Instanced Housing: Ideas and Details

[Ramiren]

Why bother with wards when we have an entire island we already own, let us build a house on the Island Sanctuary.

It's the easiest option, the area is already instanced and allows visitors, it already has its own construction system and materials, there's plenty of extra space that could be cleared for a plot, it has no real theme like the wards so any house type would fit in, customizable paving already exists and could be expanded to fit ward themes if need be. You can't unlock it until you reach Sharlyan, so SE won't have a ton of newbies with trial accounts taking up server capacity.

We could buy basic and island exclusive furniture using island materials and/or cowries adding more life to the currently fairly hollow Sanctuary rewards. Everyone gets a beach front view, the only negative would be the lack of a marketboard.

Wards would still be available for those with the gil and patience, but using island materials to build and furnish a home means even those without massive amounts of expendable gil could enjoy the housing system, and could dip their toes into crafted furniture when gil or crafting level allows.

[Seraphor]

Why bother with wards when we have an entire island we already own, let us build a house on the Island Sanctuary.

It's the easiest option, the area is already instanced and allows visitors, it already has its own construction system and materials, there's plenty of extra space that could be cleared for a plot, it has no real theme like the wards so any house type would fit in, customizable paving already exists and could be expanded to fit ward themes if need be. You can't unlock it until you reach Sharlyan, so SE won't have a ton of newbies with trial accounts taking up server capacity.

We could buy basic and island exclusive furniture using island materials and/or cowries adding more life to the currently fairly hollow Sanctuary rewards. Everyone gets a beach front view, the only negative would be the lack of a marketboard.

Wards would still be available for those with the gil and patience, but using island materials to build and furnish a home means even those without massive amounts of expendable gil could enjoy the housing system, and could dip their toes into crafted furniture when gil or crafting level allows.

Bozja was already instanced too, but it's not set up to feature the housing system. We don't know that Island Sanctuary would manage with Housing on it either.
It allows other players, but only when you yourself are in there, and only those on your friends list.

We know larger Apartments would work, because they already do. How hard could it be to simply change the layout of them?