A suggestion to fix housing.

[Mosha]

So like in real life you can't get a house in FFXIV but FFXIV isn't real life and there is an obvious solution IT'S.....I-I-Instanced housing..its instance housing, I mean what did you expect?

So I'm going to talk about the pros the cons and what to do with the current system BUT FIRST SOME CAVEATS: I don't know how much time this would take, how much it would cost and what the servers are built like.(the servers could be held together by gummy bears and hopes and dreams for all I know.)

The first and most obvious pro is you can really lean into some of the beautiful zones within FFXIV for example a Yurt in the Azim Steppes, a pirate ship of the Coast of Limsa, an Ishgardian manner, A Garlean Bunker hidden within Garlamald and Amelience's house (She's my wife now Fourchenault) there 100s of possibilities out there. Obviously, only a few at launch but more wonderful and exciting homes could be added as the patches go on.

Secondly, it's a more scalable and efficient way to do housing, no more having to load a whole ward into memory for one person and if required you can add more capacity in the background without the risk of having half-full wards.

Thirdly Everyone can have a house when they want it.

However, there are a few cons one of them being the loss of community and the"neighbourhood feeling" if you will, you can mitigate that to an extent by having public homes being searchable ala BDO. but I do understand it's not quite the same but alas I do feel the pros outweigh this con.

The other con I see is the loss of people's painstaking work however my solution would be a special type of instanced housing that has a housing plot and maybe a scaled-down version of the current wards using assets from them to keep the look, that allows players to transfer their current homes into.

Lastly, let's say they do this what happens to the current system? on the release of instanced housing, you lock the ability to buy houses in the current system and then monitor how fast people are transferring to the new system with a final shut down a few patches later depending on speed. Doing this will most likely save SE money in the long term but would require short-term investment.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[Necrotica]

Instanced housing would be too much of a load on the servers.

Now look forward to your Instanced island with minions running around on it and buildings whose details you can decide down to the type of wood.

[Greyhawk]

Instanced housing would be too much of a load on the servers.

Now look forward to your Instanced island with minions running around on it and buildings whose details you can decide down to the type of wood.

No it wouldn't - if they would have started that off how it should have been. Instancing only provides instances as needed, not static like we have now which is a TON more taxing on the hardware and game. it's a static environment that cannot adjust based on load and need. The entire point of instancing is efficient use of hardware/software. This is nothing new.

[Amenara]

No it wouldn't - if they would have started that off how it should have been. Instancing only provides instances as needed, not static like we have now which is a TON more taxing on the hardware and game. it's a static environment that cannot adjust based on load and need. The entire point of instancing is efficient use of hardware/software. This is nothing new.

Pretty sure it was sarcasm...

[Greyhawk]

Pretty sure it was sarcasm...

Yeah and you never know WTF is going on with people, especially here. So I don't assume that anymore.

[HisShadowX]

Instanced housing would pay for itself, especially it if was paid to own. If we had themed housing and can own multiple themes by buying them and we can put whatever in there yeah its a good money maker. In ESO I have my own Vampire Castle with human cattle roaming for me to have a meal. I love it!

[Oizen]

Man I sure would care about mog station furniture if I had a place to put it

[Espon]

Funny thing is people think server space is infinite and you could just open an instance for everyone at any time. Only a limited number of instances can be opened at a time, after that you get put into a queue to wait for the next available space. Everyone is going to be trying to get to their Island Sanctuary, and most will not be able to access it for days. Ever heard of Raubahn Extreme, where everyone got stuck trying to get into a solo duty at the beginning of Stormblood? It's going to be like that.

[Greyhawk]

Funny thing is people think server space is infinite and you could just open an instance for everyone at any time. Only a limited number of instances can be opened at a time, after that you get put into a queue to wait for the next available space. Everyone is going to be trying to get to their Island Sanctuary, and most will not be able to access it for days. Ever heard of Raubahn Extreme, where everyone got stuck trying to get into a solo duty at the beginning of Stormblood? It's going to be like that.

I was just thinking about this and afraid it will end up like that. I have a feeling it will end up like this, or even this morning's debacle of the Travel system.

[Shibi]

Funny thing is people think server space is infinite and you could just open an instance for everyone at any time.

Corporate asks "What's the server difference between":

(a) an instanced island,
(b) an instanced home

If I decided to spend my playing time inside my instanced home, well, I won't be in the instanced island, nor an instanced dungeon.