Potential Housing Crisis Fix (Includes ability for permanent Housing (Sm, Med, Lrg)

[s32ialx]

How about this. We have Solution 9. Solution 9 is a major tech city that is WAY WAY WAY bigger than the playable area fully of Cyberpunkesqe Skyscrapers.

What if, now hear me out. WHAT IF they did something that we have in real life. Current wards and housing remains the same if you log out for too long you lose it. BUT in Sol 9 we can have Private and FC CONDO's that are like apartments in wards but you can have different sizes and multiple floors like housing but CONDOS, and they are permanent because....

We can have a new area in Sol 9 that players can access who have completed the quest "Dawntrail" and there would be like just tons of Skyscraper buildings that all have a lobby that we can go into and buy a Condo at. and then we get assigned a floor (ward) and we can then use the elevator to go up to our floor which would be a long corridor of 10-20-30 different doors and a nice hall way, and THIS hallway would be where players who have not unlocked Dawntrail could be teleported to when the want to visit you.

examples of each players condo would be:
Sol 9 > Nexus Tower > Floor 50 > Condo 20
Sol 9 > Echelon Heights > Floor 23 > Condo 13
Sol 9 > The Aegis Residences > Floor 2 > Condo 5
Sol 9 > Quantum Spire > Floor 35 > Condo 30
Sol 9 > Solace 9> Floor 8 > Condo 27
Sol 9 > Hyperion Flats > Floor 24 > Condo 14
Sol 9 > Zenith Haven > Floor 38 > Condo 7


Obviously these are made up names for the names of the condo buildings.

So TL;DR They could provide condos to us and FC's that would give us some sort of permanence similar to how they do apartments while we would lose 'out door features" and gain permanent housing as a side effect.

Could maybe be improved upon but come on Solution 9 is the PERFECT place for PERMANENT housing.

[Khryseis_Astra]

I would rather they just gave all apartments/FC rooms a refresh in general to have their own small, medium and large layouts. Maybe the larger two could have an outdoor patio or balcony for gardening and decorating. And they should definitely incorporate the interior remodeling we just got for regular houses. But it would be nice to have more places with apartments available in general, and S9 is high up on a lot of people’s wish lists.

Like Island Sanctuary, Cosmic Exploration holds the potential to introduce an instanced housing system to supplement existing ward housing. Give us a small Moon or planet or even just a small area of one, with some hologram technology to make our plot look however we want, including scenery, being able to adjust house size at will, etc. One could hope they see how disappointed people were that we didn’t get this with the Island and make it the big payoff for the Moon, but that’s just hopium on my part. lol

[Hanayumi]

Ngl starting to think Cosmic Exploration wont involve future housing... That being said it could easily be a stepping stone for a ton of other kinds of content.

[Jeeqbit]

Apartments really have no reason to have limited amounts, unlike houses, because as a concept they are meant to have lots of residents. That they limit them when other MMOs wouldn't is either an excessive attempt to obey the lore that only a certain amount can be residents, or they are not technically competent enough to achieve what every single other MMORPG can that has implemented houses.

[s32ialx]

I would rather they just gave all apartments/FC rooms a refresh in general to have their own small, medium and large layouts. Maybe the larger two could have an outdoor patio or balcony for gardening and decorating. And they should definitely incorporate the interior remodeling we just got for regular houses. But it would be nice to have more places with apartments available in general, and S9 is high up on a lot of people’s wish lists.

Look I fully agree with you on this,(especially the minimalist designs for apartments, not so much on the FC rooms being resizeable tho though I guess with tardis living that could be possible but if housing is not permanent that is asking for ALOT of upset when an FC house gets auto demo'd cause people either didn't use it enough also what if the leads lock the house than you can't even bring guests into your large room) but I would just love to live in Solution 9, lore wise there is no reason that we can't live there there is clearly more than enough housing available based on the cityscape backdrop, and I am a cyberpunk girl so being able to live in a cyberpunk city would just make the game for me I really don't fit the aesthetics of Mist, Goblet, Lav Beds, Empy or Shiro, and I would give up customizable outdoors to have a permanent house in Sol 9, the island sanctuary was nice, but you couldn't run a bar out of it, randoms could no visit you were limited to friendlist people only, with sol 9 condos randoms could be teleported to your floor at the elevators and it would never have to be a spoiler break due to that they can't actually see outside ever, unless they (which the probably will eventually) add a Sol 9 Phasmascape.

Apartments really have no reason to have limited amounts, unlike houses, because as a concept they are meant to have lots of residents. That they limit them when other MMOs wouldn't is either an excessive attempt to obey the lore that only a certain amount can be residents, or they are not technically competent enough to achieve what every single other MMORPG can that has implemented houses.

From my understanding it's the second in that they don't think we're worth the investment in putting extra development in rewriting the code logic of wards and housing in general, just like how they can't be assed to redo the cosmetic code for glamours and the like even if the rewrite would save on a lot of date storage resources.

[CCheshire]

I mean, we already have like apartments. I thought this would be about adding like, penthouses or having an entire floor dedicated to 1 character's home.

[Hanayumi]

My two cents on housing fix they can with current spaghetti code; apply ability to upgrade interior sizes to both houses and apartments. Double the amount of current apartments. Kick everyone out of houses with full refund, make all houses exclusively FC only, allow those FCs that perviously owned a house 1st pick. Allow those who owned peviously owned personal houses free upgrades to mansion interior in apartments.

[s32ialx]

I mean, we already have like apartments. I thought this would be about adding like, penthouses or having an entire floor dedicated to 1 character's home.

yes you're on the same track as me Penthouses/ Condos essentially the same thing. The reason I pick Solution 9 is because well look at all the potential housing condos/penthouses that it COULD have









All of these COULD be condos/penthouses for players

[s32ialx]

My two cents on housing fix they can with current spaghetti code; apply ability to upgrade interior sizes to both houses and apartments. Double the amount of current apartments. Kick everyone out of houses with full refund, make all houses exclusively FC only, allow those FCs that perviously owned a house 1st pick. Allow those who owned peviously owned personal houses free upgrades to mansion interior in apartments.

I would be okay with this as a solution but I still think *solution 9* is the solution to permanently fix housing it's in the name, it's your actual eyes as you look around the city, it's a metropolis it's set up to look like there's a billion potential residential locations, it's litterally the BIGGEST city the game has ever had visually, it makes Gridania, Limsa, Ul'dah, Foundation, Shirogane, Old Sharlayan, Radz-at-Han, Tuliyollal and their residential districts (for the ones that have them) look like villages.

[Catwho]

As long as any improvements to apartments include the following:

- The ability to choose an interior size even if it costs way way way more gil (let us have gil sinks! infinite large interiors!)
- The ability to put outdoor furnishings in a dedicated outdoor section, even if that option costs more gil (like a balcony or a top of the roof garden area)
- The ability for that exterior furnishing area to support cross breeding of gardening plants

Whether that's an improvement to existing apartments, or new apartments in Solution 9, or housing on the moon, I don't really care.