Housing Suggestion/Idea: Apartments

So from what I keep hearing in Shout chat & reading on the forums it looks like the Housing is not rolling out as smoothly as folks would like.

Well... (I'm sure someone has mentioned it before but I don't feel like digging through pages upon pages of forums)

Why not add some Apartment buildings. This would definitely help out the Casual Crowd & below.
The system for Apartments is IMO already in the game through the Innroom & Personal Rooms in current Housing.
Basically create a few buildings that resemble Apartment buildings, and have each door lead to a Private Instance of said Apartment.

Yes in theory this may break some "immersion" by having say Apartment 201 belong by multiple players.
But with each Player's version being a private instance it also kind of does not break the immersion.

Have each Apartment charge Monthly Rent but allow an Escrow balance so players can pay rent for months at a time.
When entering said Apartment have a window pop up that asks:
(If you own the Apartment):
"Enter your Apartment" & "Pay Rent"
(If you do not own the Apartment)
"Visit Apartment" - This feature would then request a Player's Name be entered or offer you a Tour of an empty apartment so you can get a feel for it. See if you want to buy it.
"Purchase Apartment" - Nuff Said

While inside the Apartment, the player could decorate their Apartment just like with Player Housing, and since it's an Apartment building, the Building could have it's own Chocobo Stable & Garden. As it feels like those would be somethings every Apartment Complex would have in Eorzea.

Honestly I am taking this idea from Everquest 2. Where player Housing varied from 1 Room - 5 Room Apartments; all the way to 6 Room 2 floor Houses & massive Guild Halls.

In my Personal Opinion Houses in FFXIV are more like Guild Halls if anything.
The Small Homes seem more like Guild Dives.

So Apartments could cater to the Casual/Everyday player.

I see Apartments benefiting:
Casual Players, Solo Players, Small-Group Players, Players with very limited time, Players who dislike Guilds/Free Companies.
Players who do not have countless hours to farm Gil, play the Market, and are bad at long term money management.

Just an Idea/Suggestion. I enjoy this game and I would love to have my own place to crash in it.

I was just thinking about something like this being in Revenant's Toll.

...and it wouldn't break immersion for everyone to have the same apartment entrance point, either, as technically, from each player's perspective, it is their apartment and no one else's. Kinda like the whole "Warrior of Light" thing. Only you are the Warrior of Light. No one else. *points at the next person* Only you are the Warrior of Light. No one else. *points at the next person* Only you are the Warrior of Light. No one else. *points at the next person* Only you are the Warrior of Light. No one else.

You got it! =]

This idea could sort of work with a post I made in the "Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer"-thread, though I'm not sure about the rent-thing since that might lock you out of something that was already yours.

If you don't mind me asking, what makes this any different from getting a room in your FC house?

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Originally Posted by Kumabear76

If you don't mind me asking, what makes this any different from getting a room in your FC house?

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The only difference I can think of is rather than shelling out 300k gil (and be at the mercy of FC leaders) you can just pay a monthly rent (lets say 10k gil/month)

Also, it would allow not only for people who already have an FC room to have another room to themselves that are incapable of buying a house due to lack of funds, but it would also allow for people who prefer not to be in an FC to have a room of their very own.

A 10k monthly fee sounds very reasonable for this (as I personally can make 15k running a single Expert Roulette), and maybe there could be an option to store money inside a "Rent Box" with a deposit-only option that would allow players to contribute to their rent gradually over the month rather than all at once. In this manner, players could completely pay off each month up to 30 days in advance in installments to be controlled by the player.

I'd even consider dropping my house in Goblet if apartments were done right, cause housing wards are one big mess.....

Can I pay rent and buy land with a Wild Star like system? xD FFXI's gardening island and SE's art ability in general, I really wants it.. precious? lol

I am completely opposed to this, unless I am able to buy all of the apartment buildings, bribe the GC Officials handling zoning, property taxes, and personal rights regarding equal housing opportunity, extort the local officials into funneling all of their section eight registers into my apartments, and befriend the local coding agent as my fishing buddy so maintenance becomes non-existent easing the stress of upkeep and overall ethical responsibilities.

Then and only then will I consider this, and consider it I shall (strokes evil guy mustache)

In end, +1

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Originally Posted by HakuroDK

Also, it would allow not only for people who already have an FC room to have another room to themselves that are incapable of buying a house due to lack of funds, but it would also allow for people who prefer not to be in an FC to have a room of their very own.

A 10k monthly fee sounds very reasonable for this (as I personally can make 15k running a single Expert Roulette), and maybe there could be an option to store money inside a "Rent Box" with a deposit-only option that would allow players to contribute to their rent gradually over the month rather than all at once. In this manner, players could completely pay off each month up to 30 days in advance in installments to be controlled by the player.

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You hit the nail on the head. This was how EQ2 did housing. Although different sizes Apartments/Homes had higher rent.
But for the time being I agree. 10k a month is very reasonable. That's less than a handful of Levequests of at lvl 41+.

Aion also had a Apartment housing system and with a personal housing. The difference was you automatically got a flat after you hit a specific level (rent free) while maintaining a personal house costs a "monthly maint. fee" that varied depending on the size of the house. Apartments would be good but what about a garden plot? If they make it where you could buy your apartment (make them of various sizes/rooms and different sizes cost different amounts) much like you can buy a GC room withing a FC house this would be grand. Have a some Chocobo stables and from your room maybe be able to access your own personal garden plot. An apartment building mailbox at the entrance would be nice as well with a MB/vendor area. Yes, I am taking these ideas from Aion. I liked their living arrangements.

With the sky continents coming up in Heavensward, how about our own, personal, instanced sky isles? Just large enough for a small cottage, stable, garden and miniature aetheryte that you can teleport to if you have an aetheryte key (keyitem), and that miniature aetheryte has the ability to teleport you to others (Friends [all of your friends that allow friends on their isles], Free Company Mates [that have set the requisite permissions] and Open to All [isles open to anyone who want to show up]).

There could even be several styles and layouts not tied to the surroundings because you know, same sky everywhere!

This is personal rooms guys. Instead of having you buy your own house for what on my server is 4-6M(small) you can buy one shared with your FC and get your own room which is like an apartment. And you can otherwise join an FC that has a house to get to your room. Housing was meant as a gil-sink and it is honestly doing a crappy job at that compared to how much money some people have and how easy it is to make gil if you know how to craft/gather(except for 4-stars thats BS)

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Originally Posted by VictoriqueSorrowsong

This is personal rooms guys. Instead of having you buy your own house for what on my server is 4-6M(small) you can buy one shared with your FC and get your own room which is like an apartment. And you can otherwise join an FC that has a house to get to your room. Housing was meant as a gil-sink and it is honestly doing a crappy job at that compared to how much money some people have and how easy it is to make gil if you know how to craft/gather(except for 4-stars thats BS)

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Agreed. Housing was an attempt at a Gil sink. However it is a 1 time sink.
Having Apartments would help somewhat as they could have a weekly rent fee. Thus a continuous Gil sink.
The bigger the apt, the more Gil it costs.
In EQ2 every 7 RL days rent was due on your home/apt.

Apartments would help house those who dislike joining FCs, those who do NOT have time to commit to a FC, and stop folks from joining FCs only to dye their Choco's/raid the FC vault then bail out.

with the 10k/month is not enough gil sink, a player earn much more than this/day

Great Idea! The creators need to hear this plan.

/cast Resurrection

The christmas event made me want to necro this...