FC Housing? What's the point?

[Souljacker]

My FC has a lot of fun in our house. We only have a small one right now, but we have the garden going and I'm looking forward to the individual player housing being added. I do think that maybe the gardening aspect shouldn't have been implemented as a "guild" thing. It wasn't in XI, and I have heard of some guilds that have "discussions" over what to grow and who is handling the garden. So far we have escaped any such conflicts, but whenever you have an aspect of the game with the potential for large profits... you run the risk of big conflicts by adding more people to the mix.

So in closing, I really like the housing. It makes my FC feel like it's not just a linkshell to take on and off. We are a real presence in Balmung - a real permanent fixture.

[MicahZerrshia]

There is no point.

In my exp there is one person in the fc who wants to use it as their own personal housing. They don't want to let anyone else move anything, do anything, change anything or touch the house in any way they don't want you to, yet they expect everyone to pay for and contribute to the house and use fc funds to pay for furniture immediately after an update when its at its most expensive.

FC housing means really nothing but bragging rights and a way to entice potential members. Total waste of time and money.

[SeraviEdalborez]

There is no point.

In my exp there is one person in the fc who wants to use it as their own personal housing. They don't want to let anyone else move anything, do anything, change anything or touch the house in any way they don't want you to, yet they expect everyone to pay for and contribute to the house and use fc funds to pay for furniture immediately after an update when its at its most expensive.

FC housing means really nothing but bragging rights and a way to entice potential members. Total waste of time and money.

Sounds like you have a bad FC then.

[MicahZerrshia]

Sounds like you have a bad FC then.

*Did* I am no longer a part of that fc, there were more than just this issue so I am a wondering smn seeking a home atm.

But I have heard other ppl complaining about the same thing in other fcs

[whiskeybravo]

There is no point.

In my exp there is one person in the fc who wants to use it as their own personal housing. They don't want to let anyone else move anything, do anything, change anything or touch the house in any way they don't want you to, yet they expect everyone to pay for and contribute to the house and use fc funds to pay for furniture immediately after an update when its at its most expensive.

FC housing means really nothing but bragging rights and a way to entice potential members. Total waste of time and money.

Sounds like a horrible FC..

Housing is great. Personally, our FC had been saving for a long time, mainly due to just being a few key contributors. After several long time members left (some joining their static's FC, somepeople felt left out, etc) and a few other key members mentioning they might move on if we didn't get a house soon - we buckled down and raised 10 million in 2 weeks, and got a medium house. Everyone has become more involved with running as groups, we are always hanging out at the house doing silly things and such, it really turned our FC around in a positive direction.

That's one of the intangible benefits of FC housing, may or may not apply to everyone. That aside, it is super awesome having menders and vendors in the house, MB and summoning bell a few steps away. A nice, and (mostly) quite place to craft or do whatever you want. Just kind of your own little space.

Large houses are definitely cool, but medium is just fine. Don't get a small if you have more than 5-10 people.

[Mizudes]

On the Aegis server, All lots in all 3 zones are filled including each ward.. Only a 4 Mansion slots are free. but thats like after combing through every ward in all 3 zones.

Ain't no one got time for 11ty million gills for that!

i want a FC house

[SeleneVenizelos]

Our plot (30, Mist) is right next to a market board and is a stone's throw from the shore where there's a few vendors selling a few items that no other vendors sell. We have a beautiful Leviathan water feature in the garden (now with added glow), a delivery box that jingles a simplified version of the Moggle Mog chorus when you have a mail and ample foliage and pretty lights to make our yard attractive to onlookers and residents alike. The views from our plot are, in this humble homeowner's opinion, second to none in all of Mist. Our gardening patches are an excellent source of money for those with priveleges to plant and pick.

Inside our luxuriously decorated estate we have a summoning bell, two vendors, a mender and ample room to sit down, relax, talk, chill out or craft. We have a wide variety of plush, novelty and trophy furnishings to make our company home really feel like a hall of gathering for our members.

Despite all this, only 6/41 of my FC ever hang out at the house. Even with the above plus the drastically lower load times in Mist than a city people just don't care. Why? Because housing gives no tangible reward to anyone except those that can garden. Even then, that is temporary until the market is inevitably flooded by the few items that make money. I really like our house. I paid for 80% of the cost and decorated it myself. It pains me to say that because the majority of people in this game are so end game orientated they simply don't have time to appreciate what's good about housing. "It doesn't give me anything!", "What do I get from it?", "It's not my house anyway!" are just a handful of some of the phrases I've heard.

It depends on your attitude and goals in this game whether housing gives you anything.

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

Our plot (30, Mist) is right next to a market board and is a stone's throw from the shore where there's a few vendors selling a few items that no other vendors sell. We have a beautiful Leviathan water feature in the garden (now with added glow), a delivery box that jingles a simplified version of the Moggle Mog chorus when you have a mail and ample foliage and pretty lights to make our yard attractive to onlookers and residents alike. The views from our plot are, in this humble homeowner's opinion, second to none in all of Mist. Our gardening patches are an excellent source of money for those with priveleges to plant and pick.

Inside our luxuriously decorated estate we have a summoning bell, two vendors, a mender and ample room to sit down, relax, talk, chill out or craft. We have a wide variety of plush, novelty and trophy furnishings to make our company home really feel like a hall of gathering for our members.

Despite all this, only 6/41 of my FC ever hang out at the house. Even with the above plus the drastically lower load times in Mist than a city people just don't care. Why? Because housing gives no tangible reward to anyone except those that can garden. Even then, that is temporary until the market is inevitably flooded by the few items that make money. I really like our house. I paid for 80% of the cost and decorated it myself. It pains me to say that because the majority of people in this game are so end game orientated they simply don't have time to appreciate what's good about housing. "It doesn't give me anything!", "What do I get from it?", "It's not my house anyway!" are just a handful of some of the phrases I've heard.

It depends on your attitude and goals in this game whether housing gives you anything.

Plot 6 in Mist is simply the best. Direct access to the docks, thereby you have ownership of said dock. Time to start charging boat fees.

[Rex]

Our plot (30, Mist) is right next to a market board and is a stone's throw from the shore where there's a few vendors selling a few items that no other vendors sell. We have a beautiful Leviathan water feature in the garden (now with added glow), a delivery box that jingles a simplified version of the Moggle Mog chorus when you have a mail and ample foliage and pretty lights to make our yard attractive to onlookers and residents alike. The views from our plot are, in this humble homeowner's opinion, second to none in all of Mist. Our gardening patches are an excellent source of money for those with priveleges to plant and pick.

Inside our luxuriously decorated estate we have a summoning bell, two vendors, a mender and ample room to sit down, relax, talk, chill out or craft. We have a wide variety of plush, novelty and trophy furnishings to make our company home really feel like a hall of gathering for our members.
Despite all this, only 6/41 of my FC ever hang out at the house. Even with the above plus the drastically lower load times in Mist than a city people just don't care. Why? Because housing gives no tangible reward to anyone except those that can garden. Even then, that is temporary until the market is inevitably flooded by the few items that make money. I really like our house. I paid for 80% of the cost and decorated it myself. It pains me to say that because the majority of people in this game are so end game orientated they simply don't have time to appreciate what's good about housing. "It doesn't give me anything!", "What do I get from it?", "It's not my house anyway!" are just a handful of some of the phrases I've heard.

It depends on your attitude and goals in this game whether housing gives you anything.

^ Basically.

I have a private company with 5 other real life friends and a couple others met on XIV. At the time of buying the house, me and 3 of my real life friends were the only ones around and we bought a nice little small plot on the 29th (i think) plot of the 4th ward of Lavender Beds. We've made it our own. And we all use it. We made a little bar downstairs and the upstairs looks like a Maelstrom office. We have a little garden outside and plan to raise chocobos when that becomes available too. We have a firepit as well.


I don't think it's about "what do I get out of it" It's more of a place where you can go and enjoy your time with your friends instead of sitting in town with 100s of other people around you making noise. It's a lot of fun to have a little house with a couple of your friends. It's fun to enjoy the game. Not constantly run end game. Besides, it's the place we hang out when we have to do a bunch of myth or soldiery runs. It's where we meet. Hang out. Sure it doesn't have a whole lot of features now, but just because it doesn't have something for you RIGHT NOW doesn't mean it won't be increasingly valuable in the future. What's wrong with giving your character a home to go to?

Plus, we were the first ones in the 4th ward, so it was completely empty and quiet. It was fun to watch people slowly move in.

[DeadlySevenSins]

My only issue with FC housing has been that we as an FC did not get to choose as a whole where our plot or what we would be getting was going to be in the end. So the leaders (two of them not even all of them) choose a spot and a small house because they panic because at the time that was the last spot in the Mist. But that is more of an FC issue than a common one for most people. I get the idea behind having one, because we do have meetings occasionally and hang out with friends there. I personally love it because its a quiet place for me to craft, sell, and hang out with a few people. In the end I am more excited about personal housing and I hope the rumor about having a joint house with someone is true. But that is something I will have to wait on for a long while.