Player housing, with a twist!

[Mirage]

Hey guys, what if you had the option of sharing your house with another player?

Like if you happen to be playing with someone you're dating in real life (for example, it could be for whatever reason you want), you could get one house that's twice as big as normal and share that instead of having one normal size house each. If you logged in while they were offline and resting in their bed, you'd see them lying on the bed and stuff. It could also be one double sized bed instead of two separate ones, or whatever sort of bed you decided on buying. You should be able to change the furniture in there anyway, right?

Of course, this isn't something that everyone would be using, so obviously it should be entirely optional. Additionally, you should be able to move out and get a normal house anytime you wanted, and your stuff would be coming with you.

[Churchill]

I would only support this if I could run a prostitution hub/harem from my player housing.

[Mihana]

I definitely approve of this idea, being able to share a house with another player if you decide or even one large "linkshell" type housing would be even better. Hopefully they'll implement something like that along with Free Companies, personal "hangout" areas for each Free Company that would let you decorate a small room for each member. But back on the subject of shared homes if they ever implement a marriage system into the game it'd work perfectly with this option. As long as they don't go overboard and make it into like a mini-Sims game within FFXIV...

[Laughlyn]

Hellz no!

(though i like the idea, i just dont want it...lol)

Room-mates no thx!

Friends / Players visiting is ok...like in FFXI, where party members could come in & have look around.
But... with a Major But ^-^, that was only cool for one reason & one reason only... to show off your funky stuff such as furnitures, event items you gathered over the years etc.

Something FFXIV is completly lacking & most of us old FFXI vets want back,
especially with an advanced Crafting system that we have.

So... Still insanly high hopes Furnitures can be crafted & placed
in housing in 2.0 at some point.

(imo it would be fantasticly stupid NOT to implement such things)

[Felis]

Housing sharing with marriage ^^
But who get the house after a divorce?

[Kyuuen]

Sounds like an interesting idea.

Housing sharing with marriage ^^
But who get the house after a divorce?

Well if the house is double in size while sharing one, then both players should go back to a house of the normal size. Character tags to any items of course apply.

That should keep it fair I think.

[Hulan]

Sounds like an interesting idea.



Well if the house is double in size while sharing one, then both players should go back to a house of the normal size. Character tags to any items of course apply.

That should keep it fair I think.

So... FFXIV is going to force us to get a prenuptial?

[Mirage]

While it would work perfectly with in-game marriages, I would like this feature to work independently of that. What I had in mind was that you'd either get one half of the floor space each, where each player had control over the furniture layout of their side, or that they could decide to let both players furnish both sides as they pleased.

In case of a split, each player's furniture would just automatically be moved to their respective new single-person rooms.

With FF14 supporting real instances, unlike FF11, I also imagine that each player house could have something like an outdoors area attached to them, where you could do something like gardening or just chill out.

And again, it should of course be entirely optional so that anyone who wanted their own house for just themselves would not experience any penalties or downsides compared to a two-man house.

[Zantetsuken]

So... FFXIV is going to force us to get a prenuptial?

Yet one more reason why marriage is stupid in MMO games.

Shared housing = No, thanks

Guild/Player Company Housing, Visiting, etc.. = Yes, please

Hey, if you really want to share housing, just start a guild/PC house and have a 2 person guild/PC...

[Eekiki]

When my last roommate moved out, I made a rule. No more roommates unless I'm sleeping with them.

That rule applies in FFXIV.