Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[SokiYagami]

We could use the outside furniture inside and the interior furniture outside, it would be interesting to make an indoor garden, or even people living in apartments could plant things!
Also we would have more options to decorate our houses, like making terraces more elegant, etc.

I also support, that they should put styles of houses more serious, because those of Moggle / Chocobo (and future Paissa) I do not like :/ or even remove the restriction to use all other styles of house / windows / doors / fence

I want to put my Ghost Edda retainer inside my spooky Glade-Haukke Manor-styled inn already!

[Spiroglyph]

BEAN BAGS D:

[Mimilu]

After seeing all the pictures of Dun Scaith, I would like some Dun Scaith housing items, like an exterior, a fence, those streetlamps, the roses, etc.

[Zohar_Lahar]

After seeing all the pictures of Dun Scaith, I would like some Dun Scaith housing items, like an exterior, a fence, those streetlamps, the roses, etc.

Both that and Labyrinth of the Ancients furnishings would be great.

[DarkDedede]

Assuming I haven't been paying attention, and we can do this already, dying wallpapers would be grand.

Basically because the current wallpaper selection is somewhat limited.

[Choco_Breeder_Twirly]

What i would really really love is to have a Small Ranch house where everyone in the Ward could stable their chocobo and let me take care of it... Maybe 2 garden plots to keep up the amount of Carrots needed. That would just make me happier than anything.

[Dustytome]

What i would really really love is to have a Small Ranch house where everyone in the Ward could stable their chocobo and let me take care of it... Maybe 2 garden plots to keep up the amount of Carrots needed. That would just make me happier than anything.

Well you could find an apartment building that's full of people that use the stables and snag an apartment there. You can then tend the stables there. Probably cheaper to just buy food from the gnath vendor too.

[ErikMynhier]

Allow us to "upgrade" our workshops. Maybe speak to an npc or something and allow us to make it a crafting hub. Turn in the craft boosting furniture to the npc and their effects get added to the workshop, giving you the buffs as long as you are in there. Maybe a quest to add a market board in there. Skrip-like items to expand the rigging of our ships. Really upgrade the thing.

[MPNZ]

It would be a nice QoL improvement to have a separate menu for items like the glade/riveria/oasis partitions, the mahogany door, and pillars could be alternatively used without consuming space. And, allow players to control the length of the walls, placement of the doors, and the number and placement of ceiling fans in houses/apartments, et cetera.

[Altena]

This post might be a long one.. So be forewarned. I am also not entirely sure how much this thread gets looked at by the devs but I will add the stuff I want changed.

1. PvP and/or indoor striking dummy

Regarding indoor PvP, obviously this would be enabled/disabled by the estate owner etc. It would allow people to create their own "arenas" in their houses so they can spar with friends, instead of being forced to use the rather bland area in wolves den.

Regarding the indoor striking dummy, I prefer to practice out of the prying eyes of other people at times - especially when I am trying out a new job. An indoor striking dummy would be very useful for this as you could lock the house to outsiders and practice in the comfort of your own home.

(Plus it would be nice to be able to fight in my dojo!)


2. Keep bringing on the eastern themed / oriental stuff!

A few ideas:

Outdoor
- Small, garden pagoda. Something like this:

- A Shinto-style archway..


Indoor
- Katana rack / display

- Training / wooden weapon rack.

3. Remove the wooden backing / sides from the aquariums.

It would be lovely to be able to see straight through the fish tank instead of having that ugly / plain wooden backing. Fish tanks are made of glass! Not wood! The only way around this is to clip the back panel into the wall (if your fish tank is against the wall), however at times this is not possible. Especially if you wish to use the fish tank as a centre-room feature.

4. Allow clipping through the weird "shelf" in the "hole in the wall" on the top floor of Lavender mansions

I can only speak for Lavender as from what I can recall, Mist and Goblet are a little different.. Though I would have a guess that those with Goblet/Mist mansions have a similar problem..

The strange "hole in the wall" section on the upper floor is interesting at times, but an absolute pain to work with a lot of the time. The biggest issue with it is the lower "shelf" section sticks out from the wall. So if you wanted to cover the hole with a bookshelf / partition / something - it won't let you push it hard up against the wall like you can on the normal part of the wall. This is a problem on both the balcony side of the hole and the room-side of the hole.



An alternative to this would be to add an extra section in the "Remodel Interior" that would allow for additional room/floor layout options. Perhaps adding a couple of variations of stairs would be nice too.

5. Fix the balcony door already.

It wouldn't be a housing request post without this. Make the balcony door functional, so we aren't forced to scale our house walls/roof to get onto the balcony like a burglar. I obviously don't know the technical side behind doing this but imagine that if you were able to make a front door function that way, you could add another "exit" that would place you on the balcony..

Who builds a mansion then throws away their key to one of their doors? It's almost like fake pockets on a pair of jeans. Why have something there that is meant to be functional, if it doesn't actually do anything?

6. Adjust the appearance of the outdoor ponds so that they don't look as tacky.

Due to the item allocation limit, it is far too item-intensive to put enough in those ponds to generate interest / make them less plain.. (It's night time in-game at the moment so this screenshot might be hard to see, but as an example...)


One suggestion would be do add an additional recipe that requires 1 pond + x number of a certain fish. If you craft that, then there are a few fish swimming around.