What's Your Dream Version of Player Housing?

[HeyMcFly]

1.) demolish current housing system
2.) everyone gets a full refund
3.) massive housing item storage (1000+) that holds items infinitely & won't erase them
4.) reintroduce new house system which is instanced
5.) instanced plot can be upgraded and fully furnishable
- Increased item furnishing limits to + 500 more in addition to what they already have for small, medium large
- Can change the seasons, weather and music
- Can invite a Scion to your plot & gain relationship reputation with them which opens up personal/ open ended, meaningful dialogue
- Can release chocobos and minis on your plot, as well as similar additions to islands
- Uses the same house skins that already exist + future house skins
- Can view someone's plot via adventure plate if allowed, like a scrapbook of screens they took
- No destruction when unsubbed

OR FCs still work the same and can retain in wards while personal housing is given an instance that is everything I mentioned above

[Router]

easiest improvement would be to speed up the lottery. 1 day to enter bids and 1 day for results. would result in less bids to compete against and would give people more chances at a plot if they really want to keep trying
no clue why it's so slow as is

my "dream" player housing would involve making every plot the same general size and letting people pay more to upgrade the plot. like you start with a large plot with a small cottage on it and can upgrade to medium/large with gil. only difference between plots would be view and MB proximity. that change alone would basically solve all housing issues outside of balmung

instanced housing is a copout

[Jojoya]

easiest improvement would be to speed up the lottery. 1 day to enter bids and 1 day for results. would result in less bids to compete against and would give people more chances at a plot if they really want to keep trying
no clue why it's so slow as is

my "dream" player housing would involve making every plot the same general size and letting people pay more to upgrade the plot. like you start with a large plot with a small cottage on it and can upgrade to medium/large with gil. only difference between plots would be view and MB proximity. that change alone would basically solve all housing issues outside of balmung

instanced housing is a copout

A 2 day cycle would result in more bids on a single plot, not less. There would be fewer houses available without changing the number of players trying to get a house. Most players would find it even more frustrating.

[Router]

A 2 day cycle would result in more bids on a single plot, not less. There would be fewer houses available without changing the number of players trying to get a house. Most players would find it even more frustrating.

If anything, there's too many plots available right now. My server has 27 non-FC plots that are vacant and it gets worse every lottery cycle. The system can't keep up. There's similar numbers on most servers (your own server has 30!).
Besides, even on "guaranteed bid" plots, people tend to miss out on bidding day 1. A LB41 (basically the best plot in the game) opened up about a week ago on my server and by the end of the first day it had less than 100 bids. By the end of the lottery? 500 bids. People were not waiting to see if it was a good idea to bid on this plot (it wasn't, 400+ bids lmao), they just didn't get around to bidding until later because most people do not religiously check open plots. A quicker system would only lead to more bids if people actually cared enough to check plots every single day, which is just not how most people play the game.

[Vinter]

Open world region based city building like in Star Wars Galaxies. That's unlikely to ever happen though so I'd settle for zoned city building like in Age of Conan.

Having an FC house sucks. Having apartments sucks. I want to be able to build a community where everyone can have their own house, and we build a little village together.

[Divinemights]

Open world region based city building like in Star Wars Galaxies. That's unlikely to ever happen though so I'd settle for zoned city building like in Age of Conan.

Having an FC house sucks. Having apartments sucks. I want to be able to build a community where everyone can have their own house, and we build a little village together.

Aren't you in the wrong game?
Isn't there is a new MMO where players can build a city together?
Shouldn't you be doing that one?
Housing in FF14 is one of the side dish, never the main course

[Shurrikhan]

Aren't you in the wrong game?
Isn't there is a new MMO where players can build a city together?
Shouldn't you be doing that one?
Housing in FF14 is one of the side dish, never the main course

Imagine a player not limiting their post on a thread explicitly meant to gather individual's ideal ("dream") versions of XIV housing to what already currently exists or is likely to exist in XIV...

The shock. The horror.

[lolnotacat]

Open world region based city building like in Star Wars Galaxies. That's unlikely to ever happen though so I'd settle for zoned city building like in Age of Conan.

Having an FC house sucks. Having apartments sucks. I want to be able to build a community where everyone can have their own house, and we build a little village together.

I loved housing player cities in SWG so much, though once I got my Yacht from the pre-order, I pretty much lived in that in orbit around Tattooine or Naboo. I can't imagine them ever getting it to work properly here though.

[Vinter]

I loved housing player cities in SWG so much, though once I got my Yacht from the pre-order, I pretty much lived in that in orbit around Tattooine or Naboo. I can't imagine them ever getting it to work properly here though.

I had a friend who did the same. She didn't do any combat content at all, her entire gameplay experience was throwing parties on the yacht and organising monthly server events. I'll never forgive Smedley for what SOE did to that game. RIP Cult of the Sarlacc.

[lolnotacat]

I had a friend who did the same. She didn't do any combat content at all, her entire gameplay experience was throwing parties on the yacht and organising monthly server events. I'll never forgive Smedley for what SOE did to that game. RIP Cult of the Sarlacc.

It's funny how strong of a community a game can foster when there's friction and every playstyle needs each other.

Though to be fair, it wasn't just Smedly that ruined the game. Don't forget Julio Torres for turning it into a WoW clone.