Island Sanctuary Appreciation Thread

[WhiteArchmage]

All we know is it's an instanced area, involves minions and actual farming. What I worry is its availability: Will every character have a personal island? If it's limited like housing, then it may have actual decoration and customization, if it's more widely vailable, it may have some customization but probably not actual decorating.

What I want to know is if it'll be personal, or locked so you have to be in an FC to have an island and the island is the FC's property, not the individual player's.

[MevariNavalo]

All we know is it's an instanced area, involves minions and actual farming. What I worry is its availability: Will every character have a personal island? If it's limited like housing, then it may have actual decoration and customization, if it's more widely vailable, it may have some customization but probably not actual decorating.

What I want to know is if it'll be personal, or locked so you have to be in an FC to have an island and the island is the FC's property, not the individual player's.

If it's instanced, I see no reason why they would limit its availability. It likely won't even be tied to being in an FC or anything like that. The question of its availability will more likely be at what point in the MSQ can you access it. Does it unlock in ARR at a low level, or do you have to get to Endwalker to unlock it?

Additionally, instances in FFXIV are all timed. AFK in them too long and they kick you out. This might be the case with this, too, which would make it not the "sit in a chair and AFK" type of area that housing currently is.

[Shibi]

One of the reasons they gave us for no new housing was a lack of server capacity. Housing needs that.

Verminion farming will be a little less server intensive than housing one imagines - less people in it, so the server resources can be stretched out, and next to zero customisation so it's simple in terms of CPU and memory.