The latest "digest" of the Letter from the Producer Live video gives Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn players a lot to look forward to with the forthcoming v2.1 patch release. The Q&A centers on job balance (with specific attention to Warriors and Dragoons), the duty finder, fates, the issue of cheating, housing and MUCH more.
Housing Construction
*This is demonstrated in the video.
A house will not be built when you purchase your land. Once you buy the deed to your house, you can preview what kind of house you would like to build from the housing menu. When you select your deed, a confirmation window will appear asking if you are sure you want to build the house, and if you select "Yes" your house will be built. It's an extremely simple process. Right after you build it, its appearance including doors and windows, will be standard, but by performing various actions you'll be able to swap out parts of the house.
Changing Exterior Parts
If you select the exterior from the housing menu, you'll see options that allow you to change the house's outer appearance and purchase additional exterior parts, which are sold in stores. When opting to change the exterior, a specialized screen similar to the equipment screen will appear for your house. In the upper portion of this screen, the various parts of the house will be displayed, and you can change them out by dragging and dropping just like when you're equipping your character. The parts will feature preset colors, but you'll be able to change them. Additionally, the lower portion of this window contains optional aspects, and you can customize the settings of various parts such as lamps that shine at the entrance and roof decorations. This is where you set up all of your house's exterior parts, and we'll be preparing a ton of them, so be sure to try them all out and create your dream home.
Placing Garden Furnishing
Next up, we have the garden layout. From the housing menu, you can select an option to place garden furnishings to organize garden-related objects. By selecting the items you wish to place from your inventory, you can drag them directly to a desired location. Then you can switch to rotation mode and adjust their orientation. We decided to split the positioning and rotation because a single interface for both would become a bit complicated. The garden objects you placed will then appear in the garden object list. Naturally, you'll be able to sit down on the benches that you place and jump on top of objects as well.
Check it out the text digest from the Japanese-language video presentation on the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn forum.
Video in Japanese
