FC moving houses

[Mychael612]

Hey all!

My FC is looking into upgrading to a large house with the new housing coming. However we have a number of questions that I don't trust Reddit to answer. Hopefully you can help!

1) When we demolish the house, what happens to our airships? We will need to re-level them? Can we strip them of the parts to reuse those parts later?

2) What about personal rooms? I've seen some people say you can just demolish the house and it demolishes the rooms with it. Other people have said that the rooms need to be demolished BEFORE we can even demolish the house. Anyone know definitely which it is?

3) What about stabled chocobos? My assumption is that they need to be unstabled before we can remove the stables in order to demolish the house. That sound about right?

Our biggest issue is that we may have to kick players from the FC if we can't get the word to them about demolishing rooms and unstabling chocobos, which wouldn't really be ideal.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

[SendohJin]

1) all gone, have to re-level, you can take the good parts.
2) all gone
3) yup

3.4 is supposed to add a new moving feature to preserve all this stuff. so wait if you can.

[Mychael612]

3.4 is supposed to add a new moving feature to preserve all this stuff. so wait if you can.

Was this in a Live Letter? Do you know which?

[Dustytome]

3.4 is supposed to add a new moving feature to preserve all this stuff. so wait if you can.

3.4 is supposed to add apartments. Moving is supposed to come some time after 3.4, but we don't have any exact patch or time period for it to arrive.

[worldofneil]

Expanding on existing answers:

2) What about personal rooms? I've seen some people say you can just demolish the house and it demolishes the rooms with it. Other people have said that the rooms need to be demolished BEFORE we can even demolish the house. Anyone know definitely which it is?

I've never done it personally, but it's my understand that rooms have to be destroyed before it lets you demolish the estate. Either by the person doing it themselves, or you kicking them from the FC (which will demolish their room at that time).

3) What about stabled chocobos? My assumption is that they need to be unstabled before we can remove the stables in order to demolish the house. That sound about right?

I'm not sure if you need to remove all chocobos to demolish (it'll tell you when you try), but if you kick an FC member their chocobo will go to the Resident Caretaker in any housing area. Unlike items, there's no collection deadline on getting him/her back (but then it's not like a normal item).

3.4 is supposed to add a new moving feature to preserve all this stuff. so wait if you can.

Sorry, but it's actually after 3.4:

we'll be adding land in Patch 3.3, and we're aiming to have apartment-style housing in Patch 3.4. The moving feature will come after that.

Of course that doesn't say how much after... (3.45? 3.5? 4.0?)

[Mychael612]

So, another option we are now entertaining is having one of our officers buy the land and sit on it until our current house is situated with personal rooms and chocobos. Could we do that? Just sit on the land until the other house is demolished and then build the new one?

[Dustytome]

So, another option we are now entertaining is having one of our officers buy the land and sit on it until our current house is situated with personal rooms and chocobos. Could we do that? Just sit on the land until the other house is demolished and then build the new one?

Yes. They would have to buy the land as a personal plot, then demolish the land once situated so you could then purchase it again for the FC. The FC can only own one plot of land at a time.

[worldofneil]

So, another option we are now entertaining is having one of our officers buy the land and sit on it until our current house is situated with personal rooms and chocobos. Could we do that?

As in buy it as a second FC plot? No, you can only have one FC house/land at a time (it doesn't matter if you build the house or not, it won't allow you to purchase the land at all for the FC if you already have an estate.

If you mean buy it as a personal house (assuming they don't have one already) then yes you could do that, but it's kinda pricey to do that and then relinquish it (getting nothing back if you're not going to wait 45 days) and then have to buy it all over again...

How you run your FC is obviously up to you, but I'd suggest the simplest thing you can do is just tell your members that they need to demolish they room/fetch their chocobo by 1 day before 3.3 drops (or whatever works for you) and if they haven't done that by then, you will be temporarily kicking anyone out so you can do that so you can accomplish the demolish without issues the next day. If they're given warning and told in advance any kick will just be temporary (for the good of the FC as they're holding things up!) would many people really complain?

The next Live Letter is due on the 22nd I believe so we'll likely get the 3.3 date then so you can plan accordingly. Do recommend you have all rooms demolished/stable emptied BEFORE 3.3, I have no idea how busy it'll be on your server, but I'm expecting a mad rush and you don't want to lose a valuable new property because you can't demolish quickly etc.

[Beckett]

Depending on how popular your server is, having the officer buy up a large plot and sit on it probably is the best call. We don't know how good the moving feature is going to be, but it's got to have at least some benefits over the current system. I definitely wouldn't trust a large plot (let alone one in a location you like) to still be available by the time the moving feature comes out.

Also, friendly reminder that the housing reclamation system is on hold, and may not be coming back, so waiting 45 days to get 80% of your gil back is no longer an option. Assume any money you spend on house plots is gone forever.