved staircases/ stair wells fit for all sized houses & apartments
Curved balconies & lofts to match the stairs for once. (I want what's shown in this image)

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/21/f6/8b/2...65e4280b43.jpg

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Yes, this please. and curved doors to go with curved partitions too!

It would be nice if we could access glamour dresser inside of our houses/apartments and if apartments and small houses got a decent boost in placed items and storage. apartments up from 100 to 150 at least. small houses to 250+

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Originally Posted by HeyMcFly

More winter themed outdoor items (for ishgard & those who like snow themes)

Snow dusted bushes/ greenery/ hedges

Smaller snow-dusted trees

snow dusted path

Crawling ivy/ Vines to go outside the house

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One thing we need is more pathing that comes in various shapes; due to the nature of the placement with many houses, depending on if your house plot is either center, turned side-ways or left- we need more pathing options to fit these designs
The problem currently is that if you have a house that is the center of the plot, you can just add a straight pathway while with the other house placements, you have to get creative which often leads to folks using more item space to get the desired path which also means less to put in your yard- Many paths are too large or don't fit the ward theme or the path type doesn't yet exist.

Please, I want to see curved walkways/ paths along with more straight pathways (different shaped pathways of the same type)

I want a small, narrow cobble stone walkway for my tiny Ishgard house. I want small/short, snow covered hedges that line the path.


I would like to see smaller trees & foliage, more flower gardens & watering holes/ mini-oasis areas

Thavnair/ Radz-at-han based items

Loporrit house NPC's

More Ishgard house items- Stone and Wood beams, More lattice windows, Aged wooden lofts
Small cauldrons and small cobblestone fireplaces (with optional flames)

Stone and wooden archway partitions

More Tavern themed items- hanging mugs, intricate carved wooden beams

Lalafell sized doorways/ beds & tables

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all of this yes.

Small, round/oval portraits and picture frames

Instead of fish, we could use foliage and flowers - or skulls/ bones

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ce/9f/76/c...9e78a9c91e.jpg

An upright partition that matches the slanted partition
I love the wood & wall plaster material- but there needs to be an upright partition without the slant for dividing spaces!

After my loss on a large for nth time, I came here to make a suggestion...how about much like islands, once you get a house you can pay gil (or whatever you see fit SE) to upgrade it. Start as a small, stay small if you like. Move up to medium when/if you can afford it, then can move up to large, all on the same plot...just paying for an "upgrade" to the land.

Another cool thing I have thought of before is adding balconies to apartments, and also the same system being applied to the apartment. Where you can have a studio, mid size, or deluxe apartment that gives more space- for those who don't care to decorate outside. This would also satisfy a lot of folks looking for houses because of how apartments are instanced.

You know what? Let's go all in on marble stuff. Marble half partitions? Marble cafe-sized tables! MARBLE END TABLES! Marble fish tanks! If we're going to have one thing that tons of items are made in, let's do everything in marble! Give me marble door partitions. Square marble doorways! Marble counters!! I'm all in on this, but give us MORE.

Stone partition arches
Stone nooks like this one in example with window
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/1c/3c/5d/1...57a7d710c3.jpg

I'm sure this has been suggested multiple times. Make housing account wide (at least on a regional basis) and a way to share items/gil with alts. This would really free up a lot of houses.

Improve decorating features

Increase all house interior item limits