OMG we are finely getting a working toilet!

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11-10-2019, 01:30 AM
Kobalos

OMG we are finely getting a working toilet!

So one of the winners of the 2019 Furnishing Contest designed a working bog complete with flushing sounds!

I am way more excited then I should be about this, no more alpine chairs!

I always found it odd that we could have sinks, showers, bath tubs but for some reason nobody in Eozea poops...
11-10-2019, 01:35 AM
EnigmaticDodo

It's just smooth down there. Keep fecal matter out of my Eorzea!
11-10-2019, 01:42 AM
RyuSaarva

hole in the ground is a working toilet.
11-10-2019, 01:55 AM
Enkidoh

Players really should read the whole article, as down at the very bottom SE has a disclaimer stating that they are under no obligation to actually introduce any of the winning entries into the actual game:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone

* If an entry is deemed to be excellent, Square Enix may decide to implement it into the game in the future. Note that there is no guarantee that winning entries will be implemented into the game.
* Entries that did not win may also be selected for implementation in the future.
* If an entry is selected to be implemented into the game, the development team may make adjustments to the design, name, or features of the item.

Because of that, plus also that they have maintained this trope in the game until now, I have to say I will be very surprised if that toilet was introduced.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RyuSaarva

hole in the ground is a working toilet.

^This. The only reference to.... personal ablutions in the game is several FATEs (Downwind in Southern Thanalan, and Unbearable in the Fringes), both of which mention most Eorzeans just use privies which are basically just a bench over a hole in the ground. Most Eorzeans are not even connected to running water let alone sewage, so a flush toilet is just too advanced for the setting, to say nothing of the trope I mentioned earlier.
11-10-2019, 01:56 AM
Gemina

Quote:

Originally Posted by RyuSaarva

hole in the ground is a working toilet.

^ This is technically true in every sense including the pluming. Toilets are just more efficient.
11-10-2019, 02:09 AM
Riardon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Players really should read the whole article, as down at the very bottom SE has a disclaimer stating that they are under no obligation to actually introduce any of the winning entries into the actual game:

Because of that, plus also that they have maintained this trope in the game until now, I have to say I will be very surprised if that toilet was introduced.

^This. The only reference to.... personal ablutions in the game is several FATEs (Downwind in Southern Thanalan, and Unbearable in the Fringes), both of which mention most Eorzeans just use privies which are basically just a bench over a hole in the ground. Most Eorzeans are not even connected to running water let alone sewage, so a flush toilet is just too advanced for the setting, to say nothing of the trope I mentioned earlier.

We are not common Eorzeans living in a common Eorzean village.
Our housing plots are not the typical peasant cottages.
We should have a working toilet.
The primal slayer and champion of Hydealyn deserves better than a hole in the ground.
11-10-2019, 02:12 AM
Kobalos

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Most Eorzeans are not even connected to running water let alone sewage, so a flush toilet is just too advanced for the setting, to say nothing of the trope I mentioned earlier.

So having a working shower, sink and bathtub all of which use a waste water pipe and require plumbing to work are ok as well as high end tech like flying motorcars and bikes but a loo is far too advance to ever exist in game?

Well alrighty then XD
11-10-2019, 02:15 AM
MistakeNot

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Most Eorzeans are not even connected to running water let alone sewage, so a flush toilet is just too advanced for the setting,

An argument which would carry far more weight if they hadn't already introduced a modern-looking bathtub
11-10-2019, 02:21 AM
Gemina

While there is pluming in Eorzea, none of these furnishings are responsible for the removal of pee and poo. That's the caveat I believe.

I had thought the addition of some kind of outdoor furnishing that is purely aesthetic and not functional could be used to solve the mystery of how the WoL goes to the bathroom.
11-11-2019, 12:13 PM
RitsukoSonoda

If they give us an outhouse... will we also get an action command that can be used when someone is in it that causes it to get knocked over? >.>
11-11-2019, 12:26 PM
Jybril

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

so a flush toilet is just too advanced for the setting.

Yes because Pixies, magic, MCH, huge elemental summons, talking animals and all other mystical things are
here but oowee, a toilet is just too left field.
https://media.giphy.com/media/l0Iy4Z...pct2/giphy.gif
We have the technology now!
11-11-2019, 06:58 PM
MrKusakabe

Will it be India style or do we receive toilet paper?
11-11-2019, 08:05 PM
Aelissa

Quote:

Originally Posted by RyuSaarva

hole in the ground is a working toilet.

Especially for you! The work of another winner:
https://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/35...jpg?1573196332
11-11-2019, 08:25 PM
Enla

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the toilet is one of the items that actually gets implemented frankly. Just taking a look at sites like housingsnap and the housing side of FF14 twitter shows that there's a demand for item combinations that can 'fake' the look of a toilet. So I can see SE throwing a bone to the housing nerds given how often those posts tend to be liked and how many builds generally have a bathroom addition.
11-11-2019, 10:28 PM
Jandor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Most Eorzeans are not even connected to running water let alone sewage, so a flush toilet is just too advanced for the setting, to say nothing of the trope I mentioned earlier.

Do we even need real working plumbing in this setting? Water can literally appear by magic from water aspected crystals.
11-12-2019, 12:38 AM
OwlBlackX

From twitter best post:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EI2xCHxW...png&name=small
11-12-2019, 01:42 AM
Bright-Flower

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Players really should read the whole article, as down at the very bottom SE has a disclaimer stating that they are under no obligation to actually introduce any of the winning entries into the actual game:

Because of that, plus also that they have maintained this trope in the game until now, I have to say I will be very surprised if that toilet was introduced.

^This. The only reference to.... personal ablutions in the game is several FATEs (Downwind in Southern Thanalan, and Unbearable in the Fringes), both of which mention most Eorzeans just use privies which are basically just a bench over a hole in the ground. Most Eorzeans are not even connected to running water let alone sewage, so a flush toilet is just too advanced for the setting, to say nothing of the trope I mentioned earlier.

They may not be under any obligation but I wouldn't be surprised to see the toilet. I mean, we have bathroom floor tiles with drains, we have shower stands, we have bathtubs with a handheld spray nozzle (though you can't in game pick it up, take al ook at the carbuncle bathtub.) We have proper sinks now for washing. A toilet added on to what we already have in housing isn't really a big change, and one could always say that perhaps plumbing isn't widely available but does exist in the housing districts for adventurers etc.
11-12-2019, 01:48 PM
ERMITANYO

I was hoping for an indoor toilet seat
11-12-2019, 04:14 PM
Edax

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Most Eorzeans are not even connected to running water let alone sewage, so a flush toilet is just too advanced for the setting, to say nothing of the trope I mentioned earlier.

Don't water crystals act a substitute? Much like how you can grill a hotdog with fire crystals instead of a fire, you shouldn't actually need to connect to running water in this universe.
11-12-2019, 04:42 PM
Iscah

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

The only reference to.... personal ablutions in the game is several FATEs (Downwind in Southern Thanalan, and Unbearable in the Fringes), both of which mention most Eorzeans just use privies which are basically just a bench over a hole in the ground. Most Eorzeans are not even connected to running water let alone sewage, so a flush toilet is just too advanced for the setting, to say nothing of the trope I mentioned earlier.

The thing with those references is that they're both in "low-tech" regions - that's the situation for the refugees in Little Ala Mhigo, who are basically living in a cave. We can't assume it's the same everywhere else.

Also, the residential districts have canonically just been built - so if anywhere in Eorzea has newfangled innovations like sewerage and indoor plumbing, it's going to be there.