Housing

[Eldevern]

Many people are so-so about housing since its release and even more after it has been open to individuals.

But SE keeps saying they want some kind of neighborood, thought if it can make sense for FC only wards, it create ghost town when mostly indivduals owned.

They should do a housing as it is in BDO or Wildstar but I don't expect this to happen at all.

Since ARR I managed to get three mansions (two, lost them, bought a new one but finally gave it up because it was individual and FC housing is more interesting : workshop, extra rooms). I could buy two again but... I don't even try, most wards in many servers are full. And to be fair, not only there are not enough houses but considering BDO when you can buy the three biggest houses of the game (whithout restrictions or timer), the limited system in FFXIV is ridiculous.

[SamSmoot]

Many people are so-so about housing since its release and even more after it has been open to individuals.

But SE keeps saying they want some kind of neighborood, thought if it can make sense for FC only wards, it create ghost town when mostly indivduals owned.

Instance the plots themselves so:
1. Every plot can have many owners. This increases the chance of seeing more players in the neighborhood, since they will all be in one "ward", not spread across 21 of them.

2. Eliminate the multiple wards, since they're not needed with instanced plots.

3. When you arrive, your plot contents are visible, but you can select other owners' content from the placard (with thumbnails please. This will allow you to customize the appearance of your immediate neighborhood (Hate / love Paissa houses?).

4. Your plot is always loaded when you arrive. No load screens when entering the yard or house. Other plots would cause load screens on entry since preloading them all would probably take too much time. Still, selected yard appearances would have to preload so you'd see them when outside.

5. Since the house and plot are one instance, you could have real windows, open doors to walk out onto a patio / deck with no load screen.

6. Ideally, when in your yard you should be able to see everyone on the street (Assuming it's possible to code it.)

Of course, everyone would just buy copies of the most desirable plots, but it could be spread out by raising the prices of ones with many owners, and reducing the price of the others.

One problem though: With many more house owners, SE would need to add more storage to hold the content, and pay to maintain it. I suppose they could make it so everyone can buy one small plot for just Gil, but larger ones (containing more stuff) would add to your sub fee (like extra retainers).

[Cirque-it]

Instance the plots themselves so:
1. Every plot can have many owners. This increases the chance of seeing more players in the neighborhood, since they will all be in one "ward", not spread across 21 of them.

2. Eliminate the multiple wards, since they're not needed with instanced plots.

3. When you arrive, your plot contents are visible, but you can select other owners' content from the placard (with thumbnails please. This will allow you to customize the appearance of your immediate neighborhood (Hate / love Paissa houses?).

4. Your plot is always loaded when you arrive. No load screens when entering the yard or house. Other plots would cause load screens on entry since preloading them all would probably take too much time. Still, selected yard appearances would have to preload so you'd see them when outside.

5. Since the house and plot are one instance, you could have real windows, open doors to walk out onto a patio / deck with no load screen.

6. Ideally, when in your yard you should be able to see everyone on the street (Assuming it's possible to code it.)

Of course, everyone would just buy copies of the most desirable plots, but it could be spread out by raising the prices of ones with many owners, and reducing the price of the others.

One problem though: With many more house owners, SE would need to add more storage to hold the content, and pay to maintain it. I suppose they could make it so everyone can buy one small plot for just Gil, but larger ones (containing more stuff) would add to your sub fee (like extra retainers).

This entire post is genius, I wonder how hard it would be to program all that!

[Cirque-it]

When you log out... I would really like it if I can still be in my house when I log back in (like when you log out while in an inn)

[Eldevern]

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They have been able to add a house storage and extend the items slots available. Technically, I tend to think their problem are the queries and the dynamic memory to load the wards (because of the items from the indivudual gardens).

The only problem with your idea is not the the static memory. From what I understand in programming, they probably need to rewrite a lot of things if not everything from scratch.

Based on what we already have, if would be far easier, cheaper and faisible to adapt apartments to add a greenhouse and offer different size (they can adapt the design of existing housing instances, all they need to change, for the main part, are windows.

[TroySoFab]

Full ward of medium houses. Make it happen yoshi-p!

[Riardon]

The problem is that they decided for only 3 L plots per ward while it should have been more per ward.
They are simply not enough.
They should design bigger wards with more M and L plots but this may be another "server/coding whatever limitation".
If Ishgard housing will indeed come at the end of Ishgard restoration there may be still hope for those who would like a M or L plot.

[RyuSaarva]

The last time they added new houses, mediums were available for weeks so the only thing that is good enough for you are the mansions.

[Vahlnir]

The last time they added new houses, mediums were available for weeks so the only thing that is good enough for you are the mansions.

The last time they added houses they were FC only, and only unlocked them for individual purposes after some time had passed. I'm sure there were plenty of houses snatched up right after the new wards were unlocked. Before they were unlocked I'm sure the mansions were the first thing to go after the servers went live. They always are.

[HeyMcFly]

I have a Small & am saving for a Medium, that way I don't pay full price when the time comes. There's alot you can actually do if you have the imagination with a Small plot

You could also check Reddit for people selling houses for Gil, but buyer beware