Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Malakai]

I would still love to have one of these billboards to be a furnishing for FC housing that we can put up our FC message on. We have that welcome plaque outside so don't see why we can't have one of these. A lot of people miss out on FC messages because the FC message appears in the same colored text as the rest of the garbled message you get when logging in and also most people don't want to have to keep opening up the menu to check the message. Having a message board in the house that we can put up the same Company Message (or messages, like 2 or 3) would be nice to have so people can just come to the house and check the board to see what's going on. That or make a /fcmes command that prompts in the chat box what the message is.

[Alice_89th]

I realy like the carby armchair



and it would be amazing if we could get Topaz Carby armchair to create a set!



(excuse my (lack of) quick photoshop skills...)

[Lenne]

I realy like the carby armchair
and it would be amazing if we could get Topaz Carby armchair to create a set!
(excuse my (lack of) quick photoshop skills...)

It looks great! Really smart choice to reverse the topaz carbuncle too. I wish I had your skills.

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I would really love if we could get huge bookshelf partitions. I was thinking something similar to what is pictured below.



I would also like to request many variations of shelf partitions with premade clutter on the shelves, one with food supplies, one with workshop tools and materials, and maybe one with linens, towels, or elixir-type bottles. The shelves and clutter do not need to be floor to ceiling, but maybe have closed cabinet doors near the top. It can be double-sided, with a different appearance on the back. It should be a bit thicker than current partitions, maybe slightly thicker than the skinny pillars that divide the wall panels inside the house.

Just trying to think of creative ways to divide spaces without the need to match wallpapers, and ways to decorate without using too many furniture slots.

[Alleo]

This will probably be a idea that a lot of people will be against it I think, but can we who own a private house please have some of the features a fc house has? I don't mean the airship or the workshop itself but it would be nice if we were able to buy more rooms. The best way would be if we had an infinite amount of rooms that we could buy but if thats not possible than I would at least have something like 10 rooms for a small one and more for the middle and big one. Each of them could even cost the 300k fee..With that we would be able to decorate more since each room has its own counter for furniture. I do own a little private house but I already know that thanks to the limit of the place itself and the limit on furniture that I will probably buy a middle house sometimes in the future. This would not be necessary if we could just buy more rooms. And it would be a nice gil sink too With something like that I would not feel the need to buy a bigger house and at the same time you would not need to raise the maximum limit of furniture for the smaller ones because we could just buy more rooms to decorate. (Bigger houses still need a big raise in the limit because every mansion feels empty which is quite bad since you already pay a lot for it..)

Since every room would be instanced and would only exist if you go into it, it would not need as much resources as a completely new house does (it still does need some resources but at least it will really help us who really love to decorate ) and I am quite sure that people wont suddenly own hundreds of extra rooms.

I don't know if you can buy more than one room in a fc house for yourself and if there is a maximum number of rooms to buy but to make it fair it should be possible to buy more than one room in the fc house too and to make it infinite there too. (If thats not already the case )

Edit NR.2: It would be also nice if a FC could buy rooms that everyone can use. Because right know if you have a FC room and put some usable things in it only the owner of said room can use them..maybe if at least the leader of the FC had the possibility of buying more rooms without that restriction it would help All these furniture that help crafter with leveling are nice but they take away space and count towards the limit which is quite bad. If we could put them in these purchasable rooms we could free up some of that space and even make some really nice themed rooms. (Like a kitchen or a blacksmith's workshop)

I would also like to know if we will get the feature with the minions. The answer that they will look into it and if its even possible is some months old and it would be nice to get a update on it.

[Nalien]

Reposting because I still don't see them;

• A Jukebox to play various in game music in your house/room, perhaps with disks being similar to Triple Triad Cards in how they're obtained. Go through Praetorium, get the Praetorium music. Beat Ultima Ballad, get the Ultima music. etc. etc.
• Mannequin, what more really needs to be said there?
• Workstations to also provide a durability boost if you're beyond the level to gain the CP boost. So using a Workstation at Lv60 lets your gear last longer before it needs repairing. The Workstations really need a purpose beyond leveling...
• A small bird bath to place in the garden, which birds (perhaps the Blue Bird minion?) actually visits, to give the garden some sense of life. Quite a few pieces of furniture could work like this actually, the Dodo Nest could have the Dodo minion pop out occasionally, the Tiny Nutkin could show up if you have any trees... Fish in the pond (and a bigger pond) too, can't forget that one!
• This also applies to Inns, but bring back the log out option on beds! And bring back the chance for a dream sequence when you log in/wake back up! This was such a great feature of 1.23, why on earth did you guys remove it?! Why have you still not added it back? I've asked like 10 times now... Just think of the awesome things you could do with characters like Edda...
• Trophies. Actual trophies. I like displaying something like Ifrits ugly mug on my wall as a trophy, but given that Display Stand that was recently added... A trophy cup would be really nice; Chocobo Racing, Lord of Verminion, Triple Triad, Wolves' Den, Frontlines, Fishing. There are plenty of pieces of content that could also reward a nice little trophy to display. Perhaps just have a NPC in the housing wards, similar to the NPC who gives you achievement rewards, who can give you a trophy based off some of the achievements? That way it isn't "in-your-face" for people who don't have any housing.
• Rework some of the Culinarian furniture to actually be competitive when compared to the regular Culinarian consumables... Why not just let me place some Black Truffle Risotto in my room and let me use that instead of carrying the stuff around and having the housing food instead being really weak in comparison? Either that or rework some of the furniture food, the durability bonus is nice, more differences like that would be welcome.
• Partitions... Let us "Dye" them so they can match the Wallpaper, rather than using dyes, just have it use up a copy of the Wallpaper though.
• Oriental Partition, rename it to Oriental Doorway, and add an Oriental Partition that does not act as a doorway. And while you're at it, add "Doorways" for various other partition types, as well.
• Statues, can we have some which aren't demonic? I think some Twelve themed furniture is long overdue. A statue of each would be really nice, we at least see one a Halone a lot during Heavensward, you can at least give us that, right?
• Paintings, more of them please! More NPCs, perhaps some enemies (the Primals are begging for portraits!), and definitely more landscapes! Absolutely going to need an increase to the amount of furniture we can place with that, but damn do my walls look dull. Perhaps my only complaint with the existing ones would be the frames; I don't like how they're "themed" for the character portraits, it makes two different portraits clash horribly IMO.
• Some Alchemy themed furniture. I'd really like to place some potions around the place, to try and create a sort of medical area. Currently Alchemy furniture is almost entirely about plants... Would be nice to have some potion related ones, or at least let us brew up some alcohol to make some Bars!
• Botany and Miner furniture. Fishers can proudly display some (and not nearly enough, IMO) fish on their walls, how about something similar for Botany and Miner? The Miners guild displays a few ores IIRC, and Botany could have some entomology display cases perhaps... More Fish to display would be really nice as well, and obviously that means a Fish Tank!

I'm probably forgetting plenty, but that's enough for now...

[Searius]

Reposting because I still don't see them;[LIST][*]A Jukebox to play various in game music in your house/room, perhaps with disks being similar to Triple Triad Cards in how they're obtained. Go through Praetorium, get the Praetorium music. Beat Ultima Ballad, get the Ultima music. etc. etc.

I've wanted to have a jukebox in game for quite some time, I was thinking pretty much the same thing but SE would probably call it the " Aetherial Sonograph" and allow players to obtain "Sonic Glyphs" from various instances to unlock new music. If the "glyphs" are rare it could really boost the Duty Finder population for some of the instances that are no longer being run regularly.

**Also if this item is placed in an FC house all FC members should be able to install or "prime" a "glyph"

This one item alone has potential for so much fun ^_^ (ps. if you guys do end up doing this we need a way to play dragonsong pls k thx bai)

[Praestans]

Reposting because I still don't see them;[LIST][*]A Jukebox to play various in game music in your house/room, perhaps with disks being similar to Triple Triad Cards in how they're obtained. Go through Praetorium, get the Praetorium music. Beat Ultima Ballad, get the Ultima music. etc. etc.

You got your Jukebox!

[ZhaneX]

This has probably been suggested a dozen times or more, but I'm not really up for reading through 87 pages just to click "Like" on all of them...

How about the ability to upload images or screenshots to be applied as Housing Paintings?
I realize there's the very, very obvious potential for abuse, but still wanted to suggest it (Again in all probability)

Less potentially controversial, how about books? The idea of writable books which players could save and actually put on a bookshelf for their friends and visitors to read seems like it'd be fun. Or even just pre-made books containing stories, myths and legends from the lore of FFXIV would be a delight. Something to actually give utility to bookshelves.
On that same idea, making cabinets, dressers and such actually able to store things would be nice, but I'm sure that more than anything would be filed under "Server Load Issues".

[Kaiser-Ace]

Honestly as far as picture upload abuse, since it would be an immideate viation of the ToS to post explicit content (Alll of which is outlined in the ToS in verry great detail) then it could have a 24 hour "Approval" cool down before anyone else could see it.

Me personally though, I'd settle for some large scale landscape paintings.

[Odeda]

This has probably been suggested a dozen times or more, but I'm not really up for reading through 87 pages just to click "Like" on all of them...

How about the ability to upload images or screenshots to be applied as Housing Paintings?
I realize there's the very, very obvious potential for abuse, but still wanted to suggest it (Again in all probability)

This was indeed suggested couple pages back and the only way I see this even remotely possible is if we could pick freeze frames from cutscenes that are available at the inn. Due to spoilers this could also be vulnerable to abuse, but that could be easily prevented by showing it empty or a placeholder image if you have not yet finished said quest. One exception would have to be event quests after the event has ended, because those you can't do again.

Honestly as far as picture upload abuse, since it would be an immideate viation of the ToS to post explicit content (Alll of which is outlined in the ToS in verry great detail) then it could have a 24 hour "Approval" cool down before anyone else could see it.

I'd rather have the support/mod team on more important tasks than approving uploaded screenshots. There is a reason we don't have custom (as in self made) FC emblems either. Not to mention the amount of server data the pictures would take.