Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Dustytome]

Some mailbox alternative would be great to have.
Tonberry: Lamp lights up when you have new mail. Alternative marberry design and scholar tonberry (w/o knife) design.
Chocobo: Small worn wood house with a nest and chocobo chick on top. Eggshell glows with new mail. Alternative fat chocobo box as well.
Cactaur: Small cactuar on a goblet style desert stone box. The cactaur itself lights up. Alternatives include a gold saucer version with waving senor sabotender, fat cactaur sitting lazily on the stone box and flowering sabotender with flowers on the box.
Goblin: A metal box with a goblin holding a bomb creature. Bomb creature glows when you have mail. Alternative illuminati blue metal box with illuminati goblin on top.
Carbuncle: Blue (yellow & red alternatives) carbuncle on a ruby shaped box. Carbuncle glows when you have new mail.

Some non-monster based boxes as well like a fat lush tree shaped mailbox, a windmill box and a mini fountain box would go well too.

I'd also like a combination aetheryte mailbox (combines aetheryte crystal with mailboxes) so there's one slot freed up in the yard and we don't have to figure out where to stuff the single large glowing crystal. Either hidden in the mailbox or add the rotating crystal to the middle of the mailbox post.

[Amarante]

Outdoor furniture inside. There are some really nice theme furniture and grass floor and nature walls.

Can we have more outside theme furniture for inside?

-Two tier fountain and bird bath

-Wall dividers that look like lattice with flowers/vines on it.

-Deck

-BBQ!

-Tire swing! Animated emote when using the swing! (ok that really should be outside now) XD

-Beds on the floor (Japanese style or sleeping bags?)

Just all random ideas. :3

Edit: Also, With a lot of people wanting to move their house with out loosing items. Can the Merchant in the Wards have an option to Pay ??? amount of gil to transfer all the items to the new home? Still a gil sink, but not so much if people want to keep their stuff?

[Mocita]

Not sure if this is the place to put this, but I hope it is. Order of Nald'thal Lectern is considered a desk, and I can put stuff on it. But when I try putting a Lalafellin Stepstool behind it, it just phases through. They have the same thing at the thaumaturge's guild, with the stepstool as it should be(granted, that it's part of the zone). I just thought I could put a chair or the stepstool behind it to have it fit.

Another thing with Masonwork Stove. Got one set up, and tried putting up 'A Knight to Remember' on it, as it seemed like the best place to put it. Yet, like what I said above, it phases through the Stove and tries to put itself onto the wall. Things can't even be put on the mantle of the Stove.

[DeviFoxx]

Another thing with Masonwork Stove. Got one set up, and tried putting up 'A Knight to Remember' on it, as it seemed like the best place to put it. Yet, like what I said above, it phases through the Stove and tries to put itself onto the wall. Things can't even be put on the mantle of the Stove.

There's actually a graphical technique involving Housing items that you can use. It's been around for +2 years and was never actually patched out, since it's entirely cosmetic and doesn't harm the game in any way.

By using Partitions and Shelves in mouse mode, you can manipulate the item placement to allow both Wall and Tabletop Furniture to be suspended in mid-air.

Some folks do this already to suspend items like stuffed dolls, clocks, and portraits over the Masonwork Store. Or, a Candle Pricket / Food / etc. on top of the Manor Harpsichord, or dolls on the Glade Canopy Bed or other placements you can think of.

Some folks on YouTube have posted about it before.

[DeviFoxx]

I'd like to be able to visit my friend's houses more frequently. Can the Dev Team see about instituting a customizable Favorites List of Housing Plots that will allow players to directly teleport to a Friend / FC house's direct location (provided they have a Mini Aetheryte set up on their yard somewhere, of course)?

It's very frustrating, cumbersome, and needlessly consumes Gil to use the very roundabout way of first teleporting to Citystates and choosing a ward to teleport to. For the sake of ease of access, could you please see about instituting this feature?

[DeviFoxx]

Can we get more options for housing exteriors, please?



We have very limited options when it comes to Exterior Housing designs. At some point, I'd like to see one in the same style as a Japanese Castle. Could call it a Doman Castle Exterior to fit the lore, even.

I figure if Nintendo was able to do it in Animal Crossing, then the Dev Team should be able to do it in FFXIV, after all.

[Dustytome]

Not sure if this is the place to put this, but I hope it is. Order of Nald'thal Lectern is considered a desk, and I can put stuff on it. But when I try putting a Lalafellin Stepstool behind it, it just phases through. They have the same thing at the thaumaturge's guild, with the stepstool as it should be(granted, that it's part of the zone). I just thought I could put a chair or the stepstool behind it to have it fit.

Unfortunately they are both floor items and so both only see the floor itself as the object they attach to. I don't think we'll ever have the ability to manipulate everything in the same way they can with non-player manipulated environments, but as DeviFoxx mentioned, there are workarounds for wall & tabletop items to place them elsewhere.

[Solarra]

I'm sure it's in here somewhere but can we please have partitions that match the walls?
There are some lovely wall options available but not having matching partitions for any of them makes it really hard when you need to divide a room.

And can we have more rugs, please? And/or can we dye them? It's really hard trying to find a rug that matches sometimes.

[Enkidoh]

I'm pretty certain that the development team were asked that in the past and they responded along the lines of is that it's to help stabilize the servers and cut down on the amount of processing the server has to do, and that although it could theoretically be changed, they don't want to do anything that would jeopardize the servers (it was in a past 'Letter From the Producer LIVE' Q@A if I remember rightly). I'll try and find it and post the development team's response here.

EDIT: I found it - it was found here (towards the very bottom of the page):

1:47:53
Q: When logging out in private chambers, upon logging in again we are placed outside of houses. Could you make it like inns so that we log back into our rooms?
A: Komoto: I understand that since implementation we've been receiving a lot of feedback about this, but this is an issue that is actually quite deep and we are not able to address it right away at the moment. Inns, similar to instanced dungeons, have been made so they are set to standby where no resources are consumed when players are not present. For houses as well the programmers were able to work on it so they do not consume resources either when players are not present, but as a result of this, when logging back into the game the room resources do not exist, so there is a difficult issue about how to make it so you can log back in to your rooms.

So yeah, sadly it doesn't look like this is going to be changed any time soon, if at all, as much as I would love that to be the case.

[Serendair]

I don't know for sure/can only guess, but I would imagine it's because houses and rooms are unique, inn rooms are all exactly the same (or at least they're one of 3 designs). Creating the inn room isn't really the same as creating a house or private room and then populating it with all the stuff that person has.

I'm pretty certain that the development team were asked that in the past and (...) it was found here

So yeah, sadly it doesn't look like this is going to be changed any time soon, if at all, as much as I would love that to be the case.

Thanks you two...that's kind of sad to hear, I was really hoping for that feature.