A suggestion to fix housing.

[Espon]

Corporate asks "What's the server difference between":

(a) an instanced island,
(b) an instanced home

If I decided to spend my playing time inside my instanced home, well, I won't be in the instanced island, nor an instanced dungeon.

Same would apply to instance housing if it was added and everyone was given a plot. Having instance housing would be nice, but it won't be without its share of problems. There will be a lot of people complaining because they cannot access their house.

Even with the current housing system, only a certain number of people can be in the housing server. I remember at the start of Endwalker being unable to enter my house because people would hide inside theirs, lock the door, then run a jump bot to prevent being logged out and having to go through a 7000+ login queue the next time they want to play.

[Valfreyja]

The Island Sanctuary isn't really a strong case. It probably has very limited placed items available, and probably no interiors at all. Which is why it can be instanced.

For Housing to really be fixed, harsh rules need to be put into place and enforced.

1. FCs need to start paying a gil tax on their houses, based on the size. They need a minimum membership level of players to maintain the house. Remove the FC Private Rooms entirely.

2. Personal Housing needs to be account-based and limited to one per DC at most. You pick one Living Space to use, either a House or an Apartment.

Part of the problem is the fact people can have 8 characters per world. There are 8 worlds on Crystal. That's 64 characters. FC Private Rooms are instanced, I believe, because you can have around 500 rooms per FC. So one player can feasibly have multiple apartments and private rooms, with at least 8 houses. They can have 8 FC houses as well, if they make an FC on each world and fill it with all their alts on that world.

Instead it needs to be cut back harshly. One Apartment or House per account. Which would likely take strain off the servers.

Of course, you'll also have people raising a fit about this, because they want multiple houses to decorate and design. But frankly, it's something that needs to be done.

[Kahnom]

Aside from gardening, I'm pretty sure we can place Retainer's bell , Orchestrion even Fish Tank on our island.
But what about market board ?
If I can place the market board then I have no reason to own private house anymore.

[Hanayumi]

Thought island was going to have an entirely separate system to current housing? As for fix, we kinda already have a base for personal housing they just need to greatly improve apartments. Upgradable to med or large, outdoor furniture usable indoors, thats really all apartments need to make for decent private homes.

[Solowing]

The Island Sanctuary isn't really a strong case. It probably has very limited placed items available, and probably no interiors at all. Which is why it can be instanced.

For Housing to really be fixed, harsh rules need to be put into place and enforced.

1. FCs need to start paying a gil tax on their houses, based on the size. They need a minimum membership level of players to maintain the house. Remove the FC Private Rooms entirely.

2. Personal Housing needs to be account-based and limited to one per DC at most. You pick one Living Space to use, either a House or an Apartment.

Part of the problem is the fact people can have 8 characters per world. There are 8 worlds on Crystal. That's 64 characters. FC Private Rooms are instanced, I believe, because you can have around 500 rooms per FC. So one player can feasibly have multiple apartments and private rooms, with at least 8 houses. They can have 8 FC houses as well, if they make an FC on each world and fill it with all their alts on that world.

Instead it needs to be cut back harshly. One Apartment or House per account. Which would likely take strain off the servers.

Of course, you'll also have people raising a fit about this, because they want multiple houses to decorate and design. But frankly, it's something that needs to be done.

1. I would lose my house because i dont make a ton of gil, i like to chill and chat. Kinda punishing me for using my homes to the fullest lol

2. Who would chose a apt really?


One player is limited to, 1 house, 1 apt, and 1 FC room, to hae multiple rooms i need to level up alts. I rather them just let me make 5 additional room in my fc home rather then level an entirely different character just to make another room.