personal housing clarifications

[Kluaf]

I was wondering if we could get some idea as to how the personal housing is going to work. Will it be exactly like the fc housing where you just buy plot buy house and done? Or are you going to try and boost the economy and have it to where you can choose to supply the materials to actually build the house yourself? Example you need 1000 oak wood 500 iron nails and so forth.

[Seif]

I would also like to know what does this system actually do?
When we invest millions in a house then what are the benefits of visiting/using one?

In xi every piece of furniture amounted to on field effects. I know arr doesn't have this but what good are the personal housings for?

[Estellios]

Just FYI, large amounts of money leaving circulation through buying a house does help out the economy. Anyway, since they haven't really said anything otherwise it's likely that personal housing will behave similarly to FC housing as far as purchasing goes.

Currently housing is mostly just a distraction. It's fun to decorate it and, speaking for our group, it just feels nice to have an actual spot you can call your own and if your group doesn't see that as valuable than it's probably not for you.

That said they do add more and more functions to the houses each patch to make them super convenient for using the markets, getting materials, getting repairs, or easy company chest access and there are plans to have some sort of airship garage and chocobo stables tied to FC housing that would access content. I could see airships being used to enter special instances using items, kind of like treasure maps.