Fix Housing Megathread

[Almagnus1]

Make housing instanced, Get rid of housing wards.

Never gonna happen because of the sunk cost fallacy with wards. Your time would be better spent on advocating that more features are added into the apartments, and explaining why we need them, and figuring out how we can work instanced housing with a lore appropriate setting into FFXIV.

[Fellgon]

Never gonna happen because of the sunk cost fallacy with wards. Your time would be better spent on advocating that more features are added into the apartments, and explaining why we need them, and figuring out how we can work instanced housing with a lore appropriate setting into FFXIV.

Never say never...one said "oh no other mmo will beat wow ever!"
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[Almagnus1]

The biggest issue is how the population is spread. There are literally thousands of vacant apartments and hundreds if not thousands of empty housing plots. The problem is that 99.99999999% of players are all cramming onto the same 2 or 3 servers.

Apparently they're doing a data centre visit feature soon so what you have there is an opportunity to transfer to a low pop server / data centre get your house. And still be able to visit or hop onto balmung or whatever and play with your friends..

There are a ton of unused plots and apartments though. Even on my server sargatanas I think my apartment complex only has 6 tenants. And last time I went checking others I found hell of a lot that were the same.

I think the real problem here is that apartments need to be a more attractive option and occupy the niche between the FC room and the small house. Until they can better do that, most complexes are going to stay empty.

Never say never...one said "oh no other mmo will beat wow ever!"
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I mean, if the dev team showed some inclination that this would happen, I wouldn't be so harsh against it. It's a bit like saying "SE should make the PLD into a healer instead of a tank!" or "SE should make DRK a DPS class instead of a tank!".

Some things are just so ridiculous that it's more of a hopium dream than reality.

[HeyMcFly]

Never gonna happen because of the sunk cost fallacy with wards. Your time would be better spent on advocating that more features are added into the apartments, and explaining why we need them, and figuring out how we can work instanced housing with a lore appropriate setting into FFXIV.

I'm aware it'll never work
It's just me kind of spilling an idea, regardless of how unrealistic it is

But to answer your advice: I've spent the last 2 or so years advocating for small, medium & large housing as well as apartments to get an item limit upgrade for inside decor to be increased with all of the good reasonings in mind ^^

[Jojoya]

But to answer your advice: I've spent the last 2 or so years advocating for small, medium & large housing as well as apartments to get an item limit upgrade for inside decor to be increased with all of the good reasonings in mind ^^

YoshiP did say in a broadcast since Shadowbringer's launch that interior items limits are on the list of things they want to address but of course did not mention any time estimate. It's the type of update I would expect to see with major housing update so hopefully when Ishgard is opened.

Pretty certain we're out of luck when it comes to getting an increase on outdoor items. Loading times in housing districts still suck for players on PS4 and older PCs.

[HeyMcFly]

YoshiP did say in a broadcast since Shadowbringer's launch that interior items limits are on the list of things they want to address but of course did not mention any time estimate. It's the type of update I would expect to see with major housing update so hopefully when Ishgard is opened.

Pretty certain we're out of luck when it comes to getting an increase on outdoor items. Loading times in housing districts still suck for players on PS4 and older PCs.

That's fair as far as outdoor items- I think a good way to help with that is make some items larger, like an illusion of the item taking up more than it is- like stone/ wood/ brick pathing size increased but still takes only 1 plot up. Or flower gardens being larger but still taking 1 space up- Or have house designs come with specific yards (with custom flowers/ pathing etc) that we can add to. That may be the same kind of issue though, increasing the items themselves rather than the cap.

But yes, +1 to increased indoor item cap
I'd sell my soul to be able to place atleast 100 more items in my small house (I don't want to upgrade to a medium just so I can have a larger item limit)