Visiting personal houses should be more accessible

[alimdia]

In other games you can right click people in your friend list to visit their house, here you have to go through the hoops of finding their housing area, finding their ward, finding their plot and slowly walking there.

I feel like people would hang out more around houses if they were more accessible. And of course, there should be a setting to prevent people from porting to your house if you wish so.

tl;dr allows us to teleport to the house of people in our friend list.

[Lexia]

Cause it just so terrible that just can't teleport everywhere in the game isn't it?

[Mhaeric]

I feel like people would hang out more around houses if they were more accessible.

The actual reason for the suggestion, not laziness.

[Bacent]

How about just highlighting their housing plots when you go to teleport to a ward? I feel like it'd be easier to implement than to give everyone a possible teleport by going to the friends list....seeing how that just makes me thing if you have many friends in game you'd see a lot of teleports at the top of your teleport list for housing.

[Paladinleeds]

How about just highlighting their housing plots when you go to teleport to a ward? I feel like it'd be easier to implement than to give everyone a possible teleport by going to the friends list....seeing how that just makes me thing if you have many friends in game you'd see a lot of teleports at the top of your teleport list for housing.

It could be a right click option in the friends list instead of that. Right click friend -> "Teleport to Plot" -> Cost shown on screen, accept or deny? If accept, start the teleport as normal. Problem solved and it won't fill up the "Teleport" list with houses.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Idk about teleporting, but I do think it would be nice to be able to see their address possibly through the search info screen?

[KisaiTenshi]

In other games you can right click people in your friend list to visit their house, here you have to go through the hoops of finding their housing area, finding their ward, finding their plot and slowly walking there.

I feel like people would hang out more around houses if they were more accessible. And of course, there should be a setting to prevent people from porting to your house if you wish so.

tl;dr allows us to teleport to the house of people in our friend list.

It's a reminder that in other games, their housing areas are ugly and boring. In other games the housing area is just a way to give people a locker, often for extra cost or gold-sinking. In other games there is often something like a "house key" that sends you home.

Heck in one game, you could abuse the house key mechanic and use it as a way to teleport all over the game by using it as an unlimited return ticket. Emergent gameplay, entrepreneurial activity, or abject laziness. It was even recommended that that developer actually delete return tickets/house keys because it allowed teleporting to zones that were event-only. As an example, in one game there was a "moon" zone used for events, and if you saved a ticket there, you could transport (and abandon) friends there, since there was no way to actually teleport from there since it was an event zone. In that game people used it to get into another event-only island area and then item drops from that area started appearing on the market, outing the cheaters.

In FFXIV, I think the solution is pretty obvious:

a) Let friends give friends a "house key" that can be revoked at any time, this allows the player to teleport to/from their friends house, and is indicated as a house-key icon on the friend list. This is a one-way trip. For FC houses, this actually goes to the players "room" and if they are not a member of the FC (and the FC doesn't allow non-FC people to enter,) exiting the room sends them back to where they teleported from.
b) Friends that do not have a house key, can teleport to the property's "mailbox" if they are already in a housing area as long as they are online. Teleporting to anyone searchable is also possible.
c) Return tickets are generated back to the area teleported from as long as the player is still in the housing area. Once the housing area is exited, all return tickets are deleted.

What created that bizarre scenario in that other game, was hackers editing the zone the return ticket sends you via hacking tools, since the number being sent from the client was trusted by the server to be valid. That's easily resolved by having the server know where the ticket is supposed to go, and deleting them server-side from players that are outside the housing zone.

[alimdia]

Cause it just so terrible that just can't teleport everywhere in the game isn't it?

What's so wrong about populating the wards a bit more and having friends easily come to your place?

I'd say it would boost in game socialization a bit more.

[Gamer3427]

I just want there to be a change so that if I'm in a party with someone, and I teleport to my FC house or apartment, then they're able to teleport with me. It doubly doesn't make any sense that even if they're also an FC member, they have to manually teleport to the FC house as well, while when you teleport to any other aetheryte they have access to they can piggyback off your teleport. It also just feels awkward at times to be in a party with a few friends and say "Let's go hang out at my apartment. I'll teleport there and then I'll see you all in five minutes when you go through several teleports and menus to get to it."......

[bswpayton]

In other games you can right click people in your friend list to visit their house, here you have to go through the hoops of finding their housing area, finding their ward, finding their plot and slowly walking there.

I feel like people would hang out more around houses if they were more accessible. And of course, there should be a setting to prevent people from porting to your house if you wish so.

tl;dr allows us to teleport to the house of people in our friend list.

the housing system is all jacked up I just simply would like to not be teleported out of my own house just because I ran a trail roulette