Apartment and FC Rooms

[Khryseis_Astra]

Where is the luxury extra large apartment?

That’s one thing I’ve been wanting for awhile, especially with the interior size changes they’re planning. While some might find having a large house layout inside an apartment an appealing option, I’d much rather see apartments get their own medium and large layouts. What we have now could be a studio, medium could be a loft with two levels, and large could be a 3 level penthouse (bonus points if it includes an “outdoor” instanced balcony with a view!).

[SannaR]

They did say I think back in EW they wanted to give apartments more space after they "solve" the housing problem. That's about the last time they talked about them. I would love a 2nd floor for them. I've also felt that more people would let go of a house or for those who don't have an apartment would get one if they gave people with an apartment the ability to crossbreed plants. It doesn't help that you can't have roommates for apartments either.

Sadly apartments are rarely ever on the devs minds when it comes to housing.

[cheeplikor]

Housing is one of the parts of this game where they'll promise us more for those who have but won't address the core issue for those who don't.

Housing as it is, is just not fair. Something we've all been asking for since apartments dropped was the ability to buy larger rooms, maybe with a balcony so we can do at least some of the gardening options. I can understand why people want more slots for decorating and whatnot. I had a house once and it was nice but more was definitely something I wanted in terms of slots.

Not being able to share apartments/rooms is just wild to me. This should've been in from the beginning. Like realistically what is the design point of seperating the houses from the apartments if not to inflate demand for housing. It's just so bizarre.

But hey, it's XIV housing. The simplest fix to the majority of the issues is somehow the most difficult to implement despite it already existing

[Rueby]

Apartments need to be better, it might have a solution to the 'instanced housing' issue but they don't even want to try it...

They could even make an entrance in wards that lead to an 'instanced housing' section but I have the tinfoil that they want people to be shackled by their houses and subs...I wouldn't give up my house even if instanced housing became a thing but I think many people would enjoy the ability to have a nice home to decorate and maybe show friends...that sounds fun..

[Toutatis]

Now we can remove pillars, next patch we can change the size of houses and in the next expansion we can change the size of apartments, yay.

Not really. That’s another example of where they’ve done things halfway: to not get columns we have to go with the new minimalist style (which btw still has ugly windows and no corresponding partitions plus many wallpapers just look out of place with it). Can’t have Riviera/Glade/Oasis/etc style with no columns.

If I use the minimalist style, I get no columns but I still feel obligated to cover all the walls with partitions and use precious slots and space to get a different style or because there are no matching partitions which sort of defeats the purpose of it.

Windows and columns should be optional with all styles. Changing style, not just size, should be a thing with apts too.