Suggestion for 3.3 housing and alts

[Sardonia]

I wish they would have added the move feature with this patch as well. I currently have a small house that I managed to snag after the reclaimation started. However, I want a large house but will have to relinquish the small house I have now to gamble on trying to get a large house this patch. It does not make sense to add a move feature in later when all the houses are taken up already anyways.

What I may end up doing is giving the gil to an FC member who does not have the gil to purchase a house and have them buy the lot I relinquish it to hold on to it if I cannot snag a large house during the new patch. If I do get one, I will let the FC member keep it at no cost to them.

Again I just wish they would have added the move feature with the increase in housing so those that want to get a larger or different plot could do so.

[PArcher]

However, I want a large house but will have to relinquish the small house I have now to gamble on trying to get a large house this patch.

Moving won't let you move a small house into a large plot, you'll only be able to move a small into a small. You'll still have to demolish your current house if you want to upgrade or downgrade

[worldofneil]

Moving won't let you move a small house into a large plot, you'll only be able to move a small into a small.

We don't know that for sure yet, they haven't released any details. It would seem very unlikely they can "place" the furniture back again give the size differences and I think it'll probably all go to the Housing Caretaker. But the actual move process should at the very least automate buying one house and selling/deleting another so the person doesn't end up with no house. Anything else (moving airship progress, moving lights/floors/wallpapers etc) would be a bonus.

But until they release details, and not until sometime after 3.4, we don't know anything at all and we're all just guessing.

Has anyone heard when that's planned for release?

After 3.4 I'm afraid, so probably late September at the very earliest (and that seems unlikely):

A:Just as I mentioned on a previous occasion, 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.

[Niwashi]

One house per account/per server is how it should have been from the get go.

I'd agree with that only if it also included letting all alts on the account share the house equally. Currently, the only way for a player who legitimately plays multiple characters to give their characters house access is to get a house for each of them.

However, if instead of a permanent restriction, it were (as OP suggested) a week long restriction whenever new housing is added, that much I could accept even with the current character-specific rules on personal houses. (It wouldn't be ideal, but so long as availability remains limited no rule is going to make the system ideal.)

I wish they would have added the move feature with this patch as well.

Has anyone heard when that's planned for release?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I wish they would have added the move feature with this patch as well. I currently have a small house that I managed to snag after the reclaimation started. However, I want a large house but will have to relinquish the small house I have now to gamble on trying to get a large house this patch. It does not make sense to add a move feature in later when all the houses are taken up already anyways.

What I may end up doing is giving the gil to an FC member who does not have the gil to purchase a house and have them buy the lot I relinquish it to hold on to it if I cannot snag a large house during the new patch. If I do get one, I will let the FC member keep it at no cost to them.

Again I just wish they would have added the move feature with the increase in housing so those that want to get a larger or different plot could do so.

What you could do to get around this is privately give your current house to a trusted friend and they can simply give it back to you if you don't luck out and get a large. That won't get you into trouble since you're not trying to sell it to anyone via PF or whatnot. Even then, GMs only care if you're selling them for extremely inflated prices. Say you did get the large house and then offered the small up for exactly the same price as every other house. I doubt you'd have any issues.