Why do you want a House?

[Malk77]

I want a house for gardening, and because I like being able to use all the crafting skills I've built up to make something for myself, rather than just selling stuff on the MB. I also think it is incredibly appalling and somewhat insulting to make housing so limited when I keep getting rewards that I CAN'T USE because I don't have a house. I don't know why SE is so stubborn about adding a lottery system or about regularly increasing the number of available lots, but it's frustrating.

[Coletergeist]

I want a house for my degenerate rp.

[Jojoya]

I don't know why SE is so stubborn about adding a lottery system or about regularly increasing the number of available lots, but it's frustrating.

A lottery system won't get you a house when there are no houses available. Why do you want them to waste time creating one instead of putting that time and effort into solving the supply problem?

SE doesn't regularly add houses because it requires negotiating for physical space at the centers where the servers are located, obtaining the hardware needed for those servers, and sending their own technicians to do the installation work. There's a slight chance COVID has forced them to change their stance on the latter, as we're seeing with the announcement about the OC data center. Travel restrictions mean they need to rely on third party contractors for setting up the data center, and probably have been for some of the other overseas technical maintenance as well. Whether or not they will be willing to rely more on third party support once COVID restrictions are no longer an issue is something only time will tell.

There's also the problem of not every world being in need of housing but the number of houses per world has to be the same due to SE's chosen technical design. Adding more wards because some servers need more houses means other worlds will end up with wards that are empty because there aren't enough players who want them (and that's a wasteful business expense from a corporate point of view).

Many of the JP worlds and 2 of the EU worlds have plenty of houses available right now for players to walk up and buy. Why don't we see the same situation in NA? Because NA players like to claim that worlds are dead if they aren't massively overcrowded so SE holds back on adding more worlds here. If players didn't demand the overcrowded worlds, SE would have reason to add more worlds and we'd have more houses in NA as a result.

[Dyvid]

So it seems Decorating is the number one reason with gardening and outdoor items as number two. Now let me ask you this. How would you feel about apartments if SE changed them to be the same floor space as a Small House; both width and height (two story) but remove stair as where it is one giant cube. This would give the players the option on how they want to build either a two or three story space. They could also make it possible to place indoor or outdoor furniture inside this space allowing for some really creative designs.

[ItMe]

Now let me ask you this. How would you feel about apartments if SE changed them to be the same floor space as a Small House; both width and height (two story) but remove stair as where it is one giant cube. This would give the players the option on how they want to build either a two or three story space. They could also make it possible to place indoor or outdoor furniture inside this space allowing for some really creative designs.

I think that would be lovely and would open the door to whole new approaches to design.
I feel like it's a pipe dream, but if it happened wow people would flock to apartments.

[Seleni]

So it seems Decorating is the number one reason with gardening and outdoor items as number two. Now let me ask you this. How would you feel about apartments if SE changed them to be the same floor space as a Small House; both width and height (two story) but remove stair as where it is one giant cube. This would give the players the option on how they want to build either a two or three story space. They could also make it possible to place indoor or outdoor furniture inside this space allowing for some really creative designs.

Trying to recall what I felt like before I got super lucky and managed to get a small…
I think there’s a good chance that I’d still try to get a house; mostly because of the outside view. (I’m the type that’d relocate from small to small in search of the balance between view and convenience. I only did it when no one else was at the plot though)

Yoshida already said that they’re not looking into expanding apartment size at least until 6.1, so it’d probably take a lot of convincing for anything to be changed before then.

[Imora]

I'd like windows in my apartment. Looks so drab.

Can you resize furniture? My paintings are too damn big. And can you buy glam dressers?

Just dipping toes in this stuff. I'd like a house but can't afford it. My gil making ability is trash since I don't craft or gather.

[Dyvid]

I'd like windows in my apartment. Looks so drab.

Can you resize furniture? My paintings are too damn big. And can you buy glam dressers?

Just dipping toes in this stuff. I'd like a house but can't afford it. My gil making ability is trash since I don't craft or gather.

Can't resize and can't place a glamour dresser in apartments or housing. They have something called "fake windows" that act like normal ones. You can preview furniture using Social > Housing > Preview Indoor Furniture

[Imora]

Can't resize and can't place a glamour dresser in apartments or housing. They have something called "fake windows" that act like normal ones. You can preview furniture using Social > Housing > Preview Indoor Furniture

Even fake windows would be great. My apartment looks like a prison cell.

And Knight to Remember is too big and clips with reliefs on the walls

Still think EQ2's furniture placement was better. Angling, resizing, z-axis movement (can make stuff float without glitching).

Ah maybe one day I'll find a plot. And be able to afford it. One day...

[Jojoya]

I'd like windows in my apartment. Looks so drab.

Imitation Long Window, Imitation Square Window, Imitation Shuttered Window, Small Imitation Window and Fool's Thresholds are all option for adding windows different from the default ones.

If you mean a real window that lets you look outside of your housing into the ward, those don't exist. The closest you can get is combining one of the new Phasmascapes with a window partition (I don't recommend this in a small house or apartment, the Phasmascapes are very bulky and have strange collision).

Can you resize furniture? My paintings are too damn big. And can you buy glam dressers?

No resizing (big disappointment for those who have played other MMOs with housing that have it).
No default vertical axis for item placement though it can be achieved through floating glitches with some limitations.
No glamour dresser for housing, though you can get the Armoire.

My gil making ability is trash since I don't craft or gather.

Don't need to craft or gather to make gil.

Treasure maps are a good way. There's a lot of raw gil coming out of map parties, not to mention all the item drops you can sell on the MB.

Keep sending your retainers on ventures. Quick ventures yield all sorts of things that can be converted to gil either through direct MB sales or turning in at your GC to buy materials you can sell to crafters. If you keep an eye on your local marketboard, you can catch spikes on prices on things that are obtained through hunting ventures as well.