Adopting little ones

Came to me as an idea since I've fawned over adorable Khloe.

Since housing is able to have vendors and mendors indoors and outdoors, I was thinking maybe adopting a little miqo ( or perhaps other races) child, offering a home in place of taking care of a few things (like gardening, chocobo stable tending, etc.) interacting with furniture, petting a chocobo, sitting on a bench and reading a book, etc.

This would absolutely liven up housing and make the household feel more home-y. What do you guys think?

I'd love that!

hmm ....child slavery.... nice^^

If possible with a few characterdepending lines the child sometimes say some for the cht when you are nearby (talking with itself or other npcs) and some for when you interact with the little one, but that might be to much work.

i want to raise a dragon. from egg to finish, esp after lore book revelations state the very intricacies that are taken to evolve a dragon to its highest form via elemental atmosphere what not, Sorta like in lufia 2

That would be amazing buuuuuuut, I can't see them doing this without tying a lot of lore to it, and I can't see them adding a bit of involved story content that only the portion of players who own houses could experience.

Sounds like something similar to the holiday event in WoW where you could adopt a child, or somewhat like the Fable series.

If the kiddo was down for fishmealing plants and making sure the garden's tip-top and the chocobo is clean and fed (set inventory for goods like chocobo food, brooms and fishmeal) then I would happily pay them an allowance. After all, Daddy's gotta go out and save the realm from whatever troubles are brewing, can't stay in the house all day. It'd be nice though if they had a "loneliness meter" though, to encourage people to go back to their houses and speak and interact with them, or face them disappearing out of neglect.

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Originally Posted by Delphor

If the kiddo was down for fishmealing plants and making sure the garden's tip-top and the chocobo is clean and fed (set inventory for goods like chocobo food, brooms and fishmeal) then I would happily pay them an allowance. After all, Daddy's gotta go out and save the realm from whatever troubles are brewing, can't stay in the house all day. It'd be nice though if they had a "loneliness meter" though, to encourage people to go back to their houses and speak and interact with them, or face them disappearing out of neglect.

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THIS. This right here.

Gardening takes up so much of my time, these days! I would love to have someone to do that drudge work for me.

I mean, menial tasks are what we have kids for anyway, right? >.>

How would you pay them? Ventures?

Otherwise it falls under child labor ^^;

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Originally Posted by dejiko_san

How would you pay them? Ventures?

Otherwise it falls under child labor ^^;

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I pay mine in food, toys, a place to live, and health insurance. :P

But actually, that's not a bad idea. A place to live is part of it (enough to keep the kid there), but maybe if you want them to maintain things around the house, you have to bring back food and other items. Maybe each week, there's a food or other item the kid requests as payment for their services (stuffed chocobo, cookie, piece of clothing, etc), and the class of item (rarity/expense) scales with the size of your house, and what all you want the kid doing (gardens AND chocobo feeding? That'll cost you extra).

If you're happy just having the kid there, keeping the house is enough (of course, if you lose the house, the kid goes back to the orphanage). If you want services, you pay what they're asking for.

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Originally Posted by Sylfaein

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And the best thing of it is that it's really not that hard to incorporate it into the lore of the game. With the reckoning of the Calamity, many children's parents were killed, leaving them to fend for themselves at the Grand Company founded orphanages to house and shelter these unfortunate kids. And since regular folk don't have the chance at the lucrative places in the housing districts since they're adventurer only plots, what better way to give the children loving homes than to offer adventurers the chance to adopt them to their houses and care for them, with the benefit of house maintainance for the small price of giving the child whatever gifts and food they desire on a set basis, and requiring that there's a spare bed for them to sleep on?

Also, this gives Square the chance to model NPC children for each of the current playable races, since we only ever see Hyur and Miqote children right now.

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Originally Posted by KouenElfrit

Came to me as an idea since I've fawned over adorable Khloe.

Since housing is able to have vendors and mendors indoors and outdoors, I was thinking maybe adopting a little miqo ( or perhaps other races) child, offering a home in place of taking care of a few things (like gardening, chocobo stable tending, etc.) interacting with furniture, petting a chocobo, sitting on a bench and reading a book, etc.

This would absolutely liven up housing and make the household feel more home-y. What do you guys think?

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I love the housing feature I think a nice start would be to at least log back into the game in ur apartment or house , being kicked out is the most un homelike feeling

It would be nice I recall having a npc companion in 11 that you teamed up and raised. For 14 maybe have one for a particular jobs. Example I miss having a wyvern companion for DRG. as a pet. Help dps / heal / ect. As for a child perhaps make a story line such as finding their mother or father in the ashes of war with alternate endings and perhaps they offer to work for you in exchange for shelter or as thanks for helping them find conclusion to their search. Even better you save them from some primal before they get taken over. Just a thought.

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Originally Posted by dejiko_san

How would you pay them? Ventures?

Otherwise it falls under child labor ^^;

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Maybe with food, candy, triple triad cards. Things kids want you know? Could make nice use of elemental materia if the little ones request marbles to play with.

I can only imagine how much fun they'd have trying to programs pathing with all the odd things we do with houses. It would be nice to bring a bit of life to the houses when other people aren't around though.

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

I can only imagine how much fun they'd have trying to programs pathing with all the odd things we do with houses. It would be nice to bring a bit of life to the houses when other people aren't around though.

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They don't necessarily have to be walking everywhere in the house at any one given point. If they can make NPCs stroll around Idyllshire and Mor Dhona during the day, then they could do the same quite easily with one NPC in a house, and then have the NPC reset to a specific place when all "chores" are done.

Like for instance, the child could be dusting a shelf for you on their tippy-toes and using the standard NPC overhead speech bubble, then return to a set position when they want to interact with you, perhaps through the use of another type of NPC bell.

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Originally Posted by Delphor

They don't necessarily have to be walking everywhere in the house at any one given point. If they can make NPCs stroll around Idyllshire and Mor Dhona during the day, then they could do the same quite easily with one NPC in a house, and then have the NPC reset to a specific place when all "chores" are done.

Like for instance, the child could be dusting a shelf for you on their tippy-toes and using the standard NPC overhead speech bubble, then return to a set position when they want to interact with you, perhaps through the use of another type of NPC bell.

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Yes but Idyllshire and Mor Dhona aren't constantly changed unique player spaces. They'd have to let us set a path or do some tricky programming to recognize all the tricks some people use with furniture. I'm for the idea, I can just see it as being difficult having a mobile npc in the house that's not clipping through everything and randomly shooting up to the ceiling to feed the floating fish tank. :)