Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Nova_Dresden]

I'm talking about stuff like:
- when you build a house and you log-off in it - after you get back you get a special buff (HP/MP/dps/healing up)
- the buff depends on total "quality" of the equipment you can put inside the house (like achievement system)
- when you synth in-house you get the boost to control/quality
- you can boost your spells affinity if you put specified equipment (elements - fire/water/earth/wind - like in ff11) - thus increasing your spell damage
- using a bathtub /shower / fountain gives exp (1exp per tick)
- you can create special "melding stations" for your guild members to meld materia

What do you think?

Those are all overpowered and some in extremely ridiculous ways. No way they'll allow you to idle in a bathtub and come back to a character at level 50. Also tying a buff to furniture like FFXI will kinda suck. They weren't all that good to begin with and a group buff shouldn't be tied to what your house looks like.

[Maea]

Also, as you may know, there is currently no system in place to allow you to upgrade your land plot, which means it wouldn't be possible to carry over your furnishings were you able to upgrade from a small plot to a medium one. However! We are looking into implementing a moving feature, which will allow you to bring everything to your new home.

I know this feature hasn't been mentioned in over a year, and the current housing shortage on many larger servers is probably a more pressing issue at the moment. However, I was wondering if there had been any progress on this proposed moving system, or on a way to upgrade from a smaller house/plot to a larger one. Is this still something that's on the table, and if so, what sort of time frame could we potentially expect? I know there are a lot of people who would be interested in trading up but might balk at the hassle and cost!

[Eclipse]

Thanks Camate. Hopefully we hear more updates soon.

[Lithera]

This is a great idea though not one immediately necessary. It should also come with an option to sell back your original property. No one is going to move or upgrade plots if they have to fork over full price again. I think if the sellback option existed you would have seen a lot more small plots being bought while the FCs raised money for a bigger one.

[tymora]

Wine bottles and glasses...a bar please!

[cearka]

Wine bottles and glasses...a bar please!

I think it would be great if they added things culinarian could make for housing. Fruit bowl displays, catered displays, cake displays, wine bottles, maybe a chocolate fountain, etc. A welcoming home always has food on display, and this would allow culinarians to get involved in housing too! Plus I would love to bring over a cake to gift neighbors when they buy houses in the area =D

maybe even make it so the display slowly disappears after a few real game days and has to be refreshed, like its been eaten =D

[Eight]

Personally I would really like a jukebox or music player so you could customize music for your house. Could have music discs or relics that you could earn in game this would make housing complete for me.

[cubion]

I like the moving thing. now you know what be great if you had team moogles do it with a big van. am sure FC move house just to see them come in back up your stuff and move it out in box's it make a great CS.


another idea is having to sell the plot on to another FC make a house economy prices may go up or down as in the real world for the right plots

[Lucke]

I like the moving thing. now you know what be great if you had team moogles do it with a big van. am sure FC move house just to see them come in back up your stuff and move it out in box's it make a great CS.

Oooh, "Moogle Movers! We help you Moogle move, kupo! Let us take care of the moving process for you kupo~po!"

[Mirakumi]

Oooh, "Moogle Movers! We help you Moogle move, kupo! Let us take care of the moving process for you kupo~po!"

Haha would but cute if it was a cut-scene of moogles trying to lift furniture or something. xD