[Proposal] Instanced Gardening

[Maku]

Like the title says, lets get instance gardening. They had it in FFXI, so they already have a skeleton to develop off of.

Gardening is one of the main reasons that apartments didn't satisfy the community. There are of course others but this one is huge.

Housing in the current implementation should only be for RPing; however, due to gardening it has a significant game function attached to it. Thus, it isn't just an extra little glam style of thing.

Gardening instances would do away with this discrepancy and would help the whole locking people out of content issue. They could throw a choco stable in the instance as well and get both game functionality issues out of housing with one swing. Housing would be totally just for RPing/Decorating and would have no financial advantages to it.

Workshops are FC only anyway so, I have no idea for that.

STOP TRYING TO MAKE THIS THREAD INTO ALL THE OTHER "WE HATE EVERYTHING, CHANGE IT ALL FROM THE GROUND UP"!!! It will NOT happen so let's try and keep this thread talking about a solution that could work with/add on to the current system.

Updated Idea thanks to actually helpful comments.

Add instanced gardening onto apartments. Make all players able to have the exact same size of garden, no more house size differences, so that everyone has the same production capabilities.

[Gelesto]

The idea for an instanced allotment for apartment dwellers sounds great! why not

[Maku]

The idea for an instanced allotment for apartment dwellers sounds great! why not

I want it for everyone, not just apartment owners due to the limited number of apartments. I am trying to do away with limitations.

[hydralus]

But I like limitation and exclusivity.

[Saccharin]

The idea for an instanced allotment for apartment dwellers sounds great! why not

We need a housing revamp not quick fixes.

[Maku]

We need a housing revamp not quick fixes.

Just continuously saying "Revamp" like every other thread on this forum does will not accomplish anything. This is a solution to help with some of the issues with the current major house system that they have, and which is unlikely to ever change in any major fashion.

Instanced gardening would give all players to the two things that housing has that actually affects other aspects of the game.

[Skivvy]

I really do think just providing a stable & full garden option to all players could alleviate some of the pressure over their (poorly-implemented) housing system

-For the chocobos, they could introduce a couple of public stables in the cities. This would allow those without access to a house or apartment the option to level their chocobo, and dye the feathers.
-For gardening, they could attach a gardening instance to the inn room (similar to XI's Mog Garden instance). Doesn't have to be as elaborate, but this would bring full gardening options to all players since we all have Inn rooms.

If that were to be impleneted, we would then essentially have 3 levels of a housing experience to choose from:

-Inn rooms - if you are looking for function function only. Everyone would have access to a full garden/public stable.
-Apartments - To take care of your decorating needs and to provide a more personalized space.
-Private/FC housing - For those who want the full housing experience.

I'm sure a concern that would arise is that people could potentially double-dip with gardening since both the apartments and housing already have this option. I figure if people are already paying an additional 500k - millions, they should have some additional perks.

To help combat alts/bots who are created for the sole purpose of gardening, I'm sure SE could come up with some requirements that are needed before you unlock the garden instance.

Anyhoo, just tossing out some ideas

[Gelesto]

I want it for everyone, not just apartment owners due to the limited number of apartments. I am trying to do away with limitations.

I'm a returner not been up to date with updates, i assumed appartments were the solution so everyone could have a house without requiring space, now i've been let down.

[Jybril]

We need a housing revamp not quick fixes.

Not trying to shut down OP but yeah.
I agree with Saccharin. I'm honestly tired of band aid fixes.

[Saccharin]

Just continuously saying "Revamp" like every other thread on this forum does will not accomplish anything. This is a solution to help with some of the issues with the current major house system that they have, and which is unlikely to ever change in any major fashion.

Instanced gardening would give all players to the two things that housing has that actually affects other aspects of the game.

I was being polite when I said revamp it needs completely reworked conceptually and most importantly, technically.

Having such a huge feature available to the lucky/rich/whatever-you-prefer was design stupidity.

Plant pots, apartments do not fix the flaw in the system but just adds sticky plasters to it. Each player should have access to a house, even just one per account, not just a few people.