Live Letter Housing Highlights

[Beckett]

Pulled from the Reddit FFXIV Discord: https://discord.gg/2ZK47V

There will be a huge load of housing items to be implemented for Patch 4.5

Change in how interactable housing objects work. Currently, if you place a lot of them, you see them popping in and out. But now, they're separating the appearance from the interaction, so that they'll still display properly all the time.
The furniture placement precision has also been increased. Currently, sometimes you'll notice furniture be slightly off after you log back in, because the server-side stores it slightly differently. But now, they won't move around anymore.
There are a lot of various housing bugs, but if it doesn't affect gameplay they don't mind letting people enjoy them. If it causes server issues, then they'll fix them.

[Dustytome]

Change in how interactable housing objects work. Currently, if you place a lot of them, you see them popping in and out. But now, they're separating the appearance from the interaction, so that they'll still display properly all the time.
The furniture placement precision has also been increased. Currently, sometimes you'll notice furniture be slightly off after you log back in, because the server-side stores it slightly differently. But now, they won't move around anymore.
There are a lot of various housing bugs, but if it doesn't affect gameplay they don't mind letting people enjoy them. If it causes server issues, then they'll fix them.

Interested to see how it works. I really like the idea of having the interactive elements of most furniture available through the housing menu to prevent abuse, but I'm worried there's going to be some weird developer twist to make it overly complicated somehow when they aren't specific on what they've done. The placement thing will be a twelvesend too. So tired of having to do gap compensations after the original placement. Now we just need advanced placement options so we don't have to use the 'bugs' to get things where we want them and a blueprint system so we can save layouts.

[Penthea]

Change in how interactable housing objects work. Currently, if you place a lot of them, you see them popping in and out. But now, they're separating the appearance from the interaction, so that they'll still display properly all the time.

Oh god yes please thank you. It has gotten to the point that I dreaded when new furnishings were interactable because I would have to remove some other interactable furniture if I wanted to use them without seeing them pop in and out of existence all the time.

Now we just need advanced placement options so we don't have to use the 'bugs' to get things where we want them and a blueprint system so we can save layouts.

Yea SE should really get it into their heads that people are intentionally using bugs because it gives them a feature they want. Maybe in 5.0 we'll see some of these bugs become actual features. I'm tired of using bugs. Some of them can be very temperamental so they're sometimes infuriating to do.

[Rymm]

The furniture placement precision has also been increased. Currently, sometimes you'll notice furniture be slightly off after you log back in, because the server-side stores it slightly differently. But now, they won't move around anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsBByTiKfyY

Seriously. It's my biggest housing pet-peeve whenever I get my walls perfectly lined up, leave the house, and come back to find that some little housing gremlin has shifted them just enough to see the seams.

[Dustytome]

Looks like they put up a preview of more items! A lot of housing contest entries being added this round. I've been waiting for this one personally:



The rest of the finished items from the above source:

The garden will make a great filler when not growing things too.

[Rymm]

Thank god they are fixing the interactable bug too, because I plan on putting

ALL over my house, lol.

[Kio]

The lamp looked like a wall hung item in the artwork, am I mistaken?

[Dustytome]

The lamp looked like a wall hung item in the artwork, am I mistaken?

Appears to be tabletop from what I'm seeing from the original submission. I'm not seeing part that would connect to a wall and the lalafell drawing has it appear to be resting on a counter surface of some kind.


Not from the live letter, but a few housing things from this reddit post on Yoshida's visit to various servers:

Q. I want a "standing pose" for the housing NPCs

Yoshida: I'll send your request to the team.


Q. (Question about housing plosts)

Yoshida: We won't be adding more plots for a while.


Q. Can we place the mahjong table in our house?

Yoshida: We need to see how it goes before we expand on mahjong.


Q. Any plans on letting us place the glamour wardrobe in our houses?

Yoshida: After we increase the capacity of the wardrobe itself, we'd like to work on adding locations.


Q. Can you allow us to make the mannequins to sit on seats?

Yoshida: First we want to add more races (for the mannequins). We are adding the Roe and Lalafell mannequins in patch 4.5.


Q. Let us place furniture in our company workshop

Yoshida: It wasn't designed for that purpose, so i'm sorry but we can't allow that.

Yay for two more mannequin races!

[Mikki]

I find it very interesting that Yosida said "We won't be adding any housing plots for awhile", rather than his usual "We don't have any plans to add more plots at this time". Maybe I'm being too hopeful but I'm still really praying for the Ishgard Housing people having been whispering about. Personally I feel like it's a long shot but it would be really nice!

[jameseoakes]

I find it very interesting that Yosida said "We won't be adding any housing plots for awhile", rather than his usual "We don't have any plans to add more plots at this time". Maybe I'm being too hopeful but I'm still really praying for the Ishgard Housing people having been whispering about. Personally I feel like it's a long shot but it would be really nice!

I'd thought they'd all but confirmed it with the rebuilding Ishgard thing?