Island Sanctuary as a housing solution ?

[cr2032]

That, and unless you are in a social FC, or one of the RP ones, or one that puts on plays and the like, housing is *NOT* a primarily social thing. Even if that is the angle, *you can go visit instances easily, since you can already do that for housing*. If they are already allotting more storage space for something as big as an island (however big it is) plus all the "in-depth" stuff, surely it would not be THAT much more to add? I know one issue is how much data the client/server sends back & forth, and I totally understand that from a cost/storage perspective, but it is a bit silly to have advertised content that most players will never have.

[Lauren]

I'm hoping it's a plot you can build upon and then eventually make bigger. It'd be nice to have a larger space than my apartment

I still really like the housing system in FF I just wish it was easier to get a plot and that the plots would auto-demo much sooner. Like if you've not entered your house in a month, I think that's enough to warrent you don't use it.

Though I think maybe switching the Island Sanctuary to be player housing and the housing districts to be FC housing might server a better purpose and community.

[ERMITANYO]

It's not a housing solution but it makes alternatives to plotted housing like Apartments and/or FC rooms a bit viable in terms of the farming aspect, set-up one or both of those housing alternatives and you can chill while in the city-state then if one wants to farm crops and take it easy just port to the personal island sanctuary.

[KayRadley]

If nothing else, it will give players who don't have access to housing a means to grow crops the same way they could with a house.

Then maybe people will start thinking about getting apartments and quit clogging up the housing forum with the same threads repeated ad nauseum.

[Jojoya]

If nothing else, it will give players who don't have access to housing a means to grow crops the same way they could with a house.

Except we don't know that the crops will be the same or that the process will be the same. If someone wanted access to gardening specifically to get Thavnairian Onions without buying anything off the marketboard, they might be out of luck. It could be the new system requires even more maintenance than current gardening, and there are already players who complain about having to tend their garden once a day instead of being able to have their retainers do it.

We know little about what Island Sanctuary is other than it's inspired by Harvest Moon type games. People need to get their expectations in check before they end up massively disappointment when it's not what they and others have envisioned. Hopefully there will be a lot more detail made available at the digital FanFest in May.

[ERMITANYO]

It's harvest moon ffxiv style and i hope as discussed in the video the content will incorporate doman enclave/ishgard restoration elements but solo.

https://youtu.be/qKteqdeK59c

[Naoki34]

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

if you like to live in the fields and dung, I guess that's a solution.

[Themarvin]

Sure if it costs 2-300millions to buy.

[Feidam]

I wonder if the push back on this idea is coming from the lucky players that managed to get a house. The housing system is woefully inadequate and this could a ways to alleviating it. Unless they want to open enough wards so everyone can purchase a house in a ward. Then they run into the issue of but we all want large houses. This solves that issue unless you specifically want to in a housing ward.

[Catstab]

I wonder if the push back on this idea

What pushback? The only non positive responses have been:

"Ishgard should give every server the plots they need"
Likely incorrect, a 20% increase in housing will leave folks wanting. As someone said, once the wards are full, the new problem will be that two thirds of all houses are small.

"Curb your expectations, they haven't said it would be housing"
No, they haven't. It could be rolled out in stages, or it could simply be an instanced garden. But I don't think our theorycrafting is entirely off base. Only time will tell.

"Ew, manure house"
I mean, it's no secret that of the 4 housing zone, every player has a favorite. You either love the beach, the woods, or the east. Or you're a tusken raider in the goblet. People have said "If Ishgard is instanced, housing is fixed" and I've said "Instancing one of five housing zones won't help the people that want the other 4." Similarly, an instanced farm house isn't going to be enough for people who did want to share in the wards system and enjoy a full neighborhood.

I'm not sure any of these are meant as pushback, they just seem to be people thinking through the idea.