Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

This is welcome news. I know there were many people disappointed that they couldn't get housing on my server as most if not all plots were sold within 15 minutes of the patch going live.

A question/suggestion regarding this as a result of the issue where a friend was unable to secure a house for his FC due to how fast plots were claimed. Has there been any consideration of making special wards to allow FC easier access to housing? For example maybe a ward where adjacent small plots are combined into medium or large plots, and only small plots are available for purchase as private estates? (All medium or large plots would be designated as FC housing only)

Yeah so I'm going to point out the flaw in 1 FC house per account suggestion. If you have 50 players in 1 FC on different accounts, that's one house purchase per member on a different account that can buy a house... I don't think anyone wants that.

Better suggestion;
+ 1 FC house for each FC. It gives every FC an opportunity for a home.
+ 1 personal house for each server (or account)

I would love to see for apartments:

- Room sharing with multiple friends
- FC options
- expanded rooms (maybe two rooms instead of one)
- Indoor patio feature (for outdoor objects limit ten item)
- Relocate from house to apartment

I would love to see a personal house convert to FC house option, I would even pay a Gil fee to make the conversion.

Logged in 5am day off. Free Goblet plot 5 second walking distance from new pool area. Tried to relocate FC house. Cannot due to not having permission. FC leader is at work. Did not want to lose opportunity. Bought plot as personal in hopes of switching over later. Come to find out I cannot switch house from personal to FC unless I relinquish, repurchase and lose the millions already spent. Long story short, now I have two house.

SE lets us switch from personal to FC without relinquishing first and some random players gets a free house on Goblet (Exodus).

The main reason I have been extremely angry after the release of housing was, that within 3 minutes after release all big plots were already sold. But not the fact that they were already sold is what made me angry. The fact that all of them were sold to private people was what made me rage. I absolutely do not comprehend, why a single person needs a big plot. In my opinion it should be restricted, that only FCs are allowed to buy big plots. I'd even go so far to say that private people can only buy small plots, but that may be a bit extreme.

What also made me angry is, that most of them were house sellers, since now most of them are owned by FC's now and that Square Enix still has no way to detect that.
It would be so easy to detect: If a person gives up his private estate and within 24 hours + or - he received more than 5 million gil, a hidden message is instantly sent to the GM team, who then will have to do an investigation about every PF he opened within that timeframe + every chat he had with the buyer within that time.

Also I think there should be a way higher punishment: People buying the plot should get their gil refunded and their house auto-demolished + people selling it should get an instant account suspension of 72 hours minimum (same level as the punishment for using cheat software).

Very happy to see a response to this issue, especially so quickly. As of last night there were a few small plots in the old districts on Zalera.

Before I go into this more, I do want to say thank you for adding more wards.

The problem with this is that unless there are more than a few wards added this does nothing to alleviate the problem, just a few more people will get lucky and able to buy a house in Shirogane.

On top of that, I am sure that there are more than a few people like myself and my brother, who decided that we would just get a house in the goblet, mist, or lavender beds and spent all of our money on that. We are a small FC and that was all of the funds our small group had been able to pull together. We are not great crafters and the money we spent on a medium plot represents all of the money we had scrapped together from just before 4.0. So even though you are adding new wards, this does nothing for us, who have spent everything.

My only suggestions for would be:

• One personal house per account (or per server) that is automatically shared with all characters on that account that are on that server. As players cannot make their alts into tenants & many want their alts to be able to access housing features, this will hopefully cut down on people buying a house for their alts.
• Make it easier for an FC member to turn their personal home into an FC home.
• Optional instanced housing for those who wish it.

For housing issues that don't have to do with actually purchasing a plot I would suggest:

• Opening up gardening to people who do not own a house, like a public garden off of the Botanist guild. Alternatively, create gardening plots that can be used by apartment-dwellers.
• Same for company workshops. Open them up to non-homeowners, like a public workshop off of the Garlond Ironworks in Mor Dhona or Skysteel Manufacturing in Ishgard.

Originally Posted by ViaEorzea

My only suggestions for would be:
[LIST][*]One personal house per account (or per server) that is automatically shared with all characters on that account that are on that server. As players cannot make their alts into tenants & many want their alts to be able to access housing features, this will hopefully cut down on people buying a house for their alts.

*SNIP*

Seems fine since I know SE wouldn't be stupid enough to take away houses people already own, regardless of new restrictions...would love to be able to share houses with all of our alts.