Larger Apartments?

[ItMe]

IIRC devs said balconies were part of the original plan, but were cut because they were nearly impossible to implement.

[Zhalar]

I am 1000000000000000000000% making apartments larger or come in different sizes. I love decorating! I would be head over heels with having the option of spending more gil for a bigger apartment so I could do... MORE DECORATING!

On my main I have a Large personal estate, an FC estate (I don't personally own it, but I helped decorate it!), an FC apartment, and a personal apartment.

I have several alts with personal apartments and FC apartments.

I would do raw, bloody MURDER to have bigger apartments to do MORE DECORATING!

This can only be a win for players and for SE. I don't think it'll "cure" the housing market (because tons of players and Free Companies very much DO want houses), but it will make a HUGE swath of the player base happy to have larger apartments for personal expression and decoration.

[ReiganCross]

It would be fun if the Apartment had a Workshop... That the whole apartment complex has to share, like a communal bathroom but for building subs and such. (Ofc, to each their own stuff, but you still get to meet your neighbors.)

[ItMe]

It would be fun if the Apartment had a Workshop... That the whole apartment complex has to share, like a communal bathroom but for building subs and such. (Ofc, to each their own stuff, but you still get to meet your neighbors.)

Kinda like how FC houses have a shared crafting room, that's a cool idea.

[ReiganCross]

Currently Inn Rooms (The stuff you can get on the major cities) comes with more features than Apartments. Have it be about more than just decoration! Give it a small intern garden thingie (Since Balconies can't be a thing). Give it a damn Aetherite! Allow it to access the MB! Allow it to buy the vendor people!

Make it essentially what it was meant to be, a private house.

[Jojoya]

Apartments don't even get teleporters on them

Whatever do you mean? Purchase of an apartment automatically gives you a teleport to the building where the apartment is located. Then all you have to do is click the door and select "Go to your apartment". You also automatically get access to the building's chocobo stable. No need to buy either aetheryte or stable like you would have to do for a house.

If you're upset it doesn't teleport directly into your apartment, you don't get teleported directly into your house either. You're teleported next to the entrance to your plot, just as you're teleported next to the entrance of the apartment building.

A house doesn't come with Orchestrion, Crystal Bell, Summoning Bell, Armoire or Toybox. You have to buy those things for your house if you want them in your house just as you can buy them for your apartment if you want them for your apartment.

There's a marketboard right outside every apartment building. You might have to run a ways to get to a marketboard from a house depending on the plot.

Try buying an apartment to understand what they're like before you start making statements that aren't true. They aren't nearly as bad as some players want you to think.

Apartments have 2 downsides: size and lack of outdoor area to place outdoor furnishings/garden plots. They've got a few perks - they will never demolish, you get automatic teleport and stable access without requiring purchase of additional items. They've got the best ratio of items to floor space for housing in the game. If you can add a furnishing to a house, you can add it to an apartment with the exception of aetherial wheel stands (which can only be placed in a FC house and not private houses).

If you have multiple characters on the same world, you can buy them all apartments in the same building to get the same interior space or larger than you would get with a house and moving between apartments is as simple as clicking the door and selecting the other apartment. You could also coordinate with friends to do the same thing if you want to feel like you're sharing a house with your friends. I just recently did this with my own alts - 5 apartments all in the same building with each apartment serving a separate function (living area, kitchen/dining, study/guest room, master bedroom, garden deck). I set up fake doors on walls to make all the apartments feel interconnected (and darn me if I haven't run into the fake doors on occasion trying to get to the next "room").

[Mykll]

They've got a few perks - they will never demolish,

This I was not aware of. Having fairly recently just got an apartment.

I would love a larger apartment with a small outdoor area. With a larger storage as well, that holds everything house related. Floors, walls, indoor, outdoor. With the normal house benefits, like a workshop, etc. I loved the instanced housing of EQII, I would have no problem picking various instanced sizes if it had everything. As of right now I mainly paid for an apartment for the 100 storage, and to take some baby steps into decorating, especially now that all my crafters are nearing level 40 and can craft a more variety of stuff. Plus all the seasonal rewards they keep giving us.