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RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - LiadansWhisper - 09-16-2014 (09-16-2014, 04:17 PM)Kage Wrote: Personally.... Personal rooms at 300K with a garden plot sounds like it'd fix more issues for those who wanted personal housing. The two are kind of separate.  Because individuals and FCs are now pitted against each other for space, it's just going t make things harder for those FCs trying to come up with the money.  I agree that the gardening would solve a lot (since Chocobo raising should be available to everyone in the FC, etc), though. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - Dogberry - 09-16-2014 Yeah man, grow that hydroponic moko grass in our FC rooms. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - Kage - 09-16-2014 ... Kage might need that moko grass. Anyways, here's the official translation of what he said. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/192814-Hey-Yoshi-you-said-personal-housing-will-be-far-more-affordable.?p=2442149&viewfull=1#post2442149 Quote:Hello, everyone. Producer and Director Yoshida here. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - FreelanceWizard - 09-16-2014 Thread closed. Please see http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=8314 for more information. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - FreelanceWizard - 09-19-2014 Thread reopened, as the moratorium is now over. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - Melkire - 09-19-2014 *points at the giant windmill in The Goblet next to Raubahn's Salute* Take that. And similar places in Lavender Beds and The Mist. Add a door. Drop an aetheryte right outside that we can teleport to. Give us laaaaaaarge apartments via instances, with the ability to garden in potted plants a la Mog Houses. Add a communal chocobo stable instance. Allow us to whitelist friends we'd like to be able to visit our "personal housing". Price this setup accordingly. ...oh look. Something everyone would have been happy with. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - McBeef™ - 09-19-2014 Rawr I'm so mad. Not really, but I get the hate. We can only hope they'll change it a bit in the future. Yoshi P is pretty good at responding to stuff like this (hunts are a good example.) RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - TheLastCandle - 09-19-2014 I'd gladly take city apartments. Make Gridania's an area in the trees with suspended platforms and bridges. Like an Ewok village! Only, you know, with a little more class. And slightly less yub-yub. (09-19-2014, 02:14 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: Rawr I'm so mad. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - Kage - 09-19-2014 Honestly I don't even know what I'd do with a garden. ULDAH regularly trains the chocobos stabled. Our gardener left and no one knows what to garden so the garden has been empty for like a week now. I don't know what I'd do with one for myself. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - McBeef™ - 09-19-2014 The bad thing about this though, is that they can't turn back time. I'm under the understanding that the personal housing areas take up *huge* amounts of memory on their datacenters. Which is why they have been increasing them rather slowly. Even if they changed the housing policy tomorrow, they can't just take them away from the people that already have them. So while the price issue could get fixed (with something like apartments), the problem of individuals snapping up all the smalls before an FC can get one doesn't go away. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - Phayte - 09-19-2014 Apartments would be way better than what they have now if they could provide it to everyone. They could have made like 1 (or a cluster) of personal housing wards that look like the current one. But instead of getting to decorate the outside and having a plot to yourself, you make it more generic outdoor area. When people access the door, they choose who's house they want. It'd be like company room, but in a slightly larger scale. That at least gives the illusion of a house. Instanced and would presumably be less server intensive. Of course that would take away the stable and garden though. They should just make it so you can stable your chocobo at the porters int he cities and just have a potted plant. Can't cross breed maybe, but you can at least grow chocobo foods. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - C'kayah Polaali - 09-19-2014 (09-19-2014, 02:19 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: The bad thing about this though, is that they can't turn back time. I'm under the understanding that the personal housing areas take up *huge* amounts of memory on their datacenters. Which is why they have been increasing them rather slowly.There are a number of things they could do to address this. - They could fix their crappy housing code so that it's not so much a problem -- this sounds like the path they're taking to be able to add so many new wards in 2.4 - They could use a "ward pool" that assigns new wards to servers on-demand as old wards fill up. This would let heavily populated servers have more wards, since the less populated servers frequently don't have many filled wards. They'd want to do something to make sure servers have a minimum number of wards, but this would help mitigate the problem. - They could flag some small plots as FC-only, to allow FCs the opportunity to buy houses on new wards before they're snapped up by individuals. - They could allow people to invite others into their inn rooms! A lot of people simply want to have a private space for RP, so this would allow for that. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - Titor - 09-19-2014 All in all I do not think that housing should be taking up that much memory. Below is a rough calculation that I had made when this was first announced. I made the mistake of posting it on the OF where I got flamed and insulted to the point that I took it down. IDK why, was genuinely trying to get an estimate and was not attacking anyone (unlike most of the other threads that were getting support and upvotes), but whatever that is besides the point. Here were my calculations that I had preserved. Aside from that, most other games with housing are able to support player-owned houses easily. I really wished it would have been an instanced plot that you can invite friends or whatever over with (Maybe with an ACL), and I was REALLY hoping for the ability to expand/build on my house. Build new wings, build new floors, build new structures, whatever. That would have been really awesome. It would have been a great gilsink too since more expansions would be more money, and SE could always add new expansions on. Make the base house like 100k, then have 80 mil worth of different upgrades if they wanted to dump that much. IDK. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - C'kayah Polaali - 09-19-2014 (09-16-2014, 04:20 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Because individuals and FCs are now pitted against each other for space, it's just going t make things harder for those FCs trying to come up with the money.It's not so much an issue with coming up with money as it is an issue with the way plots are sold. When you look at a ward, you can see the free plots. You can't buy them. You have to run to them and hope they're free by the time you get there. On the morning the servers came up for 2.38, a friend of mine hit the wards to buy a plot for her FC. She had done her homework and had a priority-sorted list of plots, and started right when the servers came up. She tried 4 plots, but each was sold by the time she'd gotten to it. By the time she missed the 4th, the smalls were gone. The larger issue, though, is simply the competition between a smaller number of FCs that want a plot and a large number of individuals that do. It was already a problem in 2.38 (which was surprising because no one knew they'd be so expensive until the night of the patch). For 2.4, *everyone* will have a month to save up for their house. I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations, and I'm predicting that a FC aiming for a small house is going to have something like a 10-20% chance of getting one in 2.4. This assumes they're there when the servers come up and know exactly what they're doing. I'm in favor of personal housing, but the way they've managed things pretty much screws any small FC out of housing now. RE: Personal Housing Thread 2.0 - C'kayah Polaali - 09-19-2014 (09-19-2014, 02:44 PM)Titor Wrote: Aside from that, most other games with housing are able to support player-owned houses easily. I really wished it would have been an instanced plot that you can invite friends or whatever over with (Maybe with an ACL), and I was REALLY hoping for the ability to expand/build on my house. Build new wings, build new floors, build new structures, whatever. That would have been really awesome. It would have been a great gilsink too since more expansions would be more money, and SE could always add new expansions on. Make the base house like 100k, then have 80 mil worth of different upgrades if they wanted to dump that much. IDK.I love your calculations, my brother and/or sister in math! Have you seen how housing is done for EverQuest II? It's pretty amazing. You buy (and pay taxes on*) a plot that gives you a basic floorplan, but you're otherwise able to decorate however you want with a flexibility that puts FF's housing to shame. Take a look at EQ2 Decorators, a website with housing decorator tips and showcases of nice setups. It's pretty amazing. The fact that this is a ten year old game only makes FF's housing problems that much more painful. *IIRC from my EQ2 days, you bought the plot (for a reasonable sum) and payed regular (reasonable) taxes on it to use it. Getting too much into arrears would lead to you losing the plot, with all your decorations going into escrow. This freed up housing owned by people who'd left the game without being a hassle for people who were simply taking a break. |