An idea proposition

[Noox-115]

If I'm reading your idea properly, this is sort of how BDO did it except the external decorating was not a thing. Within towns, there were certain buildings one could purchase for Contribution Points (a unit separate from silver currency, that one could generally acquire with ease) as housing. However, this wasn't a first come first serve thing. You'd walk up to the building's doorway, press F, and then get an option to purchase an instanced version of that house. In this way, thousands and thousands of people owned an instanced interior of the same building within a city. Your home even had a decoration rating, determined by the amount of furniture and the types you had in your place, and the Top 10 homes could be visited by other players by selecting them from a list. You could also manually navigate to your friend's home on the list as well, if you had them added. Some very large home buildings became available as the game grew, and it simply cost more contribution points; but we never saw the kind of competition for them like we do in XIV, since everyone could have one if they wanted to.

The downside of this system was if you weren't a Top 10 or someone with a lot of friends, then you wouldn't get any random visitors at all really. And the whole system was probably done with the cash shop in mind, since it was BDO after all. It also wasn't quite as flexible on the decorating, since (iirc) there weren't partitions or things like that; the home was sort of already divided up like a real house would be in that regard, whereas XIV just gives you a big empty room to do whatever craziness you want. This was likely just a creative difference in opinion and not a limitation from the system itself. But the upside was, everyone who wanted a house could easily acquire one within hours of playing the game. Most players owned several homes. And these were actually nestled within the city, not in some hypothetical dream-ward scenario that nobody wanders around in. You could open your window and look right out into the town. In this regard it was quite well done. I hope someday we can take the best elements of other games and apply them into this one.

Woah thats so cool I like how they made it so everyone could get an house early if they wanted that's very cool I would like to see some aspect of that in FFXIV because I saved my gils for months try to reach 3~4 million gils just to get an house and now that I finally got the money well there is no place left but the fact that they made this so can get soon in BDO is actually very cool