So many items so few slots...

Yoshi-P, honey, you know I have absolutely mad respect for you and the dev team. You put up with a lot of abuse from us, and despite that you hold your heads high and do your level best to churn out all sorts of wonderful content.

This is especially true for your efforts with housing. Furnishings have exploded by leaps and bounds, and I am absolutely thrilled with that. Truly!

But... the increase in available furnishings does present a problem. Too many items we want to use, and not enough slots to use them in. I know we've been asking and asking for this, but I'm going to ask one more time.

Please, please, take a good hard look at increasing our limits? At least a little?

I understand there are system/coding issues, but surely the code, budget, and technology have improved enough we have a little flex by now? And we don't need another straight doubling like we got last time, though that would be nice. We can work with smaller increments over time.

Maybe 50-100 for a small, 100-150 for a medium, and 150-200 for a large?

Just that alone would go a very long ways towards giving us the flex we need to fully enjoy all the wonderful furnishings, new and old, we have.

Thank you,
A decorator who loves details in her work

I would have to agree with you on this. Housing has so many fans and even facebook groups and websites to show off our creations. Have even had people ask, "you can do that in your game? Wow!". I use housing decoration as a way to express my creativity and with more slots...would just be amazing! (I actually had someone tour my house on stream and the said this same thing) We are so grateful to all of you for listening to us as a housing community and any increases would be most welcome!! <3 always

I agree as a decorator, crafter and gatherer we need more slots. Not just for housing but for inventory for us as well as retainers and saddle bags. I could do sooo much more with housing and mass crafting with more room to work with.

They did say they wanted to increase it again (though not that it was specifically planned). If it does happen, I would expect it to get implemented when Ishgard housing opens.

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They did say they wanted to increase it again (though not that it was specifically planned). If it does happen, I would expect it to get implemented when Ishgard housing opens.

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I sincerely hope we don't have to wait that long for it, but you have a point that it IS a logical place to put the increase.

Please please please save my cavernous basements from obscurity .. I would love to decorate them with as much attention to detail as my other floors but always have to block them off. I have only things I love in my house there are simply no slots to add more things I love .. I want the new stuff but I want the old stuff I love in there too.

100% support this. They are adding so much housing stuff, but there is just not enough space for making a nice lived in home unless you block off floors.

Just 50 more slots in a medium would be fantastic.

(Also... seasonal storage please...)

This would be fantastic at some point, although as a housing enthusiast of a few years now, I have to say that the housing community has received a LOT of love from the dev team and I appreciate that greatly.
I think the size that suffers most from a shortage of items on the list is the large. Quite frequently when accepting commissions on larges, I have to advise that the owner block off an entire floor in order to fill in with the wonderful details that make an in game home feel like a real one.
Again, much appreciation for where we've come so far. This is a great game with so many facets and they are all very well done.
Sincerely,
Fae
https://housingsnap.com/?user=VyZLN_Bt

I agree but might take some time for them to get that to happen. In the meantime, take a look at some cool simplified modern houses people are making in twitter. You can make a house look nice without all that extra trash hanging on the walls or the shiny trophies.

Every time they release new furniture I have to think about what I can remove so that I have enough space for the nice new items. This time there are especially nice things, like the yellow crystal, the new wall planter, the plates, and so on. And then there are the new outside furnishings that are really nice. It's even worse with those, I have no idea what to remove for those... I need more slots.

Outdoor definitely needs more inventory space. However, the indoor slot problem could also be improved by improving the housing system so that players don't need to use 50 pieces of the same item to make a single furniture. Maybe they could implement a construction mode where players use existing housing items to design a furniture item and it becomes a single piece of furniture that they can then add into their house? (Would still require buying the necessary items, of course).

While I’m at it, item placement restrictions also need to go.

Solution for outdoor slots would be smaller wards.

Divide the number of ward houses by two, and double the number of outdoor slots per house.

Being creative, fashion the wards like little nooks and crannies that one might find in the given region, perhaps with a more open area in the center for a congregation area.

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I agree but might take some time for them to get that to happen. In the meantime, take a look at some cool simplified modern houses people are making in twitter. You can make a house look nice without all that extra trash hanging on the walls or the shiny trophies.

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That's a valid suggestion... provided the person in question wants, or even likes the modern house look for their house. I personally do not. I think modern houses look about as welcoming as hospitals, and just as sterile. It's cool if you or others have a better appreciation of the look than I do, but that's not a cover all solution for everyone unfortunately lol.

-Agreed 100% both interior and exterior need major increases in item limit.

-Also please remove placement ALL restrictions/limitations.

-Add the ability to "construct" items ourselves (huge request to UI but would make housing design massively more enjoyable and unique)

They keep releasing all this cutesy tabletop stuff and no slots to display it all. My walls are kinda bare too.

Calling Yoshi-P "honey" and then saying "mad respect for [him]" seems very contradictory to me xD But that's besides the point.


I would love to see apartments, especially, getting an increase. If people neglect their basements in a cottage (fun fact: cottages didn't always have basements), they basically get 200 items for the top room. Meanwhile, apartments don't get that "loophole," they get a flat 100 item. Over all, an increase would be nice. Mansions could especially use them, I think.

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Calling Yoshi-P "honey" and then saying "mad respect for [him]" seems very contradictory to me xD But that's besides the point.

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I'm sorry. I'm from the US South. We tend to use words like honey, hon, and sweetie in a more generic context. It's like calling someone dude, man, or mate. It's not meant to be sarcastic, disrespectful, or anything else you might be thinking.

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I'm sorry. I'm from the US South. We tend to use words like honey, hon, and sweetie in a more generic context. It's like calling someone dude, man, or mate. It's not meant to be sarcastic, disrespectful, or anything else you might be thinking.

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Don't forget friend, buddy, buster, sparkles, etc.

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That's a valid suggestion... provided the person in question wants, or even likes the modern house look for their house. I personally do not. I think modern houses look about as welcoming as hospitals, and just as sterile. It's cool if you or others have a better appreciation of the look than I do, but that's not a cover all solution for everyone unfortunately lol.

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I odnt really care for the "go for the modern look", modern is a more minimalist approach that in my opinion isnt much on "personality". I need some "feeling" in the homes, id want a item limit increase, but you also have to be creative within the limitations

https://scontent-mia3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...87&oe=5ECD9D9C

I need about 30 or 40 slots for my outdoor furnishing.. 20 isn't enough.

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That's a valid suggestion... provided the person in question wants, or even likes the modern house look for their house. I personally do not. I think modern houses look about as welcoming as hospitals, and just as sterile. It's cool if you or others have a better appreciation of the look than I do, but that's not a cover all solution for everyone unfortunately lol.

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Ironically enough, modern builds tend to be the most slot heavy out of everything I've ever done or seen done.

We really need more slots!

I could do with like a hundred more slots in my mansion. The basement is kind of open, but the top two floors are good, aside from tabletop items. It sucked at Christmas trying to decide what I could take down in order to put up the trees, put out presents, and other decorations. That was when I was like, we really need more slots.

I dunno I think my cottage is fairly modern but I feel it's far more welcoming than a hospital!

https://i.imgur.com/ksaaZxP.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/p6am4qZ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/J5PWz4w.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/3qvcrTv.jpg

Still I wouldn't say no to an item increase in apartments and houses across the board!

I'd like at least a 10 item increase for outdoor stuff.

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I could do with like a hundred more slots in my mansion. The basement is kind of open, but the top two floors are good, aside from tabletop items. It sucked at Christmas trying to decide what I could take down in order to put up the trees, put out presents, and other decorations. That was when I was like, we really need more slots.

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I would like more than 100. Double what we currently are allowed would be a dream. ^^;

I refuse to remove anything for seasonal decorations anymore. It takes too much effort for me to decide what has to go. I just reserve 1 free slot for one random seasonal item at the time, and that is it. :(

I have a mansion and refuse to cut off an entire floor so I can just make it looked lived in, so I do what I can with the items I have to make it look homey. That usually means a bit of a minimalist design and nothing too fancy can really be made, but I've made it work.

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Yoshi-P, honey, you know I have absolutely mad respect for you and the dev team. You put up with a lot of abuse from us, and despite that you hold your heads high and do your level best to churn out all sorts of wonderful content.

This is especially true for your efforts with housing. Furnishings have exploded by leaps and bounds, and I am absolutely thrilled with that. Truly!

But... the increase in available furnishings does present a problem. Too many items we want to use, and not enough slots to use them in. I know we've been asking and asking for this, but I'm going to ask one more time.

Please, please, take a good hard look at increasing our limits? At least a little?

I understand there are system/coding issues, but surely the code, budget, and technology have improved enough we have a little flex by now? And we don't need another straight doubling like we got last time, though that would be nice. We can work with smaller increments over time.

Maybe 50-100 for a small, 100-150 for a medium, and 150-200 for a large?

Just that alone would go a very long ways towards giving us the flex we need to fully enjoy all the wonderful furnishings, new and old, we have.

Thank you,
A decorator who loves details in her work

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And fifty more at LEAST for apartments. I know I'm going to have to remove things for those new portraits. ;_;

I've been thinking about this for a while now. Why not just apply the FC personal rooms system to personal houses and remove the one per character limit? Think about it: the system is already there. All they would have to do is attach it. Sure, it doesn't technically increase the slot count for the house, instead it adds another room with its own slots. But it wouldn't require as much of a retrofit to the engine in theory. No need to load more objects all at once, just each individual room as needed. Add on more outdoor furnishings alongside it and voila!

I've personally been tempted to leave my FC and make one with my main and 7 alts to in effect do just that. I'm crazy enough to want to make a house that has everything in it, from a dedicated space for each type of crafting to RP elements such as an arboretum and a bathroom. The only thing stopping me from actually going through with it is that I owe my current FC a lot and don't want to just up and leave them like that.

In the end, though, the furnishing limits - both interior and exterior - are just too low per size. A lot of people I know don't dare buy a small because they know it won't hold enough stuff for what they want to design. Sure, you can get a lot of mileage out of larger items, but the small stuff is what makes a place feel alive, and it adds up fast.