Outdoor Housing Needs a Few Updates to help with space

- Merge mailboxes into the exterior fixture system.

- Make aetherites part of the exterior fixture system, or remove the requirement entirely.

- Add more slots. Now that zones can handle more items per zone with the new upgrades, its time for more slots.

ITS SO HARD TO MAKE ENJOYABLE OUTDOOR SPACES BECAUSE OF THESE LIMITS. NO MATTER THE PLOT SIZE. Doing these things might save a few spaces, but we also need more slots.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by DamianFatale

- Merge mailboxes into the exterior fixture system.

- Make aetherites part of the exterior fixture system, or remove the requirement entirely.

- Add more slots. Now that zones can handle more items per zone with the new upgrades, its time for more slots.

ITS SO HARD TO MAKE ENJOYABLE OUTDOOR SPACES BECAUSE OF THESE LIMITS. NO MATTER THE PLOT SIZE. Doing these things might save a few spaces, but we also need more slots.

---

I'd love for them to add to the "fixture system" but i feel like if they put things like mailboxes and aetherites into the system it would be a singular location on the lot. They would have to create a system with multiple new locations to place things.

That being said, I always felt like the fixture system could be used during seasonal events to add house decorations like Christmas House Lights, Jack-O-Lanterns on fences. Valentine's hearts on windwos, etc, etc to existing housing models.

I think generally they need to split the big housing skins by fixture then create new walls and chimney's and such that work with those that have these things on them. Give me a wall with a gate built in for example.The base system was designed a decade ago.

Agree on everything. A basic feature like teleporting to your house shouldn't count against us on such a limited item budget. Would love a few more slots for yards in general

Yea, the limits too low, I understand why the limit is low but even 5-10 more items would do wonders to help.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by niwaar

I'd love for them to add to the "fixture system" but i feel like if they put things like mailboxes and aetherites into the system it would be a singular location on the lot. They would have to create a system with multiple new locations to place things.

That being said, I always felt like the fixture system could be used during seasonal events to add house decorations like Christmas House Lights, Jack-O-Lanterns on fences. Valentine's hearts on windwos, etc, etc to existing housing models.

I think generally they need to split the big housing skins by fixture then create new walls and chimney's and such that work with those that have these things on them. Give me a wall with a gate built in for example.The base system was designed a decade ago.

---

Maybe if it’s too complicated to put mailboxes and aetherytes into the actual skins/housing pieces, they could just tie them to the placards somehow? Maybe redesign the placards so they look like there’s an aetheryte on the post, and have some sort of indicator light for mail.

I’ll probably always make room for my Moogle mail box, but I would love to not have to spend the slot for the aetheryte.

Mao REALLY wishings Mao has few more outdoor slots right abouts now. Mao was redecoratings yard and suddenly Mao has to stops. No more slots. Mao sad....

I hope the furnishing limit expansion also affects outside and I hope it's something like this to keep it modest and reasonable;

Cottage: 5
House 10
Mansion: 20

Mihgo Manor really needs those 20 extra slots to realize my vision for Minaa's garden.

Even the storage limits are painfully low.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

Maybe if it’s too complicated to put mailboxes and aetherytes into the actual skins/housing pieces, they could just tie them to the placards somehow? Maybe redesign the placards so they look like there’s an aetheryte on the post, and have some sort of indicator light for mail.

I’ll probably always make room for my Moogle mail box, but I would love to not have to spend the slot for the aetheryte.

---

I gave up having a mailbox at my personal and use the one at my FC for the precious 1 extra slot, since you really have -2 slots since the aetherite is pretty much mandatory and the mailbox is all more optional but having to go to the city is like having a PO box, I'd rather just have a personal mailbox to not have to leave the zone to read mail.

Outdoor housing is pretty limited to just having basic outdoor amenities. You can't be too creative because you don't have enough furniture slots to combine to make something elaborate and you don't have enough land area to use before things start looking cluttered. For my cottage, I can place a mailbox, mini-aethryte, garden plot, chocobo stable, lawn bench, table and a tree or two.

If I feel creative, I just use my island's 90 slots. There are some wonderful things you could do but sadly you can't really share your creations there. Here's the garden I've been working on (shameless self promotion).
https://imgur.com/a/zxOQm07

Additional vids:

Sunset
https://imgur.com/a/Nqp8KgY

Mid-day
https://imgur.com/a/OMg6oWu

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by EmilySummerstar

Outdoor housing is pretty limited to just having basic outdoor amenities. You can't be too creative because you don't have enough furniture slots to combine to make something elaborate and you don't have enough land area to use before things start looking cluttered. For my cottage, I can place a mailbox, mini-aethryte, garden plot, chocobo stable, lawn bench, table and a tree or two.

If I feel creative, I just use my island's 90 slots. There are some wonderful things you could do but sadly you can't really share your creations there. Here's the garden I've been working on (shameless self promotion).
https://imgur.com/a/zxOQm07

---

That's a nice garden, I hope we get a generous amount of slots outside too, I need at least 20 more slots to complete my garden at both of my personal homes.

You can get creative but I do agree that I need more slots for small plants to fill in the empty spots but my yard is completely walkable without feeling cluttered. This is Meow Mansion's garden with the latest treehouse walls.

https://i.ibb.co/6ZNXdVt/ffxiv-09302024-025435-931.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/1KDPZ61/ffxiv-09302024-025506-116.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/z2CVF8T/ffxiv-09302024-025623-028.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/m0S9nKC/ffxiv-09302024-025646-041.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/yQyrVPR/ffxiv-09302024-025730-293.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/D1z54Gk/ffxiv-09302024-025843-374.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/LRds690/ffxiv-09302024-025853-651.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/1Tcx26Q/ffxiv-09302024-025906-016.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/xjw1f1r/ffxiv-09302024-030008-473.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/cLhZDMw/ffxiv-09302024-025920-021.jpg

Another idea I’d like to see in the future for the exterior is the ability to change the “flooring” of the ground outside, similar to how you can change the carpet/floor inside, or how you could change the ground type on Island Sanctuary independently of the building styles.

But in the meantime, I hope (but not really expect) that exteriors would get at least 5-10 more item slots when they raise the interior limits. From everything I’ve seen, it seems like they were very careful to specify interior on that though.