So.... the 850k thing I've been operating on is probably the cost of a house, yes; however.... purchasing land, even the smallest piece of land, is 4 million on the "cheapest" servers, and with Balmung being legacy, it's going to be more than that. Some are estimating 8 million. ∑(O_O;) We'll know officially when the 2.1 patch notes come out.
For successful housing, besides oodles and oodles of money, it looks like we'll need to focus on crafting classes to make furniture and gathering classes to grab treasure maps (for housing stuff and random other goodies), and do beastman quests (high esteem among beastman tribes can allow us to purchase furniture from them), along with higher level content for whatever drops they may bring.
So.... any suggestions from anyone about any of this?