Mog House: Functions.

[Jynx]

One of the largest criticism I have of this game currently is that my character does not have a home. I have no place where I can relax and kick up my heels by myself or with a few friends.

So I'm dedicating this thread to flesh out idea for how the community wants mog houses to work. So I'll start off with my personall suggestion and grow the thread as more responses come in.

*Please note that "Mog House" is a general term for player housing in Final Fantasy MMO's it does not mean a Moogle is required...although that would be cool*

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• A instanced area that my character "Owns"
• Storage for my items "Could have a retainer bell if they really want to keep the storage to retainers"
• Abillity to invite friends into my home.
• Moogle please! "Hell if it has to be have it as a main story element that when you become a esteemed member of the main group of the story.
• A place that will grow with me as a player
• A place that is a testament to my exploits over the years.

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• Storage
• quite place "Relaxing music like mog house" or have a kareoke machine of some sort to listen to your favorite FFXIV tracks
• **Replace the retain system *Explained further below*
• Use as Auction counter
  
• Furnature "No purpose other than athstetic"
• Achievments appear as placeable trophies?
• Place to keep all of your spare cards and to sort your deck "Because Tripple traid will come!"
• Receiving deliveries of Gil-Mail-purchased items.
• Garden or Pots to grow crystals and or other plant based materials.
• Some sort of customizable housing aspects aside from furnature.
  

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** Replace Retainer system

As good of an idea the retainer system seemed on paper, it's shown that in execution it was a poorly executed idea. I propose we move our retainers into our Mog-Houses and allow them to list goods from our house.

Once a retainer is linked to your Moghouse you only get the one to sell with but with increased storage capacity for selling items 8-10 sales slots? Let people browse our wares from our storefront remotely.

Use the moghouse as a "Auction counter" I'm not sure if having the sales take place in instanced zones like moghouses would be a good idea or not, if not just make Shop counters where people can browse peoples wares from one single counter, forget the storefronts.

Have a search system so you can search for a certain fields.

-Player
-Items
-Price

All of these searches will bring up shops that stock the items you are looking for within your set search paramiters. Still allowing people to have a store rather than just list at an Auction house.

People will remember good sellers and mayhaps search the character just to see what they are selling.

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Company Housing *Kudos to Alexia kidd*

For Private Companies I would also like Company Housing. This would be our HQ I guess, a communal house where we would have access to various features. A few things I would like in this house would be the following:

• A main communal room which we can decorate and also mount trophies from our NM's kills and completed missions/accomplishments.
• A Communal Storage area where I can drop off mats and items which I may not find useful but a crafter in our Company might.
• A Chocobo stables for raising our Chocobo's and looking after them.
• An Airship landing pad for our Airship.
• A dock for our boat.
• Private quarters that we can decorate and also storage for our gear that we wouldn't put in the communal storage.
• A crafter area that you could kit out with support benches.
• A garden would also be nice too that we could grow things in.

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Anyone else think that at the least we need Moghouses for our characters? The rest of the stuff is just what they could possibly be used for.

Other threads about Housing
Mog housing + shops!

Rep Response

We asked Yoshida whether housing would be implemented and this is what he said:

Housing is definitely one thing that I would like to do. Currently we are only in the planning phase and there is nothing concrete that I can show you all just yet, however, if you have any ideas of what you think would be cool we would like to hear them for our planning.

What ideas would you like to see implemented with housing? I personally would like a handsome Elezen butler…

[Rentahamster]

Personal housing would be nice yes. You gotta take care of the Farmville demographic somehow.

[AlexiaKidd]

Copy+pasted from my company thread ^^

Company Housing

For Private Companies I would also like Company Housing. This would be our HQ I guess, a communal house where we would have access to various features. A few things I would like in this house would be the following:

• A main communal room which we can decorate and also mount trophies from our NM's kills and completed missions/accomplishments.
  
• A Communal Storage area where I can drop off mats and items which I may not find useful but a crafter in our Company might.
  
• A Chocobo stables for raising our Chocobo's and looking after them.
  
• An Airship landing pad for our Airship.
  
• A dock for our boat.
  
• Private quarters that we can decorate and also storage for our gear that we wouldn't put in the communal storage.
  
• A crafter area that you could kit out with support benches.
  
• A garden would also be nice too that we could grow things in.

[normalforce]

When the Bestiary comes about, , a wall dedicated to all the monster posters would be nice. Which would fit in nicely near the wall of trophies. What a great visual representation of everything that you've accomplished in the game.

I'd love to see the initial "house" we get start out as a rundown ruined shack. Where calling it a hovel would be a complement and we can only one day hope of upgrading to that. Then through a series of quests and other renovations, the place expands and becomes a place you would want to bring people over to.

Once the place has improved to the point that your retainer isn't afraid of stepping foot inside, more quests are involved that increase his/her inventory space and how much can be sold via the Auction counter.

[Jynx]

I really do wish the game just had more for us to do, even if those tasks are meaningless is the long run, stuff like decorating your house, collecting cards, filling out your bestiary.

Housing is just another one of those things that makes the game more "Complete"

[ClashBlades]

Agreed! The retainer system never completely worked to begin with and it is only going to get worse. +1 for peronal and/or linkshell housing.

[Cichy]

All those are good ideas that if were implemented at a release it would've been another thing that could set the game apart from others. I'm afraid now that this is at the bottom of their priorities if ever implemented.

[Jynx]

Personally I don't care about what priority changes like this fall into, much like the bestiary it's just good to hear that they have heard us, and have some sort of plans around this type of content in the future.

I understand their are massive core issues that need to be worked on but without giving us stuff to do inbetween, well I can't say it's how I would do it. Then again I don't have a MMO.

[Cendres]

Not to rain on your parade but I really wish you guys would stick to one thread. This is the fourth one I've read with ideas for housing at least, here's a really good one too: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ight=mog+house

I'd love to see the initial "house" we get start out as a rundown ruined shack. Where calling it a hovel would be a complement and we can only one day hope of upgrading to that. Then through a series of quests and other renovations, the place expands and becomes a place you would want to bring people over to.

Once the place has improved to the point that your retainer isn't afraid of stepping foot inside, more quests are involved that increase his/her inventory space and how much can be sold via the Auction counter.

That's a fabulous idea.

[Joeking]

Reminds me of Phantasy Star Universe room system, everyone had a room which had a shop a integrated, which utilized a search bar to find what you wanted which listed the rooms with cheapest first.