Housing location suggestions

While a lot of folks are exited about the up coming housing. I feel like there's been a huge issue with both this and SBs housing.

They only release one housing zone per expac. Don't get me wrong it's nice of the Devs to create such housing zones but when they get released, everyone's just piling on fighting for houses.

I feel like this is just one of the many problems with housing.
How are people suppose to compete with the log in que and the campers.

Instead I feel like instead of releasing one new housing zone per expansion, they should take some time to create several. It might cause the huge crowds to split apart.

There's plenty of places currently in the world to place a few housing zones.

A few I thought of:

Mor Dhona - now that alot of the Romans have returned to Doma there's probably alot of empty plots available.

Sea of clouds - the untamed skies was easily monotonized by over eager investors and skyranchers. (I imagine the apartments could be one of those huge airships converted into an apartment complex) maybe add Skypirate themed housing?

Dravania - could be located somewhere in the mountains. Perhaps and old human/dragon settlement.

Idyllshire - I imagine due to the place becoming more popular with adventurers the goblins would of no doubt cleared more of the old abandoned houses out.

Gyr Abanian - An old ruined temple of Rhalgr cleared out by the resistance but with the liberation it's no longer of strategic importance.

Ala Mhigo - With the Liberation came rebuilding. Alot of the resistance members finally starting to rebuild there home. starting with the residential wards. Selling the excess houses to adventurer's in hopes to the boost the economy.

The Ruby Sea - A request from the Ruby princess in order to attract outside traders. A bubble of air was formed by the Kojin deep under the Ruby Sea. With help from the Au Ra artistians of Sui-No-Sato have created a beautiful underwater paradise which will no doubt attract rich tourists from all over.

Doman Enclave - With the full restoration of the enclave came expansion. A large hill side looking the one river dotted with cherry blossoms. (I like to think at least something resides behind that big gate in the enclave)

I doubt anything like this would be implemented. But the thought is nice at least.


Do you guys have any suggestions on where you would like to live in Eorzea?

Up vote if you like this kinda idea.

I think an Idyllshire/Hinterlands housing district with Sharlayan-style homes would be a great option. The Sharlayan buildings in the Hinterlands are really beautiful. I wouldn't mind having an in-game house like that.

Ruby Sea underwater housing would be cool too, but the architectural style of the houses might be too similar to Shirogane's.

I would of mentioned

The Crystarium and the islands around Eulmore. But I doubt we will get housing on the first. Cause we don't have retainers here.

I would absolutely love Gyr Abanian housing of some sort, especially if they made it in the same vein as the Ishgardian restoration. Maybe filling out the Lochs kinda like the Doman Enclave at the same time.

Maybe airship housing. That would be interesting.

Also feel like devs should do an official poll on what kind of housing area should be introduced next.

With a central aetherite and the housing shops around, it would be faisible ...if they do instancied houses rather than wards. What block them, more than time or money to create areas, is the cost, server side, of wards.
They have enough ressources to add a warehouse if people lose their house, they have enough ressources to make instancied : Inn Room, FC room and apartements but... a house for everyone is impossible? Weird. The only reason is : the wards. They keep imagine everyone want a house in a ward when many of us would be satisfied with an instancied house.
The design of house and the modelisation is not a problem since they have anyway to create some for the main maps. They can adapt an existing model. Floating islands are an easy already available solution for instancied housing system (or airships, as an alternative, but I doubt it ever happens).

So where would I like to have a house? The Coerthas.

there was no announcement about new housing. everyone is just assuming that ishgard restoration will lead to housing. i'm of the opinion that it will not. it'll just be another doman enclave upgrade thing.

The chances of this happening are very slim but I'd be lying if I didn't say the mention of it in the last live letter gave me a little hope (at least in terms of having apartments there):

Gimme Amaurot.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

there was no announcement about new housing. everyone is just assuming that ishgard restoration will lead to housing. i'm of the opinion that it will not. it'll just be another doman enclave upgrade thing.

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They are well aware of the demand players have for Ishgard housing, and while they might not have confirmed it, they certainly have teased it several times. I believe on the ShB website there's mention of a new area to be constructed: The Firmament. There is plenty of reason to believe Ishgard will have housing.

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Originally Posted by Destati

They are well aware of the demand players have for Ishgard housing, and while they might not have confirmed it, they certainly have teased it several times. I believe on the ShB website there's mention of a new area to be constructed: The Firmament. There is plenty of reason to believe Ishgard will have housing.

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yeah the new area was teased. but just keep reachin for that rainbow lol

Housing in the Sea of Clouds where your house is floating on cloud islands and is the first housing zone with flight enabled, but there are rainbow bridges connecting the clouds and islands together so you can travel on foot. Some sight Seeing spots are flight access only.

Sea of clouds would be perfect for an instanced personal housing on a mini floating island, make a sky pirate taxi you to it lore wise, so that way we can have our own garden and airship workshop (maybe limit to 1 personal airship). And even for giving a more lively feel make other floating islands appear on the background (an even if code and server load permits, be actually other players houses at random, unreachable maybe for tecnical reasons due house instance)

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Originally Posted by Destati

The chances of this happening are very slim but I'd be lying if I didn't say the mention of it in the last live letter gave me a little hope (at least in terms of having apartments there):

Gimme Amaurot.

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I'll lightly tap my favorite drum this time instead of go full chorus (xD lol), but I feel this one would be PERFECT to introduce instanced housing and over time include many of the other locations people listed here. By going instanced personal zone housing SE could re-use their assets for backdrops/stations of building (Azim Steppe center piece of the zone is almost crying out loud to be reused), and also be able introduce far more objects with less concern as they'd not have to worry about scale / appearance negatively affecting other players.

Also if they tied it into the lore of the area you mentioned then it also would act awesome for two items.

First it gives a full lore build up on how this place works as it does:

Players begin dabbling in creation magic, perhaps with the help of some other character. Would be kind of cool if that one special mirage/constructed memory in Amaurot (the one that know's they're a memory) guided us, perhaps a ghost of Emet-Selch himself attempting to train our creation magic (ghost in that it could just be in our minds, left over mirage magic attempting to recreate it's master, etc, doesn't have to actually be a fragment of him since we ... turned him into nice mozzarella shards)

Second it could give SE a bit of a breather of "every player that plays the game for two seconds gets a house" and move towards "every player that sincerely plays the game gets a house".

Personally I'd still like a strong sense of progression as early as possible (like a little FFXI mog room early on), or at least giving players home inn teleports or something to give them a sense of home as early as possible. I think things like that can be really important and make a game more "homely", but I think we could imagine that it would be nice for SE not to have to generate a house for every player who just puts their toe in the water. Using what you suggested would make the lore for how it works and the gate that ensures SE isn't just throwing data around so brazenly. Like I said though, even if the system explodes in scope at the point you mention I'd still encourage progression as early as possible. Even if it was like tiny tiny tiny small small, OH MY LORD WHAT.... YES. lol.

Of course I think it could be a neat housing zone in and of itself (as in using the current system instead of an instanced housing system- which I really want/prefer), but without proper restrictions on what can be built and some lore explaining why building there isn't like building on quick sand... Like building on a falling Dalamud or something lol. Might be difficult to justify. Though cool still if you find a way to do so.

As an aside suggested location outside of the excellent locations people have already suggested (some really nice places), I think a magical water city location would be quite nice. If they could go all high, high, fantasy perhaps part of a new big part of an expansion. Maybe we come back to and clear out a dark magic soaked zombie infested Sil'dih, and while some of it was above ground perhaps part of what we find/reclaim/help rebuild would not be as much- I think it would be unique for FFXIV to have a high magic water fantasy underground city / housing area. Mix of crashing falls, pools of water, mixed with that ancient fantasy magic, all within an underground city concept which we don't really have so much of.

I could see Castle in the Sky (Laputa) / Sky (FFXI) influence there, although to be honest a giant floating castle housing district that has occasional hurricane tier wind walls and other times huge vistas would be excellent too lol.

Have they ever said WHY we haven't gotten housing in Ishgard? I want my snowy stone villa!

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

Have they ever said WHY we haven't gotten housing in Ishgard? I want my snowy stone villa!

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basically the reason boils down to they just got out of the dragonsong war and they're still trying to just get back on their feet and recover from it.

Amaurot housing would be terrifying for a lala. Already feel like a mouse there. Gonna need an elevator just to get to bed. A bed the size of a ballroom..

I believe the flying beds and chairs were just the beginning to SE's actual planned solution to the housing issue. Soon with the ability to mount up on floor lamps, partitions, tubs, summoning bells and more, we'll be able to come together as a community to form houses in any environment.

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

I believe the flying beds and chairs were just the beginning to SE's actual planned solution to the housing issue. Soon with the ability to mount up on floor lamps, partitions, tubs, summoning bells and more, we'll be come together as a community to form houses in any environment.

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"Alright gang! Let's form Housetron!!"

I think or wish Free Company Housing were Instance Housing while Private Houses are what they are right now. We might have more room if that was the case. A lot of FC take up a lot of plots.

OP, I like your ideas regarding housing in different areas.

I personally would like to have a house in Al Mhigo,Azim Steppe,Coerthas Western Highlands,Yanxia and Sea of Clouds.

I also see that you're on Balmung.

As others have mentioned, whatever future housing comes out, I earnestly hope that it's instanced.

Make apartments upgradeable from small to large with balconies for gardening.

Make FC workshop,airships/submarines accessible from Grand Companies or better still make these available to individual players.

As someone who owns both a personal and a FC house, the current system is just cruel to honest first time buyers who don't use bots or macros.

They can be camping a plot for 22 hours or more and someone can just relocate. Then the rng timer starts up again on the plot that the relocator vacated.

The current wards will become legacy wards and players who want to live in persistent wards,can contest plots in these legacy wards.

Everyone else can be guaranteed 1 instanced personal house and 1 instanced FC house.

Adding more persistent wards like the current housing system is not going to solve the issue of house hogging.

Even if you don't take into account, the people with grandfathered multiple personal houses,there's the issue that a single service account can own 8 FC houses.

1 through normal purchase with 4 members in FC(can even be alts,no other restrictions) and 7 through transfer of FC leadership.

FC houses offer a significant Market Board advantage as a single FC house can generate at least 5-10 million gil a week,through airships,submarines,gardens etc.

Just 100 players with 8 FC houses can occupy ~20 of a server's housing; 800/4320(total number of house plots on a world currently).