Housing Interior Size Upgrade

[NightHour]

During the live letter, Yoshi-P talked about a potential change for the upcoming patch cycle (past 7.1), wherein players could upgrade their house interior to that of a larger house (the example he used was a small house with a large house interior.

I'm pretty stoked for this, as it's something I've suggested a few times. Also, I hope it applies to apartments as well, because people who can't get houses deserve nice things too!

Anyone else looking forward to this?

I am looking forward to it big time.

He said "1-2 patches after 7.1"

so that makes the release window anywhere between March and July if patches are every 4 months.

The Live Letter was very specific. It was referring to the interior space and not the item limit.

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What's the point in upgrading your interior if you retain the item limit of the previous interior size....

It's common sense to expect your item limit to be sufficient for the interior size you choose, A small house with a large interior and a 200 item limit?

It would be pointless to upgrade as you'd never fill the space you've paid for.

Also, he's not gonna go into the juicy details on a feature that's still being worked on long before it's ready.

I hope they address that along with the new limits in the next LL sometime around mid October.

Part 2 wont be mid oct, it will be late Oct.

Part 2 usually happens around 11/12 days before patch release.

If we look at previous Live Letters and presume 7.1 is due on 5th or 12th November we'd be looking at a time window of 25th Oct - 31st October for Part 2.


Regarding Limit increases I'm not expecting much

Probably something like


Apartments and FC Chambers +25
Small + 75
House + 125
Large + 175

Gotta keep in mind ppl with older systems and ps4's.


Housing Items not only use server resources to load, they use end user system resources to be loaded in by their clients when they enter houses (CPU, GPU, RAM)..

[NightHour]

If we look at previous Live Letters and presume 7.1 is due on 5th or 12th November we'd be looking at a time window of 25th Oct - 31st October for Part 2.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...dac12ea93909ea

1st November Part 2.

That more a less means, 12th or 19th Nov for the patch.

I hope to see increased activity in the wards since owners of smalls will soon be able to decorate the same as us that own mansions after they pay the upgrade fee. I predict 25 mil or so for a mansion size and maybe 15 mil for a medium size inside a small for example. This has me excited because now I can upgrade my solo small FC into a nice home for my alts the size of a mansion inside. My neighbors in Shiro are excited and we plan to all renovate when this is released and then invite friends and more to have a guided tour of sorts, I look forward to that :3

I just hope the furnishing limit increase is generous, for now, I'll stick with my modest prediction:

Cottage: 50 more slots inside, 5 more outside

House: 100 more slots inside, 10 more outside

Mansion: 200 more inside, 20 more outside

The item increase won't be too insane, it'll be modest.

Gotta remember PS4 is still supported and their hardwares over a decade old, too much to load would cause performance issues for PS4 players.

Loading Housing items takes both server and client resources and PS4 is equivalent to a 10-12 year old PC rocking an AMD FX processor and a Nvidia GTX 750 Ti which are extremely weak components by todays standards (they weren't even good when they were current generation either)





As for the upgrading stuff...


If the total price of what you paid for the plot + the upgrade was similar to what a plot of that size would cost to buy outright then sure it'd be fair.





Most Smalls cost around 3-3.75 million

Mediums cost between 16 and 20 million

Mansion's cost between 40 and 50 million.




If they wanted to go the extra mile, they could make the upgrade cost based on the pricing tier of your plot.


If you live in a high priced small or medium then your upgrade cost should be what a high priced of the desired tier is minus the cost of your plot.



Take me for example, My Medium is a 20 million plot which is the upper price tier for Medium... If I wanted to go Large my upgrade cost should be Upper price Tier of Large - What my plot cost so 30 million.





The pricing needs to be similar to what a plot of that size costs or no one would ever buy a medium or large plot outright and would just buy smalls and upgrade them if it turned out cheaper.