Please fix or remove housing!

[ErikMynhier]

That's exactly how I read it too. OP, for a minute I thought you might be on Balmung. Is your server overpopulated or have you just not tried hard enough? I'm still seeing open lots just about every night on my server.

OMG I was expecting Balmung too. 100% honest.

[Watachy]

Ya! Remove housing!... because if I don't get to experience, no one should be able to!

Decent request since im paying the same sub as the players who experience it.

[Parisstilton]

I'd be quite happy with an apartment (assuming I could get one as I'm on Balmung lol) if it came with gardening.
That's all I really want a house for tbh. I'm in a large fc and I do all my crafting and chill stuff there so I don't really need a house in a ward. The garden there is used to produce chocobo foods for the fc (which is nice) so I don't have access to it. I've got my 2 little pots but they mostly keep my chocobo in nibbles and I'd like to grow some flowers
Even if they added the ability to have more pots and cross breed if you put them near each other would be ok with me. Though an instanced allotment would be awesome!

Edited to add I'm a new player and the gardening was one of the things I was most interested in. I started the game on a smaller server where I could of had a house but didn't know anyone and found it difficult to find people to play with. I moved to Balmung because I knew people there, knowing that my gardening dream was probably going to be just that and I don't regret it. It would just be nice if all players (who are all paying the same amount each month) could have equal chance to get everything.

[Dustytome]

I've got my 2 little pots but they mostly keep my chocobo in nibbles and I'd like to grow some flowers

Flowers only take a day to grow, so you might give it a try. Just plop some potting soil and seeds in and then alter the colors as needed with the pumace and a day later you've got flowers. Also I don't know what Balmung's prices are on soil, but it may be cheaper to purchase chocobo food from the Vath beast tribe vendor (don't think you've unlocked it yet looking at your level, but someone in your fc might have?). They're 348 gil each and if you're using G3 shroud soil, unless it's about 2,790 gil for the soil, you'll get more selling (or just not buying) the soil and just directly buying the chocobo food. Plus you get the food instantly and you're not spending the time/garden space on it.

[Evol]

I'd be quite happy with an apartment (assuming I could get one as I'm on Balmung lol) if it came with gardening.

Exactly the kind of idea I wanted people to reply with! I hear ya, and I really do like (though I've never played XI) how I hear XI seems to have done it, every moghouse came with a garden.

The garden there is used to produce chocobo foods for the fc (which is nice) so I don't have access to it. I've got my 2 little pots but they mostly keep my chocobo in nibbles and I'd like to grow some flowers

Exactly the kind of issue many people run into with housing. Thank you for posting.

Even if they added the ability to have more pots and cross breed if you put them near each other would be ok with me. Though an instanced allotment would be awesome!

I think that's a great idea! Gardening is one big reason I'm unhappy with the housing system. I also want to experience actually building the airships, not just joining an FC where they have all 5 already made - and being told to go to Diadem and be happy. Also, in 99% of those same FCs, not everybody has access to exploratory missions....where the big gil is.

[Besame]

I was lucky enough to get a small house when they increased the wards a few months back. There were 2 plots across from me that people bought and did nothing with. They simply sat on them. After a while seeing no one, I sent their names in and asked them to check because I have friends that wanted houses. No reply, and the houses continued to sit there months later with no deco, nothing. Eventually the 2 plots got demolished, someone bought them and they continue to sit unoccupied and undecorated. Seems like there would be a better way to get people housing that want it. This game has the worst housing of any I have played. it needs to be totally redone because no player should ever NOT to be able to have a house...terrible design, just lazy and inept.

Housing should be able to be added onto instead of demolishing your small and hoping you get to the medium or large before it is scooped up. Standard size lots with the ability to expand would of been the intelligent thing to design, people add on to their homes in real life ya know lol. They also need to add hook space allowances. I have things placed as I like and would enjoy adding more to walls but guess what??...no more slots.

[Evol]

I was lucky enough to get a small house when they increased the wards a few months back. There were 2 plots across from me that people bought and did nothing with. They simply sat on them. After a while seeing no one, I sent their names in and asked them to check because I have friends that wanted houses. No reply, and the houses continued to sit there months later with no deco, nothing. Eventually the 2 plots got demolished, someone bought them and they continue to sit unoccupied and undecorated. Seems like there would be a better way to get people housing that want it. This game has the worst housing of any I have played. it needs to be totally redone because no player should ever NOT to be able to have a house...terrible design, just lazy and inept.

Housing should be able to be added onto instead of demolishing your small and hoping you get to the medium or large before it is scooped up. Standard size lots with the ability to expand would of been the intelligent thing to design, people add on to their homes in real life ya know lol. They also need to add hook space allowances. I have things placed as I like and would enjoy adding more to walls but guess what??...no more slots.

Thank you!

Great ideas, through and through. I would love to see it implemented in the fashion you speak - especially if they could do it while making it available to all!

[Parisstilton]

Thanks for the info Dustytome
I didn't realise flowers only took a day so I will try them next cycle. I haven't opened the beast tribe yet but now I know I shall be ready! I'm lucky with soil and stuff I have a good friend who has played forever who gives me stuff and my FC mates are very kind too

[AmalonStar]

I agree that being able to buy a house is difficult and seems to not be enough to go around. Yes there are people that will buy up multiple plots and then charge insane amounts of Gil selling them to other players (personally I think those people are rmts mostly).

The house I have took me a while to get and a lot of waiting and checking each city housing areas almost hourly. Housing should be available to everyone in my opinion. If they do the apartments the same way they did the mog house's back in ff11 you could get 2 floors of space plus an outside gardening area.

[Mirch]

this thread tastes really salty