Are the Islands better than owning a house?

[Wolferey]

But still 100's of forum posts wanted instance housing and we got instance islands. Square hit two rocks with one stone by not angering the housing owners and providing the entire player base a Island home. I'd say that's a win win for sure .

Nah, as a housing owner I am angry, they had every chance to make a better system and they squandered it hard, so now you have two systems that are bad instead. Actually getting a house was and still is a terrible experience and has whole systems locked behind it (you can argue as much as you want about how useful gardening/fc workshop is, its still locked), and island is missing even basic stuff like teleport, retainer bell or since its an instance they could even have let you have a glam dresser. Besides outdoor furnishing limit its not even close. We just got a spreadsheet sim we can kinda decorate that someone made an optimized spreadsheet for.

[Myon88]

Islands have 90 outdoor furnishing slots and large mansions only have 40. Think about that for a second. Not only is it more than double the quota of the largest housing option, everyone gets one instead of it being a privilege only a small handful of players enjoy.

If we ever get an equivalent indoor version, I would consider the XIV housing 'problem' solved. This is literally half the piece of that solution and islands are not getting anywhere near enough credit for that.

Of course, this assumes you value housing in this game as a creative outlet for decorating, which I hope people do. That is the primary and most important purpose of the housing system. Subs and gardens are just soulless gil factories, they're not as important.

[sagacious]

Islands have 90 outdoor furnishing slots and large mansions only have 40. Think about that for a second. Not only is it more than double the quota of the largest housing option, everyone gets one instead of it being a privilege only a small handful of players enjoy.

If we ever get an equivalent indoor version, I would consider the XIV housing 'problem' solved. This is literally half the piece of that solution and islands are not getting anywhere near enough credit for that.

Of course, this assumes you value housing in this game as a creative outlet for decorating, which I hope people do. That is the primary and most important purpose of the housing system. Subs and gardens are just soulless gil factories, they're not as important.

Thank you for realizing that island don't get enough credit for solving 1/2 the housing issue ...

[Wolferey]

If we ever get an equivalent indoor version, I would consider the XIV housing 'problem' solved. This is literally half the piece of that solution and islands are not getting anywhere near enough credit for that.

I mean, the credit goes to every hero who bitched n moaned that this wasn't possible to begin with until CBU3 understood the original island wasn't what players wanted and changed course to allow this.

[sagacious]

I mean, the credit goes to every hero who bitched n moaned that this wasn't possible to begin with until CBU3 understood the original island wasn't what players wanted and changed course to allow this.

But this is good, the company listened and gave us 1/2 of what we wanted, Instance outdoor housing, so why has square decided to stop Island growth? It is because of all the negative comments concerning the island? Please tell square they are going in the right direction .... please ..

[Toutatis]

The problem with the Islands is that they offer no functionality. I use my house as a base in between activities: I can directly teleport in front of it, it’s more quiet than Limsa, there’s a MB in front, I have a dummy in the garden, different vendors inside along with a retainer bell, fc chest and armoire and I can allow friends to use it too. The only thing missing is a dresser but my GC is at 35 gils only away. If they added similar functionality to the Island I would use it more. Atm, I only visit it once a week to set the agenda and feed the animals as there is nothing else to do there at all.

[sagacious]

The problem with the Islands is that they offer no-functionality. I use my house as a base in between activities: there’s a MB in front, I have a dummy in the garden, different vendors inside along with retainer bell, fc chest and armoire.

We have two systems one system has workshops and gardens and indoor furnishings, other has outdoor furnishings and favor lottery tickets. It is better than what we had..

[Toutatis]

We have two systems one system has workshops and gardens and indoor furnishings, other has outdoor furnishings and favor lottery tickets. It is better than what we had..

Workshops are fc only and I couldn’t care less. They offer nothing else than making gil. A house allows me to do a bunch of things in between raids, including accessing my retainers for crafting and managing inventory. Workshops (fc only) and gardens are extra but I find them irrelevant. All I do with my garden is occasionally plant 24h plants but don’t bother collecting the stuff anymore (got enough gils).

[NekoMataMata]

No.

It's useable, but definitely not the same. You barely have more item slots than a small house to work with too.