Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[SokiYagami]

Thanks for the confirmation dusty~ /pet

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but is it possible to give us an option to group furniture and move them together "as a set"? You know like how tabletop/wallmount furniture will be moved along with the table/wall? Give us an option to manually select multiple furniture to be moved together. And once again, allow us to lock just the X or Y-axis for more precise movement. Eg. putting 3 floor lamp in front of a wall, just shifting them horizontally (vertical axis locked).

Actually, now that I mentioned this. Is it possible to request for some kind of measurement HUD of the distance between 2 furniture? Something like this:



Well, not exactly that complex, just showing the distance between two furniture would be great. I suppose this would also meant we need to be able to see the exact X/Y axis of individual furniture somehow. I'm pretty sure the game engine already keep track of this from the rounding off of axis which cause furniture to offset sometimes when the housing instance get refresh.

Oh, and the most important one, retainer in-door please! >_<

update: requesting for "fake"/locked door partition for spooky theme design!

[Sousei]

Not sure how plausible it is, but some sort of system for buying/selling the rights to a plot between players would be nice to see. People seem to do so regardless of whether they're meant to or not (though I'm not sure if there is in fact anything against this? I'd assumed there actually was an ingame system in place until hearing otherwise), and the way it seems to work currently allows people to overcharge/potentially scam others.
(eg. If the minimum price was flexible but the maximum was limited to around the default price of the plot, that could help prevent people buying plots just to resell them at much larger figures later)

I'm not entirely sure whether this is the right place to post it, but just a thought that's occurred recently in the leadup to new housing...

Otherwise, seconding the mannequin/weapon rack suggestions! (Fake?) striking dummies able to be placed indoors has also been something I've kind of wanted to see in terms of furniture.

[ToppeHatte]

I know this has been suggested many times over, but I really want to echo the idea that a 8-spot garden plot without that ugly scarecrow would be a godsend.

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

Even if they have now likely affordable for every upgrade for replace all oldish system into newish, we get a to swim now in goblet ward :P

[Final-Fantasy]

What is the reason there is no access to a mansion balcony?

From inside the house we can add rooms if its a company house to go, between rooms, to the workshop etc, but not exit from the second floor door to the balcony which seems so obvious and poorly thought-out design.

I can't find any reply about this, just hundreds of requests!

[Alien_Gamer]

What is the reason there is no access to a mansion balcony?

If I had to guess I'd say that the balcony doesn't effectively exist as more than a couple polygons with some bump mapping and texturing. It was something the artists created to look nice on the outside then realized it would be odd to not have a corresponding door on the inside and painted on onto the wall. Creating an actual balcony would require rebuilding the front wall of all the large houses which isn't a small undertaking and probably a low priority in their grand plan for development.

Regardless of why though, I agree it would be nice. If it happens this expansion I would expect it to happen with shirogane, otherwise keep hoping for 5.0+.

[JunseiKei]

If I had to guess I'd say that the balcony doesn't effectively exist as more than a couple polygons with some bump mapping and texturing. It was something the artists created to look nice on the outside then realized it would be odd to not have a corresponding door on the inside and painted on onto the wall. Creating an actual balcony would require rebuilding the front wall of all the large houses which isn't a small undertaking and probably a low priority in their grand plan for development.

Regardless of why though, I agree it would be nice. If it happens this expansion I would expect it to happen with shirogane, otherwise keep hoping for 5.0+.

It has solid ground, which makes it completely odd as to why there is no easy access to it. Tons of FCs with mansions made various ways to get up onto the balcony. I can't say the methods and items used were ever attractive looking (hence why you don't see it much anymore).

I can't imagine adding another entry/exit bubble being too difficult, especially since it's only on mansions and there's only three of those per ward. I could see that as being a reason why it's not done, because so few houses use it, it's not been added, even after such a long time of requests.

Basically, 2,880 houses (after Shirogane) use only 1 entry and exit. Only 288 houses would potentially use 2 entry and exits. Would that 288 really be worth it to have to recode to have access to a balcony? The answer is probably not.

[Transient_Shadow]

I know there must be like 20 more posts about this on here. But please SE! Give us FC apartment style housing! In prep for the upcoming housing migration I've saved up enough for my fc to have a cozy little house... assuming we can make it in time. I'm literally stressing over whether or not my fc gets a digital house... its ridiculous.

SE could even take the opportunity to make lager scale apartments. its instanced, costs less money, and is readily available. I don't know how the coding works but surely this can't be a huge hurdle with the new servers SE is using.

[Iromi]

Can we please have the thing fixed where the interactive items disappear if you are too far? It makes me not even want to decorate...when I am on the other side of the room ALL the stuff you can interact with disappears and the house looks empty.

[Dustytome]

Can we please have the thing fixed where the interactive items disappear if you are too far? It makes me not even want to decorate...when I am on the other side of the room ALL the stuff you can interact with disappears and the house looks empty.

That's specifically due to the amount of interactive items. If you cull them down to around 40 they should stop disappearing. Would still love for it to be fixed though, not sure what exactly causes it.