Housing: there has to be a better way

[Keridwyn]

I really like the neighborhood feel. But I don't understand why -- with this new server move and upgrade -- they couldn't add more wards to the existing areas in addition to the ones opening with Shiro?

I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen someone outside of myself and my friends running around in my housing ward despite the fact it is completely full and the houses are decorated. I never see anyone, nobody's ever talking, nothing. It's not a neighborhood, it's a ghost town. All I ever get is a sense of what could have been but ultimately isn't.

I do like the sound of that Wildstar housing though, being able to form a neighborhood with friends would pretty much be perfect.

[Lyshell]

Just give me access to my own instanced garden for my apartment and it will drop my care/need for a house like that. I actually like my apartment and find it cozy. I just want a garden.

[Legewiel]

I don't know why ppl keep insisting on this instanced house talking, it doesn't solve anything at all. The map with a lot of houses and the house itself are already an instance, that is not the problem here. If this were the problem they could just add more wards or subdivisions to multiply the number of houses.


The problem is that the houses are highly customizable and all the changes you make in your house have to be stored somewhere, so it's a challenge to store all that amount of data. Which were the same problem with expanding inventory and were the same problem that lead for itens sold in mogstation to not be account wide anymore.


To solve the house problem at least, they would need to search for more optimized ways to store that data (which i believe they're already doing, cause they raised the amount of itens you can have inside one house and now they even added this housing itens storage) or to make houses with no customization or just some simple presets that you could choose from (like the lame wow garrisons) and I doubt anyone would like that, to have a house but to not be able to play "the sims" with it customizing every little detail inside it.

[Maero]

No offence but the hell with so called "neighborhood feel", which also is SE reasoning as to why they went this route instead of instanced like so many other games...
It also is not like wards have actual social activity (i have yet to see any)

Sorry if i sound angry but having tried since housing launched and may be disappointed again..

[Legewiel]

No offence but the hell with so called "neighborhood feel", which also is SE reasoning as to why they went this route instead of instanced like so many other games...
It also is not like wards have actual social activity (i have yet to see any)

Sorry if i sound angry but having tried since housing launched and may be disappointed again..

I always get friendly with ppl near my house or fc house, so the interaction does exist and also instanced house doesn't help a thing. They're not giving more houses just cause there isn't more space on the houses menu, they don't give more houses cause of the amount of data that you need to save for each house cause of all the customizations is HUGE and that a instanced house doesn't help, unless it were a static instanced house (no customizations or just some presets).

[Tigerlilley]

One fix that absolutely needs to be implemented is the ability to share housing with an alt on the same service account.

[Mycow8me]

Even Minfilia would agree.

[Khalithar]

The entire housing system is a mess and the devs have been told as such repeatedly from the very beginning. I will reiterate the point I’ve made in countless threads on this very same issue:

If you have the gil, you should be able to get a house, period.

[Joe777]

Not everybody cares for the 'neighbourhood feeling', though. When I played on Balmung my house was surrounded by people using the gaudy chocobo and paissa houses which really ruined the area for me. None of my neighbours were particularly social, either - I don't recall ever seeing them even though I spent a lot of time in my garden.

More wards, are, of course, very welcome though.

I've lived in my small Mist house since patch 3.3 - and I've never even said "Hi" to my neighbor. All I care is my house, inside and out, and how my yard looks like.

Rest of the area might as well be automatically built houses, I'm not interested in the house owners.

For tomorrow, my dream is to somehow manage to upgrade to medium sized house in Shirogane, but sadly the amount of medium houses is very small compared to small sized houses.

Both of these posts actually support the neighborhood feel. Good neighborhood, bad neighborhood, social neighbors, anti-social neighbors, it's the exact same as in real life. Hell I don't really socialize with my neighbors either lol and I will probably be the same in-game too when I get my house. However, I do take notice of when people move in and out of my FC Estate's neighborhood. It's the aesthetic feel that there actually is one instead of just going inside of an instanced house or a yard and a house floating in interdimensional space. Besides, how will I be able to hit someone's retainer they position too close to a striking dummy with Katon and then run before they suspect a thing in instanced housing?

...You heard nothing :|

[Elfidan]

The part that makes me laugh about this situation the most is how little use houses see even on high population servers. I'm sure it's a bit more lively on Balmung , but here on Ultros I rarely see anyone else in the housing district at all. Thirty houses in the zone every single one is owned but my guild of 4 people ,and one other up the hill are the only people who are ever there. Do people really need to own a house they visit once a month? On the other hand why did SE think a limited market was a good idea? For being a former MMO player Yoshi signs off on a lot of obvious problems.