Dilapidated Houses

[Meshico]

A big resounding "NO" it seems. Well I of course liked the idea, but won't go no where if no one likes it. I do appreciate the feedback, at least the ones that gave real answers. To the others... __________.

[Cigaran]

I've played a game where you could have personal housing and even set up play ran cities. Both of those required an upkeep cost as a way to funnel funds out of the game. The cost of buying them though was far, far lower than it is in FFXIV. Even with that, the main problem that came up was people felt as though they were locked in to the game and couldn't take a break. If things happened in real life that prevented them from playing, they could lose everything. With that in mind, the costs and penalties for not maintaining the structures eventually got reduced to the point where it became meaningless.

For something like this to work, the initial purchase amounts would need to be 50% at best of what they are now. I'd actually suggest only 25% of their current value would be needed in order for the system to work. Then you would need to establish either a weekly or monthly amount that needed to be paid. This amount would need to be automatically deducted from the Free Company's funds. As you point out, this is supposed to be a group effort but there is nothing to compel members to donate to these funds. To address that, you'd need to either have an option at the FC Leader level where they could "tax" the amount of gil that a player has coming in, or have a new Company Action where a bonus 10%/20% of all gil earned was donated to the Free Company. Even after adding all of this, you still will have yet to address the main question; what value does something like this bring to the Free Company Housing system?

[Sakasa]

Well OP I agree with the general idea of the look of the house, no so much about the fees, upkeep mostly because that wouldn't stimulate the economy that would just remove gil from the system making a gil sink after they worked so hard to introduce more gil in. But it would be kinda cool for one of the Mansion's in the housing district to look worn out almost haunting on the outside. But I think it would be best having it the other way where people could buy/make the cosmetic pieces to make their house like Dilapidated. So it looks kinda like Hakkue Manor walk up I think some people would enjoy that. This issue with that is eventually you come to the idea to expand on that and some ideas would be massive eye sores to some (and intentional by the trolls) Like a gaint colibri house for the blinding bright pink. Or you can go the other direction with decoration house changes but then some one will ahve christmas tree in their yard till august...