Island Sanctuary is NOT housing!!!

Just a reminder it's a cool farm sim but they still haven't fixed housing!

It's not even a cool farm sim. It's not a farm sim at all, actually.

Dunno it's pretty cool to me been spending tons of time there. Oddly enough I would always be in my gardens in ward housing now I'm always in IS. Shame there is no limited at least deco options.

I didn't need that reminder; not brain-dead here.

But.... thanks?

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Dunno it's pretty cool to me been spending tons of time there. Oddly enough I would always be in my gardens in ward housing now I'm always in IS. Shame there is no limited at least deco options.

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My hope is that they can eventually branch out into such things. I personally am loving Island Sanctuary, but it also has a lot of potential for more fun additions like as you say outdoor deco, NPC visits, more rare animals and perhaps even a type of personal housing.

its a time sink and not much else.

I mean, we already knew that, but, sure.

I kinda like it nonetheless.

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Originally Posted by Hurlstone

My hope is that they can eventually branch out into such things. I personally am loving Island Sanctuary, but it also has a lot of potential for more fun additions like as you say outdoor deco, NPC visits, more rare animals and perhaps even a type of personal housing.

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Be nice to have a house/living quarters where there is a living area like a house even if we can't deco it. Obviously being able to decorate would be ideal but I'd like a living area the cabin as such sure doesn't qualify. The bathhouse and treehouse are amazing though. Give us a living area as well.

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Originally Posted by Battler-Ushiromiya

Just a reminder it's a cool farm sim but they still haven't fixed housing!

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We knew it wasn't going to be housing cause the devs said it a million times. You people hyped it up out of nothing.
It's not a farming sim either.

I really enjoy it though. I spend countless hours in there.

why are there so many island sanctuary threads here? lol

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Be nice to have a house/living quarters where there is a living area like a house even if we can't deco it. Obviously being able to decorate would be ideal but I'd like a living area the cabin as such sure doesn't qualify. The bathhouse and treehouse are amazing though. Give us a living area as well.

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Honestly I would LOVE a customizable treehouse, one that we could perhaps set up whereever we want in the wild. Even a cave I can drop carpets in would be nice haha!

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Be nice to have a house/living quarters where there is a living area like a house even if we can't deco it. Obviously being able to decorate would be ideal but I'd like a living area the cabin as such sure doesn't qualify. The bathhouse and treehouse are amazing though. Give us a living area as well.

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And what you are describing is pretty much what they say it wouldn't be - housing.

Keep wishing and pooping in each hand and see which one you get first though.

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Originally Posted by Theox

It's not even a cool farm sim. It's not a farm sim at all, actually.

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It's that you're doing it wrong, there is a way to make 3k xp via the factory (1 Xp per azure assignat received via the sale), 1k via the livestock 120 per harvest X the number of crop slots; per day.
2k per week via the weekly objectives journal. And quite a bit via building upgrades.

Yoshi-P told you it was chill content between two PvE content. If the grind harvest only yields 10 xp, you're doing it wrong and you're doing the content wrong.

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Originally Posted by Hurlstone

Honestly I would LOVE a customizable treehouse, one that we could perhaps set up whereever we want in the wild. Even a cave I can drop carpets in would be nice haha!

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I made myself a treehouse in RIFT's Dimensions once. Took one of the bigger trees with a good branch layout, resized it to maximum then started adding rooms on different branches and fishnet "bridges" to connect them together along with creating an entrance path from the top of a cliff in the Dimension.

It was a lot of fun to do. I still wish the rest of RIFT had been as good as their housing.

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Originally Posted by Naoki34

It's that you're doing it wrong, there is a way to make 3k xp via the factory (1 Xp per azure assignat received via the sale), 1k via the livestock 120 per harvest X the number of crop slots; per day.
2k per week via the weekly objectives journal. And quite a bit via building upgrades.

Yoshi-P told you it was chill content between two PvE content. If the grind harvest only yields 10 xp, you're doing it wrong and you're doing the content wrong.

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Why ever would you tell someone they're doing it wrong when it's supposed to be relaxing content for players to approach in the way they want? Not everyone gives a damn about max efficiency nor is trying to achieve it relaxing. It might be satisfying in the end but it's most definitely not relaxing.

It's still not a farm simulator even if there's a little bit of farming involved. Also don't know why you bring up the workshop as some sort of proof it's a farm simulator. Farms don't usually process the "raw" materials into finished products. They ship them to the factories that do.

Whoever thought Island Sanc was gonna be housing clearly didn't get the memo's that stated that it wasn't

For many, it is the closest they will have to an open "personal space" in the game, until the devs manage to fix the housing problem.

I mean it was never meant to be housing, when asked about it they were completely quiet and that was a big giveaway that it wasn't going to be like housing, idk how some people got the feeling that we'd be able to customize the island like housing, probably the supporters of "muh neighborhood feeling"

If they just added a housing plot like those found in the housing wards to the Island, that would address the requests for "instanced player housing". I'm guessing there's a technical reason that they didn't do this though.

It's certainly not what I was hoping for. I thought it would solve the issue of players not being able to grow chocobo fodder because they hadn't been lucky enough to get a house. Sadly it has no association with the rest of FFXIV other than you can get a few novelty items and another means to ever so slowly farm crafting/gathering materia. It's so... *sigh* I don't think "disappointing" is enough to describe how underwhelmed I feel about it.

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Originally Posted by geekgirl101

It's certainly not what I was hoping for. I thought it would solve the issue of players not being able to grow chocobo fodder because they hadn't been lucky enough to get a house. Sadly it has no association with the rest of FFXIV other than you can get a few novelty items and another means to ever so slowly farm crafting/gathering materia. It's so... *sigh* I don't think "disappointing" is enough to describe how underwhelmed I feel about it.

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Possibly because you were one of those who convinced themselves that the Sanctuary would be a fix for other shortcomings the game has instead of its own unique content as we were repeatedly told it would be.

It's good content for what it was intended to be though I understand why many are disappointed it was not more. Sometimes it's better to fix what isn't working well than ignore it in favor of adding something new. This is one of those situations where we're left wonder if the resources devoted to Island Sanctuary couldn't have been used to improve the housing system instead.

Im betting the island is the base testing grounds,, come 7.0 if your island maxed and you meet the normal reequipments you will be able to build a house on your island you can deco like normal..

Just seems to odd that this is hooked to the housing server and nos the dungeon or open land servers..

Again if i was betting id bet SE is secretly laying the ground work for "instance housing" on your island