Apartment Housing

[Lithera]

Then how does an NPC Town that is out of render range of every single player in the game get "saved"?

You misunderstand what they mean by "save". They're referring to the fact the interior housing instances aren't left active on the server when no one is in them. While theoretically you could log out then log back in when someone else is in the house, there's a chance there might NOT be anyone and you'd be trying to log in to an area that doesn't exist. I suppose they could change this so the game would populate the instance when you log in but I imagine there's some issues there with the lobby server etc. The reason we could do it before was because initially they DID leave the instances active. They changed this to make more efficient use of their memory.

[LeCard]

I very much agree and wish wholeheartedly I could have my own customize-able inn room. Next to chocobo raising and gardening there is NO real reason to own a house other than to show it off with all the useless vanity stuff you can stuff in it ^^;

Not everything is vanity items. There are crafting stations that grant some sort of bonus to it's type of crafting. If they did more of this it could make housing alot more fun. It would be cool if having certain items in the house granted extra rested bonus or maybe improved HQ gathering while on rested bonus etc. This would give a bigger reason to have a house.

[ExiaQuanta]

be nice if every personal housing/fc housing came with a door that "linked" you back to a "inn" room.

[JeniLinsky]

Eh. It worked for the mog houses in FFXI. I'm sure they could have, had they desired to, come up with the same thing in this game. They just didn't desire to.

[Thorne_Bitterclove]

I actually really like this idea too! It would be great for people who for whatever reason don't want to even be in a free company and can't quite afford their own personal house.