Housing - SE This WILL Help!

[Verdan]

Something's gotta happen, cause man it's been a long time since there's been houses available.

[BreathlessTao]

May I direct your attention to the Housing subforum where this (and I guess every other related idea and opinion) has been discussed to death already...

[ElHeggunte]

The only thing SE can do to salvage housing is make it all instanced the way it should have been in the first place. They shot themselves in the foot when they decided to make little neighborhoods (cute on paper, trainwreck in practice). No matter what they do they'll never be able to provide enough houses for every single player and FC to have one with the current system.

[Syrehn]

The only thing SE can do to salvage housing is make it all instanced the way it should have been in the first place. They shot themselves in the foot when they decided to make little neighborhoods (cute on paper, trainwreck in practice). No matter what they do they'll never be able to provide enough houses for every single player and FC to have one with the current system.

While I don't disagree with instanced housing I doubt they'll do it and I don't think they originally wanted every FC/individual player to own personal housing (which also sucks).

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Solution for today and tomorrow there is none.

Right now, players coming to this game, only read horrible things about this game housing, lack of basic QoL options (mirror!), customization (all houses are squared clones of each other) and the worse part, accesibility. So yeah, this needs to be adressed and change. In a way that doesn`t hurt the already crippled system.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

The fact personal housing and guild housing are the same thing and you have groups of players fighting for plots against individuals.

Honestly, i think is one of the worse design decisions in the history of MMORPG housing, but, i think housing is meant to be a luxury item only a few can have. Which is horrible beyond words.

[Ayerinn]

The fact personal housing and guild housing are the same thing and you have groups of players fighting for plots against individuals.

Honestly, i think is one of the worse design decisions in the history of MMORPG housing, but, i think housing is meant to be a luxury item only a few can have. Which is horrible beyond words.

unfortunately things that matter to many (chocobo stables, garden) are tied to housing...so much for it being a fluff luxury item, eh?

[Nadirah]

While I don't disagree with instanced housing I doubt they'll do it and I don't think they originally wanted every FC/individual player to own personal housing (which also sucks).

They originally*did* want everyone to have one.

The wards were supposed to be FC only and personal houses were going to be separate and cheaper.

Since they threw that idea out, they kept the prices way up so that no one could afford them and made them ffa.

Basically if you couldn't afford it the instant one became available, you were SoL.

[Stormfur]

It would be nice if FCs could have certain areas for their homes (more like fortresses - Ishguard style!) separate from the player base.

Why the housing wards are not on cloud-based servers that grow as needed boggles my mind.

[MageBlack]

MMORPG.de: A lot of players complain about the housing situation. They want to buy a house, but it is impossible to find free plots on some worlds. Are there any plans to improve the situation?

NY: Yes, we are working on it, and there are three phases. The first step is working on abandoned houses, so there’s no owner, or player there actually. The second step is to make it available to players that they can move house. There is no system in game yet that can help you to change the house, so we want to help and support this in the game. With these two steps we will be able to have some empty plots. Then we want to see if we have to open up an Ishgard plot or add more plot to the existing areas. That is the third step. We want to be careful here and judge the situation first. We are working on step 1 and 2 already. There will be some updates, probably in patches 3.1 to 3.15, around this time.

Source

I mentioned this in my thread about Housing. You can find lots of details and great suggestions here. Please feel free to add to the conversation and see what others have suggested. You have touched on another of the failings in what could have been an excellent piece of content.