Mog House: Functions.

[ViolentDjango]

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're past this... the Retainer system is nothing more than an AH nowadays, and they've already hinted at adding the ability to add HQ items -- so outside of that there's no much missing from it, there's no real reason to waste time and resources at this point steam rolling over the system if its more or less working now -- which it is.

It would be cool if you could use your retainer to set up a shop in your house. Players would be able to search for homes selling items and you could display information about what you are selling. Then the player could enter your house and talk to the retainer to buy something. Replace the market ward with a proper auction house and then have this on top of that. It would also be a great way of showing your house off to people.

We did a lot of that "wow, it'd be cool if...." stuff when Retainers were still in the shadows. Nothing ever turns out as cool as you'd imagine it would be and that's something to consider with these ideas.

I'm all for interesting new options and functionality, but let's remember that it not only takes time for this stuff to be released, but that it typically takes several iterations before its actually worth using. I'd like personal home shops, but I'd never want them to replace retainers with this. Frankly, I'd love just having personal space with huge storage like in FFXI that I can upgrade and customize. My FFXI house was pretty amazingly decorated, if I do say so myself, and I'd enjoy revisiting that experience. Hunting down furniture and collecting statues/trophies was great.