Renewal - Housing System (suggestion)

[Zequi]

Recently, I have been thinking a lot about the housing system in FFXIV and I believe that there is no practical, simple and quick solution to solve this problem. Regardless of what is done, there will always be players who will try to circumvent the systems to gain advantages over others and the work of trying to prevent this conduct will be constant and daily.
I do not believe that a person alone is capable of presenting a solution to the problem, but constant brainstorming can bring some positive changes to alleviate the current situation, which is frustrating.
I believe that thinking about the different player profiles is a good start to understand what is expected of the system. I know friends, for example, who have no interest in personal house, but would like a house shared with their FC. I know that SE is interested in the neighborhood system and the social interaction that results from it, but I believe that this system is not always really used. I really like to walk around the residential areas, I like to do RP and at least on my server these areas are almost deserted. All the houses are occupied in all zones, but still, entering a residential area is almost like entering a dead zone, you common players using those. There are individual houses and FC houses that I think are beautiful and I like to go into them and show my friends what the other players do in them, the way they decorated their houses, but annoyed I see the owners of their houses. It is as if after people bought a house in FFXIV as they abandoned after decorating them.
If the neighborhood system is intended to make players interact with each other and get closer to each other, I believe it needs more use than it currently has. The houses appear to me to be more of a product for exhibition than for use.
Regarding the solution to the constant unavailability of free houses for purchase, the current system with RNG to acquire land (which is often not even the land we want), I repeat that I believe that a number of things should be done for this system to reformulate.

[Zequi]

Not everyone wants to own a home and many of those who do end up opting for apartments because of the ease of purchasing one, but unfortunately they are VERY limited compared to a home. I believe that considerably expanding the possibilities in the apartments would be a good start to increase the satisfaction of those who own them and reduce the dissatisfaction of those who turn to them for lack of available home. An example of this would be the possibility of larger apartments, such as two-storey apartments or in the loft style. Balconies are also nice, with a static exterior view, just to deceive, to give the impression that we are seeing the outside (although we are not really, as it happens in Limsa with the view from the upper deck).
The possibility of being able to have an area for growing plants in the apartments would also be a very nice thing to have.

[Zequi]

Many FCs question the need for housing to take advantage of systems like workshops. I believe that if there was a place that was exclusively a workshop, instantiated, for FCs that do not have housing to be able to use this resource it would be a little more fair to them.

3 - Family System
Here is a delusion of mine, but it is something that I would like to share with everyone so that we can dissect this idea and see if something in it could be useful or not. I thought of a new system called "Family System" based on something I saw in Ragnarok Online with its system of marriage and adoption. Here we have the Ceremony of Eternal Bonding and I think it could be used to improve the Housing system.
Bearing in mind the difficulty of creating new housing areas, I believe that the problem here would be similar to a traffic problem in large cities, where we have a car that holds five people, being used by only one and causing constant traffic situations . In the “Family System” I would imagine that houses could only be purchased by FCs or families. But what would a family be in FFXIV?
I think of an area where two characters who have gone through the Ceremony of Eternal Bonding can found a "family tree" and establish links with other players, placing them inside that tree as brothers, children, nephews, uncles, grandparents, etc. A house would not be owned by an exclusive player, but by families with the instantiated room system, as is the case with FC houses.
It would be nice if these families had some unique features that would make it cool for players to decide to be part of a virtual family, like exclusive buffs for when they form groups with members of the same family, exclusive items like family portraits, clothes for themed holidays, like those famous Christmas sweaters or decoration for birthday parties when any of the family members are going to have a birthday, etc.
If the SE even thought about events with minigames made in the residential areas aimed at families, I believe that players

[Zequi]

Players who are not within a family would certainly not be able to be in a neighborhood, to have an individual home. For that, I thought that a system of instantiated houses, as in games like ESO, could solve this need to have a house. It could even provide a greater variety of house styles and decorations and even bigger houses than today.

5 - House linked to account
I believe that in all games where we can have multiple characters we have a MAIN and the rest are secondary characters. As “we can't have nice things”, I believe that to avoid or at least minimize that players have bad conduct in acquiring several houses out there, the houses will be restricted in one account, but allow all the characters in an account use that single house as YOUR home.
These are ideas that crossed my mind and I know they are far from being good, but I would like to share with you all so that together we can one day reach an ideal solution for the entire FFXIV community.

[Zequi]

Still, I kept thinking about the players who did not enter the family system and another thing came to mind that I believe could be better used to increase the interaction between the players; the Grand Companies. If Lavander Beds, The Goblet and Mist had a fixed ONE house (bigger than any other) with the resources present in the representatives of the GCs present in the three cities, in addition to the instantiated rooms the size of the current apartments, it would be fun to provide players with the option to have a housing in this location buffs similar to those who choose to participate in the family system. Like a community house.
With the restoration of Ishgard we had the rankings of the reconstruction phases published on the FFXIV website. It would be nice if there were friendly competitions between the GCs not for the reconstruction of something, but for the decoration of these big houses, since they would not be customizable like the houses of FC and the houses of families. This is perhaps my biggest delusion, sorry for having to read this, hahahahaha, but I would really like the whole housing system to be something less individualistic and more friendly.
Recently a friend of mine who owns a house in Lavander Beds was walking (literally) there and met three other players who were her neighbors. They visited each other's houses, met and became friends. I believe that this must be the spirit of the housing system and not leave ghost houses for exposure or generate the current frustration where few can own a home while most spend long hours on the RNG system clicking on plaques.
I do not expect to have made great contributions with ideas that I know are utopian and surreal, but I am happy to be able to participate in this conversation with all of you, since I wish the same as everyone here. A solution where the maximum number of people will benefit.
From now on, I would like to thank everyone who has read this far and apologize for the errors in English. It is not my mother tongue, but I am working hard to improve.