Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[duxxi]

I don't know where else to put this and well, this thread made the most sense to me. This idea may have already been suggested but here goes.

I have been a long-time player, and I hear the same complaints over and over again in regard to the housing. Life throws a loop at them, and they can't return for a while and boom, all their hard work is gone. I would be a little (no make that a lot) discouraged and would even consider walking away from the game permanently. A while back, you gave the players their own islands. Got farming, husbandry, and even buildings on that island. Most people don't go back after they completed everything that could be done, and it makes that space ultimately a waste.

What if you gave the players their own house on each of those islands and make the zoned housing areas for FC's only? We already can visit each other's house and islands so combining them should not be I get that it may be a stupid idea but, it will be a subscription retention point to all players. Can you imagine how many people would return and be ecstatic to know that their hard work in design and placement is still as they left it? Yeah, it would be nice to have one of those aetherites available to port to their own houses though, it would not be necessary. You could up the limits for external and internal item slots/floors (which I also see a constant complaint for) for their personal houses while opening up more housing for the floating FC's out there.

I am sure this is a crazy idea, and it has probably already been suggested (as I have no desire to read through hundreds if not thousands of replies to this thread) multiple times by now. Kinda curious as to why this was not thought of by the developers when they introduced the personal islands in the first place.

[Yuniko]

Estate ownership transfer, between characters on same account and world.

This is something i've heard a lot of people ask for lately, is a option to transfer the ownership of an estate to an alt or main char, on the same account and same world. It should be pretty easy right?

I mean in legitimate sense... this should be a simple edit... seeing how SWTOR, and other games have this feature already. :/ I.E SWTOR does have it, ESO, Oldschool Runescape.

[NobleWinter]

Can we please get a "blank flooring" item. It would be similar to the blank partitions but allow you to use the interior flooring patterns on a placeable rug item. It would really be a game changer especially if the pattern appeared on the top and bottom so it could be lifted to create detailed ceilings. A "Blank Loft" would be nice as well if it could have interior flooring designs applied.

[Khryseis_Astra]

I think I’ve already suggested this in the past, but the thread is over 300 pages now…

The Country house (tree house) skin has been an amazing addition, with its rooftop decks for all house sizes. I’d like to see more house skins in the future with this feature, as well as the addition of a built-in way of accessing the roof.

My dream would be an Ishgardian Observatorium skin, with a built-in staircase leading to a rooftop observation deck, with maybe a few seating areas that match the Stargazing deck, and a few small telescopes. And maybe a rounded dome in the center of the rooftop deck that looks like a star map (with a blue background, again matching the Stargazing deck)…

Edited to add a rough sketch of a top view:


Based on a small plot… Ishgardian stone (like the grays and blues in Empyreum). The dome could be blue crystal or glass with constellations drawn on in glowy “ink.” Turrets can be walked on, maybe mount the smaller telescopes that the Stargazing deck has, or maybe those globe lights on the top of the actual Observatorium. Stairs on the back, maybe in such a way that there could be a tiny porch under them? Balcony in front is just over the entryway door. (Blue things are the couches! lol)

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Estate ownership transfer, between characters on same account and world.

This is something i've heard a lot of people ask for lately, is a option to transfer the ownership of an estate to an alt or main char, on the same account and same world. It should be pretty easy right?

I mean in legitimate sense... this should be a simple edit... seeing how SWTOR, and other games have this feature already. :/ I.E SWTOR does have it, ESO, Oldschool Runescape.

Not even transfer, just make your house available to all characters on your service account. They talked about doing it in the past; 5.X, said it was possible, but we've not heard a peep about it since.

[Rinoa_353]

Not even transfer, just make your house available to all characters on your service account. They talked about doing it in the past; 5.X, said it was possible, but we've not heard a peep about it since.

I'm ok with this too but I would also love the ability to transfer a personal plot between my characters since the game already knows to tell apart your alts to prevent bidding on more plots and such. I hope they allow us to soon and I'm also ok with putting some sort of restriction like you can only transfer a plot after 30 days of the last transfer.

[Yuniko]

Not even transfer, just make your house available to all characters on your service account. They talked about doing it in the past; 5.X, said it was possible, but we've not heard a peep about it since.

Very true, they did! and so far we've heard 0 as you said. :/

[Paito]

a double amount of the Orchestrion List. We getting more and more music in the game so the list should be longer by now you can add to that list

this nothing to do with housing but add double the Deep dungeon saves please 2 is too low

[Burmecia]

i'd just like to have these very unfancy bar cabinets

[EmilySummerstar]

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned so I'll post this anyway. I would love it if they created double length versions of some furniture items that we already have. More specifically these:

Wooden Handrails
Wooden Loft
Luminous Wooden Loft
Combed Wool Rug

Functionally this might not add anything new. For instance, you could always use two Wooden Handrails to span the width of a wooden loft but this becomes expensive in terms of furniture slots. Because of this, I've had to find alternatives when I start running out of available slots (Troupe Stage in place of lofts and Wooden Beams instead of Handrails). This is sad because I would have loved to use the items I listed above.

Although I'm still hopeful that they'll increase the furniture limit, these items would be helpful in stretching the slots we currently have. I'm sure others can think of items that could benefit in same way.

Edit: I feel that these would need to be added by the devs as quality of housing improvements. I doubt people would use a furniture contest to submit them and they don't seem flashy enough to win even if someone did enter them.