The HORRENDOUS State of Housing

[Zeonx]

I agree, I owned a house and didn't think anything special about it, I don't know why anyone would.

What for airship stuff or submarine stuff? Really could care less about that content, I can un-sub anytime I want without worry of the 45 day and losing a huge chunk of gil used to buy that house, to take breaks to play other things and experience other stuff save a bit of money and maybe later return at a later date.

If I were Square Enix, I would of just gave everyone their Gil back, built upon apartments, put balconies for gardening and make a place for birds like a inside barn that keeps a persons chocobo for leveling and coloring, remove all outside furnishing free up some data and make submarine and airship stuff connected to the lobby where anyone can do that stuff.

Because every time a problem happens they are going to shut down home demolish and face it there will be more than one time this is going to happen and I believe that housing is a failed project, nifty idea at first but it to me is just a ploy to get people to stay subbed to the game due to the fear of losing their house.

[Renato]

If I were Square Enix, I would of just gave everyone their Gil back, built upon apartments, put balconies for gardening and make a place for birds like a inside barn that keeps a persons chocobo for leveling and coloring, remove all outside furnishing free up some data and make submarine and airship stuff connected to the lobby where anyone can do that stuff.

Because every time a problem happens they are going to shut down home demolish and face it there will be more than one time this is going to happen and I believe that housing is a failed project, nifty idea at first but it to me is just a ploy to get people to stay subbed to the game due to the fear of losing their house.

This is one of the best ideas I've ever heard. I lost my house 4 months ago when I unsubbed. I recently began to dabble in apartments and honestly, they really aren't that bad especially once you start utilizing the glitches. I turned a small room into what seems to be a larger, loft-style apartment with multiple rooms. And I don't have to worry about losing it if I get bored and unsub.

The two issues I have with apartments are the size and the fact that you have to use glitches to place furniture on the lofts. I feel like the apartments should offer different sizes but instead of having players just outright buy the larger rooms, (because we all know there are douchebag players will buy up EVERYTHING just because) everyone should be given the opportunity to buy the smallest apartment at 500k gil and have the option to spend more to add to renovate it. Upgrade to a medium adds a loft for another 1M gil. The largest room would be 1.5-2M. Wanna add a garden to your balcony? 200k gil.

I also feel like players should only be allowed 1 room per character on that data center. That way people aren't just making alts to buy them.

[LaylaTsarra]

I also feel like players should only be allowed 1 room per character on that data center. That way people aren't just making alts to buy them.

Alts have rights too. They can't share a house so at the least they sure are welcome to buying apartments if they want to.

And relative to giving people their gil back and scrapping the housing system... I wouldn't hold your breath.

[Zeonx]

Alts have rights too. They can't share a house so at the least they sure are welcome to buying apartments if they want to.

And relative to giving people their gil back and scrapping the housing system... I wouldn't hold your breath.

I don't think they should, if you own a house and a private house, I believe your alternate characters should also own the very same houses that's my opinion.

Though my 1st opinion is what I think should really happen I think they should scrap housing, if everyone keeps getting emergencies which will happen they are going to shut down the auto 45 demolish off every single time this happens and people are still paying for subscriptions waiting for a house to free up it's never going to happen as long as they keep it off and like I said a emergency happens.

At this point you gotta say well it's like not having a auto demolish and the only reason people are against getting rid of it, truthfully is they don't want to see a dip in their profits because they garden someone told me before in a party he owned a lot of houses to make the GIL and doesn't care if anyone else complains about him owning houses then said you snooze you lose.

I get they just want to corner the market and not others in on a crowded Auction house to me its a bit of a greedy statement but why would I care I didn't care about housing to begin with I settled for a apt.

Just wish they would stop pushing the housing now and focus on the apt's make the insides bigger and like I said add gardening inside you'll see people giving up houses for apt's and just maybe SE will decide to scrap this whole idea.

[LaylaTsarra]

I don't think they should, if you own a house and a private house, I believe your alternate characters should also own the very same houses that's my opinion.

I totally agree. Why is it my friends can share a house and my own alts can't? Makes no sense really. Many took advantage of buying homes for alts back when it was permitted because of that.

Just wish they would stop pushing the housing now and focus on the apt's make the insides bigger and like I said add gardening inside you'll see people giving up houses for apt's and just maybe SE will decide to scrap this whole idea.

I think that would make many people happy and would reduce the demand significantly for private houses. Sure many want to garden but there are many who simply want to decorate and could care less about gardening. Gardening for whatever reason seems to be something they appear to not be able to do with apartments but I'm not a developer. The issue of workshops is another issue and personally I think coupling those to GC would be something they need to do just like squads are a part of a GC assets.

[MsQi]

Alts have rights too. They can't share a house so at the least they sure are welcome to buying apartments if they want to.

And relative to giving people their gil back and scrapping the housing system... I wouldn't hold your breath.

I think allowing players to make their own alts tenants in both houses and apartments would be great. I would say make it automatic, but there is the RP factor where some people feel their characters wouldn't share things.

Can each character currently have an apartment? What about an FC rooms?

[LaylaTsarra]

I think allowing players to make their own alts tenants in both houses and apartments would be great. I would say make it automatic, but there is the RP factor where some people feel their characters wouldn't share things.

Can each character currently have an apartment? What about an FC rooms?

Multi home owners at least many of them would have been happy to have one house to share. Alts can't even teleport to a mains house without jumping through hoops given you can't use friend teleport or use any of the features at the house when there. The only way to share a house with an alt at the moment is to create a small FC where they can all share it and it's features. It was mentioned they were looking at it back around 4.2 (sharing a house and friending alts) and they talked about different size apartments too Sadly nothing since then.

And yes each character (alt) can purchase an apartment and a FC room. You're only allowed one FC house and one private per account per server at the moment.

[MsQi]

Multi home owners at least many of them would have been happy to have one house to share. Alts can't even teleport to a mains house without jumping through hoops given you can't use friend teleport or use any of the features at the house when there. The only way to share a house with an alt at the moment is to create a small FC where they can all share it and it's features. It was mentioned they were looking at it back around 4.2 (sharing a house and friending alts) and they talked about different size apartments too Sadly nothing since then.

And yes each character (alt) can purchase an apartment and a FC room. You're only allowed one FC house and one private per account per server at the moment.

That's kinda how thought it was, just don't have alts with enough money to test it. Maybe they have someone working on the bigger apartments. It's not uncommon for feature to take a few expacs to be implemented in mmos.

[Zeonx]

This is one of the best ideas I've ever heard. I lost my house 4 months ago when I unsubbed. I recently began to dabble in apartments and honestly, they really aren't that bad especially once you start utilizing the glitches. I turned a small room into what seems to be a larger, loft-style apartment with multiple rooms. And I don't have to worry about losing it if I get bored and unsub.

The two issues I have with apartments are the size and the fact that you have to use glitches to place furniture on the lofts. I feel like the apartments should offer different sizes but instead of having players just outright buy the larger rooms, (because we all know there are douchebag players will buy up EVERYTHING just because) everyone should be given the opportunity to buy the smallest apartment at 500k gil and have the option to spend more to add to renovate it. Upgrade to a medium adds a loft for another 1M gil. The largest room would be 1.5-2M. Wanna add a garden to your balcony? 200k gil.

I also feel like players should only be allowed 1 room per character on that data center. That way people aren't just making alts to buy them.

Yep I agree and can expand the inside wouldn't have to worry about what the outside looks like.