Add company workshops to Grand Company hubs so that ALL FCs can access this content!

[Shougun]

Tl;dr/too side tracked: yes, definitely . I think it's a sad position to be in, to feel like 'well guess we are one of the lamed / hobbled FCs'.

Although I really just have a whole issue with the system itself, really feel it a missed opportunity to let players flex their creativity in such a magical world (Wild Star housing would have been beautiful with FFXIV's setting, and post ShB it really screams like it should have been a feature in this game lol). Not that I'm asking for the destruction of neighborhoods (some people like it, though I'd love to see a new system arrive beside it and enhance the whole thing altogether), I just feel like what a missed opportunity for a themepark mmo that doesn't take itself super realistically (not saying it doesn't take itself seriously sometimes, but that we're basically gods with gil amounts that make some small cities and villages weep, we're not super 'grounded' in hard low fantasy setting), how that system would have done much better in another type of game and not this one.

One of the ideas I had proposed as a cheap (er.. nothing is free) idea for the housing limitations was taking their pretty cute doma reconstruction and turning up with a few to many nodes of customization, had envisioned it being a big, long term, build a project thing for FCs.. with the workshop. If anyone remembers Dark Cloud from the playstation 2, something like that, which is to be honest also a bit like WoW's Garrisons. Thought you could have some really cute reputation mechanics, unlocking favor with beast tribes and cities, hamlets, etc, getting new buildings, new workshops, taking pretty much all of the non-visual content that is currently in housing and move it over to something every single FC will have, and more. May even bring back hamlet defense, but as a FC content lol.

Which gave birth to the Cid Workshop idea, and airships acting as a sort of mobile base that have a smooth upgrade path with a very high end steep potential vanity project for huge FCs (entirely unnecessary but a FC owning a juggernaut airship would be quite the gil sink and achievement), a home away from home, and just plainly home for those who can't seem to find what they were looking for (dead neighbors, location they dislike, server is packed and they can't get the size they want, etc), or for people who want a home but can't decorate to save their own chocobo's greens (since things are nodes, SE is your decorator and you get to pick), while being a lot more memory friendly than houses are normally (remembering 200+ items and their additional information like position in space vs remembering 10-100 nodes without any positional data, still lots of customization available but less info needed to be managed).

Honestly I think either or would be a pretty neat new content. Though for Cid's Workshop it was intended to be for personal use as well as FC use, not just FC, as the airships was an everybody thing (with progression to make room for reasonable to "all my gil" sinks), and also magitek content.