Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[raventhor0]

Not sure if this was suggested by someone previously and I apologize because I'm being pressured to share via an FC mate who I just gave this idea to lol. Typically I don't camp the forums nor do i typically worry about the housing system because to me it's completely useless and I would like to see more relevant features added to make them more appealing. I apologize if this offends as I know some people enjoy the housing system, but I do not at this time and it just feels like a redundant method to keep people subscribed.

Anyway, my idea is one of convenience. We currently have NPC vendors and the like at our houses and my idea uses a similar concept. Crafting NPCs basically. Allow players to hire NPCs that would do crafts for them so that players can choose to either craft the items themselves or let the NPC handle it. To prevent misuse of the feature however the NPCs would be restricted in what they can craft. My ideas for this is primarily a restriction system similar to retainers where their highest level is the highest level you have obtained in that same class/job. In this case these NPCs would not be able to craft anything you cannot craft yourself. This would be like quick synthesis because you cannot use that feature unless you've crafted the item before, though in this case you simply need to be high enough level to craft it for the NPC to craft it for you. Other restrictions can also be put into place as well such as not allowing the NPC to do master crafts or something that way it doesn't feel like a replacement to DoH classes. To further add to this so that it would have minimal impact on the economy in game is that these NPCs will not craft the items immediately either. Instead they will have a timer for how long it takes to craft said item, this will take some balancing to get a good fit because we want a trade off between time commitment and convenience here. Crafting the item yourself will always be much faster so that players can't just mass produce at an NPC while they go off adventuring and risk flooding the market with too many items, however crafting the items yourself would require you commit some time to that which would otherwise go to adventuring.

Basically how it would work is you simply go up to the NPC and they open a shop window with options, you select the craft you want to do and the NPC will take all the relevant items from your inventory. You can choose to use HQ items as well if you'd like as there would be a set chance for an item to finish as an HQ item and using certain HQ materials can increase that chance slightly. This may result in a higher chance for an HQ item from this feature than quick synthesis with this method however. Also to make it more interactive changes can be made to some of the furniture items that gave DoH bonuses in the past so that they can also provide bonuses to this NPC as well for their crafts.

[HeyMcFly]

Outdoor Garden floral garden/ flower beds of different shapes & sizes (example in picture)
IMO these can help fill in the empty spaces that are yards have

[Khryseis_Astra]

Please make the snow carbuncle from Empyreum an outdoor furnishing. And let us dye them like snow cones! lol

[HeyMcFly]

More Imitation stained glass window variations, shapes and colors - we have alot of blue, but what we also need is red, yellow, orange - other colors besides blue.

[HeyMcFly]

More Portaled Partitions (Hobbit doorway/ moongate) In more material/ Varieties (marble, stone, tile, brick) Indoor

Patchwork couches & patchwork sitting furniture-
Images below:

Patchwork tile stairs & archways:

Slanted ceiling partitions that also have beams attached to them. There currently are no slanted beams to make the proper triangle roof/ceiling shape.
Example below

Rounded & arched ceiling partitions- materials/varieties should include marble, stone, tile, brick & wood- all dyeable. The Ceiling partitions we currently have are either flat, or slanted (or only made of wood & wood doesn't fit every house theme) or have a window that should have a windowless counterpart.
Example in pictures below:

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Curved, slanted & arched ceiling beams (stand alone/ separate from partitions) Of different varieties: 1.) carved and intricate and 2.) uncarved, aged wood
Examples in images below:

[HeyMcFly]

Porthole/ Portal windows (that aren't restricted to stained glass)

Anchor wall decorations/ nautical themed decorations

Metal Ceiling partitions with rotating fans/ ceiling fans inside

Phasmascapes with airships & underwater/ocean in the background (PLEASE REMOVE THE PHASMASCAPE BORDER OR MAKE IT SMALLER. IT CLIPS EVERYTHING. I THOUGHT YOU HATED CLIPPING, SQUEENIX??)

Geometric/rectangle, circular & square shapes for outdoor brick/ tile pond WITH LILYPADS. (similar to indoor pond)

Green-leafed willow tree

Lattice windows. (medieval european style windows) Please, give us lattice windows that we can place anywhere- both large and small, round and square/rectangle as well as arched style lattice windows. Please, I am so thirsty for some decent windows WHICH HAVE LATTICE WORK.

[HeyMcFly]

and for the love of all that is housing.. I'm on my hands & knees here & typing with my mind powers

Please, please fix the items wall snapping- Half the time I cannot use an item because it snaps to walls & partitions in such a violent & disgusting manner that I am nearly forced to write an angry letter, IN INK and an old parchment paper with a feather quill pen while wearing a fancy white wig

ALSO PLEASE increase item limits & give us more axis placement options that has coordinates. Up/Raise, Lower/Sink, Left, Right, rotate- let us clip everything so we can be even more creative

[Impia]

I would like a lot of the existing assets available in Kugane Castle to be made available for housing, or the ones in the Kugane Inn like the larger tatami floor and the doorway that's used there. I would also like an indoor bridge item.

[Cat1234567890]

Ysayle portrait housing item please. Why does Haurchfant have one but she doesn’t

[Khryseis_Astra]

Now that Pictomancer is confirmed, lots more art supplies please! There was a cute sketchbook that won in the furnishings contest I think, and we could use a nice little art desk, along the lines of the new botanist and secretary tables. But please make it all “tabletop” so I can put it on a lift without having to tear my house apart to float it!