Are we getting houses?

[Chinook]

Since the timing is good for suggestions on this topic, here’s one concept to kill two birds with one stone:


Turn the disastrous market wards into player housing.

Let players buy their own domain in one of the (renamed) wards. Retainers would “live” in the player’s house, and would still hold their stuff. The bazaars and item search feature could be kept, but improved (i.e. directly port the potential buyer into your house hall from the search menu, and fix the multiple little annoying things). Linkshells could also buy their own complete wards level, and control who's in it.

And while we’re there, add the option to buy farms at the remote Quest Hubs where players could hire another retainer who’d grow things and raise animals. Players would also have to gear and rank up their retainers to defend their farm from beastmen. These farms would also have stables where players would put their own chocobo. Chocobos would have bags, and could be called out in the fields to carry stuff back and forth between the player, farm and house.

And while we’re still there, add moogles that could be called up to carry gear sets. Moogles could be linked to the future job system, being the Grand Companies helpers from the past eras.

And, finally, make Kazakhstan a peaceful country.

[Kailok]

I like the idea of having both a player house and guild housing. I know this has been said before, but I'll back it up. Having trophies of big kills and NMs you've killed inside the walls of your guild's area.

In the future it would be cool if an entire portion of Ishgard was reserved as an instance for your guild's housing, which can be linked to your own house. Kind of like how Guild Wars 2 is using 1/4th of the city to call your "Home Space" where it keeps up with everything you've done in your own storyline, and you can invite friends in.

[Greencactaur]

Yeah houses would be nice

[Chezen]

Not that it's a big deal if they use them, but I'm probably the only FF diehard fan that actually doesn't like moogles very much. Except the ones in XII were ok, cause they looked like bunnies.

Other than that... sky's the limit. Anything you can think of and have time to program, I'll love. I loved making houses in Sims... so building it, painting it, furnishing it, gardening, pets, you name it, I love that sort of thing.

Getting our retainers involved would be great too. As for the MW suggestions... The biggest reason I like the Wards is for the peace and quiet, so if I could browse what's for sale from my house, and maybe have my character or my retainer model it live before buying it, I might be ok with that. I'd still miss some other things about the wards like browsing the other shops and smiling at retainer names, but it's a fair compromise. I'd still be able to craft and buy things as I need them.

Maybe retainer levels could still come into play this way somehow?

[Coldbrand]

More than anything I'd love if they actually took up real estate in the game world and you could visibly see other people's homes and of course maintain the functionality of XI that came later on of going inside other player's homes. Make furnishings a huge part of carpentry and other crafts so that money can be made off housing and you can trick your home out. But the key for me is being able to see an area where it's player's houses, and not NPC's for once.

[Reinheart]

Copy/Pasted from other thread I posted this.

Thinking of housing as an area where it has multiple houses not just like FFXI where you zone warp and suddenly you're inside your house. You have a property and depending on what you built you can have different features making it little bit unique.
(which is OK but wont work for my idea.)

• Buy a Property
  • You have to have a small/medium/large property first. You get the small property for free to use as rental if you're visiting other countries and don't own a property there.
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    If it was me I'll make it so you must complete a quest to obtain the first small property in the first place, like going to certain NPC to get papers filled out and finding your housing care taker (moogle, etc...) comes with basic tutorials for rest of the feature listed below.
  • Properties has grid - Example Small 4x4, Medium 7x7, Large 10x10
  • Medium/Large property costs more + request quest completion
  • Depending on property you can get standard (plain) or have scenic landscaping like Uldah with Oasis like water area, Limsa beach front, Gridania scenic lake/pond which costs a bit more.
  • Only can have 1 property per country or just 1 property period... I would prefer 1 property per country but that might be hard on server (not sure)
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• Building on your Property (housing, garden, fish farming, crafting workshop)
  • You can only build certain type of house/buildings on the size of property you have. Have to consider the building size and see if it fits on your property, or if the building requires to have certain property size.
  • You have several types of housing available to build your house from.
    • Housing - your house to store your gear, achievements, furniture
    • Gardening - depending on size of garden can plant more/less
    • Fish Farming - same as gardening but you raise fishes
    • Cobran Raising - Raise Cobran to............ miners need something...
    • Craft Workshop - Can get higher craft support in cities that's not avail.
  • You get the small house and small garden for free as starter with the small property. (with initial quest completion)
  • For some buildings/features you have to pay certain amount of gil + in some cases bring in special materials to complete the building/housing.
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• Placing Furniture's (For main housing)
  • Inside your house you can place furniture anywhere like how Playstation Home works. you can rotate the furniture at any angle within your own home. Some furniture can be placed on top of another furniture (Like FFXI - Pots on top of table/shelf)
  • Furniture doesn't take item space!!! I hated that in FFXI! limited on how I wanted to decorate my own mog house.
  • Decorating the house - wallpapers, wall color

Now features you can have within the housing...
Lemme put the games everyone on my friends in facebook plays.... I tried couple times but I'd rather play FFXIV or other games than play on FB...... although it is addicting once you get back into it... and would be nice if you can do from the housing features..

1. Farmville idea
   Farming outside your own garden. Same for fish farming. Gotta think something for the miners. Added... miners... cobran farming.. feel sorry for the cobran we have to break their gems lolol
2. Chocobo's Crystal Tower idea
   Your house keeper or another NPC you have in your housing can go on trips while you do your own quest/adventure and they go on a journey and bring items, etc back for you. You have to equip your NPC well enough so they can survive their journey back home.
3. Restaurant City
   For crafters you can make things and try to sell it virtually (meaning not selling to other PC's like current market system) you tell your NPC to sell it for you in your store, you set the price and they tell you how much sold, didn't sell, what the current market price is and how much money the store has. Has it's own store facility you can design/decorate.

Might be hard to do... but would be interesting... + make sure you can bring your friends to your housing... add the Triple Triad so I can play them with friends quietly inside my/his/her house! lol

[Arcell]

More than anything I'd love if they actually took up real estate in the game world and you could visibly see other people's homes and of course maintain the functionality of XI that came later on of going inside other player's homes. Make furnishings a huge part of carpentry and other crafts so that money can be made off housing and you can trick your home out. But the key for me is being able to see an area where it's player's houses, and not NPC's for once.

Sounds like a good idea on paper but in practice it's pretty bad. What happens when you run out of space? What about inactive players that haven't deactivated their account or deleted their characters? What would you do about returning players? They did this in SWG and after a time there were just sprawling ghost towns in some areas.

A larger instanced area like a small town would be good though, something not in the actual world but where you could easily see other player's houses as well as your own.

[Lusavari]

I'd like both community housing and player housing...

What I wanna know about is the Inns at every tavern? I was thinking about it the other day, and figured that That was probably the idea to essentially give us rooms at the inns and let us customize them and what not. It'd be an interesting take for the location. The Roost and the others should have something cool done with them.

[Corrderio]

I'd love a housing system for players and a guild hall, but I'd love for them to take a page from Animal Crossing where you can customize your houses size, walls, floors, etc.

[quantumsaint]

I'd like them to use the buildings in game for what it's supposed to be there too while they are at it. There's sections that's unavailable in cities I'm pretty sure that's where personal housing goes and then there's places like these that need a function:

http://twitpic.com/5opep9#
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1-00-04-84.jpg

Not that it means anything, but the icon on the sign is the one used for the auction house in FFXI.