The Housing problem and my proposed solution

[Kydi]

Housing is a concern for anyone just joining the game.

Myself and several other friends from other MMOs have just joined the game on a busy server. We have a FC now, but our only way of getting a house will be to purchase one from someone else at an inordinate amount of money.

My suggestion, expand on Airships. Rather than gate behind FC crafting, allow purchase of an instanced airship. It could be limited in terms of decoration - for instance a general bridge area inside and personal rooms for individual FC members at low cost. Chocobo stables could be made available through purchasing an additional room in the airship, as could gardening plots etc. I'm envisaging this to be the sort of size of the Tantalus airship in FF9. It would be accessed through the Airship Landing of each major city, or could otherwise be teleported to using an Aetheryte as with a house. In terms of size, it would only ever be a similar sort of size to a medium house if everything was unlocked - an officers room and bridge deck (for everyone), an exterior deck and a cargo bay or something like that. Chocobo stables would go in the cargo bay and gardening on the deck. Set the cost to ~20m gil or so for the basic, and charge 5m gil per extra room. Personal rooms would be same cost as in a house (300k gil?).

It would open up a social area to newer Free Companies, wouldn't devalue having a house as they would still be exclusive and the only permanent areas for FCs and solve the housing crisis (IMO) in one.