Housing Demolition Sadness

[Sclair0]

Hi guys. I just got my house demolished, again, and wanted to vent a little frustration about it.

Now Im an active player, and I absolutely use my housing... Or well... I use the communal part of it. I keep the garden decorated and its where I queue to be near my friends who are also in the neighborhood.

I don't really use the inside. I have it all set up, but I guess I don't go inside there often.

Now don't get me wrong I'm fully aware 'if you're not using the inside maybe you shouldn't have it' and I hold no issues with square over demolishing it since players who DO want to use the inside are everywhere.

But I do find the whole system a bit ironic that the point is to make active neighborhoods, but unless your hanging out inside the house you'll lose it.

Oh well. I guess I'll have to be a bit more attentive next time to in game messages about demolition happening soon.

[Naoki34]

I'm sorry for you, but this is going to sound a bit harsh.

If you don't go back to your house at least once every 45 days (going back is not enough, you have to use it), you don't really need it, because you just have to go back, interact with the land via chocobo, pnj sale, FC chest, retainers, etc. Once every 44 days to keep it. Once every 44 days to keep them.

I have never had a problem since Heavensward.

And you have to check next to it, your spams and you have the status of your CD housing in the Estate tab, it appears when you have little time left.

[Sclair0]

I do go back. It's where I queue, but yeah I don't really use the inside after finishing decorating. Just way more communal to hang out outside. It was a really good spot too! Next to my free company friends and a different free company I meme with and water their plants.

But like I said, I don't hold any issues about it. Demolishing it cause I wasn't using the inside is very fair.

I just find it ironic and a bit sad that I was using the house for the cited reason square doesn't give us fully instanced housing (interacting with the community and junk) and lost it over not remembering to use the inside enough.

And you have to check next to it, your spams and you have the status of your CD housing in the Estate tab, it appears when you have little time left.

Yeah I know, they also send you emails (Though the email i registered with is long since outdated so I never checked it for this stuff). Fully my bad for not seeing them. I do wish they'd send you an ingame post about it rather than just notifications, since the "New Mail" thing shows up on the UI and is much harder to miss. But again fully my bad for missing the notifications.

[Juun]

How can you in 45 playtime not notice the warning about the demolishing once?

Either way put your retainer bell inside your house. Now you got a reason to go inside. Or put some banger songs on your house radio you want to listen to at least once a day.

[Sclair0]

How can you in 45 playtime not notice the warning about the demolishing once?

Either way put your retainer bell inside your house. Now you got a reason to go inside. Or put some banger songs on your house radio you want to listen to at least once a day.

Im a bit blind to the system notification settings. Dont really read chat unless in party.

Unfortunately the market board and retainer bell were right outside my house haha, so going inside for it for ventures would sorta not work as incentive.

[LianaThorne]

The demo timer is strapped to the inside, not the garden. That's all there is to say. Good luck with getting your next home.

[Sclair0]

The demo timer is strapped to the inside, not the garden. That's all there is to say. Good luck with getting your next home.

I know? Im not asking for it to change. Just lamenting losing it despite using it for the whole reason we have neighborhoods instead of fully instanced individual homes

[ItMe]

OP it's too bad that there are not more things to do with a house / inside a house because I feel ya.
It's too bad you can't just sit in a chair, chat with your friends inside, gpose, or run around and have that count as "using" the house, especially when there are so few furnishings we can interact with.

I'm sorry for your loss.

[Shougun]

1000 reasons for a different housing system, take one down.. pass it around... 100008 reasons for a different housing system....

With our current system I don't think the demolition should be removed but also that reeeeealllly sucks, sorry that happened to you . Even people who take long breaks I still feel like wow that sucks that happened.

Probably one of the major reasons I hope they are working on another MMO (not claiming FFXIV is awful or dying- neither of those, nor do I expect it to be any sense of announced before the clear finish of all of EW).

It's just such a dalamud-able situation, with a system that is extremely costly to redesign (overall it appears it is a memory related issue, which glamour also meets the same fate and same dalamud-able desire), where all you want is for them to start that system again (though if you make major changes in this game it is important not to mess up the players who did invest and like this particular... Syst-... Beast).

[Jojoya]

Hi guys. I just got my house demolished, again, and wanted to vent a little frustration about it.

Now Im an active player, and I absolutely use my housing... Or well... I use the communal part of it. I keep the garden decorated and its where I queue to be near my friends who are also in the neighborhood.

I don't really use the inside. I have it all set up, but I guess I don't go inside there often.

Now don't get me wrong I'm fully aware 'if you're not using the inside maybe you shouldn't have it' and I hold no issues with square over demolishing it since players who DO want to use the inside are everywhere.

But I do find the whole system a bit ironic that the point is to make active neighborhoods, but unless your hanging out inside the house you'll lose it.

Oh well. I guess I'll have to be a bit more attentive next time to in game messages about demolition happening soon.

If you're really not interested with the housing interiors, check with your friends who have a house and see if they're actively using their garden. If not, perhaps they'll add you as a tenant so you can do your gardening at their house without worrying about having to go inside to reset the demo timer.

Short of that, all I can do is suggest that when you're next able to get another house is put a Summoning Bell inside. Store your gardening supplies on a retainer so you're forced to go inside when you need to get more seeds/soil/fertilizer.

As for the active neighborhoods, it's something that's not working out in practice because the wards aren't designed to generate foot traffic and there are too many of them to spread out what little foot traffic there is.