Quote Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace View Post
Case in point, the housing system in FF14 is suppose to not need LSs and help even solo players co-operate with guilds large and small. As a person who soloed for a long time it took quite a while before I settled into an FC and even longer before I found the one I'm in now. Ironically run by a member of a LS I left a while back during my short stay on Adamantoise server.
You don't need Circles to do anything in WS's housing, just like you don't need Linkshells to do stuff. The person I was responding to was referencing "gathering circles" which are popular in WildStar as a way to share resources grown on your plot with other players. A player can lay down a garden, a mining operation, or whatever, and set harvesting permissions to be either private, open, or neighbor-only, as well as what ratio of resources you want to split (100%-0, 75%-25%, 50%-50%, etc). Neighbors are kind of like a second friends list for housing only - just another level of control. So it became popular to set up gathering Circles where the people who join are then allowed access to a player's neighbor list and thus can harvest their resources. The harvestee can receive some materials when the harvester comes through, depending on the ratio they set. The circle isn't really necessary, though, as you can neighbor anyone.

Just thought I'd clarify that, as I think you may have misunderstood.

Quote Originally Posted by SQBoard View Post
Visiting or "raiding" other houses can happen in an instanced design, people just have to click a menu. Sort of like someone in Ward 1 visiting their neighbor in Ward 2 in this game.

Running into your neighbors on the same zone is nice, but if my experience is any indication, it doesn't happen often enough with a significant enough result to justifiy effectively locking out the majority of the playerbase for the uncommon or even rare occurrence of any significant neighborly interaction. I don't mean just seeing 1 or a few people running by once in a while, i mean something useful...eventhough seeing people at all is also rare here in my experience.
That's pretty much been my experience, too. And that was on Balmung, a supposedly extremely populated server.