Houses are lost sooner

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

My opinion is that if a player is paying for a sub and enters their home every 45 days to keep it active, then there is nothing wrong with that, even if they don't play the rest of the time. They are a paying customer and how much or how little they use what they are paying for is irrelevant as far as I'm concerned.

What I feel IS relevant however, is that housing should be limited to one private house and one FC house (so FC owners can own a private house) per account per server. There is little justification for one player to hog up multiple limited resources (housing) while other players have to go without any private housing. While limiting players to one private house (and one FC house if applicable) won't fully address the availability of housing on high pop servers like Balmung, it would at least make it more fair.

If someone is ambitious enough to level alts and they feel those alts need their own housing for RP reasons, they can get an apartment. But denying another player with no private housing an opportunity to acquire it, just so you can have a house in each residential area (or one for every alt) is just plain selfish in my opinion.

[AmalonStar]

Personally I love how the housing is set up in the wards because of how you can see your neighbours houses and such, it just gives it more of a community feel.

Although with the apartments they've got a start to an idea there. Those are more of an instanced housing, now if they were to add another floor or 2 to those it would give more room to create more of an apartment feel. Another thing they could add would be an outside 'garden area' that you can exit to that would be similar to your apartment except looking like a balcony where you can place a garden patch and some other outdoor furnishings.

[Dustytome]

Another thing they could add would be an outside 'garden area' that you can exit to that would be similar to your apartment except looking like a balcony where you can place a garden patch and some other outdoor furnishings.

They were going to revisit apartments after 4.0 launches at some point and look into that sort of thing (a balcony in general, what their take on that is may be completely different from what we imagine).

[AmalonStar]

What I feel IS relevant however, is that housing should be limited to one private house and one FC house (so FC owners can own a private house) per account per server. There is little justification for one player to hog up multiple limited resources (housing) while other players have to go without any private housing. While limiting players to one private house (and one FC house if applicable)

One thing I have noticed in the past I don't know if anything has changed with that but I have seen multiple housing plots that were all owned by the same FC or at least like 5 fc's all with the same <tag> But yes ppl owning multiple houses is unfair, I would support only having 1 house per account only down side to that would be in cases where you have a character and then someone else in your household has their own character thus there being 2 ppl that play on the same account rather than someone having alt characters they play on.

[Friggan]

I think if they would allow your characters alts to use your house, there would be less people having multiple homes. The gil sellers/spammers have FC most of the time so this restriction is not helping with that at all, just making things tougher for legit players.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

One thing I have noticed in the past I don't know if anything has changed with that but I have seen multiple housing plots that were all owned by the same FC or at least like 5 fc's all with the same <tag> But yes ppl owning multiple houses is unfair, I would support only having 1 house per account only down side to that would be in cases where you have a character and then someone else in your household has their own character thus there being 2 ppl that play on the same account rather than someone having alt characters they play on.

In most cases, video game developers frown on account sharing. In fact it is typically against the ToS. If someone is sharing an account they can also share a house IMO.

EDIT: I do like the idea of apartments getting a bit of a revamp. Right now an apartment is simply a FC company private room without an FC. Its the same exact interior and dimensions. I would like to see the apartment room be unique with a balcony that allows the placement of the smallest garden. Failing that, an instanced apartment garden area that can be accessed from the lobby where a garden plot could be placed.

[Nixxe]

The solution is to develop housing in a way that supplies aren't so ridiculously limited.

[LunarEmerald]

Instanced housing is not much different than having an apartment room. The only difference would be that you can decorate the outside.

It's a poor solution and would diminish the appeal of having a house. The only people who would be happy with this change are people currently without houses.

[Naunet]

It's a poor solution and would diminish the appeal of having a house. The only people who would be happy with this change are people currently without houses.

I have a house and I would love it if SE shifted to instanced housing. We would be able to have more options for customization, increased decor caps for both inside and outside, and everyone would be able to have a house with zero issue.

[LunarEmerald]

I have a house and I would love it if SE shifted to instanced housing. We would be able to have more options for customization, increased decor caps for both inside and outside, and everyone would be able to have a house with zero issue.

The problem is like apartments that there's no community. Nobody else would see your house or walk by it or anything. They could enter your instance but that's clunky and makes the world feel more artificial and divided. It's exactly the same compliant people have with the world being instanced with zones.