Outdoor Furnishings in Island Sanctuary

[Ayan_Calvesse]

The fact we're getting 90 outdoor slots which is more than regular ward housing opens the possibility in my mind they are working on a housing component for the island. If 90 slots are possible just for outdoors why couldn't they add a house and indoor furnishing. I know that might not happen but seems to me it could and is possibly something we'll see in 7.0.

We'll have to wait on the Fan Fests given I think that would be a perfect place for a reveal of this sort.

They are working on more slots for ward housing for 7.0 which hopefully include some additions to outdoor as well as the expected indoor increases and the new servers seem to be giving them a lot more options with respect to offering things people are asking for and improving quality of life.

I mean......TECHNICALLY your "cozy cabin" takes up about the same; if not more space then a small house anyways...I am of the same mind of Jojoya in that IS is probably going to be used as a trial balloon for testing out idea's pertaining to instanced housing; I feel if you do see instanced housing - it will be on IS - which makes sense.

Though they will need to add a teleport to it.

[Shougun]

Late to the party but I feel this is pretty cool, hopefully they continue with other things like making a cozy cabin for players and not just their mammets lol (as well as some of the other features one might think of like teleport as mentioned above, chocobo stuff, etc).

Not sure why they disallowed the dummy unless there is just not combat code in that space (how does that even work? lol), the suggestion it's for the theme.. I mean I guess but then.. it's up to the player to put one down so.. I feel if the player wanted to do it that would be 'okay' (if it was forced then sure, but that's not how I imagine anyone imagines that works).

Gardens make more sense since they've a lot of gears and just copy pasting wouldn't really be 'jobs done' (like weather/housing system reliance, and market impact), though it would be nice to also see that come across too. Perhaps with some sort of cap system, like if you own a plot in the housing districts you have X unlocked plots (based on plot size) up to a maximum- when you go to build your cozy player house / garden you need to unlock the plots, up to that same total maximum active gardens. Meaning by purchasing the plot of land you get that bundled in, and Sanctuary Island users will have to unlock it by some means, but both Island Sanctuary and the yard in the housing district count to the same total. Semi-convoluted but I imagine otherwise the cost of gardening goods instead of going down a bit is just going to tank super hard lol. I suppose alternatively it's not end of the world, but would be nice! Also I am personally hoping to see more systems added to the island where not game damaging implications might arise like "mandatory or else we dont invite you to ultimate".

Pretty smart in a general sense though as now everyone can use the outdoor furnishings you often get from seasonal (at least quite often they're outdoor), less of a "cool this is useless" moment now if you don't own a house (well that and the cash shop).

[Khryseis_Astra]

I wonder too if some of the item limits might be more relaxed when it comes to the outdoor furnishings on IS, being that the total number you can place is so much higher. For example, not reading the fine print, I bought the sun, moon and star Starlight trees, not realizing you can only place one per estate, no matter what size plot you have! lol

[Jojoya]

I wonder too if some of the item limits might be more relaxed when it comes to the outdoor furnishings on IS, being that the total number you can place is so much higher. For example, not reading the fine print, I bought the sun, moon and star Starlight trees, not realizing you can only place one per estate, no matter what size plot you have! lol

That's a good question. IS isn't an estate as such so it will be interesting to see if the estate limits still apply.

[Bsrking5]

Just seems like they want to invalidate housing/apartments with this change.

[Shougun]

Just seems like they want to invalidate housing/apartments with this change.

In which way? One might say the differences in net features is reduced, but how does it invalidate them? By the way even on that point I am all for those net differences becoming non-existent, and ultimately all of housing features intertwined to the Sanctuary (though I have, in many other threads also discussed how that might be done to avoid making the house purchase "aww man I wish I waited"). I'm avoiding to go at length on how I might personally think that blending might happen, but it's not simply make people wonder why they bought a house- a sentiment that is currently unsupported unless you hand a single vision of what you wanted which was "outdoor furnishing", which excludes apartments anyways (counter to your point).

At this time houses and apartments have many features that the Island does not have (and the other way around), if you wanted it all you couldn't choose just one... therefore they are not invalidating each other. Let's say they make all the housing features in the island, even then you're currently required to get to EW, while housing and apartments are right away (for multiple reasons this would still have niche value). Also for those people who were talking about how great being forced to see the Paisa house across from you.. well you can't get that in the Island no matter what SE does unless they basically unmake the Island to do that (so permanent value to the ward system, regardless of what the Island becomes capable of-- for those who value that, which is not me).

Just seems like some people upset they're not exclusive on everything... while still having many features anyways.

[Oizen]

I'm going to buy 90 Heaven on High replicas and stack them on top of each other.

[LaylaTsarra]

Hopefully we get a house to decorate there even if it's limited. Seems they're moving in that direction. Personally I love my islands have a slew of them with my alts. Wish we had retainer bells and menders there as well. Should be interesting to see how this plays out.

Hopefully if they do a housing I hope there are a good number of skins to choose from.

[Jojoya]

Just seems like they want to invalidate housing/apartments with this change.

Why do you think that?

It does nothing to invalidate housing in general or apartments specifically. Island Sanctuary is not housing. Apartments can't place outdoor furnishings so this is giving apartment owners a chance to use those items that they've received as quest/event rewards finally.

[Pratini]

Just seems like they want to invalidate housing/apartments with this change.