Sea of Clouds Housing - Instance Based Islands.

Hello community. I have been bouncing around an idea about instanced housing, and a way of seeing it come into the game with a logical, and lore friendly way.

Basically; players would be able to have islands crafted or discovered, and build homes upon these floating plots of land. Accessed via teleport, or airship from Ishgard; each player would have a plot of land amongst the clouds, and could upgrade and build their island to be larger with possible features to be added; also having the ability to build a house upon their land.

It makes sense to me that there would be many floating islands available for discovery, or constructed islands of which players can inhabit. All separated and spread about the clouds, offering an opportunity for each island to be instanced and isolated as to not force a limited amount of space.

Let me know when you think in the replies!

So basically like Wildstar? I'd be behind that.

Honestly suprised they didn't do this instead of the whole apartment thing.

I love this idea! Think of the awesome view :))

Wasn't the story behind the islands that there's only so many of them that they can afford to give away? Like they even hesitated on allowing for the tiny landmass in the Bismarck fight, if I recall right. Similar tone of NPC speech with that Vanu tribe being given a tiny island with the beastmen quests.

I mean the concept is brilliant, since the scenery would be nice (if the clouds/sky are your thing), and would enjoy it myself. I just don't think it makes much sense lorewise, unless I'm mistaken on the scarcity of the floating islands.

I would love my own sky pirate island like the one in the VA quest line... but it will never be because of above lore reasons.

That's a very neat idea, I like it. However it doesn't seem like unlimited instanced housing is coming ever. The current system keeps getting a little better with each update. It's possible that the number of apartments available in patch 3.4 will actually be too many for low population worlds. Only the highest population worlds are going to still have problems.

Perhaps the Vanu could gift a plot of land that had drifted in from afar to the warrior of light that helped them find their true strength? Lore wise only one person helped them through that and since you can only be on one instanced housing island at a time, only one exists. Being able to plot your floating plot of land somewhere would be nice too (skybox options).

It would be really cool. :) Since it would be instanced we could improve our houses over time. Maybe start with a small house and work our way up to a mansion. Heck they even could implement quests that will grant us exclusive housing items or maybe if we did a certain amount of those quests we gain the right to make our house bigger. So people still have to work for a bigger house.

Maybe quests like: "a storm destroyed a lot of thing in our area so please craft X in Y amount to help us". Or maybe "the other beast tribe is waiting to strike back, please kill x". It would be like the beast tribe quests that we already have, only with more way to choose how to gain reputation (gathering, crafting, fighting) and without any weekly limited. So if someone wants his mansion than he could gain it in a week, but others could take their time. And next to putting in the points for an upgrade you could buy personal items for your house too.

We don't even need chocobo stables and gardening there. Just put a stable in any of the four cities and make it cost gil to take our Chocobos there. Every rl hour will cost a certain amount of gil so people could use this to train them or feed them fruits for a different color. You could even introduce gardening in Gridania in the gardening guild. Just give a certain NPC the necessary soil and seed and pay them the gil and after a certain time you can go there again and get the goods. (Like chocobo breeding) Depending on the prices this could be a nice gil sink too.

I still have a very very small hope that they might make Ishgard housing as a instanced zone..I mean after all we did for them it would be nice to just get something like a house as a present. But I fear that it will be just another zone like we already have..

We are the WoL! Saviour of the world, so why does the grand companies never really do much for us? We have to fight over a nice housing spot with other common adventurers..(since the housing districts are made for adventurers in lore)

PS3 limitations.

Considering how those islands are made, the requirement ought to be "here go fight Bismarck and feed him this laxative"

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Originally Posted by cyborgmermaid

Considering how those islands are made, the requirement ought to be "here go fight Bismarck and feed him this laxative"

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LMAO this post made my day.

Can see why it would appeal to some people, but I've always preferred housing that doesn't feel cut off from the world. Instanced zones (what we have now) is about as far removed as I'd enjoy. I'd rather houses were right in the middle of town, an apartment building at the very least.

I'd love to have my own floating island in the Sea of Clouds surely but I must admit I like housing as it is now, otherwise it might not feel as "lively", to never see any neighbor around would make it feel kind of dead and I wouldn't hope SE to put much effort in making it after what they did with the lazy apartment buildings, I was expecting something bigger and better, like a whole floor up for sale and a nice view from atop, none of which happened!...

I guess we will have a better idea of what they can make after they add the Ishgard housing area!...

To make it worth to me those instanced floating islands would have to be really big, like a whole ward and allow us to make things never seen before like building my dream floating castle!... :)

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Originally Posted by Welsper59

Wasn't the story behind the islands that there's only so many of them that they can afford to give away? Like they even hesitated on allowing for the tiny landmass in the Bismarck fight, if I recall right. Similar tone of NPC speech with that Vanu tribe being given a tiny island with the beastmen quests.

I mean the concept is brilliant, since the scenery would be nice (if the clouds/sky are your thing), and would enjoy it myself. I just don't think it makes much sense lorewise, unless I'm mistaken on the scarcity of the floating islands.

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They can just take the land from Diadem, seeing as no one is using it... >w>

That sounds really good! I want my own island in the sky! :D

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Originally Posted by Rufalus

That's a very neat idea, I like it. However it doesn't seem like unlimited instanced housing is coming ever. The current system keeps getting a little better with each update. It's possible that the number of apartments available in patch 3.4 will actually be too many for low population worlds. Only the highest population worlds are going to still have problems.

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I guess you could say that letting everyone spend 800k gil on a single room apartment with extremely limited item space and customization is... better. But not by very much.

@OP: I love the idea. Gah they need to just copy WildStar's housing system in its entirely as far as functionality goes. >_<!

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Originally Posted by Lokier

So basically like Wildstar? I'd be behind that.

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Wildstar housing was THE best in any MMO. I think it is dependent on the engine they use to allow that type of building. FFXIV's is too low budget for that.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

They can just take the land from Diadem, seeing as no one is using it... >w>

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Hot Shot(s) fired!

On topic though I'd rather get a Ishgard snow cabin. >_>

Thank you all for the friendly replies! I am really glad to see this idea so well received!

I would like to say that this will of course be a very far-off thing if it ever comes into the game, and I do believe that ps3 support is being dropped for 4.0, so after that I am sure their technical capabilities will increase.
I do believe some solid things that would be nice to see: increased garden plots, ability to enter with a party of others, upgrade-able/custom island shape/size or features upon it.

I believe islands could be a possible feature in game that could be a long-term investment/time-sink. As far as upgrading them in size, features, the house upon it; or other things which could make having an island less of a static thing like buying a house plot is; and more of a progressive end-game content.

As far as Ishgardian housing goes; this could very well be Ishgard's form of apartments. Instead of an apartment building; perhaps an airship dock could guide players to their floating islands?

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Originally Posted by Recaldy

Hot Shot(s) fired!

On topic though I'd rather get a Ishgard snow cabin. >_>

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I could not agree more, Ishgard would be more appealing to me

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Originally Posted by Besame

FFXIV's is too low budget for that.

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Which is hilariously sad, when you think about it, considering how successful this game is. Get with the program, SE.

Them I'll rush there and play with the moogles XD