Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

Originally Posted by Yuki_Lowell

Thanks for the response, Yoshi-P!!

I hope only Small plot can be used for personal use and Small, Medium and Large for FC's.

NO and NO I want medium House >:-( for my own House! But I don't want small or Large house because I know Large ONLY FC pffft don't think so Med House for FC NO THANKS!

Originally Posted by MistakeNot

It will certainly not prevent speculation here on the forums - encourage speculation is more likely.
What it will prevent is market speculation - where people buy or sell or otherwise prepare to make money from this. If people do not know what changes will come they cannot make preparations beforehand.

Ah I see that makes sense.

Thanks for the consideration. That said, please make it one house per account, no more house for alts.

Thanks for the response Yoshi! And thank you for listening to our feedback! I'm sure you will come up with something good

Originally Posted by DamianFatale

2. Make it so that you can have one house per account, not counting FCs. FC houses should also have a small member requirement no higher than five people. That way people can’t just form fcs to have personal housing. In addition you should also be required to be an FC for at least six months. Also allow our houses to have our alts as tenants.

3. Free company only wards. That way we can be guaranteed to get more housing.

4. A couple wards isn’t enough. Double them.

5. Open new housing wards. Ala Mhigo, Doma, or that Ishgard ward you talked about would be awesome.

I don't think doubling the wards will be nearly enough. Every player should be able to purchase a small, medium, or large house if they have the gil. Every FC should be able to have a house as well if they have the gil to buy it.

I do like the idea of one personal house per server, but apparently each character can have one on a server.

I hope however you do it, there will be enough for people that want a house and there won't be a need to rush to get a plot.

Please take into consideration those that own a house and not allow them to buy another plot for a few weeks after releasing or opening up new areas.

Some decent news - giving more wards is good but how about effectively tearing off the bandaid, step it up a bit and start taking away multiple houses from the same owner in addition to this as well as limiting how many characters on one account can buy multiple plots.

Thank you for the response YoshiP, you are great

Some system needs to be put in place to also prevent the one-man FC exploit for FCs to grab additional plots of lands. I had a look at 1-10 man FCs on my server with a house, and one group had not 1 or 2, but 30 plots just for them, with 1-2 people in the FCs. They even numbered the FC's from 1 and up. So of 2880 plots of land, this one FC holds 1% of all plots on the server.

I would like to propose a potential solution to the XIV staff that would be both cost efficient, and beneficial for everyone, SE included.

1: Limit housing per account to 1 FC house and 1 personal apartment.

2: Make personal apartments instanced, much in the way FFXI is. The difference being, you can upgrade them from small to eventually large, allowing for everyone to own a personal living space without the need for individual plots.

3: Remove personal housing in the wards and make them 100% FC only. This will free up the majority of plots that are owned by multiple characters on the same account. Currently there are 2,880 housing plots between all zones and wards. That's a lot of FC real estate that could be utilized.

4: Make all FC housing ward plots upgradable in a similar manner as the apartments would be. This system would allow every FC to own a large home if they chose to upgrade the the plot to that point.