Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
And that might be the more feasible option. Keep the current system in place, and improve the APT system to have tiers size wise. Housing would still be better by virtue of pricepoint and location, but APTs will give you a reasonable option. For example, what if you could have essentially a cottage sized apt: 200 Item space, up and down stairs, same size as a cottage, and a small outside area where you can place 10 outdoor items (like a balcony kind of deal) and it costs you 2 Mil in Gil. You get almost all the perks of a small house, and its cheaper. It's instanced so anyone can get one so long as they got the cash, there isnt competition for location cause thats a non issue, and it leaves the wards and neighborhood intact and wouldnt require restructuring the servers as housing interiors are already instanced so its just a matter of swapping out the location. This would be, in my estimate atleast, a good compromise and solve a ton of the issues presented.
Yea just improving apartments would probably quell the bulk of housing complaints.

Even without different tiers of apartments (though I don't see why that would be an issue), just increasing the item count allowed in an apartment to at least equivalent to a small house, adding an "indoor hydroponics planter" furnishing, with even just 4 plots for seeds (like the Round Garden Patch furnishing for yards), and an "indoor airship/submarine remote access terminal" furnishing to let players access those features in an apartment would go a long way towards addressing the complaints of players looking for housing.