Make Housing Account Wide

SE you are now running out of apartments..
Balmung the first many more to come, before it gets out control Make housing account wide and there be more apartments.
Since people are using apartments for alts to be able to store event rewards have there have a place for summing bells mender crystal bells all that..No one really likes your Inns.

Just make housing account wide so people with houses can let there alts use there stuff in there house..

This is just another band aid fix but might help a bit and is something we need..
It cant be impossible cause I know a couple people with there alts on there friends list due to a old glitch (not me kinda sadly) which shows we can lest friend our alt sand move them i as tenants.

I realize the housing issues isnt as big of a problem on JP servers whos numbers seems to be 7k-8k people per server...but NA and EU have alot more per server

Yes, would love to be able to share a house with my alts. I am fairly sure this was promised a while ago, but then nothing happened and nothing more was said.
It won't fix the house shortage, but it would definitely help.

Right now, the only way to have your alt characters use the same house as your main is this:
Login, teleport, use task manager to close game before it finishes casting, log other character, friend your alt and relog to alt to accept.

There needs to be a better way than doing that. So why not if 1 of your characters get a house, all your other characters can help decorate that house automatically, even transfer ownership to main if you wanted too.

Yoshida stated during the EW announcement stream iirc, that having all characters sharing one house is in the works but was also filled with excuses on why they cannot just do it just yet.

Not being able to share a house is just one of the things that we lost in their race to get housing out as fast as possible. Wait til you hear about the towers and turrets and expanded interiors that were planned as the primary use for free and grand company points but never implemented because they rushed the entire housing thing.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

Yoshida...filled with excuses

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Shaka when the walls fell.

(OK, I am a nerd)

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Originally Posted by AlenyaElizabelle

Right now, the only way to have your alt characters use the same house as your main is this:
Login, teleport, use task manager to close game before it finishes casting, log other character, friend your alt and relog to alt to accept.

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They patched that out in SB sadly.

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Originally Posted by AlenyaElizabelle

Right now, the only way to have your alt characters use the same house as your main is this:

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Unfortunately that was patched many, many years ago. It was the second time you could friend your own characters and both times SE went out of their way to patch it ASAP.

For whatever reason they really don't want us friending our own characters (retainer sales?) even years later it clearly works just fine without a problem as they also didn't remove it from anyone who did it and those people can still mail their alts and add them to their own housing.

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Originally Posted by AlenyaElizabelle

Right now, the only way to have your alt characters use the same house as your main is this:
Login, teleport, use task manager to close game before it finishes casting, log other character, friend your alt and relog to alt to accept.

There needs to be a better way than doing that. So why not if 1 of your characters get a house, all your other characters can help decorate that house automatically, even transfer ownership to main if you wanted too.

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I thought SE had fixed that exploit several years ago. Have you done it recently?

That also wouldn't help console players.

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Originally Posted by worldofneil

For whatever reason they really don't want us friending our own characters (retainer sales?) even years later it clearly works just fine without a problem as they also didn't remove it from anyone who did it and those people can still mail their alts and add them to their own housing.

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Allowing players to friend their alts wouldn't stop retainer sales. Having the additional retainer for an extra $2/mo is a lot more convenient than trying to shuffle items between characters even if you can mail items between them.

Mail is limited to 20 attachments pending in your inbox at a time. That means a lot of headaches logging off one character, logging onto another character, sending the mail, logging out, logging back in, and retrieving the mail (then possibly repeating the process depending on how many items you needed or if they're split between multiple characters).

Houses account wide would work well with 1 FC 1 House per DC.

Houses should be shared with all the characters on your acct. Theyre all you, its YOUR house, thats fine and right. With that said, theres no need for hyperbole. Balmung finally ran out of apartments again(3 months? im impressed it took that long), but can you find another server at even 2/3 capacity? Last i looked, no one else was over half - and that was before empyreum added 4300+ apartments that most of this forum wont even consider to be part of the housing system.

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Originally Posted by Shibi

Shaka when the walls fell.

(OK, I am a nerd)

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Kiazi's children, their faces wet

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Originally Posted by Frizze

Houses should be shared with all the characters on your acct.

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I agree.

But do people want all the characters to be considered owners, or would it be enough that one owns and the others are tenants? And if the latter, is the tenancy automatic, and does it count against the total number of allowed tenants (currently 3)?

Ideally, since we are only allowed one house per account per world, I would want all my 8 characters on that world to potentially have owner status, but at my discretion, and at the same time be able to give all my spouse's 5 characters tenant status. But this would take the most amount of work on SE's part of all the options.

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Originally Posted by Caitlinzulu

Kiazi's children, their faces wet

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Yoshi-p's hair, unwashed and disheveled.
(in the week before content release)

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Originally Posted by Silverbane

Yoshi-p's hair, unwashed and disheveled.
(in the week before content release)

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The beast at Tanagra

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Originally Posted by Silverbane

I agree.

But do people want all the characters to be considered owners, or would it be enough that one owns and the others are tenants? And if the latter, is the tenancy automatic, and does it count against the total number of allowed tenants (currently 3)?

Ideally, since we are only allowed one house per account per world, I would want all my 8 characters on that world to potentially have owner status, but at my discretion, and at the same time be able to give all my spouse's 5 characters tenant status. But this would take the most amount of work on SE's part of all the options.

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Yes all 8 should have owner rights.. But its Se if we get this it will be friending alts offline.. which means all your alts would have to join a fc in order to friend them, then you can make the, tenants.. this the kinda fix SE would do...

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Allowing players to friend their alts wouldn't stop retainer sales.

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Perhaps, I don't know. All we do know for sure is that SE definitely doesn't want us being able to friend our own characters and I was just offering a possible explanation as to why (both times it happened they released emergency patches within days of it becoming common knowledge, while normal bug fixes are held up and rolled into the next maintenance patch).

It doesn't appear to have broken anything for the people that did it 4 years ago (who can still benefit from it by mailing their alts and add them to their house) and I was just thinking that from SE point of view even one person who wouldn't buy an extra retainer each month is lost money for them.

I know I'd personally still continue to pay for additional retainers if this became a thing again, but I can't speak for everyone.

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Originally Posted by Siniztor

... But its Se if we get this it will be friending alts offline.. which means all your alts would have to join a fc in order to friend them, then you can make the, tenants.. this the kinda fix SE would do...

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Except you can only have three tenants, and I have 8 characters on my primary home world.

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Originally Posted by worldofneil

Perhaps, I don't know. All we do know for sure is that SE definitely doesn't want us being able to friend our own characters and I was just offering a possible explanation as to why (both times it happened they released emergency patches within days of it becoming common knowledge, while normal bug fixes are held up and rolled into the next maintenance patch).

It doesn't appear to have broken anything for the people that did it 4 years ago (who can still benefit from it by mailing their alts and add them to their house) and I was just thinking that from SE point of view even one person who wouldn't buy an extra retainer each month is lost money for them.

I know I'd personally still continue to pay for additional retainers if this became a thing again, but I can't speak for everyone.

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Well if this was why then SE wouldn't allow you to have mroe then 1 char i na fc.. since you can move items between chars via fc chest... Hense alot of people having private fc's just to share items.. Most people are more intrested in letting there alts mend or use the material seller in there houses..I know for me it wouldnt stop extra retainers since i have 3 lvl 80_ alts whos retainers all look like this https://imgur.com/a/xB3UBp7

I've paid for max retainers for probly 3 1/2 years lol i pay $28.99 a month

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Originally Posted by Silverbane

Except you can only have three tenants, and I have 8 characters on my primary home world.

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Oh I know Im just saying if Se dose any of this its gonna be the laziest version aka friending your alts

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Originally Posted by AlenyaElizabelle

Right now, the only way to have your alt characters use the same house as your main is this:
Login, teleport, use task manager to close game before it finishes casting, log other character, friend your alt and relog to alt to accept.

There needs to be a better way than doing that. So why not if 1 of your characters get a house, all your other characters can help decorate that house automatically, even transfer ownership to main if you wanted too.

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Pretty sure that trick was patched years ago?

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Originally Posted by Rhea_

Pretty sure that trick was patched years ago?

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yes way back hence (shortly after potd came out i believe thats when they patched it) why i didnt mention how my friends have alts on friends list plus not sure its good to mention old glitchs n how to do them but thats just me from older games.. you got banned for explaining any type of glitch old or current

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Originally Posted by Frizze

- and that was before empyreum added 4300+ apartments that most of this forum wont even consider to be part of the housing system.

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No one said that. You confuse housing and house. While both an a apartment and a house are housing, an apartment is not a house and is lacking in features and space. The advertisement in my language mentions that we can build our own house. A house and an apartment are also not mutually exclusive. Personally I have a house with tenants on my main plus an apartment and an fc room on each of my characters because I like decorating.


That being said, there is no reason why I shouldn’t be able to have my alts as tenants. It wouldn’t affect the number of retainers that I have. I can already use our fc chest to transfer items or ask a friend.

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Originally Posted by Toutatis

No one said that. You confuse housing and house. While both an a apartment and a house are housing, an apartment is not a house and is lacking in features and space. The advertisement in my language mentions that we can build our own house. A house and an apartment are also not mutually exclusive. Personally I have a house with tenants on my main plus an apartment and an fc room on each of my characters because I like decorating.


That being said, there is no reason why I shouldn’t be able to have my alts as tenants. It wouldn’t affect the number of retainers that I have. I can already use our fc chest to transfer items or ask a friend.

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I just did this to get used housing items i wanted on my alt for his apartment.. So dumb we have to resort to this.. most games have shared banks with like 10 spots or more to share with your self

I agree that we should be able to share between alts with ease.

I definitely think that housing should be account wide for private houses as it sucks having someone hog multiple houses by using alt accounts

but that's juts one of the many problems i have with FFXIV housing

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Originally Posted by Siniztor

yes way back hence (shortly after potd came out i believe thats when they patched it) why i didnt mention how my friends have alts on friends list plus not sure its good to mention old glitchs n how to do them but thats just me from older games.. you got banned for explaining any type of glitch old or current

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I remember doing this in hw but at some point it didn’t work, I see people brought up being patched in SB and might as well been back then.

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Originally Posted by Shibi

Shaka when the walls fell.

(OK, I am a nerd)

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