Housing/Manor System

[Ksenia]

I will need to be able to sit around in my underwear and play video games all day.

[NumenarMithrandir]

This would be great actually. Could play a game within a game.. for those boring hours you don't really feel like doing too much or only have a short time to play. Now hopefully SE takes a few of your ideas into account :P

[Rutelor]

Great collection of ideas, Galuizu. Thanks a lot. I really hope the Devs have open ears for creative suggestions like yours.

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[Avraym]

Cool idea =)

[Cynthis]

I will need to be able to sit around in my underwear and play video games all day.

lol, this reminds me of people who spend an entire weekend watching the live feed from Big brother of someone else cleaning their house instead of actually getting of the couch and clean their own house.

[auritribe]

Final Fantasy XIV: A Harvest Moon reborn

or something like that.

[Avisaia]

I'd love it if when my husband and I get married in game we could share the same mog-house/area. It would be really helpful for he and I to share items and what not. Plus! Amusing and enjoyable to build furniture and make a place together in game for fun. Wonderful ideas!

[Deceptistar]

farmer would be fun o.o

[NICKYMON]

I fully support this idea, Galu! I had actually hoped Botanist would have these traits (prior to 1.0 launch). Here's hoping SE takes these ideas into consideration! ^^

[Punainen]

Super awesome idea. Do want. Plus crafters can build furniture for your house. And maybe we can get more customization. Weavers can make rugs/curtains/tableclothes. Leatherworkers can make rugs and 'hunting trophies'. Blacksmith can make gardening/farming tools.
We should not have pots like in XI, but fields for our crops/trees. Stables for cattle, coups for birds.

You should be able to leave it all alone for a while without anything devastating happening for a while (lets assume a retainer will feed/water your farm, but if you want to HARVEST anything, or have anything genuinely progress, then you need to show up every now and then.

Maybe your animals and plants can have 'levels' depending on how well you take care of them, and increase their yield.
So if you show up regularly and take care of the farm yourself, the yield will get bigger. But if you neglect it and leave your retainer to care for it instead, then the yield will be significantly lower.

Absolutely no dying/running away plants/animals... I HATED that stuff about XI. I'd be forced to leave my game for a week and then my chocobo will have run away... I take a single day break from the game and all my plants are dead. That stuff was lame as hell. This being a more casual-friendly game should reward you for effort, yet not punish you for neglect.