Some of you may have felt sad cuss you wanted to share a house with someone, but they were already capped on players "or" you like people but they happen to be in another FC and you also happen to like people in your current one...
Heck some FC's in the past even used to buy housing next to eachother to keep their communities close. There are also some situations where people change FC's because leadership in their current one is taking time off, making their FC feel dead. I think a great way to get around this and make people stay in the same FC longer would be by sharing community in game behaviour. Let me explain in steps:
- Allow house owners to send a house linking application to another house owner or FC. If both agree then when both houses get a furniture door opening sent to them in the moogle mail that they have to place in the house. Once both sides have done that.. next time both houses are empty the system will activate the doors.
This would mean that next time someone enters their linked house it would load both interiors at the same time and players would be able to walk from 1 house to the other without an additional load.
- Players would be allowed to use food, NPC's, retainer bells from both houses even if the other house happens to be an FC you aren't part of. They would be allowed to deliver materials to the workshop projects by default, but nothing more then that.
- Players may use both exits so if they are in the interior they can choose to exit from both wards in case they are looking for someone to talk to that may be idling.
- Links would stop if one house owner cancels this in which case the furniture will remain in its position where you left it "but" it would show with a closed door and would become unusable until you link up with another house owner again.
Max 2 houses should be allowed to link up but 1 of them should always be a small house/cottage to persuade people to aim less for the bigger ones.
If 2 house owners happen to be close friends, this would enable them to make a bigger creation making it feel like a medium house while being just 2 small houses (or 1 small & 1 medium or 1 small & 1 large).
An option could also be added where both house owners agree to remove the wall between both houses so the room would appear much bigger.