Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

Doing a housing reset would not be fair or viable at all.
Forcing a 1 house 1 FC per server per account would be unfair to some, but it would alleviate a lot of problems. That said, to be slightly fair, all alts on that server should have access to the house that the player owns.
An overall new system for relinquishing and purchasing the houses needs to be put in as well to discourage or outright eliminate property flipping.
A better system for when new wards are released.

I think these are they key things a lot of people can agree on.

Originally Posted by NaoTenbe

Forcing a 1 house 1 FC per server per account would be unfair to some, but it would alleviate a lot of problems.

Ideally we should all have as many houses as we like but as long as there is limited supply then the amount of houses a player can have should be limited to match.

One personal house and one fc house per server is enough. This won't punish fc masters for simply leading a fc, and if alts on the same server have access to the personal house then this will soften the blow to those who have several houses. To further soften the blow those players should be able to choose which houses to keep and get refunded the full price of the plot and building permit of those they discard.

On top of this tenancy slots in private houses should remain to allow sharing with other players, and larger houses should have more tenancy slots to reflect the size of the building.

These are definitely not cure all fixes but they would go a long way to improve what is currently available to us.

I feel for FC's you should have more than 10 members to own a house. I been seeing FC's made that only have one person with the sole purpose of getting a house to flip. There are so many solutions hopefully there is one that can benefit everyone. I have 1 house I would like to keep it that way lol! No resets please, I took a lot of time and effort in decorating my house XD.

One solution would be this:

(Instance house/or maybe even plot housing)
Have an NPC that sells ghost plots. Meaning paying for a plot that doesn't exist in the game. So long you have the money you can just pay it.
Pros: Zero randomnesses, Zero obstructions and 100% availability so long you have the GIL.

[If instance]
Then once it is paid, you will immediately receive the plot

[If normal plot]
Then once it is paid, you wait for the next "Ghost housing implementation patch day" where Square Enix will launch those houses for people used the NPC to buy the house. That way there will be no oversupply and won't stress the server. You will get it eventually maybe wait for a month or two instead of never getting it. This will also give you (developers) time to put in plots/wards that will balance out demand/supply. Everyone will get a house, so long they can pay for it. That should be the only ceiling of getting the house.

Also, 1 house for personal and 1 for FC. This is key.

Change apartment to Condominium

The condominium will be a duplex type condo meaning there will be two floors and will be the size of a small house. A balcony can be purchased as an upgrade for gardening.

Put fun into getting a condo, you can add Condominium utility which everyone in that condo unit can share these utilities, these utilities would be:

1) A gym - training dummies for everyone to use
2) A SWIMMING POOL (So people can swim and stuff)
3) Workshop (Where people can use crafting station for a small fee)
4) BBQ pit! People can buy food there and be a gather spot for people to chill and meet with her condominium owners!
5) ChocoPark (Carpark) where you can park your chocobo there and do Chocobo stuff
6) Condo transport to people to Exploratory Voyages.

These will help because you will then eliminate the need for people to get their own house because they can do everything in it!~
PLUS IT IS AN INSTANCE thus helping with the server stress if any.

No money to stabilize and make more wards from 2.3 was a questionable matter to this day. YoshiP has more excuses I bet.

One thing that could solve a lot of problems, Is if SE was able to institute a way to switch a personal home over to an FC. That way, more players in you're FC could access the amenity's in you're home, Myself, I own a medium personal. And have for a couple of years now. If it could be transfered to an FC, That would solve a lot of problems. It would allow access to the home for all the FC members, Plus the added stable space. I tried to get a house when Shirogane opened, but was 1 of those that had login issues. When I was able to get in, (and I started trying at 5 minutes till 3am pst) finally got in at 3:05am, at the ferry NPC , and all was gone except for a very few smalls and mediums. If as I said before, a personal could be transfered to FC Without a change in ownership, I (and I'm sure there are others) Would be Happy with what I allready have. Oh, and btw, I am the leader of my FC.

Locking down the housing from this point on to one per account per server. While doing this you can grant the allowance of rooms to be added like in an FC house for your multiple characters or to those who have been granted permissions to access your house leaving it at the limited number of I believe it's 3. I wouldn't punish those who already have several houses on their account. As long as they are in use then they shouldn't be punished for it.

Apartments need to have permissions for other players you trust to be able to use items (ex use food items). It would be nice to have the option to have built ins for the walls like in the inn rooms to help with space. Allow us to have shelves that are built into the walls be an option for us to put books or trinkets on. It would help free up the floor space for other things. If we can add windows to the current walls why not let us add something like this?