Are we getting houses?

[Embers]

I would so love to have housing again and to be able to decorate and furnish it! I loved my little MogHouse from FFXI! ^_^ But I'd say if we do get, it will be a good ways down the road timewise. As much as I'd like to have housing back, I'd rather have a good battle system, etc first.

Completly how i feel,
I love my Moggle, he did a great job of keeping my plants alive
I lag a lot when crafting in a city so a little place to craft in would be a great help,

Thanks!

[talespin]

I've been very disappointed by the options available to linkshells. I'm a leader of my own linkshell and I find that there are no options at all. All I can do is invite people, remove people, or make them a leader; there's only two ranks, other than the linkshell leader.

I would truly love to see more options for linkshells and housing. Building a base of operations can really bring a group together, and it gives us a place to meet and chat, etc. I enjoyed the guild castle creation on Runes of Magic: members could donate money or resources to help level your linkshell as well as to buy buildings within the guild castle. I don't care about the pvp aspect, but building a castle together as a linkshell would be great! I'm sure the FFXIV team could come up with something more exciting than what Runes of Magic did - just look at the housing from FFXI. I wouldn't want linkshell housing system or personal housing system to take away from other areas of the game, but I'd rather see it sooner than later.

Things I would be happy to see for linkshells:
- cooperatively-built housing for the entire linkshell to share (a castle or a mansion or a underground cave or a tower?)
- 5+ customizable ranks for linkshells
- linkshell banking systems in order to pool resources
- more details about members in the linkshell list (current location, current level/class, afk/busy, etc)
- inter-linkshell trading system (trading resources for resources between "friendly" linkshells)
- linkshell guildleves or behests
- linkshell gear for aesthetic appearances (not tabards, but unique linkshell gear that bears your linkshell crest - jewelry, bracers, bracelets, rings, headbands, shield/helm/armour emblems, etc); not for stat boosts, just appearances
- banners/flags that a party member can stick in the ground to boost the party members belonging to that linkshell
- a Lodestone function to create a linkshell website
- NOT linkshell levelling systems that make linkshells competitive

Bottomline: I love having lots of options and activities for a linkshell. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[Ruri]

Linkshell housing with special retainers or a linkshell chest. Can be used to store donated gear / crafting materials that everyone in the LS can share.

[Malakhim]

...they could still do towns where they have dozens of houses in place at a time split up into districts like the wards are...

Or they could replace the wards with housing districts and allow players to run shops together(a la player-run companies) in addition to having company/player-owned housing, and make the wards REALLY feel alive.

[Getsumei]

i would love to see additional rooms that you can buy and/or quest for to expand your house and open unique lay out options (e.g. bed rooms, dinning rooms, lounges etc.) as well as extra storage capacity ^.^ and a moogle slave to call my own would be a nyce touch

[lynex]

I would prefer to have my own house and maybe a common room for the linkshell. It would be great to have the crafters
build everything such as the carpenters build the house, the blacksmiths do the lighting , leatherwork and weavers can do window treatments , goldsmiths can do the decorations and we ,of course, need food on the tables lol. I would love to see moogles come back with the mail system. I love the gardening we did before it would also be great if we could do like a small veggie garden outside the house. I like the idea of color on the walls and carpets that would be great too.

[Hawklaser]

A housing system would have to at least launch with functionality similar to FFXI's Moghouses. That would be the bare minimum I would want. More would be better and lots of good ideas have been said already.

Outside of the bare bones functionality, the next important things are: the locations used for it, such as out in the world, in a special housing zone, or just an instanced room; costs, purchase/maintenance, gil/resources; if larger than a single instanced room what kind of designs, player driven or selectable, multiple sizes or one size fits all.

[SuyaMoonflower]

I've been missing my Mog House very much, too..
I sometimes find myself running through the city, trying to remember where the Mog Houses are.. ><;
So, [Mog House] [Can I have it?] [Please assist.] ;_;

Homeless Mithra.. err... Mi'qote...

[AsterBarnivere]

Yoshi swept that all under the rug.

[Tenkenkobra]

Things I would be happy to see for linkshells:
- cooperatively-built housing for the entire linkshell to share (a castle or a mansion or a underground cave or a tower?)
- 5+ customizable ranks for linkshells
- linkshell banking systems in order to pool resources
- more details about members in the linkshell list (current location, current level/class, afk/busy, etc)
- inter-linkshell trading system (trading resources for resources between "friendly" linkshells)
- linkshell guildleves or behests
- linkshell gear for aesthetic appearances (not tabards, but unique linkshell gear that bears your linkshell crest - jewelry, bracers, bracelets, rings, headbands, shield/helm/armour emblems, etc); not for stat boosts, just appearances
- banners/flags that a party member can stick in the ground to boost the party members belonging to that linkshell
- a Lodestone function to create a linkshell website
- NOT linkshell levelling systems that make linkshells competitive

Bottomline: I love having lots of options and activities for a linkshell. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

yes, plz! a cape with LS crest would be neat.