Instanced Housing

[Maero]

Instanced housing, and we would not of had the mess we currently have.
They still could of had it so other players can visit you.
I get the whole community idea but with such housing shortages, and players having multiple homes while others have been wanting/trying to get 1 for a while is sad

[CuteWhisper]

I wish apartments were bigger. Maybe even have a balcony for people like me who likes to garden, and even have penthouses with multiple floors. It would help the housing situation.

[Crim2989]

Instanced housing would be interesting with it being roughly the size of my medium house, and offered the same incentives as a ward at a fraction of the cost, or offer theme'd zones like waterfalls/caves or something.

by having the wards FC only, can promise there would be more Shell FC's as Naria stated...get three friends to sign, level it up yourself buy you a house that can now be sold later, without having to demolish most assets. That being said best way to reduce overhead when crafting is to have ward access to all three market boards... cut your taxes and teleport fees considerably as well as being able to offer any items in any 3 city/states which can mean the difference of a sale.

[Crim2989]

The rush for housing though is no joke, often your first and/or second plot pick will be purchased before you can even login to the new ward. The idea of resale would help free plots, if crazy inflation were regulated. I know some people only keep a sub to login before the demolish date just to keep the land. Though would also allow RMT to transfer vast amounts quickly by changing ownership without loss. So far best way to get housing would be to watch reddit for FC's selling. Just the mindset difference between Jap and NA/EU players.. We would rather work over time for a few big paydays then daily for a faster total income over say a year.

Glamour and Housing being end game really does spur a lot of crafters and the economy as well, unless making raid items. Unless they make other avenues that players can pursue towards in-game wealth that don't require a constant grind to cap ... like scripts it'll be more of the same.

[crc0427]

It's pointless to keep bringing up this topic. It's been here several hundred times and I don't think a dev has ever responded to it.

[Berret_Snowbear]

Yeah I fully support instance housing! There doesn't have to be a whole lot of change to the current wards either. You'll still be able to walk around and see other peoples yards and what not but if you click on the board in front of the house you'll get a list of people who share the same plot, click on a character and that house and yard load up. Wards will still retain the same feel, but everyone would be able to get the plot they want and ACTUALLY get a house which is impossible right now, and you know it's going to be impossible in Stormblood until they fix this broken system.

[Wyntir]

I'd like to see personal housing moved to its own section and instanced. Like in mist for example, if you run to the end of the beach and go around a boulder or something, it could pop up as a map change area and you could get the apartment options of going to x,y,z house. It would be an entire house, yard and all, with the beach view + water and such, and then make the wards themselves FCs only, as some have suggested. For people who already own personal housing, just transfer their house+yard to the new instanced part, or refund them what they spent on the plot (or give them a small/med/large house certificate or some such, good for one free house in the area of their choice) + all items, so they could then move to a different ward if they wanted to (probably the better option as I know people who have houses in wards they didn't really want because it was that or nothing).

I'm sure some of the people who own a private house will complain, but you can't please everyone. This is the fairest way to my mind for the entire community.

[Acilith]

Yep I agree with Erik. No point in making an already restrictive system worse. I would love to see instanced housing alongside the wards. Honestly, personally, I'd rather have an instanced in yard so I can RP in the yard and not worry about random people coming by the troll me and my friends.

[Pireco]

I think diadem would be the perfect scenario for instanced housing, i mean you could see in the horizon your neighbours , give a option to visit peoples plots, but also have a option to be particular...
Ok im describing wildstar housing, but its so overwhelming the freedom to customize your space , its really your place in the game, also the cash shop could be used for "good" , selling packs of items for a good price, when people pay like $20 for a set of glamour armor , $30 for a pack of 10-30 itens would be fair and people would buy tons of it.
I mean no mmo today is really innovative, why not copy one of the best feature in modern mmos?

[ElasmoFan]

I honestly wouldn't even care about owning a house if they opened up apartments more instead of making them just their own fc rooms. While it would be nice to have a house with some extra decorations outside and a theme to the house (carbuncles T_T), I care more about just having a place to do gardening for things that are used in crafting as well as opening up the apartments and making them the size of a small house (or a mix between the two) so I can have some extra room then there is now to do things.

Charge us more gil to "upgrade" to a loft or something with a balcony or just an indoor garden. I mean I have an easier time getting the couple million you need to buy the house, I just can't find a house or have the 3 to 5 times the value price to buy it off someone when the rare occasion pops up that someone is selling.

Like I understand the problems with changing a system that's already in place but why not change the instanced content that more people have access to.