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

[Izariael]

Honestly though I think FFXIV missed an opportunity when they gave us free company housing. What we should have is a free company airship instead of a free company house. They are up in their air so they don't need neighborhoods, that means instancing would be fine. In the singleplayer games getting to the point you can use an airship as your mobile base is always a big and exiting thing. FFXIV should have that for FCs.

I really like this idea, because the intense competition between FCs and individual players for the housing plots is one of the underlying problems with the system. From what I can recall, SE originally intended for all of the traditional housing plots to be for FCs only, with separate housing areas for personal housing. They then scrapped the personal housing and decided to let players buy up the same plots that were originally reserved for FCs, and the housing market has been pretty busted since. (Again, from what I recall... I could be wrong there ) Anyways, going along with the FC airship idea, FCs still get their decorated hangout spaces, but all of the plots currently occupied by FCs can be freed up for personal housing. Every FC has a chance at housing, and more players can finally get personal housing, so it seems like there's winners all around!

That said, I know a lot of FCs use their housing for hosting events, so being able to visit another FCs airship could be a tough challenge to implement with this approach. The easiest solution there would be to just host FC events at a designated players' personal housing in the same way that the events are hosted now, but I'm sure there's bound to be somebody displeased by it.

May even bring back hamlet defense, but as a FC content lol.

It's been 84 years since I've heard the words "hamlet defense", but I'm kind of loving the idea of having it back as FC content. You gave me a hit of nostalgia for both Dark Cloud and FFXIV 1.0 in the same post. Confound it! Thanks for sharing links to the other threads, there's some great ideas there (now if only we could get SE to take notice sooner...)

I get that they wanted to make housing attractive, but right now the system is broken; people need options to use gardens, and FCs need options to use the workshop. Giving access to a workshop off of whichever Grand Company the FC is affiliated with would be an excellent workaround, and probably require fairly little effort (since the workshops themselves are already instanced).

Exactly! I didn't talk about gardening in my initial post, but that too has been a huge peeve to miss out on! It would be amazing if there were options to do gardening and workshop activities without having to dissolve my FC to join into another one that already has housing. Housing already has an allure of its own just through its base functions, but locking more content behind it compounds the demand when housing is already in short supply.