Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[SkyCake]

More carbucle furniture. Also, either dyeable or the current stuff in different colors.

[Arielen]

This may be an unpopular one but: in 6.0.5 or whatever (before 6.1 patch, but not like, release week 6.0), apartments that haven't been entered in 3+ years should be demolished. Apartments were added in...3.4? That would give them some wiggle room to come in for the latest expansion if the hot new thing is what's needed. Honestly, even demolishing them sometime soon probably wouldn't be a big deal.

By no means am I suggesting that apartments should get auto-demolished every 45, 90, or even every few months, but there are some apartments that have no doubt gone unused since they were released five years ago.

[Jagick]

This may be an unpopular one but: in 6.0.5 or whatever (before 6.1 patch, but not like, release week 6.0), apartments that haven't been entered in 3+ years should be demolished. Apartments were added in...3.4? That would give them some wiggle room to come in for the latest expansion if the hot new thing is what's needed. Honestly, even demolishing them sometime soon probably wouldn't be a big deal.

By no means am I suggesting that apartments should get auto-demolished every 45, 90, or even every few months, but there are some apartments that have no doubt gone unused since they were released five years ago.

Honestly, I think "demolishing" an apartment that has not been entered by the owner in 90 days is perfectly generous. They either need to vacate the lots that have gone unused all these years or they need to expand the buildings beyond the 90 tenants like Yoshi claimed they could do years ago.

[Arielen]

Honestly, I think "demolishing" an apartment that has not been entered by the owner in 90 days is perfectly generous. They either need to vacate the lots that have gone unused all these years or they need to expand the buildings beyond the 90 tenants like Yoshi claimed they could do years ago.

Apartments aren't a problem on any server except the top percentile ones like Balmung and Gilgamesh, so I feel like 90 days is too short, but a demo every 2 years moving forward probably wouldn't be too bad. When Ishgard housing comes in, it'll be getting another 24 wards and subwards worth of apartments. With demo every 2 years even the biggest servers should (probably) be fine. Part of the incentive of apartments is that you have them forever, I just feel like people who haven't played in years probably aren't going to come back anyway.

[Arielen]

Also: YorHa furnishings! Like the things in this room:

[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.

[Arterius_]

Considering this thread is quite long if this has already been suggested then fair enough.

It would be amazing if SE would just let us freely position items up down wherever without the need for tedious glitching. They already know people use glitching for designing and all their contest winners practically do as well so it would be an amazing QoL improvment for making your house look nice.

(Also being able to add housing interior skins would be great, like roof/wall section pillars all of that).

Sincerely,
someone who is redecorating their FC house after 4 years.

[HeyMcFly]

Grimoirs, More potion-themed shelves, human skull decoration, more arcane/ dark fantasy pharmacy themed items

Wooden, rounded arches
rounded doors & doorways
European Cottage themed items
Stone arches
Roots
Spiderwebs/ cobwebs
Birdcages
Wooden tubs
Lattice windows
Floral printed curtains
small, wooden pillars with beams
small Beams
More indoor plants
Indoor Chocobo
Hay & firewood
Placeable weapons without mannequin- both wall attachment & tabletop variants
Bay windows
Walls with changeable wallpaper without ugly paneling
More "alphascape" Scenery without digital lines or ugly border.
Fall scenery/ winter scenery/ forest scenery/ ocean/ beach scenery

More interior house customization- Remove all pillars attached to house & remove all house-paneling to only have the wall design.
Placing items should be easier- Players shouldn't have to glitch or use 3rd party programs to create house designs. It's not fun.

Introduce new style of small house- Small house design with an attic, not a basement
Increase interior item limit & storage by 100 for each house size


SE team & Yoshi P should try to recreate their favourite player house designs to understand how frustrating the decorating system is.

[Lihtleita]

- set house as optional return point
- option to have the original 1 story cottage or the current basement version (the difference between inside and out is jarring). adding an attic as HeyMcFLy said would be cool too.
- option to change the indoor paneling/ceiling/pillars
- ability to move fc chamber door and ceiling light
- wallpaper-able version of the square partition
- z axis placement
- proper weapon displays, jobs like mnk and nin cant make do with mannequins
- why is the glade bed the only one out of the 3 that is undyable? this keeps me up at night
- let me sit properly in the mist deckchairs, my fat roegadyn ass keeps clipping through them

[Illmaeran]

*Full interior stone options, as in enough indoor items to fully kit the space out in old/dark stone. Walls, partitions, benches, windows, arches, baths, window frames, etc. I want to make a Gelmorran or medieval monastery style living space for my Duskwight.

*Non-point source lighting, as in a light source that's not tied to a lamp, lantern, or other physical object.

*Pre-fabricated recess for walls. Having to take up a decent amount of floor space to create a recessed garden or what have you isn't great. I'd love to have a variety of single-piece recesses with the table/floor keywords that we could use rather than having to use up valuable space and item count for in-wall things.

*Option to make food items non-consumable so that they act purely as decoration and not something people can eat if/when they come into your house.

*Attics rather than basements

*Personal rooms tied to individually-owned homes. It would be a great way for Tennant alts to have a room associated with a main character's house. Make entering the personal room count as interaction for the purposes of demolition timers.

*Floor items with a lip and drain to put under showers. It drives me nuts that they discharge onto the floor and not some containment to keep from flooding the room.

*All plants be usable both inside and outside.

That's it for now, more likely to come at a later date.