Housing: Purchase Timer - Alternative Idea

[Jojoya]

I suppose, but how many players are going to end up in that position? Most private chambers I see are completely empty. Not every FC is going to kick out a member who's inactive for a bit. It was completely stupid to add in a whole new housing system and pour all those resources into it, only to make it an exact copy paste of something many people - I'd argue most - already had access to.

I doubt they poured that many resources into creating apartments at all. The NPCs were slight modifications of existing NPCs, the rooms are copy/paste of FC rooms almost down to the way you choose the room to visit. About the only time consuming thing would have been creating the exterior and lobby interior for the apartment buildings themselves.

Apartments are a good option for those not interested in being part of a FC or for those in FCs that don't own a house. Lots of FCs do kick out members who are inactive, some will do it if someone has been inactive for as little as a month. Such a FC was probably a bad choice for the player in the first place but not every FC advertises their policy. Other FCs kick out players when the leaders change.

I still would have rather seen SE create a full instanced housing system over the apartments but at least the apartments are something for players until better solutions are created. I'm still curious about exactly what Ishgard housing will be.

[Elamys]

Apartments are a good option for those not interested in being part of a FC or for those in FCs that don't own a house. Lots of FCs do kick out members who are inactive, some will do it if someone has been inactive for as little as a month. Such a FC was probably a bad choice for the player in the first place but not every FC advertises their policy. Other FCs kick out players when the leaders change.

I guess a better way to phrase it is this: Apartments shouldn't exist just as a fail safe for people getting kicked out of their FCs, because we already have a perfectly serviceable option in place (the Resident Caretaker) that just needs to be changed to keep things indefinitely. An extra 200k just to keep my stuff in case I get kicked out of my FC (which won't happen for me personally as I'm friends with the FC lead) isn't worth it to me. But I paid it anyways, as housing is my main activity in the game and I wanted an additional space to decorate.