Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Lenne]

Hello. I had this idea around 3.1, when the steward NPC was added, but I never suggested it, hoping someone else would.

I wanted to request a new NPC for the house. Through this NPC we would be able to glamour new interior styles to our houses, and, separately, our rooms, if placed in our private rooms. What I refer to as "interior styles" are the currently non-customizable pillars, staircases, ceiling grids, base trim, and top trim. It would be a gil sink that would allow us to pay the NPC directly to preview and change the style of our housing interiors. It would give us a means to further customize our houses, and could start off with the current existing interiors--Glade, Oasis, and Riviera--as options. Basically, it would be like an aesthetician for the house/private room. Maybe it could be Jandelaine's long lost twin, but instead of implementing another crystal bell, it could be the NPC itself in work clothes.

Over time, new housing glamours could be added. This would be the perfect opportunity to add more elegant and regal designs (white paneling with gilded trim and white marble columns), a Doman interior theme, Ishgardian theme, Allagan theme, Haukke Manor theme, Gold Saucer theme, etc. Creating new interior styles would also create the opportunity to add new crafting recipes for pillars, flooring, lighting, partitions, and wallpapers, even living furniture like tables, chairs, and beds that would match the new themes--basically anything and everything. Maybe as an added bonus we could store seasonal furnishings and rare, otherwise breakable furnishings on this NPC.

I feel like there are not that many ways to make your house appear different from the next. Adding more options for customization within the existing housing system would be a most welcomed change.

[AdlerTakamura]

I had a very simple request:
Allow us to have retainers inside our houses and private chambers.

That should be more than simple enough, so let's make it interesting, shall we? Let us station our retainers inside our home, yes, but add some extra features, let's make a whole new npc:

Fashion Retainer NPC permit - able to station inside your house only
This is basically a retainer fashion npc with the following special features:

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[AdlerTakamura]

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- Change retainers pose (already available, but add more poses! take already existing animations fron npcs all over the world and add them for variety's sake)
- Allow to set these retainers for multiple dance emoticons (use existing ones, ul'dah dancer animations, heck, even let them learn new dances!)
- Allow retainers inside to sit down (on floor, and on furniture)
- Allow to accomodate retainers on bath tubs (party decoration!)
- Allow to make retainers /doze on your bed furniture (sexy decoration!)

[Nymeria2x]

I wanted to request a new NPC for the house. Through this NPC we would be able to glamour new interior styles to our houses, and, separately, our rooms, if placed in our private rooms. What I refer to as "interior styles" are the currently non-customizable pillars, staircases, ceiling grids, base trim, and top trim. It would be a gil sink that would allow us to pay the NPC directly to preview and change the style of our housing interiors. It would give us a means to further customize our houses, and could start off with the current existing interiors--Glade, Oasis, and Riviera--as options. Basically, it would be like an aesthetician for the house/private room. Maybe it could be Jandelaine's long lost twin, but instead of implementing another crystal bell, it could be the NPC itself in work clothes.

Over time, new housing glamours could be added. This would be the perfect opportunity to add more elegant and regal designs (white paneling with gilded trim and white marble columns), a Doman interior theme, Ishgardian theme, Allagan theme, Haukke Manor theme, Gold Saucer theme, etc. Creating new interior styles would also create the opportunity to add new crafting recipes for pillars, flooring, lighting, partitions, and wallpapers, even living furniture like tables, chairs, and beds that would match the new themes--basically anything and everything. Maybe as an added bonus we could store seasonal furnishings and rare, otherwise breakable furnishings on this NPC.

It could be a workman like you'd find in Cid's workshop ready to do remodels! I love the Interior Designer idea.