Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

Problem: Multiple houses per account.
Solution: Limit number of houses availiable for purchase per account to 2 or 3, increase price for each house bought. (first small house is usual 3,5; 2nd small house 7, 3rd house 14). This way rich players and players with multiple characters still can own more houses but are restricted from having too many.

Additionally, if player owns a single house, it should be avaliable to all characters on an account. Should said player purchase additional house on different character, neither of the houses becomes avaliable to other characters on the account.

Possibly limit house purchases to 1 Large, 1 Medium, 1 Small house per account, with each additonal house costing twice the usual price.

I love you. Thank you so much for responding. (: I'm sorry, you must be tired and stressed. /pets

As for solutions...

Airships! Instanced airships! Everyone could get one, or every FC could get one, and they would work like apartments, but be bigger and have access to a workshop (maybe a common one for everyone with some limitations?), and have a small garden on a deck so crossbreeding plants would be possible.

I'm sure everyone would love to have an airship!

// or a personal island somewhere! I think Wildstar did something like that, and I've heard it has 'the best housing in any mmos currently on the market'.

I think opening new wards will not be the solution.

The game has thousands, billions of players all over the world and they open only 200 or 300 houses? The problem wont end this way!

We, players who are online all the time , we see things in game, we know some ppl have many houses, even now they are selling the new ones 2x or 3x more expensive as they paid.
To start resolving the problem, each account should be limited to a single personal house and a single FC one.

As i said... Unless they put a house for every willing player to buy one, the problem will be on forever...

Some ppl, even show off, saying they have more than 1 house...

Originally Posted by Niwashi

Just having a delay between relinquishing a plot and having it go back up for sale could prevent selling plots and so discourage hoarding them.

^this

Who will plop down millions of gil to a re-seller if the re-seller can't guarantee they will get the plot? Make the time until it becomes available random and then you pull the bottom out of this market.

Thank you for the feedback.

Speaking of changes, so technically feasible and workable, can other means be used to access housing?
For example, via the Gold Saucer and / or the PGS. For details, see here.

I am happy to see that players complaints aren't being ignored and measures to prevent these problems are being done for future patches. Also, thank you for looking to please more players so they can get a house as well, it truly is sad to see upset friends who didn't have the luxury or luck to get a low login queue and didn't get the chance to buy any house, since they all vanished in less than 15minutes.

Also I do hope that by providing more wards and better house purchase systems, it will eventually kill the house illegal market, where people buy houses with the sole purpose of reselling them and make a profit, instead of using them for themselves.

Good luck all for 4.2 and I truly hope you get to buy a house and have a lot of fun decorating

Thank you for being responsive in a positive way and showing you and your team are open to remedying the situation instead of compounding it. <3

Originally Posted by FagnerDC

Some ppl, even show off, saying they have more than 1 house...

How did they get a Shirogane exterior in the Mists? Is it a new recipe like the Chocobo house? Or maybe... it's photoshopped! Kidding