Housing Mirage Wish List

[Kaiproberts]

My wish is simple.

I want a large/mansion interior on a small exterior.

/rant

I just want a large/mansion interior and I don't care what size the outside is; larges have the most unique layout and they are the only ones with an open vertical floorplan to build into.

[not_ya_wify]

Limitation breed creativity.

Limitation breeds use of mods that can bypass the limitations.

[not_ya_wify]

I really like your idea and I really hope that the housing mirage will be what we hope it will be. But since we don’t know much more, and knowing the devs it might be something in the style of “you can turn your large into medium or small and turn your medium into small while keeping item limit” and you could not turn small into a larger one.

I would laugh through tears if that’s the case.

I'm pretty sure the devs know that a large issue with house sizes is that people want bigger houses. That being said, how horrible would it be if they allow you to upgrade the layout but keep the item limit. Imagine having a large with only 200 item slots. EWWW

[not_ya_wify]

Apartments have the worst decoration-to-space ratio by a long shot.

Actually apartments have THE BEST item to space ratio as you can currently place 6.67 items per block (size of a Floor Mat), while you can only place 2.24 items per block in a large house and this is excluding spaces that you can't decorate without floating such as the large hole on the second floor which many decorators enjoy using the most. If you include that, the item to space ratio for large houses is even worse.

[Kaiproberts]

Actually apartments have THE BEST item to space ratio as you can currently place 6.67 items per block (size of a Floor Mat), while you can only place 2.24 items per block in a large house and this is excluding spaces that you can't decorate without floating such as the large hole on the second floor which many decorators enjoy using the most. If you include that, the item to space ratio for large houses is even worse.

I close off most of the house anyway. I literally just want that vertical space to build into; mediums and smalls do not have that space. If you close off most of the house except for the ground floor and the open vertical foyer, larges easily have the highest decoration to space ratio by a long shot. My medium right now uses all the decorations in a space smaller than the square footage of an entire small.

[not_ya_wify]

I think what you mean to say is that larges have the most space, which nobody disagrees with. Item to space ratio refers to number of blocks divided by of items which is absolutely abysmal for large houses. Whether you block off space doesn't change the fact that it's there. Maybe you personally would only decorate the foyer if you had 2000 item slots but many people block off the Foyer because decorating the entire mansion with 400 items and make it look well-designed is extremely difficult due to the poor item to space ratio.

[Solowing]

Limitation breeds use of mods that can bypass the limitations.

I'm sorry, say it a little louder so the rest of the console community understands xD

[Yuniko]

Though we don’t have any real details yet, we know the basic idea is that you could have any size interior housing space inside any size house. There’s also been talk of removing pillars, and other interior customization, which may or may not be part of the same project. So what do you want to see?

I’d like to see an attic added to smalls… very simple in terms of layout:


And a similar layout for mediums, with the staircases on the sides of the house instead of the front. I know I’m not the only one who was frustrated with those staircases! lol So what if we tried this?


If we aren’t able to get those kind of custom layouts though, I’d like to be able to add extra rooms to personals like FCs do. But along with that, I’d like to be able to choose where the doorway to the additional chambers is placed.

I’d also like the ability to move or remove interior windows as well as pillars.

I agree! and I LOVE thse ideas! *licks and massages*

[Khryseis_Astra]

I agree! and I LOVE thse ideas! *licks and massages*

This is a wish list! lol

Since this thread has gotten bumped again, I should mention that another translation was posted by LuciferNacht over in general discussion:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...496656/?page=2

Quote from FFXIV Reddit Discord, you can find this post on 10/02/2023 at 9:52 PM from Iluna Minori

Patch 7.x will see housing interior capable of setup without pillars, and a specification that changes how you change your house interior to something completely different from what we have right now (and also completely different in terms of spaciousness)
-> Something like a housing version of glamour settings?

In that one, they use the word “glamour” instead of “mirage.” But they’re also mentioning “spaciousness.” As I said in the other thread, it almost makes me hopeful that they’re going for even more customization of interiors than we thought. Old translation makes it sound like “ok you can have a large inside and a small outside.” New translation makes it sound like something that will allow us to control the layout a lot more… the spaciousness comment would still make me hopeful that size is involved. With the removal of the pillars being present in both translations, and the second one saying glamour instead of mirage, I’m wondering if it’s more a way of hiding or even changing or moving windows and such on the inside. Or even an interior glamour system like we had for the island exterior? Who knows?

Unfortunately it’s not planned until the Dawntrail patches, and so we’re not hearing much clarification about exactly what they’re planning to do. But I’m cautiously optimistic!

[Moqi]

Limitation breeds use of mods that can bypass the limitations.

Right. That saying works in the real word where things like money and the laws of physic matter.