Quote Originally Posted by Martynek View Post
I agree. The issue with housing isn't that it's so limited, it's that there are incentives to want a house beyond simply wanting a house for its own sake.
Personal housing was a mistake and apartments should've filled that purpose, except we got monkeys pawed on that and ended up with some crap that can't do 90% of the things you'd want a house for in the first place.

tl;dr: Put anything that you'd want a house for into either Apartments or Island Sanctuary. Keep housing's primary purpose as a social space for FCs (And maybe linkshells, if there's some way of making that work?)
I wholeheartedly disagree that personal housing was a mistake, just to be clear. Personal housing is one of my wife's greatest joys with the game. Having a space that is her own with both an indoor and an outdoor component that she can decorate and let some of her creative instincts flow to gives her tremendous joy.

The only mistake regarding THAT is that they focused too heavily on 'maintaining the neighborhood feel' instead of going to some form of instanced or partially instanced housing to allow everyone to have their own.

But... that's off topic for this post. This post is specifically to say that housing should be about HOUSING. It should be a thing for people who SPECIFICALLY want their own space to decorate like that. It should not be 'mandatory to unlock functionality'.