4.0 Housing

[Dustytome]

Hard to get excited over potential new trees without an expansion on the woefully low outdoor placement allotments...

There's a reason why outdoor decorations slots aren't being raised.

As Elany said, there's a reason. With each ward you're loading in 730 pieces of furniture (20 x 20 sm, 30 x 7 md, 40 x 3 lg) as well as any color variations and then the actual individual estate settings for each house on top of that, doubled if it's loading up the subdivision as well.

[Naunet]

As Elany said, there's a reason. With each ward you're loading in 730 pieces of furniture (20 x 20 sm, 30 x 7 md, 40 x 3 lg) as well as any color variations and then the actual individual estate settings for each house on top of that, doubled if it's loading up the subdivision as well.

<looks at WildStar house that can hold 2500 items outside and 2500 inside... looks at incoming Community feature that will link FIVE housing plots together for 12,500 displayed decor outside alone (and another 2500 per inside house) plus 2500 limit for the "between" places, plus potential color variations, plus the potential for many animated NPCs and monsters and particle effects>

lol.

[Ayerinn]

<looks at WildStar house that can hold 2500 items outside and 2500 inside... looks at incoming Community feature that will link FIVE housing plots together for 12,500 displayed decor outside alone (and another 2500 per inside house) plus 2500 limit for the "between" places, plus potential color variations, plus the potential for many animated NPCs and monsters and particle effects>

lol.

that community link feature has been on the development table coming up on the 2 year mark (I remember them talking about it before the games final death knell aka F2P) - probably wont ever see the light of day before NcSoft kills off the game...and the housing is solo instanced and does not have PS4 limitations (lol) - of course it can hold more items

[Naunet]

that community link feature has been on the development table coming up on the 2 year mark (I remember them talking about it before the games final death knell aka F2P) - probably wont ever see the light of day before NcSoft kills off the game

It literally has been on the PTR for about a month now and is slated for release in a patch or two. But keep on with the WS hate.

Solo instance is irrelevant when comparing the number of outdoor items in an entire housing ward in FFXIV with the outdoor limit in WS. Both are a single instance.

[Penthea]

that community link feature has been on the development table coming up on the 2 year mark

Wow even if it is coming out soon two years is a really long time to wait. They would have been better off keeping it quiet and revealing it when it was ready.

But keep on with the WS hate.

Not sure where that player is showing hate? Unless you mean their comment about the game dying. It seems to be something many people believe, which is one of the primary reasons why I'm not going to bother with it. I can't really get excited about a game when anyone I know who plays or has played it says it's not likely to be around for much longer.

[Naunet]

Not sure where that player is showing hate? Unless you mean their comment about the game dying. It seems to be something many people believe, which is one of the primary reasons why I'm not going to bother with it. I can't really get excited about a game when anyone I know who plays or has played it says it's not likely to be around for much longer.

It's nonsense perpetuated by people who don't play the game but want it to fail because how dare some MMO they don't play try to be successful in even a small way. The game isn't dying.

Wow even if it is coming out soon two years is a really long time to wait. They would have been better off keeping it quiet and revealing it when it was ready.

Not really. They mentioned "neighborhoods" as a possible addition to housing a while ago (which was actually in response to player feedback) with no real details other than it was something they'd like to work on at some point. Now we just wrapped up a month of PTR testing.

[Penthea]

It's nonsense perpetuated by people who don't play the game

I literally just told you people I know who play it are saying it. It would be a massive coincidence if the eight or nine (think some have quit by now) people who don't all know each other would have a similar opinion. And these are people who actually like the game. I tried it myself at launch but I found the combat to be insanely clunky so I just couldn't enjoy it. I was flirting with the idea of trying again seeing as it's been a few years since launch so maybe the combat improved, and that's when I found out that many people are under the impression that it's dying.

[Besame]

Naunet is correct about Wildstar's housing. It is the current standard all MMO's/solo games, etc. should strive to copy.
As much as I loved it, it could not keep me playing a game slated mainly for the very elite gamer. Their dungeons were very difficult starting from the low level and spiraling upward. When I was doing the attunement to open the HM dungeons, after an extremely difficult and long encounter, there was a bug when I attempted to pick up the item I needed to continue on. It said I completed but the item would not go in my inventory. I reported the issue per instruction to the correct people 8 times in 3 wks and waited...no response. Finally my husband and I said DONE! This was a difficult decision because we had both played the beta WS and had high hopes for a long future there.
So while WS has the best housing and fun quests, which is important to me, the no response from CMs and elite (for me) raiding was not appealing.