House relocating

Is there any info about how will house relocating work? For example, my fc owns a small house in the Mists and we were planning to upgrade to a mansion. Will it be possible to relocate to a bigger plot or do we need to sell it and go for a new purchace?

not that im aware off , but they are probably gona give more infos in the live letter part 2.

From various live letters, don't sell/remove your old house. You just click the placard of the new house and there's a move option. If it's the same which automates purchase and demolition in one go. It will cost you the full price of the new plot and you get nothing back for the old one.

FC rooms and workshop get transferred over as-is.

If the house sizes are different the items go into storage.

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Originally Posted by worldofneil

It will cost you the full price of the new plot and you get nothing back for the old one.

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...This is only the case for an increase in plot size, correct? I can't find any source on prices with the moving feature but I've been dying to move my medium in the Lav Beds to a medium in the Mist. It also wouldn't make sense for those planning on moving to a same-size plot in Shirogane.

He means nothing back price side, like if you paid your previous house at a higher price than your new one you don't get anything.

Ah okay, that makes more sense to me. Thank you!

So, if you move from a small or medium plot to a large plot, you pay full price on the large plot? Or does it lower the cost of the large plot?

As I understand it and i even believe i read something about it in an official announcement, house moving would work like this, you empty your old one, but not release the plot. The you buy the new plot you want to move to, buy as in full price anyone would pay, a house moving option would pop up.

This may have changed though so the only way to be shure is to read the 4.1 patch notes or perhaps we will get more info in the the second part of the 4.1 announcement

The major question I have about this is will we be required to empty our house (furnishings etc) beforehand?

I recall this being the case if you wanted to demolish private rooms before leaving an FC - you had to empty it first..

Is this still the case? Will we need to find 400 inventory slots before 4.1 to store all our furnishings?

I know no one knows the answer yet.. But I am hoping we get one before 4.1, so we don't go to relocate and find out we have to remove everything manually.

From what they said during fanfest, it sounds like if you were to relocate from say, a small to a large, everything in your small is copied over to the large entirely. You may need to redo the outside since obviously that wouldn't copy but I recall it supposedly being rather seamless. Price why though, I kinda doubt they calculate the value of whatever sized house you had previously since they like housing to be a gil sink.

I'm fairly certain you pay full price for the new plot, regardless of whatever your old plot is. You get no refund/discount/etc., just the same as when you relinquish a plot now without letting it auto-demo. The move feature isn't about saving gil, just stream-lining the process so you don't have to empty and relinquish the old plot, teleport and run to the new one, and then buy it from the placard (and risk losing both in the process.) Instead it's all built into a single option at the new plot's placard.

NOTE: They still have not confirmed whether or not the Move feature will be available for personal houses. Every time they've talked about it, they've only mentioned FC houses moving.

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Originally Posted by Rymm

I'm fairly certain you pay full price for the new plot, regardless of whatever your old plot is. You get no refund/discount/etc., just the same as when you relinquish a plot now without letting it auto-demo. The move feature isn't about saving gil, just stream-lining the process so you don't have to empty and relinquish the old plot, teleport and run to the new one, and then buy it from the placard (and risk losing both in the process.) Instead it's all built into a single option at the new plot's placard.

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They've confirmed this, though. The other major advantage is that FC's will not have to rebuy/rebuild their Workshops and Airships. And I believe Company Rooms get moved as well.

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Originally Posted by Altena

The major question I have about this is will we be required to empty our house (furnishings etc) beforehand?

I recall this being the case if you wanted to demolish private rooms before leaving an FC - you had to empty it first..

Is this still the case? Will we need to find 400 inventory slots before 4.1 to store all our furnishings?

I know no one knows the answer yet.. But I am hoping we get one before 4.1, so we don't go to relocate and find out we have to remove everything manually.

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Given how demolishing an FC house currently works (must have all furnishings removed from the house and every personal room, and everything removed from the yard (which includes the chocobo stable, which requires every member removing their chocobos)) I would be fairly surprised if Moving didn't work the same way. Even if you were moving from a Large house to a Large house, there are minor differences in the layouts between wards, and I would imagine it would be difficult to move everything over, when certain furnishings might wind up clipped through the wall or the floor. This is an even bigger issue when changing house sizes.

I think the best we can hope for is that it will incorporate the feature from Auto-demolish, where all your furnishings (that aren't destroyed on pickup) wind up on an NPC and you can collect them within a time limit.

It would be amusing to have a cutscene where an Ironworks airship fly over the house, pick it up and fly off, then drop it off at the new location.

If memory serves me right, you don't need to remove furniture in current housing before moving. You will pay the full price for the new plot. If current and new house are the same size, furniture will be copied over, else everything stash to a housing NPC. Also, still no words if the moving feature is open to personal housing or strictly FC only. Dusty if you see this post, please kindly highlight if I made any mistake.

I think I can recall them mentioning a new storage for houses the furnishings will be moved to. So you wouldn't have to do anything with your old house. And also I am 99.9% sure that you need to buy the new plot no matter what and can't just teleport your house around silly nilly as soon as there's free plots. As Rymm said, it's just risk reduction.