If you’ve ever tried to buy a property, you know that it’s not a pleasant activity. You have to camp outside the pitches, wait for hours and just mindlessly click on the signs, which is boring. It’s also very frustrating when other people get it, especially if you suspect they’re using a bot or script to automate the click.
If you are tired of buying property and have enough gold, consider buying an apartment. It’s instantiated hosting, so there’s more availability and you don’t have to wait for any timers. You can get it right away and start tackling interior decorating issues.
Here’s what you need to know about buying a condo, the features you get, and the differences between condos and other player housing.
What is in the apartment?
You can use your own room for decoration. It’s like an inn room, except you can customize it, and there’s no fancy dressing room (… but, cross your fingers, this adds to the player’s living quarters).
You will get a new teleportation option in the “Other” tab in the apartment. Teleporting here actually takes you outside of your apartment building, which is probably even better. There is a market board and a summoning bell, and a chocobo stable that you can use. There is also a delivery man in the lobby.
You can use the Stable to give the chocobo an extra feel and change its color. Remember that the chocobo barn must be cleaned with the magic barn broom, which is the shared responsibility of everyone who uses the barn.
You can buy flower pots from the apartment merchant in the lobby under “Buy Furniture (Other)”. With up to two of these plants in your apartment, you can grow individual plants or crops. You can also place orchestras, summoning bells, bell jars, wardrobes, and NPCs like repairmen, material fusioners, scrappers, and more.
You can store 100 indoor furniture and place another 100 indoor furniture. There is no space for outdoor furniture.
How to buy an apartment
To buy an apartment, you must be level 50 in any job. You must also be of the rank of Ensign or higher in your Grand Company. If you specifically want the apartment in Shirogane, you’ll also need to have a certain level in MSQ by completing the “Not Without Accidents” quest. It’s still pretty early in Stormblood.
Each residential area has an apartment building. These buildings always have a designated ethernet shard outside. This would be Lily Hill by Lavender Beds, Topmast Mast by The Mist, Sultana’s Breath by Goblet and Little White Palace by Platinum and Gold.
Go to an apartment building in a residential area and enter the lobby. You will see a table with NPC behind it. Apartment Caretaker will allow you to buy an apartment for 500,000 gil. There must be space in the building (there are 90 units), and you will buy the first available unit on the list.
You can only own one apartment at a time. Regardless of the living space, you will have to vacate your current apartment in order to buy another.
decorate your apartment
As mentioned above, you can only use interior furniture to furnish your apartment. You can buy some furniture from the apartment merchant in the lobby. They will also sell you items like NPC Licenses, some Orchestral Scrolls, Flower Pots, Seeds, and Soil. If you’re looking for a wider range of furniture, there are tons of household items you can buy or make, so bazaars are often the best place to go.
If you’re looking for resources outside of the game, check out ff14housing for tons of housing items. For design inspiration and to see what others are doing, check out sites like Tumblr or Housingsnap to explore pictures and albums of other gamers’ interiors.
To manage your furniture, go to Social > Housing. From here you can also click on “Mansion Settings” to manage any player accommodation you have access to, this is where you vacate the apartments.
Apartments and Manor Houses
There are some big differences between an apartment and a finca. Depending on your goals for player housing, these may or may not be much of a problem for you.
The biggest difference is obviously that you get a single room with an apartment. This may seem small in comparison to fincas, as even the smallest fincas have two stories and the entire yard is outside. If you’re looking for a little sanctuary of your own, apartments are for you. If you want a large space for you and your friends, you may prefer the largest finca you can find.
It is worth noting that the apartment appears to be as big as the FC house and can be owned at the same time. An apartment costs 200,000 gil more than a private FC room, but it’s not tied to FC, so you don’t have to worry about what will happen if you change FC or disband. However, if you’re reasonably comfortable with FC, you’ll probably want a less expensive option.
You have less furniture to place and store. A small farm has 200 spaces each for indoor furniture and 20 spaces each for outdoor furniture. Large farms up to 400/40. With an apartment, you have 100/0, so you won’t be able to accumulate as much furniture or create a cramped room.
If you are looking for additional storage space for your furniture, or until you get your property, an apartment may suit your needs. If you’re just looking to play around with the interior a bit, you may be fine with just an apartment, not even a property.
Apartments are instanced environments, unlike open communities where you can walk from lot to lot. This makes Ward feel very homey, but at the cost of taxing the servers a bit more. This is why Square Enix can’t just add more rooms, as they are instances that load constantly, as opposed to individual rooms that load when the player enters them.
Your apartment does not have a sleep timer. If you do not enter the property for 45 days, you will lose your property. The apartment is never repossessed, so you can keep it forever or until you vacate it voluntarily. This is a real bonus because you don’t have to worry about losing your apartment if you cancel your subscription for a few months.
You cannot hybridize plants and crops because there is no room for flower beds. They’re just outdoor furniture, so their indoor pots are the only way to grow plants, one at a time. You can also have just two pots in your room, and while a flower bed has room for eight plants, you can have anywhere from 1 to 3 flower beds, depending on the size of your property.
Honestly, gardening is very time and labor intensive, so unless you’re really committed, I don’t think you’ll miss out on much. You can still use pots to grow flowers, put them in vases, decorate your room with seeds, or get some regular items from seeds. You just can’t set up the cross-loop that some people do to get rarer items and possibly earn more gold.
in conclusion
In fact, I think the apartment is quite impressive. If you want to start decorating your own room but can’t get enough of the “house game”, here is a quick and easy option. Although FC private rooms are cheaper, I personally find it more comfortable to have an apartment that is not related to FC.
If you desperately need a way to train or paint your chocobos but don’t have a FC or heritage chocobo, you don’t have to wait either. Apartment Stables lets you do it all.
Even if you already own a property, apartments can offer additional storage and a second aesthetic that you can create and play with. Before, I had no idea how easy it was to get an apartment, I would definitely play it as a second space, I knew I would always have it and I would get out of the game even if I took a break.
What do you think? Are you satisfied with an apartment or do you think it should be improved in some way? Let me know in the comments.
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