Housing accessibility in 3.3

[Spawnie]

Pravate house should be free. Like the mog houses in Final Fantasy 11 but with a bit more space and a garden. And if you want to upgrade it to have a up stairs or basement or it it be bigger in size. There should be FF estate agency. You pay them at it automatically upgrades ur House. If they had just given everyone a free house/Mog house this situation would of never happened. Only house that should be able for you to buy are FC houses.

i agree we should have options of building expansions on our houses

[Kling-Klang]

They should add the option that our alts can use our mains house.

[LaylaTsarra]

They should add the option that our alts can use our mains house.

It would be nice to get an official statement as to why this isn't so. Authorizing them on MogStation could be a way of doing it. It's ridiculous we can't friend our own accounts so we could allow them the opportunity our friends can have. Please allow us to let them use our own house and services there. My alt can jump to a friends house to mend but can't to my own.

[KrenianKandos]

I'll +1 for Alts to use your house. If you buy a house, the Alts you create should effectively own that house. A house based on an account would be nice. But that might be the problem: They have it set, coding wise, that it's owned by the player and only the player and not the account and having to redo the coding would take too long for them to do it. They might have better luck just adding more plots when the technology is available (Copy and Paste division/subdivision with the same coding saves a lot more time.)

I personally don't feel like buying my main alt a house (She's only level 43ish anyway.) But I can completely understand the requirement, especially in a roleplay situation. Problem is, the roleplay scene is a small fraction of the gamers in the game. (To my understanding. Two servers have a healthy amount of RPers but I can't see it added just for RP's sake...Just my two cents there.

[Celef]

I disagree. I roleplay a lot on multiple characters and have spent a lot of time leveling one of my alternate characters and saving up the gil to get him a specific medium plot. You all have the same chances and time to save up the gil and buy a plot, so just race me for it rather than kicking me out entirely just because I got a house on my main ._.

I would really like a certain secondary character of mine to have a house of his own for rp and am really looking forward to trying to grab one for him.

And it does not bother you at all to know that some ppl won't get acces to an important part of the game (stables, gardening, aeronef) just so your alt can get his little piece of land just for rp ?
I've heard the RP community used to be the best community on a game (mature, polite, adult), sorry to tell you that mate, but that seems rather selfish to me :/

[Lambadelta]

I've heard the RP community used to be the best community on a game (mature, polite, adult), sorry to tell you that mate, but that seems rather selfish to me :/

What's important to him as a player in terms of function is just as important as the designs, and needs of other players reasons to own a house.

I would say its selfish that any player wants to exclude a certain part by prevent them from being able to all fairly have a chance to buy a house for main, or alt alike.

It isn't by his choice that others can't get a house since he bought it. That is the system, but players asking for an addition to the system to exclude a whole sub-set of people is just as bad.

(I only own 1 house, and plan to keep it that way)

[ToffeeCoffee]

I understand that some players have their reasons to want a house for their alt (eg. RP), but unfortunately the unbridled house flipping that players are getting away with has ruined it.
I think there is a lot of quiet on this issue because many players have their houses already from previous ward releases, and are frothing at the mouth to dash out of the gates to pick up even more. It's just the small FC's and players who have finally made enough gil to afford housing for 3.3 that will have to compete with all those who already have housing and just want more and more. I don't think it's fair.
I don't expect SE will make an official announcement either, they are just going to turn a blind eye..as always.

[Titor]

I've heard the RP community used to be the best community on a game (mature, polite, adult)

First off, I want to know what RP community you had heard about, because it seems like a mythical unicorn to me. RP communities are almost always laced with unneeded drama, immaturity, entitlement, and people mistaking IC occurrences (romance, anger, etc) as an OOC fact.

But I digress.

I do not think the blame lie on me, but instead on SE, who should make sure that there is enough housing for everyone. If the system had not been ready to support all their players, it should not have been released. The louder and more vocal people get on the issue, the more wards will be opened hopefully and more priority will be put into housing. Even if you do disable people from buying alternate housing, there will still be thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people who are left without houses but want one. It is such a small droplet in the pond that in the end it will not be that impactful.

IF SE wants to stop house flipping, they need to really crack down on it, make an official statement, maybe even add it to the placards when you go to buy it. Get the GMs unified, not make it OK in some regions/servers but not elsewhere.

There is some positive in house flipping though, TBH, those are houses that are at least accessible in some way to people that did not make it on the initial server-opening rush. Without people selling houses, those houses would just be locked away.

[StouterTaru]

And it does not bother you at all to know that some ppl won't get acces to an important part of the game (stables, gardening, aeronef) just so your alt can get his little piece of land just for rp ?

Not nearly as much as knowing that an entire FC won't get access to those things plus workshop and personal rooms because someone wanted their own personal house.

[Celef]

Not nearly as much as knowing that an entire FC won't get access to those things plus workshop and personal rooms because someone wanted their own personal house.

I actually was talking about FC, should have mention it in the post