Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Falmen]

Since this is a really, really long thread, I'm not sure how many of these ideas have already been brought up but here goes:

1. Redesign housing districts so that there is a central common area and instanced private and FC plots. The reasoning behind this is that whenever the devs want to add more housing to meet player demand, they always have to add new wards to existing districts which apparently requires a great deal of resources. With this kind of setup, only the common area would have to be instanced to meet demand which I believe would conserve resources taken up by adding all the additional wards. Another benefit would be that a mechanism could be implemented allowing players to upgrade and renovate their spaces and potentially setting up a way for players to actually build custom-designed houses. It may also be possible to set things up so that players can take their houses with them when performing a world transfer since the plot would be an instanced space much like the Island Sanctuary. If all that weren't enough, it would also be possible to do away with lotteries and auto-demolition if this type of system were implemented.

2. Make private plots shared among all a player's characters on a world. This just seems like a no-brainer because if players are going to be restricted to a single plot per world, then it might as well be shared among all their alternate characters.

3. I know this one is likely a repeat of others' requests, but increasing the furnishing limit would be nice; at least 10 or so for the outside and another 100 for the inside would be very helpful. From what I understand, many players have unused spaces in their plots because they reach the limit quickly trying to make everything look just the way they want.

4. There's still an issue that only "Tabletop" furnishings can be placed on loft pieces and other platform-type furnishings; most likely the best way to fix this might be to add a "Stackable" trait to furnishings typically placed on the floor or reclassify loft pieces and platforms as "placeable floors".

That's all I got for right now.

[EmilySummerstar]

I tried this suggestion before but didn't know how to word it at the time. I'd be so happy if we could pick and pot some wild plants that we come across. I love indoor green spaces but the choices are so limited. This way, we could just make use of assets that are already in the game.

[Felyne]

I tried this suggestion before but didn't know how to word it at the time. I'd be so happy if we could pick and pot some wild plants that we come across. I love indoor green spaces but the choices are so limited. This way, we could just make use of assets that are already in the game.

For the gardens, I would love to have the type of plants that are generally found in the beds of the various residential areas. For the interior, for example, there are already the red flowers that grow in Mist in the residential areas. It would be great if these red flowers were also available for the gardens. I'd love the same with plants from the other residential areas, such as various cacti like those in Goblet or a flower bed with flowers from the lavender beds and Empyreum. I think they would look great in the players' gardens.

[Feathetaria]

Requests:

Glass Partition
White Screen Partition (same as white screen but with no curve)
Long Wood Slat Partition
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[Khryseis_Astra]

With the announcement of interior renovation, my hope is that this will inspire new interior layouts… for both houses and apartments.

Current Apartment/Small - “Studio”
Same as we have now.
Medium Apartment - “Loft”
Mid-size, maybe a split level with an actual built-in loft and stairs going up to it.
Large Apartment - “Penthouse”
Multiple floors, “outdoor” instanced balcony for placing outdoor furnishings and garden plots.

For house interiors, the removal of pillars is great, but maybe we could also remove windows? Maybe different layouts with different staircases, or different placement of the stairs?

For smalls in particular, I would like the option to have an attic added:

Many housing skins already look like there should be another room up there, and no reason all sizes couldn’t have the option of 3 floors. I’d gladly pay gil for a “remodeling permit” to have this!

Or in general, the option to add additional rooms in personal homes just like FC houses can add rooms, for more decorating space. Along with a personal version of an FC chest.

[Solowing]

I have a few ideas that I think are simple and reasonable to implement

I recently lost my house to demolition, which mostly I feel embarrassed and a lot of shame about, but I’m gonna validate myself and say my life has been insane, and I have spend many many hours in it and decorating it. The past month and a half I logged outside my house and generally afk’d there when doing weeklies. And as stupid as I am I just forgot about demolition, cause I’m using my house right? Why would I lose it.

Yes it’s incredibly easy to walk into your house, but... well junk happens, life happens, and people shouldn’t have their house demolished that they do in fact use regularly/have worked really hard on.

2 easy quality of life changes

-Send demolish notifications to moogle mail/support notifications(if mail is full). I have like 10 emails for work etc, I don’t check the one ff14 is on. And it benefits players who are actually playing to receive notifications in game.

And/or

-Reset demolition when you, the owner, teleport to your estate. There is a reason location is important in housing, so if you’re using your location it makes sense to reset the timer.

I understand demolition is a bandaid solution to larger issues, and I want to say that I overall disagree with the idea of demolition in game houses. But yes there is a lot of underlying issues that I can leave to the smarter people. I think these 2 changes are reasonable and would be helpful to those who are busy but still deserve to keep their house.

The players asked for the demo timer, at one time it didn't exist. Imagine what the housing situation was where if anyone left for an indeterminable amount of time but got to keep their plot...A plot which is limit supply and finite. Swaths of houses that simply couldn't be accessed because players that left and had no intention of returning months/years ago, but also didn't want to demo the plot.

The demo timer makes sure the house is seeing a degree of use, while those not using it are removed and the plot goes back up for auction for those who may get more usage out of it.

The timer is a necessary evil, if people want their plots as bad as they say they will actively keep them in use, and if they don't. No player is going to feel bad some person who didnt enter their plot in 45 days that lost it due to not entering the house. It gives those who are willing utilize the house a chance to win the plot.

[Moqi]

Players asked for a demo timer because they'd rather blame other players than Square Enix.

[Xhadial]

^^^
yes please!

I'll be the first to admit that I'm no expert, but I feel like that with the introduction of Island Sanctuary, and especially after they allowed us to place Exterior Furnishings - the excuse that instanced housing cannot be done just doesn't fly anymore. But if they don't do that then at minimum restrict housing to per account and not per character.

[CieraNighthawk]

Please give us the option to use the old housing interiors without pillars.



This is what several of us thought we were getting in 7.1, and while the modern look is nice, it doesn't have the same character as the old styles. I like the old staircases and banisters, the old baseboards and wainscotting, and the crown molding and frieze. These give our homes personality, and we shouldn't have to give them up if we don't want pillars.

[unjourneyed]

I would like to suggest partition archways again. There are already mahogany, oasis, glade, and alpine partition doors, but I am asking for door-less versions. It would really help with building out interiors when using similar partitions.
Also, speaking of current partition doors, blank versions that can have interior walls applied to them would be great as well (door-less for these too).