Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[MonkeyDSabo]

I agree, the large house item limit is far too low in proportion with it's size. If a small house is able to get an extended basement, then large houses should have an upgrade as well in all fairness. The amount of Free Company effort to afford the large house being unable to place all the furniture we need is unfair in the design of FC housing. In addition to all this, there was a housing trailer from Square Enix where the balcony had a glowing instance symbol for entree. How come large house balcony doors are inaccessible? At 0:56 in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr11_sh5BYw It shows the balcony door with that aforementioned door being accessible. Is this a lie?

[Mergadeth]

Once again, chiming in with how severely disspointed i am with the item limit of 150 for a medium house. We have reached the cap and our house doesn't feel finished. If we get any more items there is obviously no room to display them. Frustrating me the most are the bare partitions put up as walls that, even if the item cap was raised, would still be bare. Once you get past putting up the basic furniture there isn't a lot of decorating you can do due the space restrictions. Awkward corners and bare walls.....

If you can put stuff on top of tables that you place, why can't you put stuff on walls that you place????

[Kio]

At least a medium house looks cozy at 150 items, our large house at 200 looks like we're in the process of being evicted.

[Shampooo]

oh my, please raise the furniture limit from 200 to like 400. has anyone started a petition for this yet? i hit the 200 cap and the house feels so empty. i had to spread stuff out so terribly just to try to take up more space. then i wasnt even able to put small stuff up like lights and plants, sigh.

[Estellios]

I'd love aquariums so we can display fish, sandfish, and skyfish (obviously the latter two wouldn't exactly be "aquariums" but whatever). Ideally it would be nice to display whatever we want in them and have multiple sizes of aquariums that we can place fish into, although I know having to make a 3D model for each fish would be quite an undertaking.

It would give some use to the large amount of functionally useless fish, rare fish, and give those with Fisher more things to do.

[Sagittarian]

My secondary concern is related to the item limit, which is definitely too low, but more about furniture itself. I keep thinking about it and I don't know why there's a hard number cap on furniture instead of a point system, where larger items take up more of your space quota. It's pretty silly that placing a few items on top of your table will take up four times as much room as the table itself.

But moreover, implement that system and allow crafters to HQ furniture - where the High Quality version takes up less "space" than its NQ variant.

I like that idea. It's kind of a letdown to not even not be able to HQ the furniture.

Since the devs have implied that they want furniture and housing to essentially be endgame for crafters, it makes no sense that 90% of a crafters skills are useless when making furniture. You just pop Steady Hand and use whatever progress skill you feel like until it's done.

While the 2* recipes are cake if you have the cross-class skills, some of them are nearly impossible without the right mix. But yes, adding some challenge even then might be nice.

I'd love aquariums so we can display fish, sandfish, and skyfish (obviously the latter two wouldn't exactly be "aquariums" but whatever). Ideally it would be nice to display whatever we want in them and have multiple sizes of aquariums that we can place fish into, although I know having to make a 3D model for each fish would be quite an undertaking.

It would give some use to the large amount of functionally useless fish, rare fish, and give those with Fisher more things to do.

I love this idea! Not just aquariums but a wall mounted megalodon, skyfish flying around outside...

I'm not sure how this would work exactly, but how about some kind of item meld like the vanity system? I've seen some neat houses where people place a hidden bed underneath other objects so they can /doze on it. It would be nice to not have to use the extra item for that.

[namirei]

I'd love aquariums so we can display fish, sandfish, and skyfish (obviously the latter two wouldn't exactly be "aquariums" but whatever). Ideally it would be nice to display whatever we want in them and have multiple sizes of aquariums that we can place fish into, although I know having to make a 3D model for each fish would be quite an undertaking.

It would give some use to the large amount of functionally useless fish, rare fish, and give those with Fisher more things to do.

I thought the same thing and totally agree. Even if it's only a few fish to limit the amount of fish models they have to create, it would still be nice.

Let's get some aquariums and terrariums! And also um... Skyrariums?

[FJerome]

. . . Seriously though, the lack of an attic is starting to freak me out. If I look at my house at night the lights in the roof windows are on, somebody is up there.

Petition for a ladder so I can kick out these gods-damned squatters?

[Sheva]

Sine magic exists in this world it would not be out of the question that we could use magic to have house that is bigger on the inside. The so called T.A.R.D.I.S. effect., This would also allow for the creation of personal rooms for FC members. Also this would allow for the expansion of the houses without redesigning the housing zones.

The ability to add more floors to your house as well, the ability to add sub basements.

The ability to actually turn off all light sources in the house so a FC could make something like a haunted house if they wanted to, or to just better set the mood you want for your house.

[zaviermhigo]

Balcony for houses, have it be an add on we choose to build, and have lil stairs coming from outside. We can get on the roof of my small fc house, but I'd love a balcony wrapping around it, and I feel its a good way to increase space in all 3 housing sizes.