Fix Housing Megathread

[SXTC]

Ok I was made aware of this post as the “general” place to share housing suggestions & ideas.
So these are my suggestions (if they weren’t made already):


Communal housing:
The same housing ward keeps being used but the sharing option on them would get “enhanced” like this:

=> Small house = Can be shared with 3 people if used privately or shared with 1 additional FC.
- Add “lofts” which are bigger then apartments with higher ceilings & can be shared with 3 people or used by 1 FC.

=> Medium house = Can be shared with 6 people if used privately “or” shared with 2 additional FC’s.
- Add “duplex” apartments which have 2 medium/large floors that can be shared with 6 people or used by 1 FC.

=> Large house = Can be shared with 9 people if used privately use “or” shared with 3 additional FC’s.
- Add “triplex” apartments which have 3 medium-large floors that can be shared with 9 people or used by 1 FC.

=> Replace the FC rooms to loft sizes and allow members to move their lofts to the FC (in the event if they already had one in the apartment complex. If a member is kicked they would not lose their loft, it would just be moved back to the apartment complex by default without loss of layout settings (no need to redo interior).

=> the search function would get an additional option to search for FC’s if you don’t know where they are located since crystals only show who’s using one of the houses.

=> Make housing 30% more expensive compared to standalone housing of similar size.

=> When sharing a house with an FC, additional restriction options should be made available.

=> For every additional FC you share your house with, 1 additional Deluxe garden patch should be allowed.
(if one of those FC's stops sharing... that additional patch would be put in storage automatically with a delay to not lose your crops on it)

I believe these options may convince people to stop caring for standalone housing in the event that there is none available which is a win-win to people who want to grow and a lose situation for people that buy up housing to re-sell with profit (buying house under FC, recruiting the seller & promoting them to leader after the sale is done).
Since now, no one would have need for a house unless they aim to ally themselves with other FC’s or want a garden.

SE could ofcourse also rebuild the entire ward but I believe the above option is the easier one to implement.
This idea would make the exterior in the ward seem more active/populated as more people would start using the same ward instead of being spread out over so many different wards (so while this may put more stress on 1 ward, much less wards would be needed which in turn would come down to a similar type of server stress).

[SXTC]

Ok I was made aware of this post as the “general” place to share housing suggestions & ideas.
So these are my suggestions (if they weren’t made already):


Communal housing:
The same housing ward keeps being used but the sharing option on them would get “enhanced” like this:

=> Small house = Can be shared with 3 people if used privately or shared with 1 additional FC.
- Add “lofts” which are bigger then apartments with higher ceilings & can be shared with 3 people or used by 1 FC.

=> Medium house = Can be shared with 6 people if used privately “or” shared with 1 additional FC (2 in total).
- Add “duplex” apartments which have 2 medium/large floors that can be shared with 6 people or or shared by 2 FC's.

=> Large house = Can be shared with 9 people if used privately use “or” shared with 2 additional FC’s (3 in total).
- Add “triplex” apartments which have 3 medium-large floors that can be shared with 9 people or shared by 3 FC's.

=> Replace the FC rooms to loft sizes and allow members to move their lofts to the FC (in the event if they already had one in the apartment complex. If a member is kicked they would not lose their loft, it would just be moved back to the apartment complex by default without loss of layout settings (no need to redo interior).

=> the search function would get an additional option to search for FC’s if you don’t know where they are located since crystals only show who’s using one of the houses.

=> When sharing a house with an FC, additional restriction options should be made available.

This idea would make the exterior in the ward seem more active/populated as more people would start using the same ward instead of being spread out over so many different wards (so while this may put more stress on 1 ward, much less wards would be needed which in turn would come down to a similar type of server stress).

I think adding more apartments and even adding a workshop to some of the bigger apartments may solve the issue because we all know housing is being abused by people who only want the workshop.
I lead 2 REAL Fc's.. one with 202 members and 1 with 112 members, currently only have 1 FC house. But there is a vast amount of FC's out there that only have 1 player online most of the time(and are usually just 4-10 ppl big) and I think we all know why...
I think they should also implement a system that does not allow FC's to own houses unless they have a specific amount of different members (or logins) every month or even a rule that auto locks the workshop if you don't have enough active members.
But I suppose the last can be solved by allowing FC's to assign apartments as an FC location for everyone to teleport to.

[baobaosun]

How about flying turtles in the sky as instanced housing? We can build on the back of a floating turtle and it's part of a quest series about making a home on the back of an endangered species. Maybe have it take part in the MSQ for End Walker?

Or how about a moving house that you can call upon like a mount? Like Howl's Moving Castle, but Final Fantasy? Get to customize your own moving castle and have it show up when you blow into a whistle. Maybe make it look like a moggle, or maybe make it look like Zenos on all fours crawling?