Instanced Housing?

[UnrealTai]

They should have both. I don't really care about "showing off" my house (every ward is empty so LOL???). I'd give someone my plot if instanced housing were implemented.

Both ya, We have a fun time with our neighbors, but for those with empty wards whynot have that option.
Makes sense tbh

[TwistedTea]

Instanced housing always seemed lame to me. I like the tangibility of how houses are right now.

As a house owner,every time I see statements like this regarding housing, I assume the following:

1. The people making the statement want housing to be exclusive to feel special.

2. That they want to live in a persistent neighbourhood.

3. House flippers/re-sellers who are worried that the value of the properties they own will go down.

If instanced housing is introduced, it's not like SE will do away with legacy housing.

Hopefully, with instanced housing,everyone can have a house and those who want to live in a 'feel special'/persistent neighbourhood can contest plots in the existing housing wards.

Secondly, under the current system,on populated servers, you have people with multiple personal houses(grandfathered in, etc).

And then there's the fact a single service account can have 8 FC houses.

Just 100 players with 8 FC houses: 800/4320(Total plots on a server iirc) or ~18.52 %

Adding more persistent wards will not fix the problem of house hogging.

With instanced housing, you can guarantee that every individual will get at least 1 personal and 1 FC house.

[Leloa]

I don't mind if they add that, as long as old housing stays the way it is and FCs won't be instanced. Would be messed up to take away our houses for a change like this. People weeping about it can have the left over instance houses, I still want to show off.

[Eldevern]

Since housing areas are most of time (if not always) dead empty, instancied housing would be a very good news. A common area with main aetheryte and shops could even make housing areas more lively.

I'm not a computer expert by any means, but wouldn't it generate an unmanageable amount of server load to create that many separate instances in the game? The servers have had trouble in the past with instance based content as it is.

It is already the case for Inn room, FC rooms and apartments. There's no reason it be a problem. The only reason is see why they keep things as they are is wards are persistent environment as cities or common maps (that sounds to me as the worst technical choice ever).

[Evogolist]

I am curious as to why everyone keeps thinking that the current housing system would be scrapped for instanced housing. The old wards would stay there and if they wanted, they could always add new ones if they wanted to the four residential areas that always exist. If anything instanced housing would be infinite giving everyone a chance of owning the size house that they want, instead of farming 30+mil only to find your dream plot taken. This has literally been the argument of the housing situation. People want their dream plot after working their butt off for it, but instead, end up having to settle for that small cottage in the middle of a ward bunch up with a bunch of other small cottages. The point is, people shouldn't have to fight for the houses they want.

You should be able to get what you worked hard for. You should not have to stop enjoying the game, just to camp a plot every time a new housing area goes live, only to possibly miss out on it and have to wait another year or two or three for more wards to be added.

Also, each new expansion brings in an influx of new players, with Shadowbringers probably bringing in the most with all the marketing they did. I can only imagine how some of them may possibly feel, seeing these beautiful housing areas, but having to settle for one of the few small plots that apparently no one wanted or having to settle for an apartment, limiting what you can do with housing.

[MOZZYSTAR]

After owning a house for several months, I realised that I actually preferred my apartment.
1. I wasn't obligated to visit my apartment just to hold onto it, because new apartments will appear if they fill up (which means if I can't afford to play the game for a little while, I'll still have my apartment to go back to).
2. I really didn't need more than one floor as I like making lofts (I like lofts IRL, too)
3. Someone could teleport to my apartment just as easily as they could teleport to my house, which is great.


The only thing I miss about owning a house is the landscaping. So, if they could just give us another door in the back of the apartment, so there's like this little patio/balcony space you could treat like a garden, I would be completely satisfied.



Though, I think it'd be cool if there were different sized apartments/guild halls for a person's personal preferences and/or needs. Like, in .hack//GU, to visit yours or a friend's guildhall, you had to speak with the gatekeeper and select that guildhall's @home. The @homes varied in sizes and outlets (like our version of a workshop for higher tiered guildhalls), too. I don't think instanced housing is a bad idea.


I like having neighbours. Back when wards were more lively and people actually hung out in them, it was a blast. My only worry is that will never happen again with instanced housing (but then it's not happening now so...).

[Seraphor]

Rather than changing the housing system, I'd rather they expanded Apartments.

Give the option for a Duplex Apartment (size of a small house) and a Penthouse Apartment (size of a medium house).
They'd be instanced, alternatives to owning a full house.

Then, add in Allotments for those who want a garden. (this may be something we're getting in the future?)
Separate, instanced gardens.

Housing can still exist as it is, tailored more for FC's than individuals, but for those who just want their space and functionality, there's cheaper, hassle-free, instanced alternatives.

[Evogolist]

Rather than changing the housing system, I'd rather they expanded Apartments.

Give the option for a Duplex Apartment (size of a small house) and a Penthouse Apartment (size of a medium house).
They'd be instanced, alternatives to owning a full house.

Then, add in Allotments for those who want a garden. (this may be something we're getting in the future?)
Separate, instanced gardens.

Housing can still exist as it is, tailored more for FC's than individuals, but for those who just want their space and functionality, there's cheaper, hassle-free, instanced alternatives.

I would be down for something like that. I actually forgot for a moment that you can't lose your apartment. But an expansion on apartments would definitely be nice and most likely warranted.

[Evogolist]

So a quick question to everyone?

We know that at some point during the 5.xx series we'll be tasked with helping with the restoration of Ishgard, much like how we helped restore The Doman Enclave. The difference being that from what we were told, Ishgard housing may become available sometime after restoration is complete. I'm curious if the current housing system would work with something like that and think it would be unfair to those who actually contributed to the restoration if they didn't at the least get a house of some sorts there.

What would be the best way for the devs to handle that?

[Hazmick]

The best solutions would be to expand inn rooms, add a little garden terrace to them, or expand apartments to allow more furniture to be placed there. Houses would still be desirable, but it would give people more options and opportunities.

I really like housing wards as they are, but can understand the frustration for people on super busy servers with 0 housing available.