Housing Ownership Restrictions

[Almagnus1]

I think that's what players were hoping the farms were going to be when SE announced them back at the FanFests. Since then, the farms sound more like they're going to be for raising minions not crops. There's still the hope they might include gardening but i'm not going to bet on it.

I wonder if that would have been discussed this year had 2020 not happened...

In any case, there's still going to be much contention with housing until the workshop and gardens get decoupled and are made more accessible to the general playerbase.

[Jojoya]

I wonder if that would have been discussed this year had 2020 not happened...

In any case, there's still going to be much contention with housing until the workshop and gardens get decoupled and are made more accessible to the general playerbase.

I don't think workshops will ever be made available to the general player base. They were added as FC content and a way for FCs to earn gil to fund FC activities.

I think gardens were likewise originally intended as a way for FCs to earn gil but that was lost as a FC exclusive when private purchase of housing was enabled later. When workshops and aetherial wheel stands were added after private purchase was enabled, those did get tagged as FC estate only.

I can see workshops getting decoupled from house ownership assuming there's no screwy code that would prevent it.

I don't know if SE will ever do anything about gardening. Considering how few house owners actively intercross garden, they may not feel the need. They might consider most of the requests for access to be coming from players who just want to have everything but won't actually use it. For anyone who's casually gardening things like shards and Krakka Roots, there's always flowerpots. It's less than you'd grow with a garden plot but it's still access.

[Almagnus1]

I don't know if SE will ever do anything about gardening. Considering how few house owners actively intercross garden, they may not feel the need. They might consider most of the requests for access to be coming from players who just want to have everything but won't actually use it. For anyone who's casually gardening things like shards and Krakka Roots, there's always flowerpots. It's less than you'd grow with a garden plot but it's still access.

I'd still like to garden up the minions associated with it, but I really don't want to bring that up to the FC officers because there has been issues in the past where someone decides to help themsevles to the garden goods (which was a problem when we were raising Thavnarian Onions to fundraise for the Kurogane move back in HW, and also for members to purchase at a reduced cost while a bunch of us were leveling chocobos). In other words, I don't want to put the time and effort into crossing up the minions only to have a random person decide that they deserve them more than me. I imagine this is like it for many other FCs too. When you couple the FC side of things with how few own houses, and I can see why that number may be artificially lower than what SE was expecting.