Larger Apartments?

[Jandor]

If SE wanted to take the easiest route.:

• Small is what it is now.
• Regular is the size of the ground floor of a medium without either staircase, the FC workshop door leads to the balcony area instead.
• Penthouse is the same as before but with an upstairs area too, essentially making largest apartment a medium house without a basement.

I think those would be decent sizes, and the only properly new area to create would be a balcony.

I recall them making comments about the difficulties of having balconies because of phasing and viewing the housing district and who sees what but there is an easy way to solve all that, stick the balconies on the back of the apartment building so they're looking away from the housing district...

[Kytrin]

If SE wanted to take the easiest route.:

• Small is what it is now.
• Regular is the size of the ground floor of a medium without either staircase, the FC workshop door leads to the balcony area instead.
• Penthouse is the same as before but with an upstairs area too, essentially making largest apartment a medium house without a basement.

I think those would be decent sizes, and the only properly new area to create would be a balcony.

I recall them making comments about the difficulties of having balconies because of phasing and viewing the housing district and who sees what but there is an easy way to solve all that, stick the balconies on the back of the apartment building so they're looking away from the housing district...

I like those size ideas. That's FAR better than the FC room we get now. I could actually do something nice with my apartment instead of trying to work out the logistics of how I want to slot everything together. Especially if it came with the medium housing item limit... *grin*

[PEANUT]

Yes please! I just checked out apartments for the first time, they are TINY! I want to be able to purchase a super large, high ceiling penthouse like apartment with a nice sized balcony for SOME outdoor furnishings! Obviously it wouldn't get the space capacity of an actual large house, but that's fine! Please square, why you no do this?! I am a legacy player and still have yet to be able to purchase a house... T^T </3 </3 <3/

[ERMITANYO]

I hope the Devs take this apartment design into consideration for the fully completed Ishgard restoration. That area is really huge just to be a place for doman enclave like npc weekly quests and a porting area to housing wards.

[Styrmwyda]

Would be nice if we could upgrade their size, something like the following template:



"Problem" is, if you make them too large then houses becomes kind of pointless. I know if I could upgrade my apartment to the largest pictured above I'd probably ditch my small house.

Sadly, I don't think balconies will work because that would mean redesigning the outside of each apartment building. But everything else, like the larger room size, is good and I wish we get it soon.

[ItMe]

IIRC devs said balconies were part of the original plan, but were cut because they were nearly impossible to implement.

[ERMITANYO]

How about if balconies where made to face a non populated area, but is a scenic area like for example mountain ranges or the sea with some npc sailboats sailing around, all on the east and/or west direction for sunrise and/or sunset view.

[not_ya_wify]

I'd much rather have a view of the back of the apartment building like your suite in the Chrystarium than having to look at people's Paissa and Chocobo houses or a bunch of Shirogane castles in areas that are not Shirogane. I absolutely hate seeing those. It would be even nicer if we got view options like "do you want an apartment with view of the ocean or the apartment garden or a view of the city proper (i.e. Gridania, Kugane, etc.)?"

The designs suggested by Jandon would be nice too.

[not_ya_wify]

Also, as a decorator, I doubt small houses would become obsolete because of better apartments. As a decorator, it's absolutely crucial to have a house in a ward in order to get traffic.

I have a house, an FC house, an apartment and an FC Room on my main character that are all extravagantly decorated. Most people whom I give tours say that the Lakshmi temple I did in my apartment was their absolute favorite. However, my apartment and FC Room don't get any traffic unless I specifically ask people to go there and take a look at it. As for my house and FC, when people see the yard, they want to go in and check it out on their own.

That being said, obviously there are people who want to keep their house closed off and private, as well as people who have a house and don't decorate it all just so they have access to gardening and the workshop. I think for those players, the improved instance housing should be an option, so they can free up the space for people who actually want visitor traffic.

[Zhalar]

I am 1000000000000000000000% making apartments larger or come in different sizes. I love decorating! I would be head over heels with having the option of spending more gil for a bigger apartment so I could do... MORE DECORATING!

On my main I have a Large personal estate, an FC estate (I don't personally own it, but I helped decorate it!), an FC apartment, and a personal apartment.

I have several alts with personal apartments and FC apartments.

I would do raw, bloody MURDER to have bigger apartments to do MORE DECORATING!

This can only be a win for players and for SE. I don't think it'll "cure" the housing market (because tons of players and Free Companies very much DO want houses), but it will make a HUGE swath of the player base happy to have larger apartments for personal expression and decoration.