Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII! (Exploring Patch 4.0)

Hello, as you are aware there is a very high demand for housing but very limited supply and there are many things gated behind housing (workshop, cross-breed gardening, exploration missions, aetherial wheel actions) that players and Free Companies cannot utilize because you need a house for all that content. For FC's, lack of housing hurts recruitment as they lack amenities like Grade 3 buffs or the FC workshop. For individuals, not being able to cross-breed crops puts them at the mercy of the market vs. being able to grow items themselves and be self-sufficient or being able to earn gil for themselves.

Will we only be gaining 720 housing plots (72 Large, 168 Medium and 480 Small) per server for the entire 4.X series? Also will there be limitations put on individual accounts that own multiple houses spread across their characters?

You've mentioned before the expansion landed that there may be a second increase in inventory limit for players. Are there still plans for that second additional inventory increase?

Hello again, in previous interviews it was stated that we will be able to go into dungeons with our GC Squadron in 4.1. Will this provide the ability to gain experience points to level alternate jobs as how PvP or Palace of the Dead currently provide alternative routes to gain EXP? 30+ minute que times to wait and enter a single dungeon is not a great use of limited time and it would be great if our GC Squad can serve more of a purpose than just another form of retainer venture.

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While Warriors skillsets changes if you go into defiance or deliverance, why didnt you do the same thing with blood Price and Blodo Weapon for Dark Knights? This would have saved one slot in the hotbar by just doing this.

Do you have any plans to update character models at all?

Hello, sorry last question. With LV. 70 characters running around with much higher damage output than the zones were intended for, many ARR and HW hunts die within seconds of appearing and make earning Allied Seals for riding manuals very difficult to obtain. Can you please either lower the cost of riding manuals or allow us to purchase these manuals using Grand Company Seals or Gil?

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With the release of SB the ability of scholar lv70 and below, whether as a healer, or as an attacker, is so underwhelming compared to whm & ast. Little new utilities were added in any meaningful way and so many real useful aoe skills (like miasma2 aoe or the ability to keep constant aoe damage with Shadow Flare were taken away and replaced with very limited abilities that rely on the limited 3 stacks of aetherflow). In any dungeon scenario if a party member dies then scholar has a serious issue maintaining mp after that if aetheflow stacks are not forced to spent on Energy Drain. In short, what I'm saying is that it's a horrible idea to have so many of the scholar abilities to be depended on those aetherflow stacks which have a rather long cd and thus render scholar less useful than whm or ast in certain emergency scenario that require burst healing. Do you have any real intention to address this issue? or just go with the typical Yoshi P's saying "get gid gud" or "wait and see"?

What concepts and themes were considered when designing the new Far Eastern areas in Othard and Hingashi?

Do you ever intend to add more character presets in the character creation? Currently FFXIV has 4 face presets for all races and the same face paint options since ARR. Does the dev team ever intend to expand those options?

Repeating what I said:
Before 2.1 and 2.3, you promised us that you would separate Free Company housing with Personal Housing. But instead, you've made it worse and said you made an excuse saying it wouldn't help the community. Now today, the housing system is not improving but getting worse. Is it possible that you can allow Free Companies to purchase their own wards with a high amount of gil so that max of 512+ plots and 512+ apartments can purchase the plots inside the ward(s)? By doing that, can you allow them to upgrade their interior sizes/furnishing slots and exterior sizes too? - For these plots reduce the prices of the FC Wards. Move out FC houses out of the current wards with full refund and give them the chance to purchase the FC ward instead - having FC main house in the center of Ward map in primary plot section.

As for current housing wards, make them all personal instead. But increase their wards up to 100~200+ to make sure that even one player who owns 8 alts could purchase it if they want to, so that people won't have to complain ever about plots being short or limited. Every time whenever Wards are being full in any server or even sizes are full, the server should recognize it and build a new ward automatically. Whether if it is large/medium. Not everyone is willing to stay small forever.

When player relinquish the land, please give 80-90% portion of the land as resale. To prevent the people from over price selling the land and to avoid violation of Term of Service.
Lastly, if people who are personal wishes to join in FC ward that are not FC members and purchase in the plot - perhaps they can get special permission to build housing in there. Now should these people who are in FC ward wish to leave FC or had special access wishes to move out, they'd be moving to personal ward where it's strictly for non-FC players only to purchase in these wards. They can transfer for free and grab the plots that are available within those 50-200 wards, whether it'd be small,medium or large.