Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[lordoftheapes79]

I have a problem with forgetting to get my chocobo from the stables when I leave our fc house and I know I'm not alone. We often have people at the house crafting who would be available to release it if they could. I'd like to see a feature where this is possible, with fc rank privileges and a window similar to a teleport option that pops up. We could then choose to either accept or deny and after a few minutes it goes away. Even if we have to wait for them to make the trip. You could use the same timeframes as porters for this.

[Nyerieri]

I think with the addition of new items that are available via Free Company Credits, the category should have maybe two authorizations. One for just Company Actions and one for Company Items.. For those Free Companies wishing to not have a member potentially buy 5 pictures

[Pterois]

Could we please have the option to remove the lighting, wall, and floor items while replacing with something else. An item will always have to be there i get that so just insure its swapped out with another item but allow us to have the old one back instead of it being copied over. I have a ADS light in my personal house that i want to put in the FC house and since that thing took a considerable amount of time and gil to make we should have that kinda access to it.

[Lawman]

Im not sure if its been said before but id like to place my retainers in my room, like we already do with the mender NPC's. it would be great to be able to click on a retainer to access the items they hold instead of having to click on a bell, choose a retainer, completely click out and reclick the bell to choose another retainer over and over again.

[bbkkristian]

I thought of this idea the other day while I was leveling my MCH.

It would be really cool if we could frame our weapons. I like a lot of the MCH's low level guns and they would look perfect as a wall piece in my FC room.

[Illmaeran]

1. Make ALL, yes, 100% all, current housing/building/environmental (plants, rocks, ponds, etc)/clutter (books, burlap sacks, papers, etc) assets available to players. The assets are already in the game, let us use them, PLEASE! The current list of assets is unnecessarily limiting. If it's a matter of feeling a need to have unique component requirements for each one, don't worry about it! Having the items available is a lot more important than the "realism" of separate component requirements for every single thing.

Go check out the Hawthorne Hut; it's a great example of what we're missing, particularly the kitchen. The multiple awnings and awesome big-ass window over the front door are great too.

2. Make ALL, yes, 100% all, furnishing, rug, wall hanging, tables, etc assets dyable. It truly boggles my mind why some items are, and some very similar items aren't, dyable (looking at you Manor furniture!).

3. Mirroring of items; particularly the L-shaped ones like counters and couches.

4. I'd love the ability to transfer my personal room at the FC house to my personal house. I would gladly give up the ability to have a room at the FC house if I could have it attached to my personal house. A one-or-the-other option per character wouldn't take up any extra server space than is already allocated though and would be a nice touch.

5. Add an upstairs floor/attic space in Small houses. See #4 above; this is a perfect combination.

6. Ability for Eternal Bond partners to have (selectable) rights to the house and attach his/her own personal room to it as well. I'm not asking for a pseudo-FC house where anyone can add a room, just my spouse. It would be nice to actually have private rooms that are more than blockaded/partitioned sections of the rest of the house though.

7. Increase the number of item slots by at least 20% (preferably more) for each size and location (indoor/outdoor) of house/plot. The current limitation in both item availability and number allowance makes even small houses feel somewhat empty. Increasing the number of items allowed in a house will allow us to add the "clutter" (more books, flowers, food, paintings, etc) that make a house feel like a home and not a hotel room.

8. Add the ability to stack table items such as crates, barrels, books, etc. Also, see #1 above. There are a ton of assets the environment team has used to create a more realistic world, including stacked items. Please let us do the same in our little space in the world.

9. This is a big one: Delayed Binding of housing elements. As it stands right now the immediate binding of an item upon use is a big problem. Oftentimes, if not EVERY time, it's rather difficult to get a real idea of what an element is going to look like until it's placed. Immediate binding is an unnecessary mechanic and only serves to create inventory bloat. Give us some time, maybe 24 hours of real-world play time, to mess with area/room design before an item binds. If you want to limit this feature to non-star items to preserve rarity of the more challenging items, go for it. If that Glade Chair I just made doesn't work in my space I'd like to be able to give it to a friend or FC mate.

10. "Magical Pictureframes" that allow us to import screenshots as wall hangings. The best thing about this is the image data are stored on our computers so you don't need to worry about additional server assets being used all the time!

11. Weapon racks. I've seen them in the game already, let us have some of our own please! Armor mannequins would be great too.

That's enough for now. If you're a player and read this far, props to you. If you're on the Community team, I hope you read all this and will pass it on. "I look forward to it!"

[Odeda]

3. Mirroring of items; particularly the L-shaped ones like counters and couches.

8. Add the ability to stack table items such as crates, barrels, books, etc. Also, see #1 above. There are a ton of assets the environment team has used to create a more realistic world, including stacked items. Please let us do the same in our little space in the world.

I need these, especially the mirroring one. Was so disappointed to find out the crates don't stack.

On top of these I would like the ability to scale items, just like you can with UI elements. It wouldn't even need to be that many different sizes, even 3 would make a difference (smaller, default, bigger).

10. "Magical Pictureframes" that allow us to import screenshots as wall hangings. The best thing about this is the image data are stored on our computers so you don't need to worry about additional server assets being used all the time!

Exept if you would want to actually share the screenshot. It would be pretty lackluster if only you could see the images and they would just show up as empty frames for everyone else. You would need to upload the image and that would be insanely easy to take advantage of, someone would need to moderate everything that comes through (unless you want to rank up the game rating to Mature) and I would rather have the support team on more important tasks. There's a reason we don't have custom (meaning self made images) FC emblems.

The only way I see this even remotely possible is if we could pick freeze frames from cutscenes that are available at the inn. This could be vulnerable to abuse also because of spoilers but that could be easily prevented by showing it empty or a placeholder image if there's something from a quest you have yet to finish.

On another note, I would love to see flying in housing areas, made a dedicated thread for it with some suggestions.

[Nymeria2x]

I found an excellent site for previewing housing items. It also includes the recipe or vendor location. http://en.ff14housing.com/itemlist.php?h=1

[Feye_Sirensong]

[QUOTE=Illmaeran;3164659]

9. This is a big one: Delayed Binding of housing elements. As it stands right now the immediate binding of an item upon use is a big problem. Oftentimes, if not EVERY time, it's rather difficult to get a real idea of what an element is going to look like until it's placed. Immediate binding is an unnecessary mechanic and only serves to create inventory bloat. Give us some time, maybe 24 hours of real-world play time, to mess with area/room design before an item binds. If you want to limit this feature to non-star items to preserve rarity of the more challenging items, go for it. If that Glade Chair I just made doesn't work in my space I'd like to be able to give it to a friend or FC mate.


- A note you can put bound items in your FC chest and other players can get to it.

- but not having items auto bind on placement would be nice. even it i you could place it but not leave the housing option.

[AnnietheCat]

I can see why #1 would be desired, so I'm in full support of it. #2 is something I've been asking for since I got my fc's first house. #3 please and thank you! I like the L shaped furniture, but I hate I can't mirror it. It drives me crazy! #4 is great-I hadn't thought of that before. #6-this has been addressed in the recent live letter; the permissions will extend beyond just EB partners and go into friend groups. And the rest are all fantastic ideas as well!