Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Katbrandt13]

The two main suggestions I'd like to see are:
One - take away houses from people that bought up whole wards before the limit was implemented, they'll cry it's not fair but they don't need all those houses and it's not fair for them to have so much of a limited resource, give them a percentage of the value of the houses they have and allow them to choose which favorite plot they keep. Then implement a one house per account or IP address limit so people can't own more than one house, there might already be an account limit I'm not sure.
Second - give some additional features to apartments to make them more appealing as an alternative to owning a house, increase the size maybe and add a balcony to the apartment where players can put some outdoor housing items and maybe even a four or six plot garden. I think a little decoratable balcony would be a really cool addition to apartments that a lot of people would enjoy since outdoor decorations are completely off limits to players who don't own a house.

[JaydeDancer]

NAMAZU, Drawven, and Pixie exteriors!!

Namazu is in caps because I seriously need that in my life, lol.

More rug designs please. We only have a few, and none of them are dyeable, as far as I know. Maybe some generic ones of varying sizes that can be dyed? Like, a small, medium, and large rectangle-shaped option, and a small, medium, and large circle-shaped option.

Perhaps a couple of rectangle and circle options that can be dyed, but that have simple patterns on them that remain white? Maybe one each with a "traditional" pattern from the following civilizations?:

• Hingan
• Ishgardian
• Ronkan
• Ala Mhigan
• Garlean
• Sharlayan
• Othardian
• Bojzan
• Whalakeean

(Limsa, Gridania, and Ul'dah have been left off because they already have their own sets of rugs)

The ability to place "fake" windows over existing windows in apartments.

The ability to sit in the corner seat of the South Seas Couch

The ability to preview wall and flooring options!

The ability to "paint" the wooden chair moulding, wainscoting, and pillars inside apartments, houses, and FC rooms.

The ability to dye the Oriental Partition

[HeyMcFly]

Stone Arches
Wooden Arches
ARCHES THAT AREN'T MARBLE
Stone Pillars

Lattice Windows

[Nokturnus]

To be clear of what exactly I'm talking about:
-The interior pillars, stairs, doorways, railings and ceiling style that comes standard with the house you buy. These are unmovable and unchangeable. These are determined by the location of where the house is located. Currently there are four style Riviera, Glade, Oasis and Hingan. With what I can only assume will be a fifth “Ishgardian”.

The Suggestion:
-In the past, exterior wall fixtures used to be locked to style of wall to style of housing ward. Such as a Riviera walls and fixtures only being able to be used in “Mist” Limsa Liminsa Housing and so on with other housing districts.
-I suggest adding another option to the “Remodel Interior” tab under Housing, from this point you will be able to pick what style of interior you want such as Riviera, Glade, Oasis and Hingan. The models for these styles already exist in the game for all house types Small, Medium and Large houses.

Why we need this option:
-As mentioned earlier, the exterior wall fixtures have already been unlocked allowing for more customization. This also abolished the argument of keeping style of theme to housing location. Allowing the remodeling of interior styles will allow for greater customization of style to preference by the owner/decorator without the need of using partitions to hide unwanted unchangeable elements.

Future Outlook:
-Future Ishgardian housing will most likely bring it's own style of interior, with those that prefer it and those that do not. Being able to choose the interior style regardless of housing location might reduce a bit of the housing rush on Ishgardian houses when players would be able to change their exterior and interior to Ishgardian in the house they already own.
-Having a menu to switch interior style would also be beneficial for the future expansion of this idea. If the development of more styles becomes available later on in the future, more then Riviera, Glade, Oasis, Hingan, and Ishgardian then it could be added to this menu. Maybe Moogle themed, Chocobo themed, Modern themed and even plain themed interior styles with more or less unmovable elements in the interior.

I like this very much!

[Yimiko]

Main suggestion: an actual /notice/ of housing demolition status when one is scheduled to be remvoed. If I send a support ticket in game, the game will flash a thing in the corner until the sun dies out to notify me it was responded to, so I think we can do just a bit better than a status indicator on page two of the ctrl+U menu. At least an in game automated mogmail or something. Losing a house because you've been busy with other things while playing the game and simply didn't enter it for a month is just crappy, but making it worse by not even properly notifying the player within the game of when it's going to happen is just kind of ridiculous.

And no, it's not 1995, we don't all regularly check every email account. o.o;

[Pyrious]

Main suggestion: an actual /notice/ of housing demolition status when one is scheduled to be remvoed. If I send a support ticket in game, the game will flash a thing in the corner until the sun dies out to notify me it was responded to, so I think we can do just a bit better than a status indicator on page two of the ctrl+U menu. At least an in game automated mogmail or something. Losing a house because you've been busy with other things while playing the game and simply didn't enter it for a month is just crappy, but making it worse by not even properly notifying the player within the game of when it's going to happen is just kind of ridiculous.

And no, it's not 1995, we don't all regularly check every email account. o.o;

I agree 100%. More should be done to notify players. I know a few people with busy lives who only get on on weekends at best who lost their houses because they didn't remember to step in their house once every 40 days. The having to step in to stop a timer that's hidden is an atrocious system.

[Divinemights]

Main suggestion: an actual /notice/ of housing demolition status when one is scheduled to be remvoed. If I send a support ticket in game, the game will flash a thing in the corner until the sun dies out to notify me it was responded to, so I think we can do just a bit better than a status indicator on page two of the ctrl+U menu. At least an in game automated mogmail or something. Losing a house because you've been busy with other things while playing the game and simply didn't enter it for a month is just crappy, but making it worse by not even properly notifying the player within the game of when it's going to happen is just kind of ridiculous.

And no, it's not 1995, we don't all regularly check every email account. o.o;

I have a better idea
How about put a repair NPC inside your house and use that NPC everyday?
There is no worry about your house being demolish

[HeyMcFly]

Round cottage doors
Lattice Windows
Arch/ Rounded Ceilings
Stone Arches

Images below:

[Themarvin]

could we get rid of all glitches and instead be able to place things anywhere we want it... without it sticking to ground and being limited by whatever... just being able to place anywhere in the room and away from the floor...

This game has moved into 2021... such things was possible in MMOs from early 2000.... even being able to rotate and bank items in any direction that would feel like.

[Themarvin]

Absolutely not. This would divide the community even MORE than it already is. Adding more wards is literally the only option.

Absolutely yes, it would require dedication to pay rent for owning a house, also it would would be an additional tool to free up houses that never is used,