Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[SturmChurro]

I had a lot of fun decorating my house, though it took me a long time to find a way to do it that didn't make it look too cluttered or too empty. I also limited myself to furniture that fit the aesthetic I was going for, so every time a new patch comes around there's usually at least a couple of items I like that I end up adding to my manor. I also try to avoid having too many 'repeat' furnishings. The first thing I'll be doing in Endwalker is checking to see what new housing items have been added using the furniture preview system.

Yeah, I bet with Ishgard housing they'll add some nice fantasy or medieval themed items - which will be pretty cool, for people who want that kind of aesthetic. I've been really wanting to get to decorating it, but I've been putting it off ever since I won my house. My small is literally just filled with a bunch of stuff I've collected from various events, or chests from Bozja and stuff. It's pretty sad. I guess it's a better use of my house than my neighbor, who I haven't seen since they moved in, and haven't even really decorated their outside at all. I at least put some stuff out there. Maybe they've seriously decorated their interior, but I wouldn't know since there is no entry.

I won't just buy decor either, because I'll end up using all the gil I need to save up for a bigger house, and when I'm actively playing I already use too much of it on dyes or the like, for glamour. I kind of want to have this as a motivation for crafting and gathering. It's like when I was doing ARR beast tribes. I never bought the mounts (except for the direwolf) with moogle tomes, because I wanted that to be something I earned by actually finishing up the those beast tribes.

I'm also sort of worried about decorating my house, since apparently people say you need to use glitches or something to actually decorate them properly. It's something I'd rather not do, frankly. If I can't get my house 'right', I'll end up just frustrating myself really.

[Theodric]

I'm also sort of worried about decorating my house, since apparently people say you need to use glitches or something to actually decorate them properly. It's something I'd rather not do, frankly.

I don't think it's needed. I didn't use any and I'd like to think my house still looks good. If anything, I find the clipping through the use of glitches to be rather distracting. Then again, I usually prefer to operate within what is available through conventional means.

I'm the type of guy who plays the likes of Oblivion and Skyrim without mods.

[Vyrerus]

I'm the type of guy who plays the likes of Oblivion and Skyrim without mods.

Same, actually. Hell yeah!

[SturmChurro]

I don't think it's needed. I didn't use any and I'd like to think my house still looks good. If anything, I find the clipping through the use of glitches to be rather distracting. Then again, I usually prefer to operate within what is available through conventional means.

I'm the type of guy who plays the likes of Oblivion and Skyrim without mods.

I'll have to alt up on your server one of these days to visit your houses, to steal ideas of course.

Some of the glitching I've seen when I've looked at some player houses is definitely pretty jarring. It's like, as long as you look at it from the front - it's fine, but as soon as you walk around it, it looks a bit.. ridiculous. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's interesting what people can come up with, but I don't know if I'd want that look for my house.

I do prefer to play a game the way it was meant to be played as well, but for those games, I do like to enhance the experience with some lore friendly enhancements, bug fixes, and graphical mods. PC players like to talk about how those games are unplayable without mods, but most people actually played them for years without mods on console in actuality, and made the game(s) more popular initially.