Quote Originally Posted by Thamorian View Post
On topic, would be helpful is SE did make apartments larger and add the ability to cross-breed plants inside apartments. I'd also be fine with refunding everyone the value of their housing plots, scrap housing wards, and make just instanced housing with instanced gardens.
More apartment size options seem likely at this point. Adding new wards didn't adequately address demand issues on the high pop worlds. With house interiors are already instanced, it shouldn't be hard for them to link Apartment #X to interior size A when purchased. While new interior arrangements for apartment sizes (including balconies) would be nice, I don't know if they would do it when they've already got interiors that could be used.

Last year (or maybe it was 2 years ago), there had been a question about adding intercross gardening to apartments and FC rooms. They said very flatly it would not be possible (something to do with intercross gardening being tied to zone day/night/weather cycles in the programming). I don't expect that to ever happen. I think SE wants the limitations on gardening to keep some of those items rare just as workshops have a limit on airships and submersibles to keep some of the items obtained through voyages rare. I also doubt there's enough demand for more access to intercross since gardening requires daily maintenance outside of a few seed types with short grow times. It's pretty rare when I go on one of my walking tours of a random ward that I'll see anything growing and it's usually shards or something chocobo related when there is.

There's no reason to scrap what houses currently exist. They could leave them at a premium price for those who want to pay and are willing to risk auto-demo. Better to stop adding new wards and start expanding apartments. They had said adding new wings for apartments is relatively easy to do when apartments were introduced. If so, they could open the door to multiple apartments per character. That would satisfy the majority of players who want multiple houses to decorate though they'd never be able to make everyone happy.