Island Sanctuary as a housing solution ?

[cr2032]

Although nothing has been said about this, that building in the background gives me hope! Adding instanced housing there would solve the housing problem.

[MicahZerrshia]

This was my hope too, and this would be one of the smartest things they could possibly do. But I do not foresee them using this as instanced housing sadly.

Which is going to be one of their biggest missed opportunities in a long time.

[cr2032]

Right ?? I mean the instances are already being made. I'm fine with having to clear space out, i'm fine with still having to fork over the gil. I'm just tired of camping a lot for 18+ hours only to have someone swoop in, transfer, then transfer out 30 minutes later. This crap is rampant on Cactuar.

[Catstab]

It's extremely likely, I feel.

Island sanctuary seems to be Harvest Moon / Stardew Valley style gaming brought to ff14. Those two titles and almost all games like them feature housing on your farm.

I imagine this is the long awaited solution to both 'instanced yards, please' and 'crossbreeding for instanced housing, please.' Island sanctuary seems meant to make up for all of the apartment system's shortcomings and then some.

It may be rolled out in stages, perhaps beginning as a garden patch with a chocobo stable and little else, slowly expanding to include more features.

[cr2032]

Indeed. That windmill/house/light house thing gives me hope. I'm beyond tired of camping lots. I survived Shirogane ex, but lost it due to downtime.

[MicahZerrshia]

Honestly if they did introduce a decent instanced housing area in this content I would let my mansion reclaim in a heartbeat. I hate the ward system. I have had a house for my fc and personally since they became available respectively and have only once had a good experience when a neighbor came and sat in my house to chat with me for a bit. Outside of that I have had issues with ppl using my house to rp and erp in, having my wonderful sea view be blocked by or just having to stare at those god awful housing skins SE keeps introducing and just dealing with the limitations that are inherent in such systems.

It was a great idea, but in a game where they have taken multiple steps to avoid ppl having to be social, forcing socializing in the housing system was a strange choice from the get go.

[Arielen]

Pretty much every server will have enough housing once Ishgard housing comes out regardless though.

[Penthea]

Pretty much every server will have enough housing once Ishgard housing comes out regardless though.

But for how long? As far as I'm aware player population hasn't stopped growing. I'm pretty sure EU will be fine for the most part, but I have my doubts about NA.

[Jojoya]

Pretty much every server will have enough housing once Ishgard housing comes out regardless though.

What makes you think that? There's a pretty big gap in population between the lowest population worlds and the highest population worlds but every world will have the same 7,200 houses. Sure, it will be easy to get a house on a JP world that only has 8,000 active players. Not so easy on a NA world with over 20,000 active players.

Demand is not just from individual players wanting a house. There are FCS who also want a house. Those evidently make up 30% of house ownership right now, which would reduce the number available to individual players to about 5,000. Suddenly even the low pop JP worlds may have a shortfall depending on what percentage of players want to own a house.

Then there are the players who play on multiple worlds and have houses on each of those worlds. There are the player who have multiple shells FCs for access to more workshops and gardens. That further reduce the number of houses available for players who do not have a house.

Ishgard housing is not a solution unless SE will be making additional changes to how the ward system works that they have not shared with us.

[Feidam]

I really hope they do allow you build houses on the island. The apartment situation is a not a solution imo. No outside to decorate. But with island sanctuary everyone could have That mansion if THEy wanted.