Housing

[Mikita]

Please, please, PLEASE do not have a limit to how many players are able to have a house. I've seen it done in every MMO that ever had housing, and its EXTREMELY unfair.

Absolutely every player should be able to have a house.

This is what Wada-san said he was worried about as Yoshi P was talking about it.

Yoshi P said that it will be sort of instanced... so if one area fills up they can add more and not run out.

But you will have to pick and buy your plot of land (different sizes available) so I figure that if someone gets the plot that you wanted, you will have to wait until they make another instance available before you can try to buy it again.

[Mjollnir]

Yoshi P said that it will be sort of instanced... so if one area fills up they can add more and not run out.

But you will have to pick and buy your plot of land (different sizes available) so I figure that if someone gets the plot that you wanted, you will have to wait until they make another instance available before you can try to buy it again.

Sounds like exactly the same as the system in Lord of the Rings Online. Each instanced area would hold a couple of Kinship (Linkshell) Houses, a half-dozen large houses (with a higher rent) and a dozen small houses. The area also had NPCs to access to your Vault (ie Retainer) and a shop for vending goods.

It's ok and it ensures everyone has a house, but leaves the residential areas feeling like ghost towns - more so after a few months when the population dies down.

I do like the sound of the Choco Ranch though! Kinda hoping there's a special type of storage to replace the Armoire that can keep *all* Uni/Unt items in it.

[normalforce]

Sounds like exactly the same as the system in Lord of the Rings Online. Each instanced area would hold a couple of Kinship (Linkshell) Houses, a half-dozen large houses (with a higher rent) and a dozen small houses. The area also had NPCs to access to your Vault (ie Retainer) and a shop for vending goods.

It's ok and it ensures everyone has a house, but leaves the residential areas feeling like ghost towns - more so after a few months when the population dies down.

I do like the sound of the Choco Ranch though! Kinda hoping there's a special type of storage to replace the Armoire that can keep *all* Uni/Unt items in it.

Let's hope the residential areas are the size of your average zone and not that of your average box. The new servers are supposed to be able to handle up to 600 people in one area which sounds promising.

[Punainen]

This is what Wada-san said he was worried about as Yoshi P was talking about it.

Yoshi P said that it will be sort of instanced... so if one area fills up they can add more and not run out.

But you will have to pick and buy your plot of land (different sizes available) so I figure that if someone gets the plot that you wanted, you will have to wait until they make another instance available before you can try to buy it again.

According to Reinheart's translations it seems the sizes will NOT be different, but that you start small and upgrade your house from there.

[Mikita]

According to Reinheart's translations it seems the sizes will NOT be different, but that you start small and upgrade your house from there.

Um... I haven't really read Reinheart's translation... but what I recall Yoshi P saying is there will be different sizes of land plots: small, medium, large, and I think he mentioned extra large as well.

You will of course be able to build bigger houses on bigger plots of land.

Of course the prices will be higher, so in the beginning you may want to start with a small piece of land and a small house.

Speculation now: I guess that perhaps implies we can somehow sell or trade up? Or perhaps buy up a ton of property, rent it out, and be property tycoons! ^^;

[Punainen]

Um... I haven't really read Reinheart's translation... but what I recall Yoshi P saying is there will be different sizes of land plots: small, medium, large, and I think he mentioned extra large as well.

You will of course be able to build bigger houses on bigger plots of land.

Of course the prices will be higher, so in the beginning you may want to start with a small piece of land and a small house.

Speculation now: I guess that perhaps implies we can somehow sell or trade up? Or perhaps buy up a ton of property, rent it out, and be property tycoons! ^^;

That was the mods translation of it, but Reinheart's translation is rather radically different. According to Reinheart's translation, he never said anything about big plots of land that cost a fortune. He said about building a small house and paying more and more to slowly make it bigger and bigger.

[Mikita]

That was the mods translation of it, but Reinheart's translation is rather radically different. According to Reinheart's translation, he never said anything about big plots of land that cost a fortune. He said about building a small house and paying more and more to slowly make it bigger and bigger.

I know that Reinheart does the English FFXIV community a great service by translating a lot of what happens on the Japanese side.

But I believe he was translating and adding to the document in real time, and believe me, that is an immensely difficult thing to do while capturing every bit of information and nuance.

Whereas I was simply watching the video and have related what I took away from it after having the luxury of time to respond.

What I wrote above is how I understand what Yoshi P said in the video, and is not based on anyone's translation... again, I do speak Japanese as well.

I believe things are still subject to change so I wouldn't even take Yoshi P's words as set in stone... but that is what he said last night.

[elreed]

This is what Wada-san said he was worried about as Yoshi P was talking about it.

Yoshi P said that it will be sort of instanced... so if one area fills up they can add more and not run out.

But you will have to pick and buy your plot of land (different sizes available) so I figure that if someone gets the plot that you wanted, you will have to wait until they make another instance available before you can try to buy it again.

Well if its instanced the size doesnt matter, if you want as the biggest land available a 3000 sq feet, you make it so everyone in that instance can take that much, but if someone doesnt want or cant afford a big area they can buy the smaller type and they might give the option to buy the rest later, so i dont think it will be that restrictive.