This game needs way more wards!

[ForteNightshade]

I'm fairly certain the dev could make apartments better if the community would make actual post about it, but they would rather make 600 post about needing more wards and not being about to own the mansion on the hill. Apartments are instance housing, tell SE how to fix them ><

People have posted about it. The dev team is notoriously slow about implementing features. Case in point, people asked for years about marker placement tools. It took a third party program to actually get them to implement their own variation of it.

[frostmagemari]

I'm fairly certain the dev could make apartments better if the community would make actual post about it, but they would rather make 600 post about needing more wards and not being about to own the mansion on the hill. Apartments are instance housing, tell SE how to fix them ><

Unless something has changed in very recent communications, Square Enix and the dev team, have made it abundantly clear that they (A) are not going to change(fix) the current housing system (B) are currently happy with the limitations on apartments. Knowing this, and how how rabid XIV defenders can be, people just don't bother to ask for things like that; Instead, they ask for what the dev team has shown they're willing to do, slap a new band-aid solution onto the system.

[Schan]

If we could increase the size and make them into say, a penthouse suite or a loft, then Apartments may have wound up the solution the devs hoped for. Alas, we cannot. So no one really cares about them.

kind of like monster hunter. I would like that

[LaylaTsarra]

The director mentioned back when the additional wards were added for Shirogane for 4.2 that they were considering upgradeable apartments that would be small, medium and large. Problem is they haven't said anything since to my knowledge.

I'd bet this feature would do wonders to alleviate the housing shortage.

[Missbone]

I have quick question, if someone owns an apartment and want do relocate to another world, does this apartment also needs to be demolished first? And what you do if you don't have enough inventory for all your old housing stuff (maybe more than just the things from the appartment), you can't sell it an the MB once used and when you sell it just to an NPC its nearly worth nothing, even if it's worth a lot at the MB.

[LaylaTsarra]

I have quick question, if someone owns an apartment and want do relocate to another world, does this apartment also needs to be demolished first? And what you do if you don't have enough inventory for all your old housing stuff (maybe more than just the things from the appartment), you can't sell it an the MB once used and when you sell it just to an NPC its nearly worth nothing, even if it's worth a lot at the MB.

Yes it has to be and yes it's a problem if you don't have room for all that stuff. Housing/apartments require a lot of slots and relocating can be a problem. I've thought about it for some of my characters and the slots needed for the items is overwhelming given my retainers are mostly full atm.

[Avidria]

I have quick question, if someone owns an apartment and want do relocate to another world, does this apartment also needs to be demolished first? And what you do if you don't have enough inventory for all your old housing stuff (maybe more than just the things from the appartment), you can't sell it an the MB once used and when you sell it just to an NPC its nearly worth nothing, even if it's worth a lot at the MB.

What I had to do when I server transferred was basically purge my retainers' inventories to make room. Got rid of glamours I was on the fence about, stuff I hadn't used in a while, old raid tokens, etc etc. I also sold every piece of furniture I knew I could just buy from a vendor again - wall maps, certain partitions, etc, anything that was easy and cheap to replace. Everything else filled my own inventory almost completely iirc. I think I even took glam off my retainers to completely fill my armory chest lol

That wasn't just an apartment's worth of furniture, but if you don't have space those are options.

[Skivvy]

I have quick question, if someone owns an apartment and want do relocate to another world, does this apartment also needs to be demolished first? And what you do if you don't have enough inventory for all your old housing stuff (maybe more than just the things from the appartment), you can't sell it an the MB once used and when you sell it just to an NPC its nearly worth nothing, even if it's worth a lot at the MB.

I've handled this a couple of different ways. When I was changing servers, I had a big housing item sale. Things are bound, but you can still sell them to people by either adding or being added as a tenant via the tenant option, or have them add you to their FC so you can drop things into their house. Bit of trust involved with this one, but it's doable.

I have also purchased an extra retainer before just to hold everything when I was just looking to store things.

[Missbone]

Oh dear, i thought it would be like that. Atleast now i know for sure, the thing with the addional retainer also crossed my mind. To bad there is no easy way for stuff like this and all i want is just a plot for the FC house. :/
On the other hand there are a lot of nice plots free on the other servers, even in Shiro. All small, but that wouldnt be sutch a big issue. But i would need store about 400-500 housing items somewhere. -_-

[Eldevern]

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On a new server you have to level FC again (thought that's not a bid deal if you are lvl 80).