Please add guest access settings from Island Sanctuary to housing

[Minali]

Hi there,

when I got into housing I noticed quickly how odd the guest access settings are. You can either lock everyone out or open the doors for everyone. There is no option (at least none I am aware of) for making sure only people you know and would like to have around enter your building. Apart from opening the access when they're outside, let them enter and closing access again or so, which requires your presence, of course. Which is fine for a party but a bit strange for some sort of hangout for friends.
Considering you don't have an option to kick out troublemakers and would have to wait for them to leave on their own, log off or join a duty, having no option whatsoever for limiting the access of your place to specific people this can become a real problem.

I thought there might be some technical restrictions or so that might prevent this or so. However, now we got Island Sanctuary and its guest access settings are really great. Of course, Island Sanctuary and houses/appartments/FC rooms are not at all the same, but both are personal areas you can open and close for others, so I suppose there are some similarities on the technical end of things.

So please, dear devs, add the option from Island Sanctuary to housing! Give us a possibility to choose between "party", "friends", "FC" and "everyone" or so as guest access settings as well!

And while we're at it, please add similar options to interactions with food housing items (and NPC vendors) like suggested in this thread:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ns-to-eat-food.

Thanks for reading
Minali

[Jojoya]

Agree. It would be nice to have this feature limiting entry available for housing as well now that we know SE can do it for instances.

[Kyssa]

Ah, the days of UO and the simplicity of Remove thyself and I ban thee.... an over 20 year old system that works. No reason why we can't have it here too.

[Shibi]

...Remove thyself and I ban thee...

Having played other games with similar granular control, those two options would be so amazing to have.

Having a "ban" list and those listed people can't step foot inside the gate and a "kick" command and those people are booted out to whence they came.

[Kyssa]

Having played other games with similar granular control, those two options would be so amazing to have.

Having a "ban" list and those listed people can't step foot inside the gate and a "kick" command and those people are booted out to whence they came.

Absolutely. It would feel like it was really "your home". You can yell, "get off my lawn!" and actually be able to do something about it.

[Minali]

Absolutely. It would feel like it was really "your home". You can yell, "get off my lawn!" and actually be able to do something about it.

I know you used it as a figure of speech, but I wonder if keeping people off your lawn would be possible as well. Probably not because the garden is not an own "room". But then again, this is a thread with a suggestion, an idea, the "how" is someone else's concern.

[Jojoya]

I know you used it as a figure of speech, but I wonder if keeping people off your lawn would be possible as well. Probably not because the garden is not an own "room". But then again, this is a thread with a suggestion, an idea, the "how" is someone else's concern.

It's not possible because the outdoor area isn't a separate instance, it's part of the ward.

[Kyssa]

I know you used it as a figure of speech, but I wonder if keeping people off your lawn would be possible as well. Probably not because the garden is not an own "room". But then again, this is a thread with a suggestion, an idea, the "how" is someone else's concern.

I wish. In UO, your plot is your plot. You can watch someone rubber-band off your property to your hearts content.

This game, your yard is wide open and not separate like the inside of your house is.

We can dream though.

[Darthgummibear]

I was actually kind of amazed that housing permissions were all or nothing. There's a lot of people around here that don't understand why housing permissions are a problem.

[Illmaeran]

I was actually kind of amazed that housing permissions were all or nothing. There's a lot of people around here that don't understand why housing permissions are a problem.

I just opened up a new RP restaurant and on the first night had a troll/heckler the likes of which I haven't encountered since my WoW days. Not being able to kick them out of, and prevent them from entering my private space again, was quite frustrating for both me and my guests. I'd LOVE to have more granular control from Everyone to Friends to Nobody for my places. At the very least, make it so people on your black list are barred from entry.

The only thing I've got now is knowing that person won't see my PF listing since they're blacklisted.