How would have implemented housing in XIV?

[Niqote]

I mostly agree with this and I also didn't think of that. Maybe a price hike on mediums and larges would be a good way to slow that down. If there is no price hike then maybe a "stock house" selection for empty plots which includes yard setups.

I would also like to say that my dream plot is actually a specific small plot in Shirogane and I know a few players who want specific small plots for various reasons.

I respectfully disagree. Smalls are simply too small for a FC and most individuals. If anything the ground floor room needs to be increased to the size of the basement floor and the price for the smalls should go up.

It would also be nice if individual houses could be allowed at least 3 chamber rooms.

[Evogolist]

It would also be nice if individual houses could be allowed at least 3 chamber rooms.

It's beyond me why they never added a private chambers to personal housing when the option to share a plot with friends was introduced. With that being said, I agree with there either being a third floor added to small houses, or the ability to add on private chambers if it's a shared property.

[silentwindfr]

the original plan, the house for the FC and the appartement for the player, it was the simplest. sadly when they had to bring the housing for the player the appartement wasn't ready and they have take the wrong way.
the house for a FC is a tool that offer a lot of possibility like a place of gathering and the airship/submarine venture or the FC craft.

when the house for player is only a bragging right....

[Dualblade]

All housing would have been situated in the Sea of Clouds. Flying would be enabled from the get go with multiple islands being in each instance, with each island being equal to a house. The larger the house the larger the island.

If a player doesn't log in withing 180 days Bismark eats the island. If you have retainers they valiently try to hold it off but only manage to get away with your non-unique items and some gil.

[Vhailor]

All housing would have been situated in the Sea of Clouds. Flying would be enabled from the get go with multiple islands being in each instance, with each island being equal to a house. The larger the house the larger the island.

If a player doesn't log in withing 180 days Bismark eats the island. If you have retainers they valiently try to hold it off but only manage to get away with your non-unique items and some gil.

What if your FC owns an airship? Do the Retainers get away with the unique items then? =D

[Dualblade]

What if your FC owns an airship? Do the Retainers get away with the unique items then? =D

The airship gets in a dramatic duel with Bismark that results in its ramming the whale, taking it down in fiery glory. This does mean you lose your airship(s), but the captain somehow survives this with a limited amount of (randomized) unique items. If you have all the airships you can get you save all your FCs unique items.

May also result in your retainer captain getting some Bismark loot.

[Ishaelin]

Very similar to Septonyte's response with a few differences:

1) Players may go up to any placard and purchase the plots for individual or FC use. This plot would then display their house in this plot whenever they enter the ward.

2) You can choose a specific house, resident, or FC through a search function or list for each plot to display, through the placard. Lets say your FC has a house and members of the FC wish to create an FC themed ward for themselves. Each player would have to buy a different plot, then run to each placard in the ward and select their FC members from the list or search function and display their house. Houses owned by more than one FC member on the same plot would not be displayable at the same time, encouraging plot differentiation for RP and community reasons.

3) You can only see people you have houses displayed for going about their business, as well as people displaying your house. If I can see you, you can see me.

[ElazulHP]

I miss the way Star Wars Galaxies did housing. You had a very large open world map on multiple planets and you could just build stuff pretty much anywhere. People and guilds would form entire cities completely planned, built, and run by the players(including elections to pick the mayor of the city). You could find player owned shops in the middle of nowhere with some of the best deals and stuff around. The group I played with built an entire Imperial City on Lok back in the day. It was pretty bad ass.

Also, if I remember correctly(it's been some time) there was an hourly credit maintenance fee associated with owning a home which was supposed to represent repair costs for upkeep of the building. If you didn't have money it would get condemned until you could pay to open it back up. Take too long or go inactive the building would get purged and vanish back into your datapad. Price of upkeep was based on size of house so larger the house the bigger the upkeep fee.

I can't recall any other MMO's I've played that have followed the same formula, but I wouldn't mind seeing some player cities.

[Niqote]

Separate FC and player housing would have been my first choice.

A system of owning 1 room that you can build on and expand, eventually you'd get the Large house size after lots of wood, nails, varish and various other materials. The same for the Garden outside, collect soil, plants, grasses etc to make your lawn bigger/add more outdoor furnishing slots. These things would be a grind, but a relaxing one. The FC could do it together and you as an individual could share your house with up to 2 other people (though the owner would always retain ultimate permissions)

They would be instanced, but I would have liked to think of a system where you can enter a 'hub' that would include the housing ward NPCs, a cafe and fountain something nice where people have lots of tables or a campfire to sit at and teleport to your houses from this area.

This is where the 'Housing Board' would be located. People can hire crafters and gatherers to provide them with the lumbers/metals and soils/grasses ect they need to help expand their house. This way Combat only players can pay gil or other rewards (for example you can pay in some EX primal drops or minions or anything else much like slots in a moogle mail letter)

The people looking for jobs can take the job and have up to 1 earth week to complete it (Player posting the job can change the timer from 2 days - 1 week). If its complete then the system automatically sends payment, if its failed then the person who failed the job needs to pay a gil fee to the system as a tax.

Long story short ''X player offers these rewards for X job to be complete in X days'' Only 1 job can be taken at a time but multiples can be listed at a time.

Everything would be interchangeable at any time. For example changing the staircase to a Glade style even if you have a Oasis style house.

I haven't really investigated housing systems in other MMOs too much, but this is a small vision that i had.

[Nihility]

I think they're totally fine as is
just add greenhouses to the apartments and an apartment building company workshop and everything would be pretty set.

people that want instanced housing have their apartments, people that want persistent housing have their wards.