Request: Feature Items and Outdoor Housing Item Limit (Stable, Aetheryte, Mailbox)

I know there are server limitations that restrict the staff from adding more item slots for indoor and outdoor decorations. However, I think 2-3 could be spared by making certain items that provide actual mechanical features to housing not count towards the item limit. This would include the Chocobo Stable, Miniature Aetheryte and Mailbox ideally. The former two are built in features of apartments. In my opinion, I believe its quite unnecessary for there be an item in the yard to provide the ability to teleport to your plot. And features such as mailbox and the stable are defining characteristics of housing that shouldn't limit creativity by taking up the item limit if possible.

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Originally Posted by Raim

I know there are server limitations that restrict the staff from adding more item slots for indoor and outdoor decorations. However, I think 2-3 could be spared by making certain items that provide actual mechanical features to housing not count towards the item limit. This would include the Chocobo Stable, Miniature Aetheryte and Mailbox ideally. The former two are built in features of apartments. In my opinion, I believe its quite unnecessary for there be an item in the yard to provide the ability to teleport to your plot. And features such as mailbox and the stable are defining characteristics of housing that shouldn't limit creativity by taking up the item limit if possible.

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That's a really good idea. Stable can go on the awning slot.

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Originally Posted by Elevin

That's a really good idea. Stable can go on the awning slot.

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And what if someone wants the stable by the fence, not where the awning is?

Yeah I wouldn't want the stable to be tied to the awning slot. I am just purely advocating for these 2-3 items to not count towards the very strict outdoor limit since they are practically essential features for most players.

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Originally Posted by Raim

Yeah I wouldn't want the stable to be tied to the awning slot. I am just purely advocating for these 2-3 items to not count towards the very strict outdoor limit since they are practically essential features for most players.

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I can't think of anyone I know with a house that doesn't use the aetheryte so I'd agree that it would make a lot more sense to include the function as part of house ownership (just as we automatically get a teleport to the apartment building when we own an apartment. The furnishing itself could be changed to 100% decorative (which I would absolutely use on a regular basis because of the lighting effects it creates).

But Chocobo Stable and Mailbox? I don't have those at my house. I always used the ones either at my apartment building (free access to the stable if you have an apartment there, anyone can use any apartment building mailbox) or my FC's house when I was in a FC with a house. Some of my friends have them placed, some don't. Among my friends that do have a Chocobo Stable placed, they don't even stable their chocobos in them (most are already at rank 20). They use them just for decoration.

It feels awkward that some players would get a "free" decorative element beyond the standard limit instead of giving everyone an increase across the board. For it to not to count, Elevin's suggestion would make more sense - make it a "built-in" that can only be placed in a certain spot (so players would get their choice of an awning or a chocobo stable, as an example). But then that takes away the ability of other players to put them in a different location (I don't use awnings because I'd want it above my door, not the side of the house as an example).

One thing I will add here. I wish SE could fix both the Chocobo Stable and the Miniature Aetheryte so they can be placed in Storage or removed and kept in inventory when you don't want them in your yard instead of them being destroyed. They corrected that issue with so many other items I wonder why it's still a problem for those two. It's really annoying when I'm helping a friend redecorate and we have to keep moving those 2 items around the yard as we go.