We need a "remove all from house" option, BEFORE Kugane opens

[RichardButte]

Fun fact: if a player is logged in somewhere inside your house (UPDATE: or even standing anywhere on the plot), you cannot demolish or relinquish your plot of land.

I'm guessing this will apply to moving your house to Kugane as well.

So to prevent the most diabolical trolling ever (or just an absent-minded FC member who genuinely meant no harm but you'll probably want to strangle anyway), can we please have an option in the housing menu that simply teleports everyone currently inside the house to the entrance to the housing ward?

Yes, it would have to override things like crafting as well (maybe start a 60 second countdown that warns everyone in the house that they need to vacate before it kicks them), but I'm sure people can see how badly this could be abused, here.

This has also been a giant PITA for people who have wanted to buy a new plot that just opened but had someone AFK inside their house. Really, this feature would be awesome for a number of reasons, Kugane just being the latest.

Here's an example where someone almost didn't get a plot they wanted due to an AFK FC member in their house:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-private-house

You can lock the house in the days leading up to Kugane, but the problem is that I'm sure many, MANY people who plan to move don't know that they cannot relinquish land if there's someone in the house (since they've probably never relinquished land or tried to do so with someone in the house) and will find themselves longing (read: raging) for this exact feature...

UPDATE: You apparently also cannot move is someone is standing on your plot at all...

As far as I know, it's enough to be in the garden. When i relinquished my last fc plot to move, a few memebers were still standing in the yard so it didn't work.

So this option would need to boot people to the entrance to the residential ward to ensure they don't simply step back onto the plot after removing them.

[Rymm]

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Why not just lock the house a day or two before?

[JunseiKei]

A better question: Why not have the demolish, relinquish force the person out automatically? Simply having a force teleport because the option demolish/relinquish (or whatever they implement for house moving) was selected should solve this.

[Kosmos992k]

Did you all forget the previously announced and discussed housing transfer system that is meant to be ready before the new wards open?

[SendohJin]

I'm guessing this will apply to moving your house to Kugane as well.

If they have a desire to implement your option, they can just make this not true.

[SendohJin]

A better question: Why not have the demolish, relinquish force the person out automatically? Simply having a force teleport because the option demolish/relinquish (or whatever they implement for house moving) was selected should solve this.

well for 1 if they are crafting inside the house will they lose all their mats?

[Neri]

Is that true? Since, well, even if you log out from inside the house, when you log back on, you ended up outside in the yard? Does that really count as your character still in the housing instance?

[Kosmos992k]

Is that true? Since, well, even if you log out from inside the house, when you log back on, you ended up outside in the yard? Does that really count as your character still in the housing instance?

No.

The ward instance is a permanent zone that is maintained by the game all the time. The interior of a home is a transient instance that is created when someone enters and taken down when the last person leaves. You log back into the game and are placed outside your house because the instance you were in when you logged out may no longer exist.

If you semi-permanently AFK in your private chamber oin the FC house, that instance will exist and create a log jam - until you logout or are forced off the system somehow.

[Legion88]

before Shirogane opens there will be a maintenance -> maintenance means forced logout for everyone -> noone can be inside the house for the opening of Shirogane

[Sekkei]

So that's why we get booted out every time we get pulled into DF when in a house. ...That also explains why I'll never be able to stay in my apartment no matter what. I'm sad.