Sea of Clouds Housing - Instance Based Islands.

[AnduinLynn]

Hello community. I have been bouncing around an idea about instanced housing, and a way of seeing it come into the game with a logical, and lore friendly way.

Basically; players would be able to have islands crafted or discovered, and build homes upon these floating plots of land. Accessed via teleport, or airship from Ishgard; each player would have a plot of land amongst the clouds, and could upgrade and build their island to be larger with possible features to be added; also having the ability to build a house upon their land.

It makes sense to me that there would be many floating islands available for discovery, or constructed islands of which players can inhabit. All separated and spread about the clouds, offering an opportunity for each island to be instanced and isolated as to not force a limited amount of space.

Let me know when you think in the replies!

[Lokier]

So basically like Wildstar? I'd be behind that.

[Jynx]

Honestly suprised they didn't do this instead of the whole apartment thing.

[Rhyku]

I love this idea! Think of the awesome view )

[Welsper59]

Wasn't the story behind the islands that there's only so many of them that they can afford to give away? Like they even hesitated on allowing for the tiny landmass in the Bismarck fight, if I recall right. Similar tone of NPC speech with that Vanu tribe being given a tiny island with the beastmen quests.

I mean the concept is brilliant, since the scenery would be nice (if the clouds/sky are your thing), and would enjoy it myself. I just don't think it makes much sense lorewise, unless I'm mistaken on the scarcity of the floating islands.

[Ash_]

I would love my own sky pirate island like the one in the VA quest line... but it will never be because of above lore reasons.

[Rufalus]

That's a very neat idea, I like it. However it doesn't seem like unlimited instanced housing is coming ever. The current system keeps getting a little better with each update. It's possible that the number of apartments available in patch 3.4 will actually be too many for low population worlds. Only the highest population worlds are going to still have problems.

[Dustytome]

Perhaps the Vanu could gift a plot of land that had drifted in from afar to the warrior of light that helped them find their true strength? Lore wise only one person helped them through that and since you can only be on one instanced housing island at a time, only one exists. Being able to plot your floating plot of land somewhere would be nice too (skybox options).

[Alleo]

It would be really cool. Since it would be instanced we could improve our houses over time. Maybe start with a small house and work our way up to a mansion. Heck they even could implement quests that will grant us exclusive housing items or maybe if we did a certain amount of those quests we gain the right to make our house bigger. So people still have to work for a bigger house.

Maybe quests like: "a storm destroyed a lot of thing in our area so please craft X in Y amount to help us". Or maybe "the other beast tribe is waiting to strike back, please kill x". It would be like the beast tribe quests that we already have, only with more way to choose how to gain reputation (gathering, crafting, fighting) and without any weekly limited. So if someone wants his mansion than he could gain it in a week, but others could take their time. And next to putting in the points for an upgrade you could buy personal items for your house too.

We don't even need chocobo stables and gardening there. Just put a stable in any of the four cities and make it cost gil to take our Chocobos there. Every rl hour will cost a certain amount of gil so people could use this to train them or feed them fruits for a different color. You could even introduce gardening in Gridania in the gardening guild. Just give a certain NPC the necessary soil and seed and pay them the gil and after a certain time you can go there again and get the goods. (Like chocobo breeding) Depending on the prices this could be a nice gil sink too.

I still have a very very small hope that they might make Ishgard housing as a instanced zone..I mean after all we did for them it would be nice to just get something like a house as a present. But I fear that it will be just another zone like we already have..

We are the WoL! Saviour of the world, so why does the grand companies never really do much for us? We have to fight over a nice housing spot with other common adventurers..(since the housing districts are made for adventurers in lore)

[SilkaN]

PS3 limitations.