Housing

[Cirque-it]

I am entirely for a mostly M/L ward with minimum S. Ishgard is all about grandiose and staggering architecture, I could easily see a ward there in which cottages are in short supply. And given how badly people want Ishgard housing, it would be a healthy gil sink.

Thank you! finally someone who posts with a solution as opposed to only suggesting problems

[Gula]

Thank you! finally someone who posts with a solution as opposed to only suggesting problems

I made a thread on it last year, it died and oh my just a few more days till an actual year has passed- but I still think it would be healthy for the community as well as the economy. More than 100 people can own larges, gil can be used as opposed to turning into Gaia Online's market and I could very well see players coming to visit, thus creating a lively zone instead of a ghost town. When people tour interesting houses, they go for Larges and Mediums first.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...uarter-Housing

[Eldevern]

Considering the MMORPGs I've played, some seem to overestimate a lot, but really really a lot, the "show off" effect of housing. Many people just want their own place for some kind of QoL or RP. It is not a tour to vist houses of stars and people in California. They really need to get ride on this idea, it's a virtual world where there isn't or really a tiny (less than the mansions numbers in one server) of stars among players (or players know as if they were stars). FFXIV is not some kind of E-Sport game. It's a RPG, not a Hack'n'Slash, not a Battleroyal, neither a MMOFPS.

When there is a player we feel we get along with, we will probably visit his house, but we will never visit all mansions in all wards of the whole server. I owned two mansions for around more or less one year and a half when there were less wards. It was less than one visit a week despite the fact the two mansions were full finished. And I was actively gardening. The wards were already mostly ghost towns at the end of ARR except some places with really big FCs. And with less wards, it was easier to wander.

And the most comon reason to receive a visitor was... they were looking for ideas for their own house.

[Gula]

Considering the MMORPGs I've played, some seem to overestimate a lot, but really really a lot, the "show off" effect of housing. Many people just want their own place for some kind of QoL or RP. It is not a tour to vist houses of stars and people in California. They really need to get ride on this idea, it's a virtual world where there isn't or really a tiny (less than the mansions numbers in one server) of stars among players (or players know as if they were stars). FFXIV is not some kind of E-Sport game. It's a RPG, not a Hack'n'Slash, not a Battleroyal, neither a MMOFPS.

When there is a player we feel we get along with, we will probably visit his house, but we will never visit all mansions in all wards of the whole server. I owned two mansions for around more or less one year and a half when there were less wards. It was less than one visit a week despite the fact the two mansions were full finished. And I was actively gardening. The wards were already mostly ghost towns at the end of ARR except some places with really big FCs. And with less wards, it was easier to wander.

And the most comon reason to receive a visitor was... they were looking for ideas for their own house.

I think you're projecting pretty hard here. I have played for years on non RP worlds as well as RP worlds and I can assure you plenty of people tour just to see the spectacles. Your horizons are entirely short sighted possibly due to your home world. It's not just for RP and your "we" seems to be just you and maybe 2 other people. Some people just like to be creative. See Housing Snap or the massive JP housing twitter community. And when I visit those JP houses they actually have people in them from active FCs.

Some of them even speak English, you should visit.

[Eldevern]

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I get your point, I will try to make you to get mine.

When I talk about show off, I'm not talking about people who are curious about creativity. I know it exists and I've noticed there are a lot but really a lot of screenshots that are in fact in apartments.

What I'm talking is the illusion about some kind show off as if mansions had some kind of luxury effect.

I'm in the game since the Beta, would you be surprise I assume there are a lot of player who are far rich enough to get a mansion but just don't bother to try? Many players who cleared COIL13 in its prime were able to buy a mansion (a lot were spending millions of gils in materias and earned millions selling items from Extrems and COIL for crafts).

The "wow" effect "look as I'm rich" because of some mansion is a big illusion. The player who were really rich were the ones able to afford the fails with materia setting. It could be even more expensive.

Then, in conclusion, if you talk about curiosity for creativity, ok, but people who imagine the "look as I'm rich effect", they totaly mistaken. Relics were far more expensive.

I don't try hard to make gils, I don't do extrems and I assume since ARR I've made around...300/350M gils (this with two breaks lasting each around four months). How many gils do you imagine HL crafters since ARR have reached?