FC Housing

[Kio]

Not to deter from the current conversation, but the price of personal housing/housing in general for me is extremely worrisome. I don't want to see guild HQ or personal houses be something extremely exclusionary as it sounds it is intended to be. Everyone should have access to an average quarters (my preference would have been instanced) and have room to expand upon it if you do in fact have the extra income.

I fear the cost and limited real estate will drive up demand for RMT purchasing, drama over grand company HR issues, hoarding over resources etc... I just don't see why it isn't something that is already a right to every player regardless of status or funds.

[Skies]

Not to deter from the current conversation, but the price of personal housing/housing in general for me is extremely worrisome. I don't want to see guild HQ or personal houses be something extremely exclusionary as it sounds it is intended to be. Everyone should have access to an average quarters (my preference would have been instanced) and have room to expand upon it if you do in fact have the extra income.

I fear the cost and limited real estate will drive up demand for RMT purchasing, drama over grand company HR issues, hoarding over resources etc... I just don't see why it isn't something that is already a right to every player regardless of status or funds.

I do believe that they have stated that the FC housing would be sufficiently expensive that it'd take the income of various players to acquire one. I like that, you're actually buying a hugeass mansion wherein various people will live on, makes sense.
Also if memory serves me well in the previous live letter Yoshida mentioned that houses will be within instances (unlike say UO's houses), although each instance will have various houses within in so there is a type of neighborhood. Once that particular instance is full, a new, empty one is spawned for future houses.

[Orophin]

I understand the concern about living in a FC house that is technically under the full control of the FC leader. Not to mention what will happen if someone gets kicked out of the free company(god I just want to call this a guild, so much shorter). What they could do, is perhaps find a way that all your items/furniture is stored safely away at some npc. For those members that are kicked out of their free company. Allowing for said person to pick it all up there and simply start anew with another free company.

Above idea is inspired from the npc that will keep our items that won't fit in our inventory in ARR.

That's certainly one way they can handle it if the NPC isn't designed for that one-time pickup of overflow from 1.0.

[Shougun]

That's certainly one way they can handle it if the NPC isn't designed for that one-time pickup of overflow from 1.0.

Fat Chocobo, Fat Chocobo please let him be a Fat Chocobo >.>

I really want to see the Howl's door implemented lol - I dont really care for working on multiple rooms at once and would rather just having my personal house connected to the FC.

Oh got another example the Room of Requirement in the Harry Potter series. :P lol

[Cedri]

I'm on a double crafter's salary, so I think I can afford a silly house.

[Kio]

I do believe that they have stated that the FC housing would be sufficiently expensive that it'd take the income of various players to acquire one. I like that, you're actually buying a hugeass mansion wherein various people will live on, makes sense.
Also if memory serves me well in the previous live letter Yoshida mentioned that houses will be within instances (unlike say UO's houses), although each instance will have various houses within in so there is a type of neighborhood. Once that particular instance is full, a new, empty one is spawned for future houses.

Yes the zone is instanced but there will be various plots in specific locations and sizes that must be filled before a new instance is created. This creates the problem of people fighting over prime real estate or having to wait for the zone to fill up before you can buy the plot you wanted. It also means that you may end up with bad neighbors. I'd have much preferred to have the instance be specific to only your house.

For the Grand Company housing, yes logically because it is so large and may be devided between many players to use that it would be extremely expensive to acquire. However, I can't help but feel this will alienate smaller groups of players, discourage casual players, or cause drama.
Cool or unique decorations, or specialized rooms (as the letter hinted) to add to an existing house/guild as a means of reward and gil sink is fine. But I don't believe the building and plot itself should be made so unobtainable for many players.

[Forgo]

I think its going to be easy later to get ones own house so a big house with a FC in will more then likely go to the last one to stay if everyone later on moves to their own place...but i'm looking forward to the whole thing anyway and willing to see how it pans out to begin with before we throw it under the bus with many question that the dev team will keep anyway to keep us wanting to know more

[Nix]

I have been screwed over too many times in XIV and XI... I won't put any cash towards a FC house, I'll just save it til we're allowed to buy our own houses whenever that day is e_e haha.

[Yowyow]

I have a post on my LS website right now dealing with this same issue... I'll have to wait a few days to get feedback but if i had to take a guess at price for FC small house as of 2.0 standards, 1mil-5mil is best case scenario..... Thats 10-50mil for you ppl stuck in 1.0 pre reduction. Quite honestly I'll agree with Xatsh on this 1... If you don't trust your LS / FC, why the hell are u in it?

[Nix]

I have a post on my LS website right now dealing with this same issue... I'll have to wait a few days to get feedback but if i had to take a guess at price for FC small house as of 2.0 standards, 1mil-5mil is best case scenario..... Thats 10-50mil for you ppl stuck in 1.0 pre reduction. Quite honestly I'll agree with Xatsh on this 1... If you don't trust your LS / FC, why the hell are u in it?

You and the rest of Zodiark are cool beans for sures, and this isn't aimed at you so don't worry pumpkin!
But all it takes is for a leader to get a stick up his/her ass one day and then they could kick that member out, leaving them with nothing... that'd suck ass D: