Mog House: Functions.

[OMEGA_HACK]

I would like this, but personally I want to be able to lock my doors (so I would be against "Company Housing" if there were no private housing option) I say this because having played with many different people and linkshells in XI (and I'm sure this exists in other MMOs as well) there are those LS leaders who abuse the leadership in a way that you really don't realize your getting shafted until it happens.

One thing I will say is: Let us hang up more than just 5 things on the wall! Having completed all the storyline quests in XI and not being able to hang up all my flags pissed me off to no end; lol...

[Balbanes]

Copy / Paste from my housing idea thread:



Greetings!

I want to pass along some feedback and ideas for Companies and Linkshells, regarding Housing. Specifically Guild (LS) Halls.

There should be purchasable, instanced zones in which a linkshell or company can purchase a hall/castle/keep/etc. There should be a range of options, from your basic, low priced hall to grand, castle like buildings. The largest being the most expensive, and which will take the longest time to earn. To access these zones, one would simply need to interact with an object either in a city or personal inventory that could transport you to the hall.

These should be purchasable with Gil, but perhaps another system on top of that? A status-style point system earned by companies maybe? Perhaps even tie it to the "level" of your company, if such a system will exist.

There should be a whole slew of new crafting recipes added for such things as furniture and decorations that you'll be able to place in your hall.

Halls should also contain Guild Banks, where officers of a LS/Company can set storage/withdrawl rules for both items and gil.

Link to example video

This entire zone is one huge, instanced guild hall. Everything except the marble structure is player made, store bought, or quested for.

[Firon]

I posted this in a thread i started it did not get much attention as i hoped so ill post it here i think we should have this feature.

Common Box


This is something they used on PSU(phantasy star universe) basically any item you put in the common box could be shared by all of your characters. So instead of mailing items to mule's or main chars you could simply place them in the common box, and log into the active char you want to hold or use the items and it would be done that fast. (it also had an 100 space cap if anyone was wondering)

[Kyra]

Another great post OP, love these ideas you have. I also hope when they do add player housing it wont just be a room with a moogle. They could learn a lot from Everquest 2s housing. I could never dream it would be something like vanguards housing, it was always going to be an instanced thing in FFXIV, lets just hope they read your ideas. But the quote from yoshida makes me so sad. Its only in the planning phase...games been out a year already. So again we wont see this for many years.

[Jynx]

I have no grand delusions of these ideas being brought into the game in the near future. just nice to have good agregated posts on hot topics so we don't have 18 different threads about them.

It helps not only us but the developers by having less threads to wade through.

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I also like the common box idea stated above, if Guild housing ever comes into effect I think it would be the perfect place.

[Ainilome]

The thing I loved so much about XI is that there was always so many varied things to do. I spent a lot of time decorating my mog house, not just for aesthetics but a ton of time gardening and figuring out the details of the elemental buffs. And, no matter how long I spent away from Vana'diel, when I came back my moogle was still there to welcome me. Having something personal in an MMO is a huge draw and a great way to keep players connected and coming back. It's no mistake that the two MMOs I keep returning to again and again (XI and EQII) have robust housing. And as a roleplayer ... well I can't even explain how important housing is.

[Etienn]

I do not mind residential area's because that is what one of those area's was for we have no access to... but what about linkshell guilds with the permisson and not permission to ls bank mats etc.. like eve online's system?

[Kio]

I'm really excited for the future implementation of housing and hope its as grand as we desire.

I've replied in greater detail to many threads similar in nature, but at a quick glance my largest hopes are for:

- Instanced area, hopefully with some outdoors quality to it. Not just a closed windowless basement room.
-Ability to add or upgrade rooms, or otherwise customize the layout so that each house is a reflection of yourself.
-The ability to invite other players into your house.

The one thing I could really live without is the placing of a moogle inside the house. It just doesn't jive with this game's lore or have a central purpose anymore.
The moogles of this game are wild animals, there's not much reason why one would suddenly become anthropomorphic in a sense and decide to be your personal servant.
If anything, it could be retainers, but I would rather not have any servant type character standing awkwardly in the center of my housing unit.

I'd kinda prefer the housing to be a private place of my own without npcs eerily watching me change armour or awkwardly standing about staring. Its kinda creepy to me lol. If I wanted to hang out in a room with a bunch of zombie servant npcs I'd go hang out in the market wards.

[WillRiker]

Intsead of choosing the style of the walls and such, let US decide the style and dimensions of the LS home. Let US decorate how we choose. Let US build our own boats/airships/chocobo stables/gardens and so on.

[redmage]

I posted this in a thread i started it did not get much attention as i hoped so ill post it here i think we should have this feature.

Common Box


This is something they used on PSU(phantasy star universe) basically any item you put in the common box could be shared by all of your characters. So instead of mailing items to mule's or main chars you could simply place them in the common box, and log into the active char you want to hold or use the items and it would be done that fast. (it also had an 100 space cap if anyone was wondering)

The common box was one of my favorite features from PSU and definitely would love to see that implemented here (I'm totally an altaholic!) =) This would make things easier to send items and to share gear as well. I'm getting tired of having to keep logging off and logging on and selling items through retainers between characters just to give them items.

On that note, would be wonderful if gear that is damaged can be mailed/sent to characters ON the same account without penalty, as it'd make it easier for me to repair some of my gear since they focus on some different DoH classes.