Mog Houses & Shops (with more!)

[Orcishgrappler]

Then smoke them I assume?

I only do that for "medical" reasons!

[Swev]

It would be cute to have mogs fluttering about every once in awhile with mail bags. It wouldn't have to actually match people getting mail but just be a constant in the background to give a little touch of life to things.

TAKE MY IDEA DEVS!

I like this idea alot. =)

[Swev]

Be cool to custom your house the way you want to what your job is and get improvments that way. Blacksmith shop etc if your a blacksmith and be able to craft in my house. Maybe be able to make some kind of house shop where everything is tax free and goods listed like the wards so people can visit your home and shop there.

Gives you a place of your own and a shop with a nice look to it and feeling?

[Jynx]

Personally I wish Moghouses worked somehwhat like XI, your own personal storage area and pad to relax in. and instead of needing to physically move to a shop we should just be able to bring up a store-front menue.

Have some sort of searchable database for shops and purchase right from there.

[Laughlyn]

So there has been an outcry for Mog Houses (MH).

So my thoughts on the subject.

If MH's were to be brought back here is some ways they could be better used than FFXI did:

Mog House Storage
Mog House Mailing
Mog House Shops
Mog House Gardens
Mog House Decor

Mog House Storage is simple, just the basic inventory to store unused or over stocked gear and items (need for retainer storage is removed)
Mog House Mailing is the idea to ship and send gear and items to other characters' Mog Houses.
Mog House Shops may be available upon first entering the Mog House zone, where the player would be asked to move to their "Personal Mog House" or "View Player Shops" (need for retainer markets is removed / not to replace auction house if implemented)
Mog House Gardens is for the growth of flora that may help benefit crafts of display/decor purposes, etc.
Mog House Decor is for publically display of your Mog House to players invited into one's personal Mog House.

In my opinion, if SE were to bring back the Mog House to mirror FFXI's then there is no need for it in FFXIV. Improvements are required and I believe I've brought up the most important.
If anyone would like to share ideas then I would love to read them below, and if popular I will add to OP post.


P.S. If there are dev tags to assist this post please reply with them so I may edit with them in. Thank you

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This has been requested since beta atleast to my own knowledge, so you have my full support on this.

SE stop being lame & give us the natural order of things.

I doubt anyone is willing to pay a monthly fee withouth these features,
including the lack of a proper auction house. (i know im not)

Im personally bloody sick of retainers & bull****!

I wanna see the Big badass SquareEnix monster machine once again,
mauling over the competition until there was nothing else left..

[Wynn]

Personal housing? Yes, please.
Mailing features? Yes, please.

Certainly not new ideas but highly desired to be sure. Hopefully we will see these things by or in 2012.

[Laughlyn]

Personal housing? Yes, please.
Mailing features? Yes, please.

Certainly not new ideas but highly desired to be sure. Hopefully we will see these things by or in 2012.

I couldnt agree more, there's not much new in FFXIV, the battlesystem is being reformed to mimc FFXI, the classes the same, the races are more or less identical to FFXI, the major part that makes FFXIV unique (and should be kept) is the Lore, stories etc.
I wish people out there "Hating" this "FFXI Clone" would see past all this.

SE seems to have forgotten their old motto "Why change something that works?"
Improving it, is okay but making things worse... thats no go!

Id like for SE to fix what is broken, unwanted or pointless, once thats done you can think of new
unique ways to make this game the best mmo out there, listen to your fans & we will follow.


Btw... i wouldnt mind if your talented Artists whipped up some awesome looking wallpapers for us.
We all computer / videogame freaks who loves artwork in many forms.
Show us what you got SE !

CHEERS Square & ENIX Team ON ! RAWRRRR !

Enix.... i never forgot the games you brought us in the 80s / 90s....
terranigma...soulblazer... WE LOVE YOUZ !

..oh gosh...im all pumped & fired up... think ive been watching too much old-school wrestling lately lol

[OMEGA_HACK]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...f/MOGHOUSE.jpg

That link is from a diagram I made a while back for FFXI (sadly the idea was shot down due to the PS2 limitations :x) Anywho I figured this would be a decent time to bring it back up but for FFXIV instead. The main room is the same exact size as the one in XI (counted the squares and all). The black spots are places where you cannot place furniture but that can be changed to fit XIV's collision system, the gray areas will become "no furniture" zones once you do a quest or whatnot to gain access to the newer portions of the house.

As far as shops go, sounds cool, but it really doesn't fix the market wards problem it just moves it to a new location, sadly. Also if the houses are all personally instanced then how would they be viewed by other people? (unless there is a zone with everyone's house listed? If so, I think the MW would be easier to find what you are looking for instead of searching countless houses for your items. And for the storage, let us have the Safe AND the Retainer. Limit the retainer's inventory to be a little smaller and give us quests to increase our Safe size (content please don't just hand it to us).

Mail system, yes please; but Moogles play an entirely different roll in XIV than they did in XI, so having them the ushers of the races seems a little off. So maybe instead of a Moogle flying in to drop off mail what about having a mail slot on the front door where every hour (in game) or so letters get pushed through the slot and flutter to the ground in front of the door.

Gardens and decor, of course. It's not your house without personal flair.

Something to make it more unique and different from XI? How about the ability to purchase or do a quest to add on a "crafting room" you can only pick two crafts and it will make a small room that is themed to look like the craft you've selected. You can then use the different objects in the room to help your crafting skill, each having different effects of the crafting process.

For example: Cooking skill is you main craft? Do a quest, get your own personal kitchenette room. You can use the counter-top to speed up (increases the % increase per successful attempt) crafts using the knife. Then you have a stove top that does the same but when you use the skillet tool. And Oh no what's this, your character having a bunch of unsuccessful attempts? Why not head over to the kitchen sink to wash your tools and receive the buff to increase the rate of successful attempts. But most of all make all this QUEST RELATED PLEASE, don't just give us everything, people are screaming for content and this seems like a great way to make some.

Anywho, those are my thoughts. All in all, Housing? Yes please!

[normalforce]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...f/MOGHOUSE.jpg

That link is from a diagram I made a while back for FFXI (sadly the idea was shot down due to the PS2 limitations :x) Anywho I figured this would be a decent time to bring it back up but for FFXIV instead. The main room is the same exact size as the one in XI (counted the squares and all). The black spots are places where you cannot place furniture but that can be changed to fit XIV's collision system, the gray areas will become "no furniture" zones once you do a quest or whatnot to gain access to the newer portions of the house.

As far as shops go, sounds cool, but it really doesn't fix the market wards problem it just moves it to a new location, sadly. Also if the houses are all personally instanced then how would they be viewed by other people? (unless there is a zone with everyone's house listed? If so, I think the MW would be easier to find what you are looking for instead of searching countless houses for your items. And for the storage, let us have the Safe AND the Retainer. Limit the retainer's inventory to be a little smaller and give us quests to increase our Safe size (content please don't just hand it to us).

A nice big mog house, I could live with what you've drawn up.

Well, that depends on what problem you are referring to? It solves the overcrowding issue and the taxing of hardware, but doesn't address people's preference for an AH (or basically a buy-it-now option). Personally, I'd like the option of either buying an item directly from the item search counter and being charged a convenience fee or teleporting directly to the shop selling the goods and paying less.

Add little kiosks near the stores where you can bring up another item search counter and wallah, jump directly to the next store. No running around endless corridors and fruitless searching. Because, searching countless houses or searching countless retainers isn't all that different. Both are generally a waste of time.

And yes! Don't just hand content to us, make us work for it, make it mean something.

Mail system, yes please; but Moogles play an entirely different roll in XIV than they did in XI, so having them the ushers of the races seems a little off. So maybe instead of a Moogle flying in to drop off mail what about having a mail slot on the front door where every hour (in game) or so letters get pushed through the slot and flutter to the ground in front of the door.

Gardens and decor, of course. It's not your house without personal flair.

Something to make it more unique and different from XI? How about the ability to purchase or do a quest to add on a "crafting room" you can only pick two crafts and it will make a small room that is themed to look like the craft you've selected. You can then use the different objects in the room to help your crafting skill, each having different effects of the crafting process.

For example: Cooking skill is you main craft? Do a quest, get your own personal kitchenette room. You can use the counter-top to speed up (increases the % increase per successful attempt) crafts using the knife. Then you have a stove top that does the same but when you use the skillet tool. And Oh no what's this, your character having a bunch of unsuccessful attempts? Why not head over to the kitchen sink to wash your tools and receive the buff to increase the rate of successful attempts. But most of all make all this QUEST RELATED PLEASE, don't just give us everything, people are screaming for content and this seems like a great way to make some.

Anywho, those are my thoughts. All in all, Housing? Yes please!

A crafting room is a great idea. In FFXI, I remember saving up for weeks just to get my Alchemist apron and um... club thingy. We've already got the guild mark system in place, add some expensive items in there and give us something to work together.

Oh, and, of course, a card table for playing Triple Triad with your friends.

[MyKotoShi]

I want to say again that when I got the idea for Mog House Shops, it was to replace the retainer systems in so to make it just a menu based/ personal venue shopping option. It wasn't, however, meant to replace the Auction House where items are sold together.

Mg House Shops has the capability to control your own price where an Auction House does not (Under general circumstances). Adding an AH would be wonderful, but I think taking away the retainers for it is out of the question unless a Mog House form is implemented.

(My opinion of course.)

Be cool to custom your house the way you want to what your job is and get improvments that way. Blacksmith shop etc if your a blacksmith and be able to craft in my house. Maybe be able to make some kind of house shop where everything is tax free and goods listed like the wards so people can visit your home and shop there.

I do like this idea. When I thought to put in into my post, the "Atelier" series' shops came to mind and I really wanted to have that idea in FFXIV. Market Wards are almost close to this if you see it right: Stands could be replaced by houses containing players' shops and made to design for the ware they sell. Take that from the wards and move it to the Mog House zone, and to save travel and searching time the MW bring, have it so you may search from a menu the player or item you're looking for and it will take you to that persons shop or buy from the menu.