Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Nicobo]

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the furnishing ideas! We have relayed your ideas and suggestions to the development team and they'll see if it's something that can be implemented.
Keep those great ideas and suggestions coming in!

Dear Zhexos,

Do you know there is a fake door at 2/F of a large house?
Everyonel thinks the door is accessiable!
It is a super disappointed door, I think you might have considered this request not a "furnishing idea"

But kindly please relay this "fake door" issue to the DEV, thanks in advance. ^^;
Please make this door accessible.

[spellsnare]

that why i love you guys your listen us keep the good work

[Zfz]

Floating Islands

Player gain access to a floating island that is about the same size as a Large plot (perhaps limit it to Medium?) in current housing zones. On this island, the player can build a Large house and the plot plus the house itself are handled exactly like current housing plots.

• The floating island can be sent to various zones but can only change zones once every 18 hours. The island can only move to adjacent zones, and it takes 18 hours to move to each adjacent zone. So if I send it from Central Thanalan to South Shroud, it will take 18 hours to move to Eastern Thanalan, then another 18 hours to South Shroud. Islands cannot go to sanctuary zones.
• Since it is not in a housing zone, obviously it has no access to market boards and other NPCs in the housing zones.
• The island itself costs the same as the equal size plot price. The player also has to buy the house itself as per regular housing zone.
• Permissions management: can set to allow FC members/Party members/Friends to visit via an interface accessible at the airship landings at the city states.

It could even be a paid service like the additional retainers. Its a form of instanced housing that isn't too unnatural, as long as we ignore the situation where thousands of floating islands are moving around Eorzea... /lol

[mbncd]

I know we have a combat dummy that we can practice our attacks against, but I think it would be good to have an AoE practice item as well, just something you could freely train dodging against.

I also think multiple modes of both the dummy and my proposed dodge practicing item would be appreciated. For example, a one minute time trial to see how much damage you could do in that time, or how many times you could successfully dodge in that time.

Maybe a non timed general counter as well.

There could also be different patterns of attacks to dodge, and different weakness on the dummy, that could change randomly or be set by the user.

Things like that would allow people to improve their skills much more rapidly.

They could even be combined into the same item (togglable so you were only dodging or only attacking or doing both as you needed).

[Nalien]

So, I'm sure this has been suggested before, but;

Can we please use the crafting stations?

Something similar to the mini-games in Gold Saucer (Gold Saucer/Housing is the same team, right?), to allow multiple people to use them at the same time perhaps? Just have to work on the interface after that, having it open up the Crafting Log. Only other issue I can see is Lalafell (don't they just ruin everything?), but I imagine a step stall could resolve that issue.

Bonus, change the bonus they provide to be more universal, rather than just something for pre-40s. I would adore a "Reduce Durability Loss" stat thrown on them.

[EthanParcival]

While this may be already to late since 3.0 is a month away from launching and changes might be frozen in game I'd like to request 3 simple things:

1. Please increase the item limit on all houses, inside and out. Small details like firewood on a breakfast set can mean one less tree or partition, so more items are needed.

2. Please let us use the crafting workbenches again, at lvl 50 they're pretty much paperweights in the house if nobody can use them because we're all over 50.

3. Please, please, please, please... let us log out in our chambers/house and log back in in the same place... You can instance our rooms/houses while we're loading the game and/or check if someone is already in the house and anchor our login to that same instance, shouldn't be that hard. I can wait an extra 15 seconds if need be if you'll log me back in my bed and not in the front door naked.

Thank you.

[Kaiser-Ace]

Floating Islands
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Only problem I have is the "Zone Moving" idea. That would create and obscene amount of active data that would have to be kept thus adding even more strain to the already overstressed servers. I propose instead that "Free Company" and "Player Housing" be divided to where the Company housing is a privet "FC Only" instanced area while the Privet housing be more inline with the current model. This idea would take a lot of data too but with it being a privet instance it'd be relatively static data for the most part so the servers could keep track better. (Of Course the instanced area being even more ridiculously expensive than a Large Plot but restricted to FCs only. After all, why would a Solo Player need a whole Zone to themselves?)

[Lissandra]

Regarding Retainers

For the retainers that we can station out on the front yard, can we have them be able to change/stand in different poses (relevant to their race)? Please have SE look into this!

[Novakor]

Something about the second floor door accessory that's good to note as well.. you can't place chairs in front of it. We got really annoyed at having a door that was pretty much just a decoration so we partitioned it off. I wanted to place a table and chair set over there to make it seem less empty and pointless but when you place a chair in front of the area the "door" is located, it makes the chair unusable. You actually cannot sit on it until moved from that area. It's bad enough we can't use the door. It also hinders functionality!

[Cidel]

Not sure if it's been asked already, if so, still asking for it:

Can oriental partitions have an option to not have the door open every time people walk in front of it (or even House vendors will keep it open if they are placed close enough in proximity)? Or at the very least an alternate type of oriental partition that doesn't have a functioning sliding door?