But to that same end, if a thread is too short then they may not think much of it. An idea that is fully fleshed out is easier to understand than a vague one.

I love your ideas and they mostly mirror my own sentiments.

To keep people from abusing their own gathering nodes maybe have a limit like, they can only go up to R30 or something like that or it has to do with the level of the housing. Monster Hunter actually did a bit with this where you could harvest raw materials from a farm in the village but there were still a lot of things you couldn't get there and the nodes had a very limited number of uses. To upgrade the facilities you'd have to spend a great deal of points you got from completing missions and some of the upgrades only popped up after a certain point.

I'd also love it if we could choose which major city area it could be set in and choose from a variety of backgrounds for the houses to be set against. Like say for Limsa it could be in the fields, on a cliff side or even on a small island. For Ul'dah it could be dunes, an oasis or at the end of a canyon path. Things like that would just add more customization options and you can never have too many options.