Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Shougun]

I wonder how doable it would be to have a "Save Layout" option for Housing... So say you've decorated your room, but want to try something new out? Save the layout, change things up, but can reload the old layout if you change your mind...

Would be an amazing feature to have with server transfers in mind, given the NA/EU split is likely to force a few people to do that... Very much doubt it's possible from a technical standpoint with XIV though...

I imagine what they could do fairly inexpensively is allow players to save the layout local, even be able to share said layout (simple text document that holds all the position and item type info). That way there isn't really a limit to how many layouts you may save and they don't need to store an entire house worth of content multiple times lol (not saying they can't).

[Nalien]

I imagine what they could do fairly inexpensively is allow players to save the layout local, even be able to share said layout (simple text document that holds all the position and item type info). That way there isn't really a limit to how many layouts you may save and they don't need to store an entire house worth of content multiple times lol (not saying they can't).

The thing is we'd need a system that places items automatically based off that data, and I don't think XIV is built for that. Plus there's the matter of where the furniture placed comes from? I imagine it would take from storage/player inventory, but you've still got issues if pieces are missing... Does it cancel placing everything? Place what it can? What if a table top item is there, but the table it should be on isn't? How would glitches work with such a system? It shouldn't technically be able to place things there...

Definitely something I'd like to hear the devs opinion on though, it would be a great feature I think, and now that you mention it... Local text documents would be great, could have some interesting utility for sharing builds... Still, we've yet to get the door and balcony of mansions opened up, so I wont be holding my breath on something that seems far more complex...

[Shougun]

The thing is we'd need a system that places items automatically based off that data, and I don't think XIV is built for that. Plus there's the matter of where the furniture placed comes from? I imagine it would take from storage/player inventory, but you've still got issues if pieces are missing... Does it cancel placing everything? Place what it can? What if a table top item is there, but the table it should be on isn't? How would glitches work with such a system? It shouldn't technically be able to place things there...

Definitely something I'd like to hear the devs opinion on though, it would be a great feature I think, and now that you mention it... Local text documents would be great, could have some interesting utility for sharing builds... Still, we've yet to get the door and balcony of mansions opened up, so I wont be holding my breath on something that seems far more complex...

Oh yeah, sorry I wasn't trying to detail the whole system I was just mewling over and thinking "I bet we'd get it easier for the devs, and have some value ourselves if it was local...".

Imo what we could see out of this system is also a blueprint. Such that you don't have to layout the entire room but rather select a set of objects and save it as a blueprint that could be shared and reused.

As for what happens if you don't have an item, I'd say that a ghost of said item is left there and if any item that relies on it exists that item is painted red. There should also be an undo button lol, if the layout goes south.

When you leave all ghosts are removed, and all red painted items as well. So you'd drop a layout and then check the FC stash / your inventory to fix all items. Also would be helpful for it to produce a list of missing items that you could right click search for, when you have the item in your inventory you click the item in the list and it places it where it needs to be for you (with a place all button optionally as well).