In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

[TaranTatsuuchi]

What is it that you get out of owning a personal house aside from the personal garden and stable?
Why is it so important that you own a house that you have to log in at 4 am or w/e just to get one when the servers go up?

These are serious questions and just don't understand.

If apartments are available, it's just the garden.
And really, just the cross breeding function.

As apartments have a stable, and plant pots.

[Nonuel]

What is it that you get out of owning a personal house aside from the personal garden and stable?
Why is it so important that you own a house that you have to log in at 4 am or w/e just to get one when the servers go up?

These are serious questions and just don't understand.

People like the status they think it gives them, and having their names displayed on a placard.

[Acilith]

Or ya know people just like to decorate. Or maybe RP .....

[Shouko]

Or ya know people just like to decorate. Or maybe RP .....

I guess I should have put RP into the original response, I had that figured into that but probably forgot to.

I'd rather play Sims for decorating personally, far more options but hey whatever floats someone's boat.

[Rinuko]

I guess I should have put RP into the original response, I had that figured into that but probably forgot to.

I'd rather play Sims for decorating personally, far more options but hey whatever floats someone's boat.

Well if you enjoy playing THIS game and they have housing and decoration why would you start playing a different game? hmmm

[Venoshock]

I guess I should have put RP into the original response, I had that figured into that but probably forgot to.

I'd rather play Sims for decorating personally, far more options but hey whatever floats someone's boat.

I have the Sims and play it regularly, I like playing ff14 and appreciate decorating in THIS game which is why I own a medium and small house. That's the end game for me and my girlfriend. Splashing our Gil on our properties.

[Alleo]

What is it that you get out of owning a personal house aside from the personal garden and stable?

Well people just like the idea of houses (next to its use for garden and stuff like that). I enjoy decorating my house. I also like to craft so decorating my house gives me something to do on top of that. Then there will be people that use it to RP their character which is also a legit reason.

In the end you can ask this question for every part of the game. Why do you put so much time in a raid? Why do you collect TT cards? For some its just a fun part to play the game.

[KuraTenshi]

Putting ASIDE the amount of resources it would take up... The major downside would be it's locked to FC but! Just imagine..

You get instanced FC Wards. The FC purchases an instanced ward from wherever they'd like. So then anyone in the FC can buy a small/medium/large. FC house can also have whatever. So EVERYONE can have a house. And if you NEED more, it will add more (like apartments) but only when everything has been filled.

PROS
Everyone gets a house
People can get multiple spaces
You can buy at your own time
You still have that neighborhood feel with FC mates
No house flippers

CONS
Tied to an FC
Neighbors only FC mates
Pain to access to view from non FC members
A crap ton of resources from SE

So here are a lot of complaints I've seen and solutions:
Just not enough housing via
-People owning more than one- Houseflippers or just in general

• 1 house per account
  Instanced Housing
  Rent
  Increasing apartment space

[HaoNam]

This is my proposal:
In order for this idea to work, the housing plot cannot have size restrictions and a restriction to purchase another plot (if own one already) within 60 days account-wide.

Most players are content with a small size house. However, a certain percentage do want to increase to a medium or a large down the road.

Here is how:

Every plot starts as a cottage. If you wish to gain access to the bigger size house (house/mansion) then you can do an upgrade quest. It will cost you materials and gil (amount comparable to a medium or large cost.)

Progression: complete medium then can upgrade to large

Pro:
-Player customize their own housing size as the person mature
-Stay at preferred location without moving to another simply because of size
-Community determine their neighborhood size (whether they want all small/medium/large or mixed)
-Prevents flippers to target medium or large house for huge margin profit
-Limits alt abuse of buying plot through FC

[KuraTenshi]

Pro:
-Player customize their own housing size as the person mature
-Stay at preferred location without moving to another simply because of size
-Community determine their neighborhood size (whether they want all small/medium/large or mixed)
-Prevents flippers to target medium or large house for huge margin profit
-Limits alt abuse of buying plot through FC

So the thing is, although I liked up gradable originally, and the customization would be neat, that adds a lot to SE to do (in terms of making a housing creation). My idea would be a lot of copy pasting so not too terribly hard (and space). Of course, it would be 1 house per CHARACTER and not account. Worse case someone will have 8 TOTAL houses. Again, the FC expands wards as things fill. So this already prevents flippers because plots will always be added.