Even the devs don't like the pillars inside of houses

During the Q&A part of the recent 14hr broadcast a person asked Yoshida if they could make it so that we could switch or even remove pillars and windows inside of houses. Yoshida replied with an answer of that part of the team had already been working on trying to make it so you can switch them out or even remove them. I love it when we ask questions like this only to find out the team has already been working on trying to make said request a possibility.

So hopefully they at least figure out a way for us to switch them out. As at least with a switch out you can then work them into a design better. Or have less pressure to have a house or apartment in a certain housing ward just so you don't have to eat up a slot in trying to hide a pillar style you don't enjoy. Which sure doesn't please the few who want 100% flat wall, but at least it would be something.

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Working around pillars is very annoying.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

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Working around pillars is very annoying.

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Easily maybe 1/3rd of a house i build is taken up by hiding pillars and walls with the partitions. If we could get the option to just remove them it would save a lot more space for me to be more creative with my builds.

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Originally Posted by MilkieTea

Easily maybe 1/3rd of a house i build is taken up by hiding pillars and walls with the partitions. If we could get the option to just remove them it would save a lot more space for me to be more creative with my builds.

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Yeah, they definitely stifle creativity a lot. It would be nice to be able to remove them. I've had to use a lot of partitions myself to cover up problem areas. An unnecessary waste of space, in my opinion.

not a big housing guy, what pillars?

Renalt arranges the rocks under the bridge he lives under yet again cause he can't buy a house with his 9 figure gil account.

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Originally Posted by SylvAlternate

not a big housing guy, what pillars?

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Those Roegadyn manservants

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Originally Posted by SylvAlternate

not a big housing guy, what pillars?

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They're the parts of the walls of the inside of houses/apartments that jutt out of the corners of the walls. A lot of people either 100% don't like them as they prefer to have a flat wall. Or they own a house or an apartment that has a style they don't like or clashes with the design they want in that space. Like the ones in the Goblet are beige chunky blocky pillars that many tend to use up precious furniture slots in order to hide. We also can't make them a different color so even if you might like the style they again might not be the right shade that goes with the rest of your wall.

Not only pillars are bothering.

In some house, especially Shirogane, the roof is a japanese style, which is a style on his own and can do a huge contrast with everything you try to do that's not "Asian". Ho, and it come with some ugly green color as well on the corner linking the wall and the roof.

why yes that is the biggest issue with housing right now.

I don't know which I despise the most. The pillars that just take up space, or the fixture windows that take up space and whose glare goes through walls. So if those could kindly get bent, I'd be much obliged.

Glad to hear that.
The pillars and windows are a huge nuisance, working with them is a pain and sometimes straight up impossible and covering them takes too many precious item slots. It's a lose/ lose.
I also find it extremely annoying that you have to place items like 1m away from the wall if there's a pillar nearby instead of being able to seamlessly stuff items right in front of them even with the storage placement trick. Same with windows. Just give me completely flat walls, thank you.

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Originally Posted by Rilifane

Glad to hear that.
The pillars and windows are a huge nuisance, working with them is a pain and sometimes straight up impossible and covering them takes too many precious item slots. It's a lose/ lose.
I also find it extremely annoying that you have to place items like 1m away from the wall if there's a pillar nearby instead of being able to seamlessly stuff items right in front of them even with the storage placement trick. Same with windows. Just give me completely flat walls, thank you.

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Yeah, a window toggle would be nice as well. There's more than a few window furnishings. They should either make them a full replacement inside and out, or let us turn them off on the inside.

I will dream of the day we don't need to waste half the objects on hiding those pillars and windows.

And I hope it's something as awesome as craftable inner skins, like outside skins, but made by individuals using some rare material.

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Originally Posted by Shibi

I will dream of the day we don't need to waste half the objects on hiding those pillars and windows.

And I hope it's something as awesome as craftable inner skins, like outside skins, but made by individuals using some rare material.

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Heck, I'd settle on basic walls with wallpaper functions that you can toggle on and off. Like, If you've got a house in Lav Beds it'd just look like blank lav bed partitions you know? And then you could freely place windows etc.

Ugh I cant put everything around the house as I want to because I reached maximum items allowed since panels need to cover those hideous walls/pillars/windows and take half of the item space.

Now if only the devs would allow us to put anything on lofts so we can have bootleg z-axis control without having to do tedious glitching.

Hopefully it's the same for apartments too. My Shiro apartment is a bit compact due to me hiding all the pillars.

Dude I wish they remove the pillars AND the ceiling decoration. I can't make a loft at Goblet because of the ceiling...

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Hopefully it's the same for apartments too. My Shiro apartment is a bit compact due to me hiding all the pillars.

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I would think it would apply to apartments and FC rooms. As I'm sure they're speaking about housing in general.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

Dude I wish they remove the pillars AND the ceiling decoration. I can't make a loft at Goblet because of the ceiling...

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Yes the ceiling beams would be nice to switch out or get rid of. Hopefully they can make the switching out and or removal of pillars a thing. Then we can maybe see if they can't change other parts of the inside of housing so that they become less annoying.

Fudge, thank the eff goodness. It's really preventing me on working on a cafe.

While we're at it, can we also get options on the wall/ceiling style? I mean the baseboard/corners/ceiling itself and not the wallpaper.

As long as removing the pillars is optional, sure. More options are always good. :) I actually like the pillars, I'm not fond of "realistic" designs, I want my home to look like it actually belongs to the in-game world.

As others have said please remove the stuff on the inside. We’d like a top to floor empty wall. No pillars. No baseboard (or make it optional), no ceilings beams or windows. We use alot of items to cover these currently which is a unwanted use of our already small item limit.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

During the Q&A part of the recent 14hr broadcast a person asked Yoshida if they could make it so that we could switch or even remove pillars and windows inside of houses. Yoshida replied with an answer of that part of the team had already been working on trying to make it so you can switch them out or even remove them. I love it when we ask questions like this only to find out the team has already been working on trying to make said request a possibility.

So hopefully they at least figure out a way for us to switch them out. As at least with a switch out you can then work them into a design better. Or have less pressure to have a house or apartment in a certain housing ward just so you don't have to eat up a slot in trying to hide a pillar style you don't enjoy. Which sure doesn't please the few who want 100% flat wall, but at least it would be something.

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Ah, if only They could make the ceiling and the doors more neutral too! Like, just give us a big empty "box" to work with.

The amount of furnishings people use to hide the pillars and the ugly ceilings by using the float glitch is quite the hindrance, especially on FC rooms and apartments.

To add on to my previous post:
- non-hanging ceiling lights. Just a flat light on the roof that doesn’t hang at all. Just provides light. Sometimes they get in the way of decorating.
- option to change the stairs to the top floor and basement
- options to change the exit door and the door to the fc rooms/workshop

Seems like the simplest answer would be to change the interior models to remove them all entirely, and then make new placeable pillars and windows that matched those styles for anyone who actually liked them.