Ishgard

[Zelas]

I tend to think they'll be just like FC rooms, but...
Part of me wants to believe that it wouldn't take THAT long to implement if it was just a copy/paste of existing content.
Also, if they mean for it to be a way to help the housing problem, they need to make apartments good enough for people to want to get those, and not the houses they'll release whenever they do so (which might be in another 1+ year...)

Fingers crossed.

[Avera]

I tend to think they'll be just like FC rooms, but...
Part of me wants to believe that it wouldn't take THAT long to implement if it was just a copy/paste of existing content.
Also, if they mean for it to be a way to help the housing problem, they need to make apartments good enough for people to want to get those, and not the houses they'll release whenever they do so (which might be in another 1+ year...)

Fingers crossed.

If apartments are seriously just a bunch of FC room style stuff...I wouldnt want to buy that. Maybe if it had like, a view of outside, a little balcony ya know? and you can see your apartment neighbors...like a real apartment :P

[Zelas]

I doubt we'll be able to see neighbors from inside, if it's instanced rooms like the FC rooms or houses.

However, if they want people to be interested in apartments and actually consider to get those instead of housing, they need to:
- Make them big enough and offer more partitions options to set up rooms the way we want. (Or even offer them in different sizes/prices)
- Make them feel more "open" than FC rooms, so they feel like an actual home and not just a small room in a house.
- If they do offer the possibility to pick an apartment "size", they should make it up-gradable.
- They should let us have tenants, like in housing.

Now, will they make it worth it for people to go from a house to an apartment to free up space in the wards for Free Companies...? I'm skeptical. But we'll see.

[Avera]

Perhaps not inside the apartments, but I mean if they made some sort of Central connecting plaza, again, like a real apartment.

[Zelas]

I think there's supposed to be some sort of plaza, where they will include a Chocobo stable, and stuff. I hope it'll be nice :P Would be cool for it to be somewhere people can hang out.

[Avera]

I think there's supposed to be some sort of plaza, where they will include a Chocobo stable, and stuff. I hope it'll be nice :P Would be cool for it to be somewhere people can hang out.

Yeah, like when I had to stay at my Aunt's apartment for the day, I loved exploring down the halls (It was a big complex) and then going downstairs to the almost "lobby" area...and ofc, playing in the pool :P

[OliviaJ]

They absolutely should make it more than just an instanced FC room type of thing if they are hoping for any type of success. I'm hoping to see not only a larger room but possibly a multi level loft type setup inside. I highly doubt you will see gardens outside but that's not to say they cant have a smaller version of it inside. I like the idea of a lobby type area and chocobo stables. That would be pretty cool. You might actually see people mingling, unlike most of the abandoned wards of houses...

[Avera]

They absolutely should make it more than just an instanced FC room type of thing if they are hoping for any type of success. I'm hoping to see not only a larger room but possibly a multi level loft type setup inside. I highly doubt you will see gardens outside but that's not to say they cant have a smaller version of it inside. I like the idea of a lobby type area and chocobo stables. That would be pretty cool. You might actually see people mingling, unlike most of the abandoned wards of houses...

I mingle with my neighbors...but Im in a really populated server :P

[Zied]

I agree with all your points regarding the apartments, but would still like to know if their will be a new neighborhood in Ishgard!

[Solarra]

Well this is odd. I was fairly sure I'd read about wards being added in Ishgard sometime in the future, and if you follow this link, the first post seems to confirm it:

Mansion Type Housing Clarification Request

Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne
We have confirmed that we will be increasing the amount of land for existing housing areas in Patch 3.3. After this we’re planning to introduce mansion type housing, and housing in the Ishgard area. These two are being developed in parallel, but in order to meet everyone’s demand, we will implement the mansion-type housing as a first priority. Currently it’s being planned that one mansion will be able to hold 512 residences...

However the link beside Bayohne's name is broken. If you go to the Past Events board on this forum you can still see the thread that quote came from but it's empty and the digest for the live letter xxvi doesn't mention new wards at all.

So, has something changed? Are new wards in Ishgard no longer being planned?