(05-03-2014, 11:48 AM)Naunet Wrote: @Kailia: The land can't possibly be under Grand Company "jurisdiction", because the Grand Companies are not governmental bodies; they're simply military units. And even if they were, it shouldn't matter because this is fluff content and it should be accessible to everyone from the start.
No actually the housing areas do fall under Grand Company Jurisdiction. Outside the Goblet, the npc is a member of the Immortal Flames. He sends you into the housing area to meet another flame npc. The company set aside the land for adventurers, in the hopes of getting adventurers to settle down in their land and become citizens to fight for their cause.
Why do you think Free Companies HAVE to be rank 6 or higher to even purchase land for their house? And personal housing, you HAVE to be a certain rank to even get a house as well. The above goblet example, echoes to the serpents and maelstrom. A level 1 is an unknown to these Grand Companies. So they aren't going to just hand out land that they control, to some unknown entity. So naturally, you need to prove yourself. So you need to be level 50. Easy to achieve. Next you have to be a certain rank in your chosen grand company. These are all perfectly reasonable requirements.
And nothing is ever free in Eorzea. So if you want to buy land, better have the gil to do it with. Two of my friends have 900k saved up already. Me, I'm going to as I said, take a personal room in the FC cottage for my character. IC, she's a kid who has very little gil, so doesn't make sense for her to even have land of her own. Maybe later down the road. But even if she ICly had the gil, her story is keeping her around mist, where as, I'd prefer her to have a house in lavender beds. So since her story isn't taking her to living in the shroud, and the FC cottage is in mist, makes sense for her to stay there.