Are we getting houses?

[zaviermhigo]

Take legal action?

Add lawyer profession? Disciples of Action (totally misleading just like SE), and all we do actually is "take action on people" as lawyers and accountants and such, like "excuse me sir are you "Puffy Cream".... "Yes I am" (even though you can see their name), "You have been served, kkthx bye!", or "due to misuse of an in game glitch found recently, the Firm of Ifrit's Cauldron has come to the decision to audit the linkshell ||darkxlegionsx||.
Whatever jokes aside, i'd be on one of those stupid classes probably.

[Winterclaw]

I'd like player housing to be more sims like in nature (though I'd be happy with nicely done pre-made options) where you can design and build it either yourself, or with other crafters.

[Slyvannas]

at least everything we had in 11 and more wouldnt hurt

[WillRiker]

I want crafter involvement in building ls houses.

LS crafters making/maintaining LS facility's like airships, supply banks, craft support benches, repair tools, decorations, and other functional/decorative items would be a top of the line way to go. It would do well to set FFXIV apart from other MMO's.

I only know of one other MMO that went this route, CoH/CoV, and it was a complete success. EVE Online is also going to take a somewhat similar route in that the houses they were to incorporate will have functional interfaces within their housing.

[chime85]

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…

I think it's safe to say that housing is a very popular idea for us budding adventurers. One suggestion i would like to make straight off the bat is GIVE US HOUSES SOON!! lol

But knuckling down to what I imagine you are looking for when you say suggestions:

At first I was all in favor of personal housing, something you can call you own and maybe even invite a friend or two over. However, after reading a few suggestions, I am growing to the idea of a LS house. But what i have in mind is huuuuge!! It would be great if we all had a garden, and common areas such as living rooms etc. However, each person would have their own room.

This idea kind of rolls both personal housing and LS housing into one. yes we can be social and meet and greet our fellow adventurers in our home. We can also retire to our room, move some furniture around and relax. I must admit, i often loved the idea that furniture had elemental stats to them. If this could be used to some degree that would be super

I imagine for personal rooms, some form of instancing would be involved, but if we go along the idea that personal housing is instancing anyway, i doubt this would be too difficult to impliment

Happy Dev'ing,

Kimiko xXx

[tymora]

With the emphasis on crafting in FFXIV, I doubt a lot of people will be content with pre-made houses.

For those who want convenience...
1) Government housing (pre-fabbed or pre-designed, e.g. FF11's Mog Houses)

For the hardcore and adventurous...
1) Designs - Have a drop box for player designs, make a competition or something...allow the community to submit their best works in the form of 3D models (Make sure popular formats are supported). From those, select a few (as many as possible) to implement in the game. [This will create new fan communities and improve player loyalty]

2) Construction - House divided into sections that require multiple synths using a multiple disciplines and a mountain of materials. [This will fuel the economy for years, if not the entire lifetime of FFXIV]

Other suggestions
1) Types & Sizes - Various sizes from Personal cottages (soloable) to LS Castles (teamplay). Constructing Castles would be a massive project spanning months. Size available to players should depend on the size of LS and/or depend on either individual or LS achievements. [One good reason for cooperative play + Give players a reason to work hard]

2) Storage - What's a house without room for a packrat? Allow furniture to store items, accessible through a single tabbed interface. E.g. Chest, Wardrobe, Cupboard...etc [More stuff to craft!]

3) Visible Grandeur - Allow player housing to be visible to all players. Allow players to invite other players into their houses. FFXI lacked this and it wasn't added till many years after release.

4) Instanced Areas - Do NOT for ANY reason, allow players to build houses anywhere in the land. Just look at Ultima Online to see the result...land rush + spoils map beauty. An area with streets, housing plots will be nice.

5) Single Ownership - To alleviate server load, players can only own one house. If server capacity allows, separate personal and LS housing.

6) Shops - Take player-run bazaars to the next level with retainers based out of player/LS housing. Now we'll have an address to advertise with!

[Arcell]

4) Instanced Areas - Do NOT for ANY reason, allow players to build houses anywhere in the land. Just look at Ultima Online to see the result...land rush + spoils map beauty. An area with streets, housing plots will be nice.

I agree with the post as a whole but this part in particular. While housing out in the world sounds like a good idea at a first glance the reality is it ends up pretty awful. People build houses around certain areas, populate the entire area with houses and then quit leaving a giant ghost town mark on the world. Also if the game does become quite popular how are you going to accommodate thousands (or tens/hundreds of thousands for the sake of argument) of players in the world? Every spot of land would be covered in player housing.

Instanced is the way to go. Each house doesn't need to have its own instance, they could still do towns where they have dozens of houses in place at a time split up into districts like the wards are. You'd need a boatload of districts eventually but it's better than the alternative of ugly ghost towns marring the landscape and eventually not allowing new players to gain housing.

[DexteraDomini]

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…

I would love to see non instanced housing but understand that may be asking too much, so... I think we should eliminate the market wards and put our retainers inside our house, we would interract with them the same way but items would be purchased through the search function (appease the AH people) The housing should definitely be upgradable through quests or crafting or both. Possible make some way to put crafting support inside the house, you could rent it or it could cost a lot of guild marks. Also, I think your house should be built in one city and you can only access it from that city.

[LlenCoram]

I would gladly give up being able to own a home if I could instead own a sailboat to sail places.

Yes, I know this is a ludicrous request. Still would be fun though.

[Lucinda_Lecore]

http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/...selinhomes.jpg

I want the one on the right