Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Jojoya]

We need "invisible" lighting objects similar to the ones that were part of RIFT Dimensions. They came in different sizes and hues. When in housing edit mode, a small object could be seen that indicated where the lighting effect was radiating from so it could be re-positioned as needed. Outside of edit mode, the object was invisible so only the lighting effect could be seen. Since we lack the ability to free place items vertically, the objects could be either tabletop or wall-mounted and we can use our "floating" techniques to place them where desired.

[Kalitzo]

I really would like to be able to change the walls and support beams in the house. For instance I love the marble walls however the pillars don't match and the walls you can't change don't match. This is very frustrating when you're trying to theme things. I would also like to be able to just place the windows on partitions.

[Chalabo]

Please read Square Enix!

Something that I see often discussed in game, but I do not know if it exists here as a suggestion, is housing lottery. It is often now that people are gaining houses by using automated systems. It is already frustrating enough loosing so many hours of gameplay just to continuously click placards to hope that a house would release for sale, so to keep loosing houses to relocation or auto-bots is extra frustrating.

Housing Lottery Idea Explained:
When a plot becomes ready, give it a 12 or 24 hour count down. During that single count down the plot does not devalue, but instead if you interact with the plot's placard you are applying your character to be added to the housing lottery. This lottery is for non-owners AND relocations giving both an equal shot, and allows all players to continue enjoying the game while they wait. Requiring to still interact with the plot's placard ensures that it is only active players getting submitted to the lottery. After the count down is over, one person out of everyone whom interacted with the placard during the time frame will win the plot and receive a in-game congratulations message at that time if they are logged in, or when they log in the next time. It would also help telling them in their chat log too which plot and ward they are in, for if they interacted with multiple placards. Between your existing systems, I think this would be completely possible to implement and would make your players extremely happy that things are at least fairer.

Relocation Limitation Suggestion:
However if a relocation gains the lottery plot, they use up a one use item that is un-tradable and un-sellable. This will remove the issue of people relocating multiple times. This would not include a limitation for plot size upgrades or downgrades.
(There could maybe be a limited time offer, maybe even paid from the Mogstation, that when a completely new location, like when Shirogane's housing opened, where they get a extra single relocation.)

[Sauteed]

Magic brooms like Matoya has in her cave that path around and sweep even if they clip through furniture etc would be cool. Maybe give us the ability to preset a path for the brooms to go, or pre-program some "shapes" for paths that the broom can sweep to give us a little flexibility with how they interact in our houses/apartments/fc rooms.

Another thing I'd like to see is model airships or or things that hover in place kind of like the balloon deco (can't recall the name). Maybe not as massive as that but pretty decent size. Thanks.

[ern815]

Allow rooms purchase for personal housing just like FC housing. Probably limit to 15 rooms or so?

[EthanXdeath]

Please read Square Enix!

Something that I see often discussed in game, but I do not know if it exists here as a suggestion, is housing lottery. It is often now that people are gaining houses by using automated systems. It is already frustrating enough loosing so many hours of gameplay just to continuously click placards to hope that a house would release for sale, so to keep loosing houses to relocation or auto-bots is extra frustrating.

Housing Lottery Idea Explained:
When a plot becomes ready, give it a 12 or 24 hour count down. During that single count down the plot does not devalue, but instead if you interact with the plot's placard you are applying your character to be added to the housing lottery. This lottery is for non-owners AND relocations giving both an equal shot, and allows all players to continue enjoying the game while they wait. Requiring to still interact with the plot's placard ensures that it is only active players getting submitted to the lottery. After the count down is over, one person out of everyone whom interacted with the placard during the time frame will win the plot and receive a in-game congratulations message at that time if they are logged in, or when they log in the next time. It would also help telling them in their chat log too which plot and ward they are in, for if they interacted with multiple placards. Between your existing systems, I think this would be completely possible to implement and would make your players extremely happy that things are at least fairer.

Relocation Limitation Suggestion:
However if a relocation gains the lottery plot, they use up a one use item that is un-tradable and un-sellable. This will remove the issue of people relocating multiple times. This would not include a limitation for plot size upgrades or downgrades.
(There could maybe be a limited time offer, maybe even paid from the Mogstation, that when a completely new location, like when Shirogane's housing opened, where they get a extra single relocation.)

No a lottery is not the solution to this, people will complain about RNG in these forums, more so than bots. The best solution is to not allow people to own more than 1 house and FC house per service account, any grandfathering that is currently in game should be removed! They also need to simple double the current amount of wards per city state. If for some reason they cannot double the amount of current wards per city state, then the amount of servers per data center should be increased to spread the populations out more, however they need to also open data center travel.

[Esmoire]

Ability to simulate daylight and possibly night while doing exterior decor. It's really hard to figure out an exterior colour composition at night and using gpose to simulate light is clumsy.

[Adrameliya]

Allow rooms purchase for personal housing just like FC housing. Probably limit to 15 rooms or so?

That would be awesome ! more rooms to decorate !

[Theodric]

I want some weeds for my garden.

[Xau]

i wish the devs allow us to make "kits"
what i mean for kit? is basically, lets say you want a somewhat long wall, and that wall uses 4 item slots of the funiture limit, instead of having it taking so much space, we could take those 4 partitions and use them as material to craft a partition what has the length of 4 partitions but uses only 1 item spot
same thing can be done to lofts and other basic funiture
things what could be done whit this:
partitions what has the lenght of 2/3/4 partitions
1x2/2x2 size lofts
chair/couch + desk as one item
2/3/4 length stone steps
and so on
this could free so much space for those who we want to add more funiture which could allow the devs not need to increase the item limit for a while yet