Adressing the roots of the housing problem

[Darrcyphfeid]

THIS!
They can just make an instanced balcony with say 10 items or something.

They have absolutely zero foresight. There's an interview that was done with Yoshi (don't have time to track it down at this moment) where he says that the way they went about creating/instancing apartments wouldn't let them incorporate yards/balconies. Maybe that's something they can figure out whenever they get around to ironing out details for making medium and large upgrades for apartments, but... yeah. That's gonna be a good while yet.

[Kytrin]

They have absolutely zero foresight. There's an interview that was done with Yoshi (don't have time to track it down at this moment) where he says that the way they went about creating/instancing apartments wouldn't let them incorporate yards/balconies. Maybe that's something they can figure out whenever they get around to ironing out details for making medium and large upgrades for apartments, but... yeah. That's gonna be a good while yet.

Well no, given all the drama with new wards and new rules and such I would hardly expect such a change in the immediate future. However, Yoshida did mention they would look into upgrading/reworking the apartments after 4.2, so it's not entirely unreasonable to think they might revisit this within the next 2 or 3 patches.

[Besame]

If they did some serious QoL changes for apartments (increased size or upgradeable to something at least comparable to a regular medium sized house, indoor gardening, indoor striking dummies) I would be all for moving to an apartment and letting an FC buy my personal one after it demolished. I'd have most of my furnishings, and I'd get back most of my gil. The difference would be negligible enough I wouldn't care.

A cool large 2-story loft-type apt with some planting area and big windows would make many happy I bet.

[Kytrin]

A cool large 2-story loft-type apt with some planting area and big windows would make many happy I bet.

Aye! You wouldn't even need to worry particularly about having vendors or anything since I think they're all right on hand in the lobby. So no trying to partition off space for them. Other than that, two stories approximately medium size is more than enough space for one. If they made it two mansion size stories that would be plenty of room for damn near anything you wanted!

[MeridaQ]

There was actually a winner from the furnishing design contest that had a brilliant idea for an indoor garden furnishing. If I remember correctly it would be approximately the size of an oriental bathtub and feature 6 or 8 plots you could plant things in. There was even koi fish and other things to make it decorative even without plants. That alone would work well enough for most people I reckon.

Where did you see this? I want to see!

[Kytrin]

Where did you see this? I want to see!

This is the link: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...ccec8720f538c6
The one you're wanting to see is the Oriental Indoor Garden. It's about 3 or 4 clicks down the page. Personally I want to see everything from the winners list in the game! These folks made some sexy, sexy, stuff!

[MeridaQ]

This is the link: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...ccec8720f538c6
The one you're wanting to see is the Oriental Indoor Garden. It's about 3 or 4 clicks down the page. Personally I want to see everything from the winners list in the game! These folks made some sexy, sexy, stuff!

Thank you so much! Looking at it now!

[Kytrin]

Thank you so much! Looking at it now!

Not a problem! Enjoy the goodness!

[Besame]

I would like a toilet, small sink and smaller pedestal tub. Tired of digging a hole outside then washing up in the pond to relieve myself...

[Elamys]

I wish I understood why SE seems to be so against adding access to gardening, chocobo stables, and airships to people without houses. If they want to keep the ward system, it's the only way to keep things fair - essentially make it so that having a house is only for QoL/prestige.

Put a public stable in Bentbranch, airship hangar in Mor Dhona (or next to your squadron door) and greenhouse...somewhere. For aiships and greenhouses, maybe pay a fee to use them. This is a very elegant solution to the biggest problem with limited housing (content that you can't access because you don't have a house), it's been suggested hundreds of times, but they just won't do it.