How to fix ALL Housing issues.

[Brandr]

Right now I'm just wishing SE copies the new housing from WoW and make it better

[Themarvin]

Too many plots, the prices is fair as of current, 3-15-45millions'ish is not much in this game as it is.

If you want to solve problems, solve some of the actual problems, housing item limit, ability to place anything anywhere inside the house without having to use glitches and in that area.

Then maybe, as the game is in decline if players solve other things instead of adding more, removal of grandfathering, enforced max owner of 1 FC and House per account and so on and so forth.

[Themarvin]

Right now I'm just wishing SE copies the new housing from WoW and make it better

If anything they should copy it off Star Wars Galaxies, the entire decoration thing as it is, and that game is even older than wow... you could place items in any angle, float items the way you wanted to, without using glitches and more...

So please shove that WoW stuff somewhere else.

[Rinoa_353]

Right now I'm just wishing SE copies the new housing from WoW and make it better

We don't even know how their system works, how can it be better when they are just concepts atm? What I want is to have a system similar to Halo's Forge utilities to float, rotate and more.

[alibutterfly]

I'm another one who thinks instanced housing per character should exist. If they want to keep it a similar money sink to the currently existing housing, pay to unlock it, then pay to upgrade the plot size and the housing footprint each time, but make it upgradeable to the max tier with enough money. Let us put the same stuff we'd be able to access in the current neighborhoods in our instanced property: marketboard, an assortment of default vendors (on top of the ones we can place), indoor and outdoor space to decorate. Let people invite friends to their space if they want, or open it to visitors.

I feel like this system should exist alongside the current neighborhood system, so that the people who still want to live in a public space with their friends could have the ability to do so. If I could have a private house that I could upgrade over time, I'd have no need to maintain my medium in Shirogane - I don't have in-game friends at the moment, so there's no need for me to socialize. But I do like having a house as a place to call my own in game, so until they give me a way to have housing outside of the current system, this is what I have to do.

An additional benefit to this would be that each character could have a house, even if a person has alts. I understand why the current system has the necessary limitations in place, given the limited supply, but there would be no need for that if everyone had their own, private, instanced house per character. I have an alt I like to sometimes play on the same server as my main, and I would LOVE for her to be able to have a house or share my main's, but there's no way for me to do that right now without having to involve another person to do so.

Another option would be to have dynamically spawning housing instances - they did this in LotRO probably a decade and a half ago. Whenever there were no available plots left of any particular plot in a housing neighborhood, the server would dynamically generate a new housing neighborhood instance for people to start filling. I realize this would need probably much more storage/server architecture than they currently have available, but again, if LotRO could find a way to make this work all those years ago, I feel like a company the size of SquareEnix with a game pulling the revenue of FFXIV could figure out something comparable now, surely... if they actually wanted to do so.

[Kohashi]

If I were a dev and the game engine/ resource would allow I would make the house instanced but with the ability to create neighborhoods with friends/ FC members/ or even randos. That would unlock a lot of creativity and also make it feel organic. You can coordinate with the people's themes, designs, and venues. They could transform into little towns.

You can make your "town"/ "street" free to join or need approval. You can leave at any time. You could own multiple houses in that instance, up to 3 (ex: where you live, your summer tiny house, and your entertaining venue/shop).

You can also choose not only the house size but also the garden size. (ex: you can have a small house with a big garden).

The owner can choose a theme from the available locations we have, which can be changed (for a fee).

[Khryseis_Astra]

I'm another one who thinks instanced housing per character should exist.

An additional benefit to this would be that each character could have a house, even if a person has alts. I understand why the current system has the necessary limitations in place, given the limited supply, but there would be no need for that if everyone had their own, private, instanced house per character. I have an alt I like to sometimes play on the same server as my main, and I would LOVE for her to be able to have a house or share my main's, but there's no way for me to do that right now without having to involve another person to do so.

Agree on pretty much everything here, especially the ability for all characters to have a house. An instanced system would allow that to happen, without taking up a limited supply like ward housing. Even though we’re limited to one personal per account under the ward system, our characters can’t share it! My characters are very different anyway and I would love to be able to design a place just for my alts.

[Marooned_Pilot]

Add to the list a way for them to save your housing/room designs like presets.