Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Arielen]

Would propose a taxation system whereby all are allowed to buy 1 personal home and 1 FC home with no tax, then start piling up taxes by the number of homes owned:

idea: Each additional home is taxed, starting at 5% of the home cost/month (for personal homes), and 15% for FC Homes, as a tax. As quantities of each home type are added an additional 10% tax for each home is added such that more homes is more punitive and more home hoarders will avoid the additional costs. FC homes have to be higher to prevent FCs from pooling at low levels.

See table below. $GIL amounts are based on the above percentages, assuming a typical small home price of 3M Gil. It starts to get very punitive after 5-10 homes/char.

Personal Houses Monthly taxes by Number of homes owned

#H Tax/month (Gil) Notes
1 $-
2 $150,000.00 5% of a typical small house
3 $315,000.00 110% of previous home +previous penalty
4 $661,500.00 110% of previous home +previous penalty
5 $1,389,150.00 110% of previous home +previous penalty
6 $2,917,215.00 110% of previous home +previous penalty
7 $6,126,151.50 110% of previous home +previous penalty
8 $12,864,918.15 110% of previous home +previous penalty
9 $27,016,328.12 110% of previous home +previous penalty
10 $56,734,289.04 110% of previous home +previous penalty


FC Houses Monthly taxes by Number of homes owned

#H Tax/Month Notes
1 $-
2 $450,000.00 15% of a typical small house price
3 $945,000.00 110% of previous home +previous penalty
4 $1,984,500.00 110% of previous home +previous penalty
5 $4,167,450.00 110% of previous home +previous penalty
6 $8,751,645.00 110% of previous home +previous penalty
7 $18,378,454.50 110% of previous home +previous penalty
8 $38,594,754.45 110% of previous home +previous penalty
9 $81,048,984.35 110% of previous home +previous penalty
10 $170,202,867.12 110% of previous home +previous penalty

this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen posted on this subforum, which is impressive given all the nonsense I've seen on here

congratulations

[Caitlyn]

Forgiven Venery as Housing Shop NPC >: D

And housing items from the Innocence arena and Mt. Gulg.

[KrissMalebranche]

The housing in this game is being screwed by Bots.

-Let us change our Private house to Free Company house-

-Give buying a Free Company house priority-

-Add more Wards so everyone can get a house-


With the random timer and players using bots to camp empty plots it is hard to get a Free Company house. And with the stress of competing to a bot i did one missclick and got a private home instaid of a Free Company home (this is my mistake).

[Rofel]

The housing in this game is being screwed by Bots.

-Let us change our Private house to Free Company house-

-Give buying a Free Company house priority-

-Add more Wards so everyone can get a house-


With the random timer and players using bots to camp empty plots it is hard to get a Free Company house. And with the stress of competing to a bot i did one missclick and got a private home instaid of a Free Company home (this is my mistake).

Are you aware people already are using Free Companies to bypass the ownership limits, right?

[Kenky]

The housing in this game is being screwed by Bots.

-Let us change our Private house to Free Company house-

-Give buying a Free Company house priority-

-Add more Wards so everyone can get a house-


With the random timer and players using bots to camp empty plots it is hard to get a Free Company house. And with the stress of competing to a bot i did one missclick and got a private home instaid of a Free Company home (this is my mistake).

Posting the same damn thing in several threads will result in the same response in those samesake threads. Stop it.

[Raquel_Chima]

Sorry if someone already said this...Either for existing rugs or a new item, but something that allows us to put rugs on walls like in the Mol's yurts.

[Symphonyx]

I know that there are some changes coming to the housing system with EW, but I think we all know that isn't going to solve certain outstanding issues. I've only been playing since early this year, but as someone who has wasted weeks of my life camping out at placards to never get a plot, I've had this idea for quite some time on how SE could revamp the housing system.

Here's my idea:

A raffle-based housing system. When a plot opens up, everyone has 24 hours, from the time it went up, to enter the raffle for that specific plot (you enter at the placard in front of the plot). You can see how much time is left to enter by either checking the housing wards from the city aetherites, or by checking the placard for the specific plot.

After the 24 hours the raffle closes, a player gets selected at random, and is then given the chance to purchase the plot. That player will have 2 hours to claim and pay for the plot [the window to buy is so short because housing is in such high demand]. If you get selected, you'd be notified either by the email associated with your SE account, by in-game letter, or both. If a player fails to claim the plot within that time, another person gets randomly selected. This keeps going until the plot is sold AND built upon. Also, if someone transfers their estate to the plot, but vacates the plot within 24 hours of moving there, the raffle timer will continue as if it was never interrupted.

You could enter as many raffles as open plots available, but with some limitations:
(1) multiple characters from the same account couldn't enter a raffle for the same plot;
(2) you can only own one plot;
(3) you can't enter a raffle if you already own a home, or if any other character on your account owns a home. This means it's one plot per account (not per character, so making other alts wouldn't matter because you still wouldn't be able to enter a raffle with more than one character per account). There would be no exceptions to this, so people with grandfathered accounts wouldn't be able to bypass this.

I think a raffle is better than a lottery because no one has to worry about putting a down payment for a plot they might not ever get, and if you don't get selected by the raffle, you lose nothing, you don't have to waste time sitting in front of a plot sign for hours on end, and you don't have to worry about being refunded a deposit. Refunding gil deposits for housing entries seems like an unnecessary thing to program into the game, when it just feels like there is a way to avoid having to do that altogether. You either win, or just continue going about your day.

I'm not a programmer by any means, so there are probably some nuances that I don't understand, and some elements that I might be forgetting to consider, especially since i don't know how or whether this is even possible from a programming standpoint, but that's just my idea.

I'd love to hear some feedback on whether you guys think this is a good idea.

[Jojoya]

I think a raffle is better than a lottery because no one has to worry about putting a down payment for a plot they might not ever get, and if you don't get selected by the raffle, you lose nothing, you don't have to waste time sitting in front of a plot sign for hours on end, and you don't have to worry about being refunded a deposit. Refunding gil deposits for housing entries seems like an unnecessary thing to program into the game, when it just feels like there is a way to avoid having to do that altogether. You either win, or just continue going about your day..

I imagine the point of the deposit is to make certain the player has the gil to make the purchase if they win. Otherwise players without gil and who have no intention of buying could flood the system with tickets just to make things awkward for those trying to buy. Or those without gil who do want to buy could use RMT to get their gil only once they've won. Better for players to be charged in advance. There also won't be any "oops, I accidentally spent the gil I needed to buy my house while waiting for the drawing".

They've already got their plans for the lottery set in motion based on the several years of lottery suggestions that had already been submitted. More feedback now probably isn't of any use.

At this point, we'll have to see what they do. Assuming the lottery will be implemented at the same time as Ishgard housing (which we don't know for certain, it is just an assumption), I would expect to get more detailed information during one of the 6.1 Live Letters and/or a blog post sometime next year.

[ItsukiForest]

I noticed that we can play a few tunes from the housing instruments like the big piano and harp, but it would be cool if we can play performance mode while interacting it as a bard (with special instrument playing animations). Hoping that SE can see this.

[Senica]

With starlight season coming on I am always excited to decorate my fc house with all the pretty lights. But it just breaks my heart that the grass and flowers in my yard ruin the whole winter effect. I just wanted to throw out the idea of a new house shell (perhaps a reward in the starlight event) made to look like there is snow on the roof and decorated with lights, but most importantly with a layer of snow that fully covers the yard.