Plots everywhere demolished and open!

[SturmChurro]

Hey Sturm I am over on Lamia. If you need furniture I'll craft whatever you want, Until you get your crafting up. Dont worry about price I dont charge unless its something pricey like the trophies for the current Extremes or requires map materials.

Oh, thanks for the offer! I appreciate the thought, but even if I took you up on it, I would want to pay for the furniture. I've only just gotten that house, I haven't even looked into furniture, in general, for this game. So, I don't even know what I would want in the first place! I'm still using a hideous basic house the game gave me.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Well you have to pay twice no? Once for the first plot and once for the second.

Also i don’t think relocaters get advantage on any new plots. Just plots with timers.

But yes not really a downside if you have the Gil. An advantage in my cases.

I seem to remember that, when new wards were last added, they were locked for a while to FCs and relocations. Which, naturally, meant that all the medium and large plots were gone in minutes. Can't remember if Shirogane had the same locks, or if it was just a free-for-all.

[van_arn]

I seem to remember that, when new wards were last added, they were locked for a while to FCs and relocations. Which, naturally, meant that all the medium and large plots were gone in minutes. Can't remember if Shirogane had the same locks, or if it was just a free-for-all.

They usually change the rules when they add new wards. There's no telling what we'll need to do until the notes go up, but it's not really worth planning anything until then.

Hopefully this refresh of housing rules will kill placard camping entirely.

[NanaWiloh]

Oh, thanks for the offer! I appreciate the thought, but even if I took you up on it, I would want to pay for the furniture. I've only just gotten that house, I haven't even looked into furniture, in general, for this game. So, I don't even know what I would want in the first place! I'm still using a hideous basic house the game gave me.

Well take a look around at some other players homes. Thats one way to help get ideas going for how to decorate, and just for the fun of it. If you ever visit lamia drop by lavenderbed ward 12 plot 10, the player who owns it decorted it in a way that. Makes it give a really uncomfortable vibe and be wary of the downstairs...it kills FPS

[KotoKirei]

someone insert the "its free real estate" meme

[Flay_wind]

A lot of us do like the Goblet. I mean it was the first place I got a house when I didn’t know much about it, and now it’s just home.

I will move if/when I can go to Ishgard, but I honestly don’t see why the hate for the goblet

Tbh, outside of Brimming Heart the Goblet is very brown and very same'ish.
Like i own Med 19 and it's amazing.
I really liked my old Small 16 as well, but once again, it's Brimming Heart.

[Seraphor]

I think the issue I ran into with housing is that the idea was people would buy up buildings and decorate them to form districts, but in the actual game there's little incentive to walk around the districts themselves, so it turns into a luxury instanced thing that loses meaning pretty fast.

I hate bringing up shroud of the avatar, but the one idea they did have that was pretty solid was having the towns and cities have the housing plots in them. People basically would still go through the towns and pass by homes owned by actual players in the course of playing the game day to day, unlike what FFXIV has where we got a new hub city each patch and are constantly moving farther and farther away from home so to speak. The obvious issue with this is that the size of cities would be enormous and constantly sprawling out further and further much like real life cities.

The central hub of Uldah would be like the heart of Chicago, and houses would flood out from all districts completely covering the country side all the way to the port in Western Thanalan. Then housing demolishment would result in vacant districts that would became derelicts. If they had done zoning and other aspects differently, this could have been pretty interesting having to deal with monster infestations when plots got abandoned, and home owners needed to constantly battle off these creatures from damaging the walls or climbing into the homes via walls.

Imagine right now, with all those homes being abandoned, just how much chaos there would be if the few remaining owners had to start calling people in to try and keep the monsters from destroying half their living spaces. Soon you'd have all the players moving their homes together into clusters, with the smaller homes around the bigger ones like buffer zones...

Edit: Actually, we need this. Like, having to buy new furnishings from monsters ruining houses would probably add more motion to the crafting market. Plus it causes a more natural destruction of a limited number of houses...

I'm hoping this is what they do with Ishgard housing.
They've placed some crafter/gatherer NPC's in there, and there's even a building that looks suspiciously like a public (non-FC) workshop.
If these are retained in the actual wards themselves, it could be a living housing ward.
They would of course need to roll it out to the other four locations as well if they did this, but I can imagine them taking their time to do so.

[Vickii]

A big advantage of relocating is you get to do so at a discount. And another is that you can bypass the timer entirely. So yes, they get an advantage on any plots recently demolished as well as newly added ones since they can pick and choose at a discount and without limits.

I agree with all of that (didn’t know about the discount, that’s big) but I think that the rules on brand new plots have changed - ie it used to be in their favour to relocate but in the last ones it was a free for all. Either way there doesn’t seem to be any disadvantage besides having to spend more Gil.

[Vickii]

I'm hoping this is what they do with Ishgard housing.
They've placed some crafter/gatherer NPC's in there, and there's even a building that looks suspiciously like a public (non-FC) workshop.
If these are retained in the actual wards themselves, it could be a living housing ward.
They would of course need to roll it out to the other four locations as well if they did this, but I can imagine them taking their time to do so.

Lore wise we actually built a workshop as part of the restoration. It would be quite interesting if they allowed anyone access to workshop content without needing a FC for it.

[Wrestlefire769]

At this point, if they aren't going to deal with the RMT that's there and taking up the process, they need to make player housing RMT and take the money themselves.

(Read: Mog Station.)