Free Company Housing vs. Individual Player Housing?

[Alerith]

Wait....

Player housing?

Dark Moogle fight?

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You have to beat the Dark Moogle to get a private residence!!!

[alexi14]

I think it would be so great to have LS housing as well. Have the botanists or w.e growing plants in the garden, the cookers cooking in the kitchen, and stuff like that.

[Kiara]

I'm hoping there is at least some variety in the buildings in each instance (i.e. not 20 individual houses - i'd like a farm, a barn, a town hall for the LS?, i think Yoshi-P has hinted at the type of housing via the small settlements that were implemented a few months back, i would have liked big mutli room mutli floor houses like in SWG rather than one room houses (why is it houses in FF games always seem so small lol)

Hi Altanas,

Thanks for your insight. I never played Darkfall or LOTR, but yah I think having every player house be non-instanced would be overkill (on a full server, navigating through Thousands of individual Player Houses would be daunting). (^_^;

I'm fine with Free Company Housing, but I'd love to see individual Player Housing made available as well. That being said, that concept art for the Estate (probably for Free Companies only , looks amazing.

I think it'd be a great gil sink to offer up fancier player housing (without any Free Company memberships), as an aside.

I hope we get a Dev Response to this (about Individual Player Housing).

[Coombah]

JPGAMES.DE, Frederick: So called “free companies” are going to be implemented with the release of FINAL FANTASY XIV 2.0, additionally player housings and the summoning of the primal Ifrit are planned features. Can you give us some details on this matter?

Yoshida Naoki: About the housing estates for the free companies, at the moment most disciples of the hand or of the land are thinking: “Why are they concentrating on the battle side?” Housing estates are going to be very important for those players, because it is more related to the lifestyle. We can make sure these players, trying out different classes, can really fell like they are taking place in the game, that was really important to us. Even for an MMO it is something very special to have your own house in the game, so we are fully aware of that and we are making sure it is really going to be exciting.

Unlike other MMOs, in which you can only see your own house and each house is based on an instanced system, we want to make sure that other players can actually see your house as well. Around 20 houses can be in one area, you can make houses, not anywhere, but you will be able to decide in which part you want to have your house. You can also design your house itself and have your own garden, maybe you can grow your own Gysahl Greens there or house your own chocobo. You can really customize your own estate.



At the moment, in the Dev Team, you can actually see the mock up of the polygons. So you can see what the estate is going to look like. It’s the Limsa Lominsa version, and the concept is to make it like a European resort area, so it is going to be really beautiful. Up from the hill you can see the ocean, it’s going to be really nice, I believe. I’m looking forward to it.

http://jpgames.de/2011/10/jpgames-de...naoki-yoshida/

[Sypherblade]

a in game dorm room....with roommates lol. Be kinda cool if there was no door closing off your room so all your roomies can see how u did up your room...

[Kiara]

Wait....

Player housing?

Dark Moogle fight?

....

You have to beat the Dark Moogle to get a private residence!!!

Hi Alerith,

Nice idea! It'd be an interesting way to incorporate the reason for Moogles to be involved with your "Mog House."

That being said, it doesn't have to be a "Mog House" but whatever Private Housing we have; hopefully we don't have the restriction.

[smokymcweed]

i just want a place to log out besides the damn street
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[Thaigare]

I really enjoyed the housing set up that DAoC had, something along those lines would me amazing ^^ obviously the DAoC version had alot of room to improve but it was an awesome concept.

[Duuude007]

easy way to avoid retcon

Step 1 - Fight dark moogle and defeat him for the first time (could even be lesser fight like "It kills with Fire" for Ifrit)
Step 2 - Rescue a good moogle he had imprisoned, who imprints to you, indebted for life
Step 3 - ???
Step 4 - Profit!!!

[Orophin]

I think if this is going to be tied to the free company system, each company should have a base of sorts (mansion/fortress/etc.) and each member of the company has a room assigned to them in the base. Of course the DoL/DoH would be heavily involved in its construction, and with each new member that joins the crafters and gatherers would have to supply materials and build the room for them (or you could just buy the materials I guess, but crafting would still be necessary). Think Suikoden series. (but not exactly)

I think there should still be player housing of some sort since people need their personal space. If you were to shack up in the company base then circumstances happen that involve you leaving/being removed, your stuff has to go somewhere.

Pretty sad, yet somewhat amusing mental picture actually. You get thrown out of the company, so you have to clean out your room and tie down all your belongings to your personal chocobo (maybe drawing a cart?) and find somewhere else to dwell.