How do you feel about incoming housing updates?

[Rinoa_353]

I agree moving your main can be extreme... specially to a DC known for struggling to pop daily roulettes. What you could try instead, if you have the time and you feel like it, is make an alt in a server you can check for availability beforehand. You don't even have to boost it if you don't want to shell out the money since ARR is fairly quick to get through and the Grand Company stuff practically gets itself done if you spam Leveling roulette as adventurer in need. That should hopefully alleviate the roulette wait times as well.


It's not ideal since of course you'd rather have the house on your main, but it can tide you over and keep you entertained while you still participate in lotteries on your main. I personally just moved my main to a less populated server and had pretty decent luck scoring my dream plot, but EU is also only two DCs and we don't have the problems Dynamis or OCE has. I also had to participate in the lottery multiple times, wanted to give up, etc. I don't know how big Behemoth is, but I assume investing in a small alt and having a friend help you trade furniture and gil for you to play with in the meantime will be more worth than sitting homeless until you win a lottery.


The good thing is that if you win on your main then great! You have two houses to play with now. Don't want two houses? You can let go of the alt's house once you get your main's, and forget about the alt until you need it again for any reason.

I also encourage people to do this since I did it when Seraph/Dynamis first went live. My main alt was sent to Seraph when it first opened up and I had a zero bid large in Goblet to play it safe that I won. Then a few months later, I won out of 45 people my dream plot in Shiro I wanted since Shiro came out. That made my housing issues much more bearable since my og main in Exodus went 7 years trying to get her plot. In the year and a half after my main alt won her plot in Seraph, my og main in Exodus won hers out of over 250 bids but the wait was far more bearable since I was able to enjoy housing and now I own two personal larges for both my mains :3

[Shistar]

I was much more picky with it and decided to only participate in a singular plot's lottery whenever it showed up lol I ended up winning it around Christmas and it's been my dream plot since I was a sprout. The only way they'd make me move out of there is if the subdivision cleared up because the sun's rotation is nicer there and the weird bugged leaf shadows wouldn't plague my garden anymore :'D

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Unfortunately, I an not find the source for this information, but I read somewhere that it's supposed to come in 7.2 or 7.3.
This holding back trend is just not okay. Some people talk like "the next patch or the patch after!" is not a long time. This is 4-8 months. It might be longer if they decide to postpone again. I would be happy to see this housing update, but I can not "look forward to it" tbh. The game feels like I am waiting all the time for something to happen. And let's be real. Adding a button to change the interior size can not be rocket science. It's just spaced out content.

I am losing my interest in those housing updates. They were first mentioned 1-1.5 years ago. It's just too long for such a small upgrade.

He said some time during the 7. series there was never a date put on it.

Now the furniture increase is the one people are getting confused with, as that has been getting pushed back through the patches.

[Rinoa_353]

I was much more picky with it and decided to only participate in a singular plot's lottery whenever it showed up lol I ended up winning it around Christmas and it's been my dream plot since I was a sprout. The only way they'd make me move out of there is if the subdivision cleared up because the sun's rotation is nicer there and the weird bugged leaf shadows wouldn't plague my garden anymore :'D

What plot did you win? It sounds like a plot in LB with you describing the leaf shadows bug. I wish they would take the ugly bark surrounding my home's plot there that blocks the waterfall in front of my home.

[Shistar]

What plot did you win? It sounds like a plot in LB with you describing the leaf shadows bug. I wish they would take the ugly bark surrounding my home's plot there that blocks the waterfall in front of my home.

It is a Lavender Beds Plot 11, yes! The bark isn't as obnoxious on that one but since DT dropped, this one tree that used to cast a lovely gentle dappled light on my garden has become Roegadyn-sized, mega crisp leaf shadows even though the tree is out there in the middle of the lake lol it's so terrible...! I reported it as a bug but it went nowhere as far as I'm aware... Moving to Plot 41 would place the shadows on the lake instead, so while I am attached to my plot I might still keep an eye out and move if I get lucky.

[Rinoa_353]

It is a Lavender Beds Plot 11, yes! The bark isn't as obnoxious on that one but since DT dropped, this one tree that used to cast a lovely gentle dappled light on my garden has become Roegadyn-sized, mega crisp leaf shadows even though the tree is out there in the middle of the lake lol it's so terrible...! I reported it as a bug but it went nowhere as far as I'm aware... Moving to Plot 41 would place the shadows on the lake instead, so while I am attached to my plot I might still keep an eye out and move if I get lucky.

Ooh, that's a wonderful plot and I hope they fix that bugged shadow. I want them to remove the bark that blocks the waterfall from my front yard, you can barely see it on the Stargazer Deck and from the top of my home.

[Shistar]

Ooh, that's a wonderful plot and I hope they fix that bugged shadow. I want them to remove the bark that blocks the waterfall from my front yard, you can barely see it on the Stargazer Deck and from the top of my home.

Oof, yeah, that large is so unfortunate with the fort of bark around the plot. I highly doubt they'd remove it since it feels like the whole point is that the houses were built into hallowed out tree stumps, but I feel like they didn't quite nail the vibe... specially because the trees are awkwardly square-shaped due to the plots being squares lol

[s32ialx]

I agree moving your main can be extreme... specially to a DC known for struggling to pop daily roulettes. What you could try instead, if you have the time and you feel like it, is make an alt in a server you can check for availability beforehand. You don't even have to boost it if you don't want to shell out the money since ARR is fairly quick to get through and the Grand Company stuff practically gets itself done if you spam Leveling roulette as adventurer in need. That should hopefully alleviate the roulette wait times as well.


It's not ideal since of course you'd rather have the house on your main, but it can tide you over and keep you entertained while you still participate in lotteries on your main. I personally just moved my main to a less populated server and had pretty decent luck scoring my dream plot, but EU is also only two DCs and we don't have the problems Dynamis or OCE has. I also had to participate in the lottery multiple times, wanted to give up, etc. I don't know how big Behemoth is, but I assume investing in a small alt and having a friend help you trade furniture and gil for you to play with in the meantime will be more worth than sitting homeless until you win a lottery.


The good thing is that if you win on your main then great! You have two houses to play with now. Don't want two houses? You can let go of the alt's house once you get your main's, and forget about the alt until you need it again for any reason.

My biggest grips with people suggesting it is not just a simple go over and test it out, we're talking 16m just for a plot, 60M in items some unobtainable / non tradable that only my main has, and to share an estate for someone to give said items will run easily 30+m per item

I only have 90m in total across all characters and I need to get a FC house and furnish it on my main not play on an alt of some other server and spend all my gil there and then what, try to convince my FC to all transfer over there? I really can't justify that, I would also be loosing the prestige of having an FC that I created myself back in 01/01/2016.

[Shistar]

My biggest grips with people suggesting it is not just a simple go over and test it out, we're talking 16m just for a plot, 60M in items some unobtainable / non tradable that only my main has, and to share an estate for someone to give said items will run easily 30+m per item

I only have 90m in total across all characters and I need to get a FC house and furnish it on my main not play on an alt of some other server and spend all my gil there and then what, try to convince my FC to all transfer over there? I really can't justify that, I would also be loosing the prestige of having an FC that I created myself back in 01/01/2016.

As we said before... this mostly just applies to personal and to keep yourself entertained while you try to land the house you want in your home world. You don't have to do anything you don't wanna, it was just a suggestion from someone who had it work out for them (Rinoa)


You also can't share an estate across worlds. So it'd be all manual trading, 5 items and 1M gil at a time. If it's non-tradeable or bound already, tough luck.
I'm not very sure about your numbers. If you craft your own stuff and are smart about the market, you shouldn't spend that much. But even if you are, you can also make more gil later. It's not like your character needs to eat regular meals or pay rent LOL


Do what you need to do. We're just throwing options out there.

[s32ialx]

As we said before... this mostly just applies to personal and to keep yourself entertained while you try to land the house you want in your home world. You don't have to do anything you don't wanna, it was just a suggestion from someone who had it work out for them (Rinoa)


You also can't share an estate across worlds. So it'd be all manual trading, 5 items and 1M gil at a time. If it's non-tradeable or bound already, tough luck.
I'm not very sure about your numbers. If you craft your own stuff and are smart about the market, you shouldn't spend that much. But even if you are, you can also make more gil later. It's not like your character needs to eat regular meals or pay rent LOL


Do what you need to do. We're just throwing options out there.

I get that the idea is just to keep entertained while waiting for a house on my main, but the gil cost involved makes it really hard to justify. I'd be pouring millions into a temporary setup with zero long-term return, especially when a lot of housing items are untradeable or locked behind grinds like Shared FATEs and reputation, which I'd have to repeat from scratch. That alone is a huge time sink.

Even the manual trading part gets messy and expensive. You're paying premiums to strangers just to recreate what you already have, and that doesn’t even touch the cost of building the house itself. Transferring gil and items from my main to an alt on another data center just feels like throwing resources into the void.

Plus, I'd be giving up progress, emotes, glamours, and achievements tied to my main, just to play house on an alt I won't stick with. And I still have plans for an FC house on my main, which I need to furnish and manage. My funds aren't infinite, and I built my FC from scratch back in 2016. There's history there, and prestige I don't want to let go of.

So yeah, from my perspective, this sort of workaround feels more like a money sink than a meaningful solution.