Gardening gated behind Housing is not fun.

[Jhanavish]

Gardening is a rich, complex and very fun activity. As an average player, I just want to be able to garden.

Gardening has previously been gated behind FC Housing. You could garden, if you had an FC House, but then you'd have to vie with diverse motives of an entire FC for what to grow.

So I've been looking forward to the "Personal Housing" patch, as Yoshi said there'd be gardening plots available. What an effing fiasco this is. I won't rehash all the issues. Suffice to say that the opportunity for personal gardening is not available for the majority of average players.

Look SE, all I want is a shack, with three 4x4 garden plots so I can finally enjoy gardening.

Bypass the housing issue by adding community gardens. Let players complete quests to access the community gardens. Make a gil-sink out of it if you want. Just make this content available either by intelligent design or by fixing this laughable nightmare of personal housing implementation.

*** Edits with player suggestions for remedies
1) Instanced apartments in starter cities with balcony to house a garden plot
2) Gardening at Botanist Guild, where players can interact with one another

[ZodiacSoldier]

I agree, but the size of the garden will probably have to be a little smaller. 4x4 garden is like 16 plants, and with 3 thats 48 plants. Even the large houses can only hold 24 slots, there would be no point in owning a large house if an individual can have a larger garden then them. They should at least give a slight benefit to owning a house. Since the smallest house can hold up to 8. An individual should probably get a single garden that can hold up to 8.

[Jhanavish]

I agree with you ZS. The 3 by 4x4 request was hyperbolic, to show how appealing gardening is for me as well as my desire for it. I understand the practical implementation would be much less, and like your suggestion. Regardless, getting gardening into the hands of players, and out from behind the confines of housing would be appreciated.

[Aoxaviar]

I also agree with this on the topic of just wanting a shack. I like gardening, but not as much as you do. However, I agree with simply giving me a cabana or shack to call home and a lot of land to do something with like gardening (I want 2 4x4 plots personally) a stable, item creation tables, and enough space to put up trees with hammocks in them so all my friends can chill at my place.

However, I also want a stongbox or vault with a 1000 item storage capacity too.

[ZodiacSoldier]

What they should do is give everyone a free "apartment", in one of the 3 starters cities. Your apartment will be located at your starter city, but can be changed once you reach the other cities. It will be pretty much like the personal rooms now for the FC / or the housing from FFXI. But they should also add a small Terrace that allows you to place 1 garden just like the small houses right now, I didn't like how it was in XI where you had to garden in a dark dingy room. It would also be nice if they allowed us put a stable for our chocobo, so we dont need an FC house to change our birds color. Some of the other amenities like those housing NPCs will probably be excluded, cause it is weird to have some random Merchant staying in your house 24/7.

The current houses will be an extra for those that have the extra money for extra gardens or whatever.

[Bushido_Brown]

Just a thought:
Would crafting within the inn, and if each person was allowed a small patch of soil within the botanist guild being implemented be something that would everyone would like?

[Aoxaviar]

@Bushido_Brown

The Inn idea I don't think they would do since it would make people camp in there for crafting reasons. Just a guess.

However, the gardening at the Botanist Guild as a separate place, but allowed for all players to interact with each other while doing it would be really cool to me.

I remember my first thoughts about the botanist guild when I went and signed up "Cool, we get to garden right here. Very easy to get to and use. Very cool"

However, it wasn't setup that way and its cool, but a really nice idea.

[Jhanavish]

Love the ideas! Thanks all. Updated top of thread with the Apartment Balcony and Botanist Guild suggestions.

[Zumi]

If you want to garden they put up the 5m and buy a personal house like the rest of us did. I already made 1m back on my first batch of plants.

[Ruddi]

If you want to garden they put up the 5m and buy a personal house like the rest of us did. I already made 1m back on my first batch of plants.

So you suggest that all players got 5m to buy a personal house? I bought a medium house for 30mill and yes I got 8x8 gardening but this is so rare for the average player like you said about 5mill...