Island Sanctuary

[kaynide]

They probably will, in a future update once things are stable and the servers can handle it. A small, medium, or large plot (paying the proper amount of gil), to build a house on, with a yard and interior. At which time the current Districts will be rezoned as FC properties only.

I've thought this literally since Island Sanctuary was announced. That this is a beta testing for the instanced servers, to see how they react and what needs to be done with it. But it's just a theory, and may never become reality.

If this was the intent, they would have led with this as it would be something universally good that the community would love, especially given how divisive/critical the fan base has been of Endwalker. They would not have spent the time developing entirely different-yet-somewhat-parallel systems if it was just going to be housing.

The devs need to hit a home run. Were housing reasonably possible, they would have gone for it.

All that said, the above post is certainly true: this could just be a step towards instanced housing and testing ideas with this.

[ICountFrom0]

One thing they've learned, and decisively is to NOT OVERPROMISE.

Maybe there's this huge final option ahead, but it's going to be kept utterly secret. Maybe that is part of this project, maybe it's 20 projects down the line.

We aint gonna hear anything about it until it's ready. All we can do is notice what systems are being worked on, what reasons we were previously given, and when an advance makes one of those reasons go poof.

I have a feeling that if we asked about inside planting beds, "now that housing instances have access to weather via island weather" as long as we phrazed it as an apartment gardening option, we'd probably get told some other problem it has. But if we ask about too much and make it sound like a step on the way to something else, we'll get no answer at all.

[Knot_D]

I reached rank 7 and my cabin become prettier than before, also the road and the lightning also looks pretty good

My problem right now mostly about the EXP... It's too much, so tiring

[Deveryn]

I reached rank 7 and my cabin become prettier than before, also the road and the lightning also looks pretty good

My problem right now mostly about the EXP... It's too much, so tiring

Slow down and let the mammets earn it for you.

[Hysterior]

Surprised that everybody seems to like it... I probably played about a couple of hours and don't see myself continuing much longer...

[RyuDragnier]

I reached rank 7 and my cabin become prettier than before, also the road and the lightning also looks pretty good

My problem right now mostly about the EXP... It's too much, so tiring

It's a long term thing. Go out, do things, return every couple of hours to check up on everything. It's what I've been doing, I show up back on the island every 6-8 hours.

[Jettinson]

I will probably wait for update/hotfix etc that does not force you to spend your seafare token for activities or a way to get them more (or anything) because wow...

I would have gone insane if I had to spend my skybuilder scrips that aren't from the shop for example

[NovalisCrystalis]

Excel ? Nah ... a cookie clicker with timegates, the only thing missing is the part where we can buy a skip >.< the idea is amazing but the excution is bad. Its is extrem grindy without any reason, the gameplay loop is so streched that calling it a gameplay loop is a strech in itself aka gameplay is missing as soon you are leaving the tutorial. Sad but atleast we get a sneak peak of SE's high quality mobile gaming first hand on the pc, even without a shop (at the moment hurhur). /s

In all honesty, its kinda nice and bad at the same time. Building stuff, gathering, running aroung on your Island is kinda cool but also empty, meaningless and shallow. I did not expect any high value stuff ( or anything of value, just the island and done) or mounts , heck not even minions but atleast things that make the island truely yours like furniture, decorations and the like but all this is missing. Also why is the gameplay loop simple click on a menu and leave island for xx amount of hours ?`A gameplay loop that play itself with just almost no interaction from the player ? Sorry but this is horribly mobile gameplay design without the predatory shop to make it complete. I hope we get some patches to fix this. The base looks good but selling goods with these timegates i epected more minigames just to do stuff on your island. I think nobody expected Mount, minions or gil from this. Just something on the side without the constant competition or safe the world/universe stuff. I do like these games, i played Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper, Animal Crossing and many more but "this ain't it, chief". Sorry Yoshida this time you and your team missed the mark, atleast for me and i hope for patches. *starts inhaling copium*

I came here to type very much this. I do not personally like Island Sanctuary. I have to wait for workshops to gain blue shells? really? Unless I'm missing something lmao. I'm not fond of real-time mechanics. I wish it was more in game time. It would feel more immersive I feel. Or be it like Animal Crossing where alot of events happen like random appearances off-shore, or various npcs come to talk to you etc. Events to excite the player. I've played Harvest Moon, Star dew and animal crossing, and story of seasons and all especially harvest moon were great games. The mobile game feeling is having one currency that is difficult to get but it gives you that good stuff, optional and mandatory stuff if you wanna expand your "paradise". The fact the green shells dont even provide no benefits to your island is disappointing.
I was looking forward to live in the Island and feel free and relaxed to do content not ..wait for the next day to do anything. Anyway came here to give my 2 cents. I love this concept so I felt the need to type this here.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

I also dont understand why we have to upgrade via seafarer tokens. So far, it's not very common to gain them? and all good rewards are tied to them.

Meanwhile Islander rewards seem kinda lackluster? Would of been a better reason to gather materials > sell them for Islander Cowrie > build/upgrade facilities + use them for ventures.

Chain your recipes and build 3 workshops first, once you start building up groove they come in thick and fast. I only have 2 workshops and my 2nd day is not finished yet and have made 613 so far compared to my lackluster 1st day of 291. Second day final total 757. So with a third workshop you will probably make 1000 a day (5000 a week) I dont think that's too bad for doing nothing.

I came here to type very much this. I do not personally like Island Sanctuary. I have to wait for workshops to gain blue shells? really? Unless I'm missing something lmao. I'm not fond of real-time mechanics. I wish it was more in game time. It would feel more immersive I feel. Or be it like Animal Crossing where alot of events happen like random appearances off-shore, or various npcs come to talk to you etc. Events to excite the player. I've played Harvest Moon, Star dew and animal crossing, and story of seasons and all especially harvest moon were great games. The mobile game feeling is having one currency that is difficult to get but it gives you that good stuff, optional and mandatory stuff if you wanna expand your "paradise". The fact the green shells dont even provide no benefits to your island is disappointing.
I was looking forward to live in the Island and feel free and relaxed to do content not ..wait for the next day to do anything. Anyway came here to give my 2 cents. I love this concept so I felt the need to type this here.

Green tokens should be scrapped and we should be able to trade the mats for blue tokens. Then it would feel like im actually gathering for a goal instead of it just for exp. They should also change it so you can turn in the crafted items for blue tokens too.

Also add some repeatable quests i.e bring me 10 apples receive X blue tokens and X exp maybe even leves?

[Jandor]

Wards are instanced too (a little bit differently admittedly.) So housing interiors are already an instance within an instance!

Can go even deeper than that too. FC house rooms are an instance within an instance, within an instance.