It's been a while since I threw out a random thought-provoker, but this one came up from talk in the Novice Network, of all things. I wasn't sure if this would be best here or in FFXIV, but since it's just musing... I put it here.
If money was no object (and the housing market on Balmung not as nightmarish as it is) and you were able to obtain a Large personal mansion, what would you do with it? It's a huge space, so I figure you'd want to attack filling it with some sort of plan. This can be either what you as the player would do with it, or what your character would do with the plot - whichever you'd have more fun thinking on.
For me? With the advent of the doors and whatnot... if they bumped up the amount of things you could put in a manor I'd probably try and make an apartment complex. Divide up all the rooms in the middle and upper floors into apartments with furniture and whatnot and "rent" out the space to people. Even if you went with decent-sized rooms by splitting the upper floor ones just in half and turn the basement into a rec/fitness room... that's still six rooms you could furnish.
The issue then becomes the whole ward thing. Obviously you can't have enough wards to make each tenant one but... what if you made the wards the "superintendents?" So if one of the tenants wanted to change up their room or something (call in a work order, if you want it IC), one of the supers could show up and move stuff around for them.
... Of course, the easier route would probably just be making a Free Company and using a Free Company manor for that... but it's a fun thought. Could even keep the idea for the FC house and the non-Private "rooms" could still be spaces for rent.
That's my silly idea of what I'd do with one of those massive buildings. What would you do?
If money was no object (and the housing market on Balmung not as nightmarish as it is) and you were able to obtain a Large personal mansion, what would you do with it? It's a huge space, so I figure you'd want to attack filling it with some sort of plan. This can be either what you as the player would do with it, or what your character would do with the plot - whichever you'd have more fun thinking on.
For me? With the advent of the doors and whatnot... if they bumped up the amount of things you could put in a manor I'd probably try and make an apartment complex. Divide up all the rooms in the middle and upper floors into apartments with furniture and whatnot and "rent" out the space to people. Even if you went with decent-sized rooms by splitting the upper floor ones just in half and turn the basement into a rec/fitness room... that's still six rooms you could furnish.
The issue then becomes the whole ward thing. Obviously you can't have enough wards to make each tenant one but... what if you made the wards the "superintendents?" So if one of the tenants wanted to change up their room or something (call in a work order, if you want it IC), one of the supers could show up and move stuff around for them.
... Of course, the easier route would probably just be making a Free Company and using a Free Company manor for that... but it's a fun thought. Could even keep the idea for the FC house and the non-Private "rooms" could still be spaces for rent.
That's my silly idea of what I'd do with one of those massive buildings. What would you do?