Ideas for Instanced Housing!!

[HolyReign]

Sorry I came across as such.

But, to me, if housing was made too easy, it would devalue the feeling of achievement that comes when you or your FC does happen to win the Auction.

I understand, people wanting a house, and wanting an easier way about getting one. But to me, if they where to make Instanced Housing, it would render peoples work to make their home/yard look amazing, completely useless.

Maybe if they where to enlarge the housing maps, or make instanced homes completely separate from non-instanced homes, that might work.

[Shibi]

You say that very negatively like people shouldn't want an easier time getting a house or something, I don't understand. But yeah people get very upset when they can't get one, I've had friends quit the game over it, as I said before.

And yet, there are apartments and this is a start for many players - a toe dipped in the water. They are not ideal, but they hold 100 items, and can be made to look nice.

I'd hope that those friends who left the game had decorated apartments first, it would be a shame if they quit when they hadn't even tried decorating using the instanced housing system that already exists - apartments.

Hmm, thinking about it, maybe, the devs need to make it a prerequisite of personal plot lottery that you have held an apartment for 30 days. That would cull off some of the non-invested players. Make sure people know what they are getting into with the cost and effort of decorating.

[Lunaura]

Sorry I came across as such.

But, to me, if housing was made too easy, it would devalue the feeling of achievement that comes when you or your FC does happen to win the Auction.

I understand, people wanting a house, and wanting an easier way about getting one. But to me, if they where to make Instanced Housing, it would render peoples work to make their home/yard look amazing, completely useless.

Maybe if they where to enlarge the housing maps, or make instanced homes completely separate from non-instanced homes, that might work.

Yeah, my idea was it would be separate but that maybe the way you get to it is an NPC in the housing wards and the city, like how you can go to and from the main city and other wards.

I don't think they should remove the houses that are there currently and change to instanced housing, I was just thinking if they ALSO had instanced housing for people who want an FC house, or a personal house and can't get one now, or for people who want more houses, it would be a nice thing to have.
There are people who make alts on different servers specifically to get houses and then they barely play those characters and just log in once a month in order to keep it, just because they like decorating. It would be very nice if people like that weren't preventing others from having a house at all, which is the current situation, via instanced housing they could have multiple houses and be happy lol. Also a lot of people don't really care about the neighborhood aspect of the housing, they just want a house to decorate and hang out in, and instanced housing would be great for those folks. I myself like the neighborhoods but I never see anyone when I am outside of my personal or someone else's, so what's the point lol. My idea was if instanced housing did become a thing, then maybe we could have one per city per character. Like how SWTOR and I think ESO do it.

I also feel like the main achievement in getting a house is just getting the gil for it, which I have more than enough for any large plot. Actually obtaining it is just RNG. Before it was more a matter of who can click the fastest lol. And before THAT, it was who got there first. I do think having a house with the current system would still be desired and would still be a "cool factor" thing though.

The current housing situation isn't designed for a game with a large playerbase and I think if they continuously add new wards that isn't sustainable. But they clearly want it available for everyone since they DO keep adding new wards.

[anhaato]

We need upgradeable housing not instanced housing. I should be able to buy a small and then grind/spend to upgrade it to a large.

[Lunaura]

And yet, there are apartments and this is a start for many players - a toe dipped in the water. They are not ideal, but they hold 100 items, and can be made to look nice.

I'd hope that those friends who left the game had decorated apartments first, it would be a shame if they quit when they hadn't even tried decorating using the instanced housing system that already exists - apartments.

Hmm, thinking about it, maybe, the devs need to make it a prerequisite of personal plot lottery that you have held an apartment for 30 days. That would cull off some of the non-invested players. Make sure people know what they are getting into with the cost and effort of decorating.

The specific friends I am speaking of were veterans who had played since ARR and did have apartments. One of them actually had a small house, but she wanted a large because the smalls are just VERY small, as you probably know. She didn't manage to out-click the other person at the large plot she wanted, so then when she checked ALL the other large plots they were already taken, and she was basically like "I have played this game for so long and this is what I REALLY wanted, and I didn't get it because it's so limited" so she just quit.

[Lunaura]

We need upgradeable housing not instanced housing. I should be able to buy a small and then grind/spend to upgrade it to a large.

I agree with that, my idea was to have upgradeable instanced housing because I don't know how they would implement upgrading houses currently. But if they made wards that were ALL large plots and you start with a small house and then upgrade it to medium, then large, that would work!

Honestly, I feel like if they add more wards they should be large plot only wards, because NO one wants a small, as the currently 90% empty Ishgard FC wards can attest. Well they're very empty on my server anyway, because no one even tried for smalls, and most mediums, except very few people. But ALL the larges are taken of course.

[galaxy1020]

Limited housing in a MASSIVELY multiplayer online RPG is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. They just need to make apartments bigger and some indoor garden for us that love to decorate or plant stuff.

Plots can still exist for those that want to fight for public pieces of land.

[Burmecia]

No one wants a small.

And this is an incorrect statement. ﾟ･:☆｡(ꈍᴗꈍ)｡☆:･ﾟ

[Lunaura]

And this is an incorrect statement. ﾟ･:☆｡(ꈍᴗꈍ)｡☆:･ﾟ

All the empty small plots with 0 bidders on my server would beg to differ. lol

Also referring to FC wards not personal wards.

[LianaThorne]

All the empty small plots with 0 bidders on my server would beg to differ. lol

Also referring to FC wards not personal wards.

Because most large FCs want a large house to match their player count. It's not far fetched logic. There's also a pretty big difference between the number of mansions and smalls per server, naturally people will go for the smaller supply (mansions or mediums) in the hopes of being one of the chosen few to own one.

Saying people don't want smalls though is a bold and untrue assumption though. Just wait until this round of lotto is over and the FCs that didn't get lucky with a larger plot start going after them.