Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Ladyofthelake]

Wishlist:
* New funny wall pics. Allow screenshots as large wall pictures. Wedding portrait for home.
* Ability to turn out the overhead lights. just use lamp lights.
* Full ceiling-to-floor transparent light drapes & also heavy drapes placeable anywhere like walls, for light Arabian style entry, drapes around beds, drapes covering/frame windows.
* Armoires to really store armor
* Buildable fishtank from a festival (FFXI)
* New device (crystal? set of little items that could sit on a shelf on the wall?) to play questible, collectible unique music maybe ffxi music
* A container to garden in: our fc gardens are always booked up. I realize this keeps grown items from flooding market, but maybe if you limit the number of growing pot/containers per room to just enough for 2 plants per room.
* Ability for 2 separate players with rooms in the fc to link rooms with a open doorway yet each person maintain their own furniture ownership and area restriction

[Eul]

My wishlist:
- Able to sleep on own private chamber / private house like sleeping on inn
- When owned workbench (like Goldsmithing Bench) or kitchen, We can craft with that workbench or cooking
- Fairy-themed decoration
- Music Box
- Aquarium
- and much more.

[Runic]

Jukebox
All Items from Inn Room----------- We have all spent millions of gil to not have to go there >.>
-Book w/ cut scenes
-Armour (for achievement items ect)
-Aesthetician
-Toy Chest
-and w/e else I'm missing

want the bility to use new dyes - jet black, pure white, metlic silver, metalic gold - currently cannot use these

...and plz increase the item limit in large house ------ even 50 items would be ok
....large is nearly 3x the size of a medium and item limits are 150 vs 200 .... just doesn't make sense

[Thalele]

I do have a item/feature wish.

There is one type of housing item that we had back in Ultima Online and I dearly miss. Game boards. Like chess sets or checker boards you could set on a table in your house and any two players could use, open a new view on it, and move the pieces around freely. It just added that extra something to the evenings and to the feel of the room. ♥

It wouldn't have to be anything complex with fully implemented rulesets preventing players from doing illegal moves. Just a simple gameboard with the full set of pieces and the ability to move them around. I realize the card game is arriving soon but that is a minigame rather than a housing item.

Imagine what it'd be like to have a go board sitting in your garden that is fully interactable for your character. That is my only wish now that the tea set is coming. ♪

[streethawkfan]

I agree with Runic.

200 slots to place items in a large house is not enough.
By the time i filled out the ground and basement floors i had 7 slots left... certainly needs to be increased

[ZodiacBrave]

Wishlist:
About the NPCs in the house...
- Could we give them at least something better to wear? The standard retainer outfit looks good enough, or anything better than the Hempen clothes (rags) they're currently wearing.
- Add vanity NPCs in the house. Handsome bulters or cute maids, I think they deserve a spot in your manor. Aligned with this, we could increase the NPC count allowed in the plots (+1 for medium, +2 for large).
- Better yet, get your actual retainers to serve in the house. You could dress up and create familiar NPCs that roam and stay in your house, replacing some merchants or the aforementioned vanity NPCs. This could be a feature in personal housing as there are too many people in FC that may want their own retainers to serve.

[Naamah]

Besides the obvious request to be able to share housing with alts/significant others etc, which has been posted by many people before, I would definitely like to see more bed designs, since the existing ones are really too similar to each other.
A bed like the huge one with the torn curtains which is seen inside Haukke Manor would be great for instance...

[Jeykama]

Besides the obvious request to be able to share housing with alts/significant others etc, which has been posted by many people before, I would definitely like to see more bed designs, since the existing ones are really too similar to each other.
A bed like the huge one with the torn curtains which is seen inside Haukke Manor would be great for instance...

Patch notes, my friend :P I'm not even sure the our houses have enough ceiling clearance for the manor bed though.

Riviera Canopy Bed Furnishing A luxurious canopied bed designed in the riviera style.
Glade Canopy Bed Furnishing A luxurious canopied bed designed in the glade style.
Oasis Canopy Bed Furnishing A luxurious canopied bed designed in the oasis style.

[Shneibel]

The recently add Item Shipping Crate

Can SE add ability for them to stack on top of each other ?

[Serret]

This is my wishlist for housing (private housing more particularly):

- Allow private individuals to edit housing permissions with friends\groups of friends and in the near future, with the person whom you share the eternal bond with.

ex. I may want to let a few friends into my house or room, but not my pesky neighbour! Right now we can either allow everyone or disallow everyone, there are no selective access permissions.
Another interesting thing that could come from this would be to give a friend decoration permissions for your house. This was very common in other games like Ultima Online.
There are a lot of people who are talented at decorating while others no so much but still want to have a tidy house. Talented people could offer their services if such permissions were implemented into the game.


- Allow me to purchase private chambers in a private house much like it happens on FCs. It's not fair that private individuals are paying the same as FCs and getting less features!

I'm asking for this one for 2 reasons:
1. As private individuals we're paying the SAME as free companies for the houses and getting less features out of it. We should AT LEAST get the same number of features.
2. With the implementation of the eternal bond in the very near future, it would make sense to have private chambers for at least each member of the couple.


- Give players more creative freedom...

...by allowing some indoor furnishings to be used outdoors outdoors and likewise, some outdoor furnishings to be used indoors. And also allow players to stack, overlap items or even lock items at different heights, flip them upside down, sideways or any direction really.

There's so much potential to the housing and decoration system but the current implementation is excessively simplistic. I think Square Enix is underestimating the demand for a deeper decoration system that gives players more creative freedom.
There's so much that can be done by just flipping items and overlapping them at different angles and heights, players can even "invent" new item combos with this.


- This one is an obvious request: please give us more item placement slots.

There's really not much more I can add to this but pretty pleeeeeeease ^^


- Allow us to get extra inventory space through housing.

This will obviously need to get studied but quite frankly it's silly that players don't get extra storage space after investing 4M+ gil on a house.
Not only that, but what good is a house if I can't store some more stuff?


- Allow us to place the npcs outside.

Maybe I only need their services outside! It would also give the housing areas a more lively look if some npcs were outside (which will take me to the next point).


- The housing areas are ghost towns... please do something about it.

I'm not really sure how to address this one, but yeah.. housing districts are pretty empty... There's no relevant shops, no NPCs, and barely any players.
Maybe some daily timed events could be hosted in specific wards at different times of the day? Like a certain npc only selling icecream at a certain time of the day in a random ward in the mist for example? Or maybe add more npcs running about the area much like retainers run outdoors now and then.


Decoration Item Wishlist:

- Fishtank and Pond with actual fishes! And maybe breeding? (maybe add more depth to fishing?).
- Pool outdoor and indoor furnishing.
- Surfboard outdoor furnishing.
- More house\roof exterior models?