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    Zsolen's Avatar
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    Zanelle Solainteau
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    My FC will certainly use Boutique, since it is a crafting/ gathering FC, and I am going to encourage the use of mannequins by FC members in their chambers for their own profit. I'm not sure what others will fit. Do I put eatery, since we have a cafe setup currently, and we would be willing to accept food crafting requests? I guess it is whatever we make of it.
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    I was just thinking if emporium is a shop then why separate it from boutique? But then I realized this is to point out that there are mannequins XD

    I honestly thought their main reason for introducing tags was because so many decorators have been wanting a way to see on the map who has a message book, so we don’t have to search every single house in the ward. Message books are used to get commissions, so it’s an important thing.

    As far as designer home goes, that’s probably for decorators. There is a niche of people who view decorating houses as an art. If you look at https://housingsnap.com/ you can see that a lot of people take housing to the next level. I personally only play the game for housing. Square Enix recently had an official interior design contest in August. Also, it influences the game economy since sought-after house designers work for commissions that are often more expensive than the house itself and they often work on different servers too.

    As far as sanctum goes, there are a lot of church themed designs probably because of the crystal stain windows. In Japan however, there are very few Christians but “Western style” weddings are very popular, so to the developers churches are strongly associated with Weddings. That probably explains the ring icon. I still think another icon would be better though. Someone in Eorzean Estates recently built a church to celebrate her grandma’s funeral. There are also a lot of temple or shrine themed houses. I personally have a Lakshmi temple in my apartment.



    When I saw venue, I immediately thought they meant event venue. A lot of FCs hold events at their houses where they invite the entire server and play games or do some kind of party. Also, a lot of people decorate based on seasonal events.
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    Quote Originally Posted by not_ya_wify View Post
    As far as designer home goes, that’s probably for decorators. There is a niche of people who view decorating houses as an art. If you look at https://housingsnap.com/ you can see that a lot of people take housing to the next level. I personally only play the game for housing. Square Enix recently had an official interior design contest in August. Also, it influences the game economy since sought-after house designers work for commissions that are often more expensive than the house itself and they often work on different servers too.
    As a Graphic Designer, I feel as though half of the designs on Housingsnap rely on just the photo filters. I get the strong impression some of those homes aren't that impressive if seen normally in-game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
    As a Graphic Designer, I feel as though half of the designs on Housingsnap rely on just the photo filters. I get the strong impression some of those homes aren't that impressive if seen normally in-game.
    I cannot stand the photofilters on housing images. All they do is make things harder to see, let alone actually figure out which specific items are being used.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beckett View Post
    I cannot stand the photofilters on housing images. All they do is make things harder to see, let alone actually figure out which specific items are being used.
    That is a simple mind trick to make the picture look more "real". Horror movies rely on it all the time, using poor lighting to force the viewer to fill in the gaps with their own imagination. It is the cheapest way of keeping immersion when dealing a unconvincing monster costume or a cheaply made set.
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    Speaking of decorating for seasonal events, I've got to redecorate for Halloween soon. So i'm gonna have to spend some cash. Will probably dedicate one floor to it.
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    That’s why you can look at the designer Home Tag and actually go to the house. I don’t really pay attention to the photo filters but rather the furniture combinations. A lot of people particularly when they make white houses do use photo filters mainly because some furniture doesn’t dye as well. But you can also get certain lighting effects with the furniture that’s in game. For example, a lot of people use fish tanks to get a blue tint in open window designs or indirect lights to cast shadows. I don’t pay that much attention to the filters because it doesn’t interest me for what I’m doing. I don’t use them myself because I think it might make it harder for people to see the furniture I used.
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    I feel "Message Book" probably should have been its own separate tag that automatically turned on or off based on whether or not a Message Book was on the property, but I'll gladly take it as it is. There may be some people using it to reel people in for no reason or for certain library-themed houses, just because it isn't set in stone as an indicator of a Message Book. If it works the way I'm expecting, not much can be done about that.

    The rest of the tags are obviously going to be very subjective. I could throw up "Tavern" because my basement has a simple bar, but it isn't really the main focus of my house. I could also use "Designer Home" because I tried to make my first floor look tasteful, but whether or not it qualifies as "high end" is going to vary based on the standards of visitors.

    I don't know. What I'm going to be most interested in seeing is how often the tags are used "correctly." I know people who wear the RP tag on their characters for giggles and don't really do anything of the sort, so the same kind of thing may happen here.
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    We're hype about this on Balmung, RPers enjoying visiting restaurants, shops, etc during roleplay and this will make it really easy to see what type of venue the house is as well as if it belongs to roleplayers.
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    To return to the topic of tags, Imma post some screenshots from housing snap as examples of what I think the tags are meant to represent:

    Emporium:



    Boutique:



    Designer Home:





    Tavern:



    Eatery:



    Role Play:



    Aquarium:

    I’m shook. I can’t find one. I know I’ve seen one before but I can’t find it. I’m thinking something like this:



    Sanctum:





    Venue:

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