[Feedback][Suggestions] Player housing

[templerwzl]

**ALL SUGGESTIONS BELOW ARE BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE AND OPINION**


Situation:
Insufficient player housing plots and wards for existing or new players to purchase. Player are forced to compete over each other to obtain housing spot in housing wards. Player will have to wait for the invisible timer before they can purchase house. This timer servers to prevent house flippers. This issue causes player to wait for extensive amount of time just to purchase a house.

Proposed solution:
a. Create more wards or extra subdivisions. This seems to be the easiest solution but not effective for the long run. For example: create housing for Ishgard housing.

b. Developing a system that allows one plot to be owned by multiple players. For example: talking to house place card to select house to visit. Default will display player’s house or free company house.

c. Creating housing wards for Free company owners. Therefore, free companies will not have to compete again other player that wants a private housing. To prevent house flipping, free company ownership transfer costing gil only if the free company has a house/lot.

d. Allow conversion of private housing into Free Company housing. Vise versa.

e. Reduce invisible purchase cooldown timer so it’s not extensively long. Or create a marking or animation to display the housing timer.

Benefit:
a. Every player and free company have a chance of owning this own house

b. House flipping can be reduced

c. Player wellbeing can be improved. *I noticed lots of player stay up for prolong time just so they have a chance of getting a house*

d. Housing demolishment can be put on hold if proposed solution “b” is implemented.

Potential Obstacles:
a. High development cost: If a new system is introduced. Create the system, obtaining 3d models and etc could result in extra development cost.

b. Unpopulated servers might not receive new players as it’s not required to play there just to get a house.

c. Time concerns: As developing and programming a new system would require substantial amount of time and is needed to be able to squeeze into tight schedule.

d. Initial bugs and errors: Newly implemented system might cause the game to crash and error to happen if not properly created.

Thank you very much for your time and energy! Hope my suggestions and feedback can be of use to your development process.

[Eriane_Elis]

There are many threads like this one and it's been requested many times before. The general consensus is that they will likely not do anything about it but maybe slightly improve housing instead of radically changing it. For the time being at least, they have to focus on world transfers, a ton of new players like WoW refugees, 5.0's release, etc...

The housing situation will resolve itself within two months. Cancelling the demo timer for a year is really what screwed new players without houses to begin with. But what you're suggesting is parallel to this thread here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...rd-to-do-maybe...

[NeverWinterNight]

I would just create an APP for people to view House districts on each World.

Than they could transfer to World like this, with lots of free houses:





Instead of crabbing on to a single World, than waiting in long line to get a home.

[gtasthehunter]

How about gardening only plots no house! And would be able to placed deluxe garden patch x6 and outdoor furniture. And anyone that had or has a house can't get one of these! And alts on the same server/world shouldn't be allowed to buy these either.

I'm sure some players have more than 1-2 houses that they don't even really need, and are just stopping others from getting any! I think this needs to be looked into, to make sure no one has more than 1 house!

[feol]

I REALLY think they should be doing something about this. On my server, Mateus, I have a queue time to even LOG IN in the daytime if that gives you an idea of how saturated it is. Being an RP server, a lot of people want houses.

There's even an FC that owns an entire ward of houses because they got them before they changed the way housing works, which... is entirely unfair to the TONS of people who would probably like to have a house to begin with. If the housing was just instanced in a different way, this wouldn't have to be an issue.

I'm tired of having to camp for 8-12 hours for a housing plot to open up, only for someone to snatch it up right in front of me. I pay for this game monthly. This is a feature of the game I was looking forward to, and put the work into unlocking.

But because the management of this feature is so BAD, I can't even use a feature of this game that I PAY FOR MONTHLY. It's INCREDIBLY frustrating to have all nighters clicking a placard over and over and over, only to have it all be in vain.

FIX. THIS. PLEASE.

[gtasthehunter]

I REALLY think they should be doing something about this. On my server, Mateus, I have a queue time to even LOG IN in the daytime if that gives you an idea of how saturated it is. Being an RP server, a lot of people want houses.

There's even an FC that owns an entire ward of houses because they got them before they changed the way housing works, which... is entirely unfair to the TONS of people who would probably like to have a house to begin with. If the housing was just instanced in a different way, this wouldn't have to be an issue.

I'm tired of having to camp for 8-12 hours for a housing plot to open up, only for someone to snatch it up right in front of me. I pay for this game monthly. This is a feature of the game I was looking forward to, and put the work into unlocking.

But because the management of this feature is so BAD, I can't even use a feature of this game that I PAY FOR MONTHLY. It's INCREDIBLY frustrating to have all nighters clicking a placard over and over and over, only to have it all be in vain.

FIX. THIS. PLEASE.

Probably bots that can buy faster than real players. I would like a house too and all should be large or large enough plot but cost the amount of a small but you can upgrade in some way to a large house! And they shouldn't be really expensive!

Edit: Allow for a deluxe garden patch x3 for apartment owners in some way outside or inside!

Could also say if anyone has a plot and not decorated and used it in a decent amount of time they should forfeit the plot!

Like this, if it stayed like this for 30 Day or so it should be forfeit but should they get there Gil back?

[DrWho2010]

maybe they just like open lawns? minimalist style?