Regarding the New HQ Turn-in Feature and Housing Situation

[Ashivra]

Frankly the fix needs to be increase prices on plots, make it so FC needs to have 10 people in it to buy an FC plot. As well the FC has to have so many active members to keep their plot. Seeing so many plots where a personal home is right next to a FC house which might only have 1-2 people in it.

[Sotaris]

So just make 10 alts. It's not a fix.

[ICountFrom0]

Except instances don't have the necessary weather conditions for gardening, or at least intercross gardening, to work in them. You'd be limited to what you can currently do with a flowerpot inside your house/apartment.

Since when has weather ever had anything to do with gardening. I can't find any site that has anything about that. Further, yes you can have weather inside instances, it's actually a mechachanic of the bismark fight.

[Jojoya]

Since when has weather ever had anything to do with gardening. I can't find any site that has anything about that. Further, yes you can have weather inside instances, it's actually a mechachanic of the bismark fight.

It was an explanation YoshiP gave in a Q&A 2-3 years ago. Simply watching your animations as you tend your garden will confirm it. If the weather in the ward is raining, your character bends over as if picking out weeds. If it's not raining, your character uses a watering can. If those animations weren't tied to the weather, we should see them occurring randomly.

Bismarck is not in a housing instance and the weather in that instance is special effect, not the dynamic weather we experience in the open world zones. You will always see that weather change at a specific point in the fight regardless of the time of Eorzean day. Actual game weather is tied to the Eorzean clock. It changes at midnight, 8am, and 4pm Eorzean time (though the sky effect ends up delayed by a few Eorzean minutes).

[GeminiReed]

Bismarck is not in a housing instance and the weather in that instance is special effect, not the dynamic weather we experience in the open world zones. You will always see that weather change at a specific point in the fight regardless of the time of Eorzean day. Actual game weather is tied to the Eorzean clock. It changes at midnight, 8am, and 4pm Eorzean time (though the sky effect ends up delayed by a few Eorzean minutes).

Weather is (should be) just a timed status effect of an area. If the the apartment implementation is so completely fragile that adding something that should be as easy as changing a configuration flag will break it well they can just build a new garden instance type that supports what it should have in the first place.

Regardless the new Island thing in 6.x will mitigate this oversight. Hopefully they also have a solution for ward housing gating the free company workshop, submersibles, and airships.