Are we getting houses?

[DoctorMog]

LINKSHELL HOUSING!

[Malakhim]

We asked Yoshida whether housing would be implemented and this is what he said:



What ideas would you like to see implemented with housing? I personally would like a handsome Elezen butler…

Give me a cute Elezen or Miqo'te maid and I'm on board with this plan!

Personally, I'd like some type of garden. Mind you an actual garden and not a simple mechanic like in FFXI. It doesn't have to be something extravagant(maybe just a shrubbery with some laurels), and maybe if company housing is introduced, we can only have a simple lot, but damnit I like to beautify my lawn spaces! It would also be interesting if Botanists were able to to get in on it in some fashion either through landscaping, planting flowers, etc.

If Triple Triad were ever introduced, I could see myself chilling out in my garden playin' with LS buddies for a good while.

[Roaran]

We asked Yoshida whether housing would be implemented and this is what he said:



What ideas would you like to see implemented with housing? I personally would like a handsome Elezen butler…

Functionality:
The ability to send Retainers to specific Market Wards (Maybe the ability to send them to other cities with a cost), place storage chests synthesized by crafters for extra storage (Multiple boxes for storing items by certain categories).

Other:
Decorations ( Ability to have regular decorations and place an image of any item we want, example: Gbuffalo Horn as trophy), Allow certain people access to enter and look around/hang out.

[Altanas]

We asked Yoshida whether housing would be implemented and this is what he said:



What ideas would you like to see implemented with housing? I personally would like a handsome Elezen butler…

Here are my thoughts on this issue of player housing. Well since I started writing I've seen the thread expand a few pages and a number of ideas have been proposed lol. I'l post anyway. The more ideas turn up the more SE might notice them...

1) Housing Styles & Progression
This has a few aspects
- Whatever style of housing, have a selection of floor plans as well as a selection of how many floors the houses have.
- Of course, the basic Uldah/Limsa/Gridania styles of housing. Perhaps also beastmen like styles too (if someone wants a lava filled cavern as a home, why not?)
- Have poorer style housing (shacks and barns etc) as well as richer housing styles (grand styles like Uldah)

Possibly as someone else in this thread has mentioned, start with something small and earn room expansions. Possibly tie this into some sort of quest series or floor plans added as drop to loot tables. It would make good sense of progression and entice people to commit themselves if say any type of housing (single, linkshell or districts) started off small and expansions had to be earned. By not letting people just buy or have a large house straight away it would encourage people to continue playing (sort of like raising a chocobo in 11, you had to devote time to it, or campaign in 11 you had to keep devoting effort or you lost your ranks).

2) Decorating Houses – the budding interior decorator within me and hopefully Yoshi-P!
In FF11 you could only place and rotate furniture in squares. This should be expanded upon. If we compare to other MMO's such as star wars galaxies (SWG), you could place any item at more or less any position within the house, at any angle and axis. This meant you could merge items together to give the illusion of other things (say for example, merging water fountains, pot plants and pillars into what would look like an indoor oasis once items are placed on top of one another). The Reps in SWG there even ran monthly competitions to see what kind of ideas people came up with.

There also needs to be a lot of thought into what else we would decorate our houses or linkshell halls with. For example, normal things like curtains, carpets etc to give the place a homely feel. This would require a lot more recipes to be added to crafts but in turn would give crafters more opportunities and specialisms to pursue.


3) Decorating Houses part 2: for Trophies
A House in most online games is a place to display your "trophies". Therefore there should be somewhere personal, but also somewhere more "public" for linkshell's to gather together to be proud of their achievements. Perhaps Linkshell Halls/Housing/Villages with a main hall and seperate member homes or rooms?
We dont really have many trophies in 14 at the moment. In 11 there werent really many either when you come to think of it, and the trophies more or less replicated one another (think nation flags, TAU flag, campaign flag?, all flags!). The kind of trophies I think people may want to see are skulls or heads of NMs they fight to hang up in their linkshell halls.

4) Linkshell Housing or Districts
Housing in FF11 seemed isolated and lonely. I know eventually you could invite friends in but, (unlike real life) i'd be more than happy for people to walk in to see what my place is like when i'm not online. Therefore allowing each person to contribute to some form of Linkshell Housing would be another avenue.

5) The visibility of housing within the gameworld or within a neighbourhood instance
In FF11 your house was only the inside of one room within an instance. You did not see any other rooms (there were none anyway) and did not see the outside. I am sure a lot of people want to be able to walk by their houses. Seeing the outside would also expand the housing aspect into gardens etc.
Linked to this is the idea that of course housing cannot be on the gameworld map, there need to be housing instances (i'm hoping for neighbourhood instances) to avoid clutter on the gameworld map. I'm guessing an instance like LOTR community housing would be appropriate and still satisfy desires to see the outside of your home. Perhaps Linkshell homesteads?

6) Gardening
There are so many flowers and fruits etc in this game it would make sense to expand this aspect into full blown gardens. Gardening was also huge in FF11 although it was sadly limited to pots. If there are housing neighbourhoods its a perfect opportunities to add gardens. Moogles are already in the game linked to foresty areas so why not bring the moogle gardening concept back.

7) Added purposes to Linkshell Housing
I raised this idea in a market wards thread, but its worthwhile mentioning it again. I see Linkshell Housing as not just a place for members to relax or display their rewards, but as a form of advertisement centre. I had suggested Linkshell Task Boards where mercenary type work can be advertised to the public (again sort of like in 11 where people would shout or look on forums for people to help them with NM's or events, or for linkshells to advertise what price they would want to help someone get a drop from an NM). If Linkshells had their own instances for housing, a search system could be handy listing all the housing instances so any member of the public could visit any instance.
There are possibly other purposes people can think of or goals that housing could lead to, ideas from the thread include things like Linkshell Banks (a standard in a number of MMOs i've played).

[zaviermhigo]

My idea to devs, our ability with the echo/mooglespeak leads to a cutscene where teh Ashcrown consortium does a "aht urghanish" mog locker contract with moogles to help us with our houses. Therefore moogles wouldn't be slaves just some moogles who need work would work in our house. Quests to expand storage like XI would be nice too, but the cutscenes for them and the quest behind them should lead us to some moogle lore and explain how the moogle society works. Also would love to be ability to add enhances to my house like XI for crafting but please make it a better system this time.


If we have linkshell housing I would like features like a meeting room that connects to instanced mog house for all ls members, just for "gits and shiggles" when we want to act like we're meeting in some place cool.
-crafting facilities, some way to maybe get at least guild synthesis support in the ls housing.
-crafters have to build expansions and beds/furniture for ls housing and meeting hall. These could be bought but they'd be more expensive. Even give ability for crafters to make and sell to others, so ls with less crafters can somehow obtain the benefit of these items.

I would like to see all the unimplemented places within LL, Uldah, and Grid be where the housing is. The other green triangle usually the opposite end of map as the wards, which tells you "you can proceed no further" when you try to walk into it.

We aren't limited by what any video game did with their housing system here, but we are limited by the engine so I'm not sure if mog houses in the open world would work, we're not really a sandbox mmo, and FFXIV isn't built on a sandbox engine, i think ArcheAge is more a game for people who would like this sort of thing.

The ability to build stuff for our house, that is something we can do, and I would look forward to it.

[Phenidate]

While company housing will be nice, I dearly hope that personal housing is somewhere in the content pipe.

From my experience with group or guild housing, the place never feels 'personal'. Usually it just devolves into someplace people AFK, go to raid the community chest or hit up what ever guild specific crafting or buff can be found there before going back out. Occasionally a handful of who ever is online goes there for a meeting.

A personal house on the other hand, entails a lot of what people are asking for in this thread and others. A personal space where the player has direct control over it's appearance and function.

That said, as great as having a personal moogle would be, I don't think it would fit very well in this game's lore. If the Gridania intro and NPC chatter is anything to go by, they are extremely rare mystical creatures (presumably of the forest since that's the only place I've ever seen them show up thus far).

On the other hand, we have retainers, which by all appearances are a perfect fit for filling the role of moogles in FFXI.

[weeble]

i'd love to see furniture back in the ffxiv. was my fav thing in ffxi, its something you don't see in other mmo's.

[Picoman]

Here is my suggestion:

I would like to see a section of the city, maybe instanced, where people can hang out. Like a residential area where you walk up to one of the houses and can enter your moghouse just like when you need to enter wards.

P.S. Furniture yes please!

[Firon]

If they do player housing they should do it Phantasy Star universe the only thing they did right in that game to me. The housing options was overwhelming.

[Taruna-Aeon]

Lots and lots of Moogle's ~ <3