island sanctuary

[Grimshadow]

What do you think we will be able to do on the island. I was thinking things like player-instanced housing and things like that. Any theories or ideas are
appreciated

[Rhus]

Does it even exist? I feel like they’ve mentioned nothing about any additional content since the fan fest. Maybe it was a collective dream

[hydralus]

Probably gonna be a place for gardening/farming. I bet it won't even let you do current gardening stuff. Just island exclusive gardening.

[Remish]

I am thinking it will not have any housing merit at all. After hearing the removal of selective HQ items used in basic level crafting, I think Island Sanctuary is going to take a more retainer/squadron approach. A leveling system for a group of farming type npcs that you send out "ventures" or to grow/farm animal monsters for crafting resources. The Sanctuary will also probably be accompanied by some daily/weekly turn-in system where a side npc will offer various rewards for hairstyles/emotes/materia/furniture/glamours/mounts/minions/music/ect once enough of a new exclusive form of currency is traded in. If we're really lucky, the "venture" may come in the form of a minigame. (probably some special gathering FATE like the Ishgard FATEs).

Ideally the system being mostly to cultivate more gathering resources for crafting and making crafting easier to pick up/get into.

[Kahnom]

I hope its not Diadem 3.0.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Probably will not be housing related.

Maybe they'll have you plant a tree sapling to raise which if you do well grows into a giant magical talking tree that gives you goodies to get you to trust it so it can then trick you into having your consciousness pulled into your actual game character so you now live in Eorzea as whatever your character is... >.>

[GeminiReed]

Probably gonna be a place for gardening/farming. I bet it won't even let you do current gardening stuff. Just island exclusive gardening.

I would like to think that Square is well aware their current housing system is not fit for purpose. OTOH they still keep extending it instead of providing a real solution so who knows?

Giving them the benefit of the doubt and there is awareness there are systems that are unnecessarily gated by housing. Crossbreeding, Workshops, Subs and Airships are impossible to use without a plot. If Island Sanctuary does not offer crossbreeding at a minimum I will be sorely disappointed. My more optimistic hope is that it does and they've got plans to mitigate the gating of guild systems as well.

[cactusbees]

I'm hoping it will give those of us who are apartment bound/those unlucky in housing roulette a chance to do some gardening.

[Jojoya]

What we have been told so far:

It is a farm where we will be growing things (plants? livestock? both? they didn't say) and that minions are related somehow.

We will get to make some sort of choice at times (probably what we're growing, possibly what buildings we use?).

It is intended to be "relaxing, casual" content so whatever we do there won't affect character progression outside of the Sanctuary.

It is primarily solo content. My guess is that friends might be able to visit our Sanctuaries but won't be able to interact with what is there.

It is non-competitive so it's doubtful that whatever we produce there can be sold on the marketboard (which is the most competitive feature of the game). That doesn't rule out player to player trades, though. ("Hey, I got this a second one of this unique item I can't use, you want it?")

There has been no mention of housing and considering how bad that situation is, SE would have mentioned it if it was going to be part of the Sanctuary.

All in all, I think we're getting something similar to WoW Garrisons but without the impact on character progression.

Does it even exist? I feel like they’ve mentioned nothing about any additional content since the fan fest. Maybe it was a collective dream

It exists but I also wouldn't expect it to be available until 6.1 at the earliest. SE doesn't tend to add the major side content at the start of an expansion, and doesn't spend much time talking about post-launch content pre-launch. They want players to focus on the MSQ, leveling their jobs, and the first part of the raid series.

With Ishgard housing known to be coming in 6.1 (or 6.1.1 more likely), we may not see Island Sanctuary until 6.2 or 6.3.

[Dewslam]

Honestly if they let it give us access to the workshop and farming features that are currently locked behind housing then I don't care about instanced housing because my big reason for wanting a house will no longer exist.