Housing Idea: Personal Chambers in Private Estates

Apologies if this has been suggested before, but I searched and didn't see it anywhere.

Free Company estates already have private chambers, so the coding is already in the game and functioning without problems. Why couldn't SE let private estates have the same functionality? Ideally, a private estate owner would not be limited to one chamber.

This would be of most benefit to small house owners, since they could add more rooms and significantly increase their space. Even medium and large owners could use them to set up specialty or themed rooms.

Why not remove the one room per person limit on FC private chambers as well? I doubt there are many FCs that push the current limit of available rooms. This would help out FCs with too many members to comfortably fit in a small house. True, private chambers are small, but if FC leaders could buy extra rooms and set them up as communal spaces, then there would at least be more spots to hang out.

If SE wanted to turn this into a massive gil sink, prices for additional rooms could steadily increase. The more rooms you have, the more the next one will cost.

Maybe there's some issue that I'm missing, but I don't really see a down side to this.

I'm all for it. Especially since it would be a massive boost to the economy and allow furniture to be in higher demand!

all up for it

Yes. This would be awesome. :)

I'm in favor of this

Presumably there's still a finite cap on the number of 'rooms' that can exist on a server. Rooms in this case covering both private quarters and apartments.
If this private chamber in a private house took up the 'apartment' slot (meaning you could either have an apartment, or a private room in your own house) then I could see it working.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

Presumably there's still a finite cap on the number of 'rooms' that can exist on a server. Rooms in this case covering both private quarters and apartments.
If this private chamber in a private house took up the 'apartment' slot (meaning you could either have an apartment, or a private room in your own house) then I could see it working.

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My understanding is that private chambers and apartments are instanced, so they don't take up space when no one is in them. Sure, there has to be somewhere to store the data on what items are in the room and where they're placed, but that data is only loaded when someone enters the room. A home owner could have 100 rooms, but only one (the one they're in) would be active at any given time.

The system already has the capacity for, I believe, 512 private chambers per FC, and multiple FC members could be in their rooms at the same time. I don't see how additional rooms in private estates would stress the servers any more than FCs currently do.

Errrrr the whole point of owning a private estate because it is your “private chamber” and you decides what your rooms going to be looks like?

plus if the owner of the private estate loses the house to auto-demolish that means all the tenants are screwed. lol

I'd be for it since the item limit for mansions is so limiting. Even if it's artificial, I'd at least have more theoretical room to work with. My house still doesn't have a bathroom.

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Originally Posted by Divinemights

Errrrr the whole point of owning a private estate because it is your “private chamber” and you decides what your rooms going to be looks like?

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I don't understand what you're asking. The point of additional chambers in a private estate would be to provide an opportunity to increase your space or to design small and detailed specialty rooms.

As novel as this is, I personally do not like having to load in.

I have played with PC+SSD as well as PS4. And PS4 load times are abysmal in comparison.

My ideal expansion would be an extended interior by having a connected physical space. Like, say, for Mediums an additional floor from the 2nd (since exterior decor can reflect it.) or for larges, a connecting wing to the East and West rooms with similar doors. That way, your current decorations do not move, it would just be an empty room with 100+ slots to enter. Smalls could have an upper floor or attic. Similar to the stairs to a Medium but about the size of the basement.

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Originally Posted by Gula

My ideal expansion would be an extended interior by having a connected physical space. Like, say, for Mediums an additional floor from the 2nd (since exterior decor can reflect it.) or for larges, a connecting wing to the East and West rooms with similar doors. That way, your current decorations do not move, it would just be an empty room with 100+ slots to enter. Smalls could have an upper floor or attic. Similar to the stairs to a Medium but about the size of the basement.

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I think Gula's suggestion of Animal Crossing-esque might be better simply because they could then also implemented it with Apartments, which haven't seen any form of improvement since they added Chocobo Stables to them... >w>

Since nobody has said it. I'll say it now.


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I'd be all for it, but probably limited. One room for the owner and maybe a room for each tenant if you have some of those. But no need for dozens of rooms like people can get in an FC house.

That said I don't expect this to ever happen.

I think there's also some value in having the room instanced and not part of the main floor. Namely, being able to let people into your plot for an event or RP etc but being able to keep the back room locked. As well as separate orchestron track selections, independent lighting, independent furnishing cap etc.

OMG Yes Please!

If this couldn't happen, it'd be pretty cool if you could get some kinda aetheryte door or something which could let you link to your fc room or apartment. Nothing extra really, but you could get the two extra rooms at least.

I would love this, ESPECIALLY since I just got a home to house my friends and me. We were trying to get a place to call home, but I mean, all of us cramped with our unique styles with only 2 rooms for like 4 people is a very present-day IRL housing issue, and I want none of that in my fantasies.

This needs to get bumped again. PLEASE ADD PRIVATE ROOMS TO PERSONAL HOUSING!!!

Oh, and if you're worried about what might happen if the place gets put on demo... just write a quick code that let's owners of the private rooms have a choice of whether to buy the house before it gets demolished (based on oldest resident first). Boom and done.

... though I think most people would use the rooms for alts. And that would be amazing to have.

I'm all for it

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Originally Posted by Communion

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*looks at FFXIV's decade plus old spaghetti code*

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Originally Posted by SingleMaltFan

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It's a great idea, citizen, and it has my support.




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Id also love the ability to use free rooms as FC lead... like, i assume, the 250? 500? Rooms meant for fc members are always calculated into the storage usage, for all houses in all wards.

But yes it feels always sooo wasted having a private house and no rooms used... id love some dedicated Kitchen, dining rooms... heck, i would grab all those stuffed Alpha's and made some crazy chocobo room xD

I’d love this for my small… I’d make the extra room my bedroom and take advantage of the extra item slots in the main house! :) One would be enough for me, but I’d never turn down extra decorating space! For personals, if it has to be limited, maybe 1 per tenant, with the option for the owner to use the extra rooms themselves if they don’t have any tenants?

One thing I would like alongside that though is the ability to decide where the door to the extra room(s) goes… I would prefer it not to be on the back wall of the ground floor as it is now in FC houses if possible.

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Originally Posted by Kuroka

heck, i would grab all those stuffed Alpha's and made some crazy chocobo room xD

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Yes, about that lol