Will there ever be a way to access housing features....

[Blindheart]

Will there ever be a way for the average player to access housing features without having control or ownership of a house?

I need access to a garden to make onions to level my chocobo, or dye my chocobo. Or even get crafting items for various minions and outfits.

I finally leveled my crafters to 60 I decided to clear out my orchestration rolls only to find that the lvl 3 paper needs items from company airship missions. I can only imagine what other crafting parts are locked behind this feature.

Seasonal quests have awarded me with outdoor housing furnishings... Where do I put them other than store on my retainer? I can't even preview them?

I expect everyone to respond... Well go buy these things from the market board... And I respond, why are game features locked behind other players? I want to play the game and earn these items myself. Why do I have to be locked out of content just because I'm not the fastest player in the server?

[DrWho2010]

you'll have to create your own fc so you can get to do these features. it's not hard.

[Elamys]

you'll have to create your own fc so you can get to do these features. it's not hard.

You still need to have a house to do those...............FCs don't just magically get a house.

[Kurando]

It's a social game, if you are unable to acquire a house or an apartment then join an FC that has one. Only the airship stuff is locked behind a house, everything else is pretty accessable so look for the opportunities.

[Elamys]

Does it not seem odd to you that a major feature of free companies REQUIRES housing? Why should somebody be forced to join a particular FC just to participate in content that should be accessible to all? If I'm in an FC with my friends but we can't get a house because they're all taken, why should we be stuck abandoning the FC we've made just to do content?

And no, it is not just airships locked behind housing. Garden crossbreeding is as well, and that can be quite important to crafting. There's no way around it; you need a garden.

[DrWho2010]

there are ways of getting access to a garden, you're just choosing not to go any of those routes. gotta work with what you got. devs aren't likely to change this aspect of the game anytime soon.

[Blindheart]

there are ways of getting access to a garden, you're just choosing not to go any of those routes. gotta work with what you got. devs aren't likely to change this aspect of the game anytime soon.

What are the magical ways you describe? So far you have only mentioned go create my own FC... And as was stated that does not magically grant a house.

Should I abandon the FC I'm in and go join another? How likely do you think a FC that has a house will take in a random stranger and let them do whatever they want with their resources?

[Tsubaki75]

What are the magical ways you describe?

You can place flower pots in your fc chambers or in your apartment and grow anything that you can in a garden. They were released some time ago, the only thing you can't do with them is crossbreed

[HyoMinPark]

Should I abandon the FC I'm in and go join another? How likely do you think a FC that has a house will take in a random stranger and let them do whatever they want with their resources?

With regards to garden access and chocobo training, a lot of FCs, from what I know, allow everyone access to those features. Usually the only things that are heavily restricted are FC Chest access, and things like demolishing the house/relinquishing the land. But for simple things like gardening and using the chocobo stables, those are usually open access for all ranks in an FC.

I know that the Apartments have chocobo stables. Do they have the same features as a stable you would have in a personal or FC house? If so, there's your answer to at least training and feeding your chocobo. Still need actual garden plots to crossbreed for Thavnairian Onions though, which flowerpots cannot provide.

[Krotoan]

I for one would love if they'd implement an instanced "greenhouse" for players who want to do large plot gardening for crossbreeding and a instanced "hangar" for FC's that'd like to do airship missions but weren't able to grab a house.

In home pots and planters are cute and all, but they really aren't a solution for granting players access to the plant rearing mechanics in place.