Island Sanctuary gripes

[LadyKairi]

I love Island Sanctuary, and I have really enjoyed ranking mine up. So much so that I am looking forward to doing the grind all over again on my other character. However, I still have some issues with it.

Will we see an increase number of furnishings we can place in the future? Maybe it's the way I decorate, but 90 seems incredibly low for the entirety of the Hideaway. I already maxed out and I have only decorated the main area and a small Part of the last expansion. Again, maybe it's the way I decorate, but it feels SUPER limited. Anyone else have issues with it?

Another big gripe i have is the limit on how many of certain furnishings you can place. WHY IS THERE A LIMIT ON "FLOWER" FURNISHINGS??? Why are we only able to place a max of 10? Why are the grass tufts included in that category??? It feels like you have to choose between flowers or lush grass. And you can also only place one Leviathin fountain... Is there a reason for limits on these furnishings? It has been annoying, because I have to keep tearing everything down. I get a vision for what I'm going for and then get blocked by limitations and have to go back to the drawing board.

I appreciate being able to even place furnishings on the island in the first place, and it feels pretty silly to complain about something so minor. I just wish there wasn't such a limit on the creative aspect. Especially if you're like me and love vegetation/landscaping. Also Feel free to show off what you have done with your island. I love looking at the creations of others <3

[Cincierta]

I'm just wondering if we'll ever get a third Granary.

[Eorzean_username]

I appreciate being able to even place furnishings on the island in the first place, and it feels pretty silly to complain about something so minor.

This is a product you pay for, being produced by working adults; this is a feature that should have been planned and baseline from the start; and you should not feel silly at all for offering honest critique and criticism of poor or confusing design decisions.

It's certainly polite not to personally-attack the developers or otherwise froth at the mouth unproductively, but at the same time, don't feel self-conscious about telling them when they need to do better — that's the kind of feedback that (hypothetically) improves the product for everyone.

And offering specific use-case issues — like your frustration with trying to create a garden when you have a hard limit on certain decoration types — is amongst the most useful feedback you can provide, since it gives the developers concrete feedback to (hypothetically) action.

[LadyKairi]

That’s fair, I just didn’t want to portray myself negatively so it (hopefully) could be taken more seriously. Im really hoping we can get improvements to IS. Thank you for your input!

[Boblawblah]

Look at you worried about sounding too negative



You're fine, and I agree with your gripes, I'd love to see way more item allowance. I'm not convinced SE will want that though, I have a feeling they have some really weird database setups going on.

[Iplewhelmed]

Personally I want the ability to hide the mammets that aren't interactable. There is like.... ten of them per building, often taking up nice spots for photos/screenshots.

[Eorzean_username]

Personally I want the ability to hide the mammets that aren't interactable. There is like.... ten of them per building, often taking up nice spots for photos/screenshots.

Yeah, I can't speak for everyone, but I personally think that the mammets are utterly-atrocious, not cute or "funny" at all, and one of the major reasons why I don't want to "live" or even "hang out" on my "personal island sanctuary".

It feels more like hanging out in a factory during the Industrial Revolution, and that's just... very strange, I think.

[Boblawblah]

Yeah, I can't speak for everyone, but I personally think that the mammets are utterly-atrocious, not cute or "funny" at all, and one of the major reasons why I don't want to "live" or even "hang out" on my "personal island sanctuary".

It feels more like hanging out in a factory during the Industrial Revolution, and that's just... very strange, I think.

does ANYONE like them, like, at all? Maybe they're super cute to the Japanese playerbase? idk, I thought it was such a bizarre thing when Tataru's like "okay, here are all your workers..mammets!!" ..what? Why can't I have just normal workers or something? Heck, turn it into a squadron-like system where I can recruit people.

[Eorzean_username]

Why can't I have just normal workers or something? Heck, turn it into a squadron-like system where I can recruit people.

This would actually be a great way to repurpose the actual Squadron, which has been doing... nothing... for years now.

Also kind of... politically-corrupt... to use your authority as a military commander to staff your private civilian enterprise, but... I guess a bit of immersive realism like that is okay.

But yeah, if the Island absolutely must have vendors and "spreadsheet mechanics", I'd love to be able to "collect" actual NPCs from all the different places that we've adventured around the world, and "staff" the island — kind of like assigning people to different Roles in the Squadron, but instead, assigning them different jobs around the island.

It would also serve as a much better "culmination of the WOL story" that EW tried to represent — the idea of building your own secreted-away "superhero base" in the Bahamas where, now that the world is ostensibly "saved", everyone who wants to retire (or visit, or vacation) can come hang out and help you run your bizarre imperialistic resource-exploitative economy on a once-pristine tropical island whose ecosystem will probably never recover, like all good friends do.

I mean that's part of what makes Animal Crossing or "Stardew"-genre games appealing — all of the "functional NPCs" are also actual characters with distinct aesthetics and personality, so it feels like you're "living" in a "community".

"Industrial Pollution Robot Sweatshop Island" just feels like such a strange angle to take on this concept, and I think you're right: if the mammets were just "reskinned" into actual people, it would be a lot more palatable... or even become a grudgingly "fun" / "cool" feature, similar to how Squadrons squeezed a lot of mileage out of a fairly limited concept just by giving you personalities and aesthetics to target, recruit, and customize, instead of just 3 functional "Helper Mammets", one Red, one Green, and one Blue.

[Reimmi]

Personally I want the ability to hide the mammets that aren't interactable. There is like.... ten of them per building, often taking up nice spots for photos/screenshots.

I definitely want the option to hide all the mammets so this feels more like my island and not tataru's sweat shop