Why player housing area not allow flying.

[OwlBlackX]

I still wonder why player housing area alwasy not allow flying with mounts?

Please let me flying in housing

[TheMightyMollusk]

Same reason we can't fly in cities. They're not designed with flying in mind. And considering how salty people get over the content lost to redesign the ARR field maps for flying, I wouldn't hold your breath over it.

[Kes13a]

to be fair.. why?

I mean you go to your house, where else do you need to go that you require flying for?

[znushu]

if you really want to know it's because the Housing Areas are not actually connected to any other map. so if you flew up high enough in all of them you'd be able to see the edge of the map. the max height limit on houses prevent you from seeing those edges.

[OwlBlackX]

Same reason we can't fly in cities. They're not designed with flying in mind. And considering how salty people get over the content lost to redesign the ARR field maps for flying, I wouldn't hold your breath over it.

Housing aint like cities. It's different. Housing are for players and cities for much NPCs.

Plus, I would love watch zone when I flying in housing area. Or I can sit on my house's roof.

[LianaThorne]

Housing aint like cities. It's different. Housing are for players and cities for much NPCs.

Plus, I would love watch zone when I flying in housing area. Or I can sit on my house's roof.

They most likely won't add flying to housing. Sorry to break it to you. Like others have said, the issue is in how the housing districts were designed and they'd have to rip them apart and change it to fix them. This has the potential to mess up people's existing houses for example and if that happens....i would rather not have my house messed up ahahaha.

The only way I could see them doing it is if they add it specifically for Ishgard and test it there for use in future housing districts, but it also runs the risk of pissing off players in the other districts who don't have flying too.

It's kind of a rock and hard place situation.

Just an fyi: You can get on the new housing skin roof with just furniture if you play around with it.

[Kleeya]

Since a negative consequence of flying in mmos is that you see way less people than when everybody is crossing paths with each other on the ground, this would also go against SE idea of "we are keeping residential areas as the main housing system so that you can feel you have neighbours".

[Seraphor]

The only reason is that they weren't designed for it. They don't have the collision settings for it.

When they redid all of the ARR zones to allow for flying, they basically had to rebuild them in the form of invisible walls to prevent the player from just flying straight through apparently solid objects, and to demarcate the perimeter of the map while in the air. It also involved redoing many visible structures in the distance so that they still looked right from different angles, particularly from above.

They could technically do this for the housing zones, it is after all just four (soon to be five) zones that they'd need to do this for. But it's still additional effort, and retracing old content (that they don't like to do if they don't have to) for very little gain.
Bringing flying to ARR zones adds something to the gameplay content, it allows you to traverse areas to reach your destination quicker and easier.
Adding flying to housing zones would simply be vanity.

[Sotaris]

I still wonder why player housing area alwasy not allow flying with mounts?

Please let me flying in housing

1. Not designed for it.
2. There is literally no gameplay need for it.

[strawberrycake]

It would be nice but ultimately a waste of dev time