Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[DeviFoxx]

I'd like to be able to visit my friend's houses more frequently. Can the Dev Team see about instituting a customizable Favorites List of Housing Plots that will allow players to directly teleport to a Friend / FC house's direct location (provided they have a Mini Aetheryte set up on their yard somewhere, of course)?

It's very frustrating, cumbersome, and needlessly consumes Gil to use the very roundabout way of first teleporting to Citystates and choosing a ward to teleport to. For the sake of ease of access, could you please see about instituting this feature?

[Dustytome]

Not sure if this is the place to put this, but I hope it is. Order of Nald'thal Lectern is considered a desk, and I can put stuff on it. But when I try putting a Lalafellin Stepstool behind it, it just phases through. They have the same thing at the thaumaturge's guild, with the stepstool as it should be(granted, that it's part of the zone). I just thought I could put a chair or the stepstool behind it to have it fit.

Unfortunately they are both floor items and so both only see the floor itself as the object they attach to. I don't think we'll ever have the ability to manipulate everything in the same way they can with non-player manipulated environments, but as DeviFoxx mentioned, there are workarounds for wall & tabletop items to place them elsewhere.

[Solarra]

I'm sure it's in here somewhere but can we please have partitions that match the walls?
There are some lovely wall options available but not having matching partitions for any of them makes it really hard when you need to divide a room.

And can we have more rugs, please? And/or can we dye them? It's really hard trying to find a rug that matches sometimes.

[worldofneil]

Have we ever had a response why the game defaults our character to the yard instead of inside the house/private chambers where we logged out?

I don't think they've ever said it, but I believe it's because the house is an instance and your room is another instance called from that. In most cases neither your room instance or the house instance would exist when you logged back in. So instead of the game trying to create the new instances or find/reconnect you to an existing instances if someone was inside the house/room, it just takes the considerably easier option of dumping you outside the house because the housing ward is essentially a normal zone and not an instance (even though they have multiple wards, they're all separate zones).

Or maybe it's just as simple as as Japanese players prefer to start outside their houses so we do too...

[Serendair]

It is probably that yea. I wonder though, if it was a deal big or not to log back into an instance, then why can we logout from inside the Inn room and log back on inside there? I could now rant about fairness or what you want but that's probably a waste of mine and everyones time That's just not cool SE, you hear me!?

[worldofneil]

why can we logout from inside the Inn room and log back on inside there?

I don't know for sure/can only guess, but I would imagine it's because houses and rooms are unique, inn rooms are all exactly the same (or at least they're one of 3 designs). Creating the inn room isn't really the same as creating a house or private room and then populating it with all the stuff that person has.

[Enkidoh]

I'm pretty certain that the development team were asked that in the past and they responded along the lines of is that it's to help stabilize the servers and cut down on the amount of processing the server has to do, and that although it could theoretically be changed, they don't want to do anything that would jeopardize the servers (it was in a past 'Letter From the Producer LIVE' Q@A if I remember rightly). I'll try and find it and post the development team's response here.

EDIT: I found it - it was found here (towards the very bottom of the page):

1:47:53
Q: When logging out in private chambers, upon logging in again we are placed outside of houses. Could you make it like inns so that we log back into our rooms?
A: Komoto: I understand that since implementation we've been receiving a lot of feedback about this, but this is an issue that is actually quite deep and we are not able to address it right away at the moment. Inns, similar to instanced dungeons, have been made so they are set to standby where no resources are consumed when players are not present. For houses as well the programmers were able to work on it so they do not consume resources either when players are not present, but as a result of this, when logging back into the game the room resources do not exist, so there is a difficult issue about how to make it so you can log back in to your rooms.

So yeah, sadly it doesn't look like this is going to be changed any time soon, if at all, as much as I would love that to be the case.

[Sleepytatsuki]

Was wondering if they would ever make the wardrobe or dresser items actually usable. I would like to be able to store my glamour gear in my own dresser in my PQ. That would be pretty sweet.

[Serendair]

I don't know for sure/can only guess, but I would imagine it's because houses and rooms are unique, inn rooms are all exactly the same (or at least they're one of 3 designs). Creating the inn room isn't really the same as creating a house or private room and then populating it with all the stuff that person has.

I'm pretty certain that the development team were asked that in the past and (...) it was found here

So yeah, sadly it doesn't look like this is going to be changed any time soon, if at all, as much as I would love that to be the case.

Thanks you two...that's kind of sad to hear, I was really hoping for that feature.

[Acilith]

Make it so tenants can make a private chamber in a personal home? I think it would be pretty cool.