Expanding Housing limit

[nranola]

I agree 100% with increasing the limit for large houses. I'd like an increase of 100, personally, and I'd always welcome more. There's just so much space to cover!

Smalls and mediums I feel are at the sweet spot. Maybe add a little more to mediums, but you can definitely make some really nice houses with the current limit.

[not_ya_wify]

Continued:

Additionally, as more new furniture is released, designers want to incorporate more of these furnishings into designs and the item ratio comes more into aw
Therefore, I advocate for doubling the slots to balance out space-to-item ratio.
For a mansion, 800 slots will still be restrictive but it would give us more options to be creative.

As for outside decorations the item-ratio is abysmal for any type. I understand that the entire ward is loaded but why don’t they make it so that we only load the items in other yards when we get in like a two block radius? There’s no need for me to load the stuff on the other side of the ward. It’s not even like we can fly our mounts and look at the housing area from above (which would actually be super nice.

[Kytrin]

I agree with everything said above. We definitely need a doubling of the slots. I've managed to achieve a decent balance in my medium, and even managed to make a mansion reasonably decorated for a client, but it's hard. I always have to think about blank space, and can never have the detail that I want to make the place look properly lived in.

[Themarvin]

Please add more housing space....

Large +200
Medium +100
Small +50
Apartment/FC room +25

Ty you very much SE if want to do this for us.

Other suggestion outdoor alll houses, add free spot for mailbox, aetherport + chobobo stable only for those 2 items to be extras or the likes, or just add mailboxes to any housing.

[not_ya_wify]

So that gives us the following items per tile numbers:

FC room/apartment - 2.1
Small - 1.9
Medium - 1.4
Large - 0.7

Thanks for putting some numbers to this issue. It’s really helpful to think about it this way. So, the apartments can place 3x as many items in the same amount of space as a large. That’s a huge difference!

So, that means the devs should be aiming for ca. 2 items per tile or if we are going by partition squares (a lot of the floor patterns and rugs have that exact size) we need 8 items per square.

I feel like they could add them as optional spots, like the way the chimney, awning, fence, and placard are optional. Keep the yard items for anyone who wants to place them somewhere other than default, let folks who are content with standard placement leave them in.

FYI — aetherites don’t take up item slots. You also can’t remove them after they have been placed. I think chocobo stables might be the same. I think they should do that for all of the interactive items that offer game functions like stables, mail box, message books, etc.

Also, agree that I would like to have a non-moogle message box. They really don’t fit with the Hingan decor...

[not_ya_wify]

I am very curious as to how your house looks. My fc house has still something like 80 slots left and the house looks quite full, aside from the upstairs but it won't need 80 slots to finish it. 15 at most.

Perhaps it's down to us using much larger furnishings so we get more for one slot.

If you can “fill” an entire floor with 15 items, I would assume that you’re not a decorator. This is an issue for people who put a lot of time and effort into decorating.

For example my bathroom sink here takes 26 items alone (not counting the partitions):

[Rymm]

If you can “fill” an entire floor with 15 items, I would assume that you’re not a decorator.

That's putting it a bit harshly, you might want to rethink your wording on this. As it is, it comes off extremely condescending. She said that she 80 slots left over after decorating most of her house but could finish filling up her top floor just using 15 of those. And there is absolutely nothing wrong in going with a sleek, less cluttered look in your interior designs anyway.

FYI — aetherites don’t take up item slots.

They absolutely do take a slot. So do the stables.

[Themarvin]

[QUOTE=not_ya_wify;4779341]If you can “fill” an entire floor with 15 items, I would assume that you’re not a decorator. This is an issue for people who put a lot of time and effort into decorating.

For example my bathroom sink here takes 26 items alone (not counting the partitions):

Uhm.. if you need to many spaces though you are not a decorator either, sorry I just noticed... also with large houses... it is the matter of the whole wide area containing a few classy things that make it difficult to do a large house most of all as well... decorating is not about putting 40 items into one single corner, it more or less show lack of effort spreading it out or unable to do stuff with current decorations without having to go advanced, so please don't call people out saying what they are andf what they are not... that bathroom more or less look like something from a 20 year old game as well

As for creativity it is a matter of using what got already and make it work, that is decorating... for 15 items in a room... very simple and elegant way of doing that... room with crafting the decoratings alone standout well enough to fill a room, or a kitchen... one of the rooms I made in my large house only contain 17 items in a wide spread and looks good.

[Jojoya]

Uhm.. if you need to many spaces though you are not a decorator either, sorry I just noticed... also with large houses... it is the matter of the whole wide area containing a few classy things that make it difficult to do a large house most of all as well... decorating is not about putting 40 items into one single corner, it more or less show lack of effort spreading it out or unable to do stuff with current decorations without having to go advanced, so please don't call people out saying what they are andf what they are not... that bathroom more or less look like something from a 20 year old game as well

As for creativity it is a matter of using what got already and make it work, that is decorating... for 15 items in a room... very simple and elegant way of doing that... room with crafting the decoratings alone standout well enough to fill a room, or a kitchen... one of the rooms I made in my large house only contain 17 items in a wide spread and looks good.

You both need to chill out a bit. Everyone has their own personal preferences when it comes to decorating. There are no standards that have to be met to be considered a decorator. There doesn't have to be a minimum number of items use nor a tight limit. Things don't have to placed only in small groupings anymore than every square inch has to be packed. It's what you personally want in your space that matters.

not_ya_wify's bathroom counter came out extremely nice considering the items we have to work with in the game. If you can do better for a bathroom counter, share screenshots with us. It would also be nice to see the screenshots of the entire room in your large that you decorated using only 17 items.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

You both need to chill out a bit. Everyone has their own personal preferences when it comes to decorating. There are no standards that have to be met to be considered a decorator. There doesn't have to be a minimum number of items use nor a tight limit. Things don't have to placed only in small groupings anymore than every square inch has to be packed. It's what you personally want in your space that matters.

not_ya_wify's bathroom counter came out extremely nice considering the items we have to work with in the game. If you can do better for a bathroom counter, share screenshots with us. It would also be nice to see the screenshots of the entire room in your large that you decorated using only 17 items.

I want anything with a sink on it.

Oh a table top item like this: