Fix Housing Megathread

[Seleni]

I'm reading it more as the apartments costing too much and need to have a bit more relaxed GC requirements tbh. I could see there being a barracks of sorts for each grand company as a low tier form of housing (in addition to the inn room) as the GC would want to make sure that it's members are well rested for battle. Once someone reaches Sergeant Third Class, they gain access to an apartment (which would be an actual space for themselves), and players would be able to get the house at Second Lieutenant as that's the lowest officer rank (many of us that care about that are probably Captains at this point). That would also follow the ingame rank divisions you see at the quartermaster (see https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G...ortal%20Flames ).

As far as gil goes, while 500k to you or me may not be a lot of gil... how much is that to a new player? Would 200k make more sense? 100k? 400k? 600k?

Tbh, I'm really seeing both of you in more agreement with the overall idea, just a couple of details that need hammered out.

Umm, for the apartments to serve as the “free housing” that Jojoya wants, it’d probably need to be practically given away free through MSQ like the inn rooms. But SE probably doesn’t have capacity for that.

So I was mistaken when I said that apartment probably serves as the “free housing”. It’s more of a tier 1. (Inn room = tier 0)

IMO if it costs anything more than what is considered spare change to a player, people who are not interested in houses won’t bother with it, regardless of GC rank requirement. And people who ultimately want a house would pursue the GC rank required for a house anyway, so lowering GC rank does not add much appeal to the apartments.

If GC requirement is to be dropped for FC/apartment rooms, they might as well drop it all the way down to Corporal, which is attainable simply by turning in GC seals. Most people probably already gotten seals through FATEs, so it’s 0 additional effort for them to become eligible for FC/apartment room purchase.