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

[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

[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.

[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.

[PercibelTheren]

Personally, instanced housing that can be visited by other people. Let me invest more gil to buy a larger house or upgrade it to a larger size. More item slots so that big houses can actually be properly decorated.

A feature I would love is picking the scenery. I get this idea from RIFT where housing gave you a chunk of the world. In FFXIV, you could pick Lakeland as your scenery, for example, making it look like your house is near the lake amidst the pretty purple trees. Unfortunately, that is almost definitely a pipe dream.

[FuturePastNow]

I would like them to add a few instanced plots for personal housing. I'm not saying they should take away the wards. But I want my cabin in the woods.

Maybe one plot somewhere in the world for each major region (that is, one each in La Noscea/Shroud/Thanalan and one in a HW area, the Far East, Tural, etc). Should function like apartments where it's a one time gil-sink purchase that you can't lose due to inactivity, and people can visit it like the island. So, basically, like the island except with an actual house plot.

For players who do want a house in the housing wards, this would relieve some of the competition over those spots.

[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.

[SKAshe]

I would like them to add a few instanced plots for personal housing. I'm not saying they should take away the wards. But I want my cabin in the woods.

Maybe one plot somewhere in the world for each major region (that is, one each in La Noscea/Shroud/Thanalan and one in a HW area, the Far East, Tural, etc). Should function like apartments where it's a one time gil-sink purchase that you can't lose due to inactivity, and people can visit it like the island. So, basically, like the island except with an actual house plot.

For players who do want a house in the housing wards, this would relieve some of the competition over those spots.

I'd like an opportunity to make a house in the wilderness as well. I Second this.