Island Sanctuaries might not be instanced housing, simmer your hopes

[Packetdancer]

The Thavnairian Onion market needs to crash, thankyouverymuch.

Honestly, I'd be okay with this myself. I belong to a reasonably-active FC (generally a core group of about 30-40 people active, larger during MSQ patch windows) that's welcoming to newcomers, and one thing we try to make sure to have is Thavnairian Onions for the FC members training their chocobos. As the person who handles the gardening loops to ensure we continue to have a stock of onions, I would be totally okay if I could just use FC funds to buy the onions for the FC chest at rates that were not astronomical, instead of it being more cost-effective to keep gardening loops going.

(I grant that if I were selling said onions rather than stocking the FC chest, I might feel differently...)

More seriously, though, I've long said one of the biggest problems with housing is that it gates participation on entire other systems: FC airships/submersibles, and gardening. So if Island Sanctuary does nothing other than provide access to gardening for people who don't have a house, I'll still consider it a win as a feature.

I will be stunningly shocked if Island Sanctuary were full instanced housing.

As I've noted in a different thread, this game's server architecture does not seem well-suited to open-ended instancing, as opposed to "at most X number of things in use"; their workaround seems to be that anything that is truly open-ended in terms of number of active instances has to be a solo environment that gets run largely (save for interactions with specific systems) on the client-side, rather than allocating a server-instanced environment.

This is why you can have an unlimited number of inn rooms, grand company squadron barracks, copies of the Waking Sands interior, etc., but where you will never see another player besides yourself in that environment: that environment simply does not exist on the server.

If Island Sanctuary is a form of instanced housing, I strongly suspect it would be one where you could decorate and garden and play around... but not invite guests over as that would require server-instanced environments. And that seems technologically feasible within this game's environment... but probably not what folks would want from "instanced housing".