Personal Housing and FC Housing Info

[EdwinLi]

While answering a question for someone about housing I dug up a old interview in reddit about Personal Housing and FC Housing.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen..._about_guilds/

Q: Will houses be personal or shared?

A: First it will be joint housing. A house of this size is going to require everyone to dish out some dough. It’s pretty expensive. You can make furniture available to people of the same free company, or, if you want, you can set permission levels so all of your friends can use the furniture and what not. There are quite a few settings.
The reason why we’ve decided to establish them as free company bases first is because inside of the houses there is a new kind of system that involves parks and towers.
Parks would give a bonus to everyone in the free company, like an extra 25% to experience points earned. It could make crafting faster to level, or maybe give success bonuses for HQ crafting. It's a system that allows members to add things that will give boons to the entire free company. You’ll be able to increase the size of your house, and also your company can rank-up through free company points, allowing you to place more parks and towers around.
I’d first like to create a strong community within FFXIV. When new members join, you’ll be able to get more points, and we’d like to establish a system that encourages people to support new players coming into the game. Once the community has had time to come together we will then allow players to have their own private housing and branch out from there
Even for an MMO, I believe it’s nice to have a place to call home.

Q1: What’s the difference between Free Company housing and individual player housing?

A1: Fundamentally, there will not be many differences since individual housing will have the same features as Free Company housing when it is released; however, there will be differences in regards to whether the parks and towers are set for personal use or for Free Company members.

Q1: What kind of bonuses will players receive by utilizing housing?
A1: By setting up items known as towers at your house, you and your free company members can receive bonuses to things like EXP, the rate in which you acquire gil, and other benefits.