[U43] Home Tours - Rewards in order to motivate people to invest time in housing?

ESO_player123

Any kind of reward for recommended houses will lead to abuse (people selling recommendations, friends/guildmates recommending each other etc.)

Syldras

I don't think competition is needed in this part of the game. Also, with rewards atteached to it, the risk for abuse (that some people already see when there's a ranking list, even without rewards) would increase. Even more so if the reward is some special rare item (I guess, if at all, gold would be okay - it's useful for the next project, but no special collector's thing, which might reduce the risk of people aggressively/unfairly fighting about it).

Elvenheart

Basically, I think it’s like others have said, if people enjoy doing housing, they will do it, and if they don’t, they won’t. The only motivation I could think of to get people who aren’t currently interested in housing to be more interested is like someone said above, add more functionality to houses.

TaSheen

Elvenheart wrote: »

Basically, I think it’s like others have said, if people enjoy doing housing, they will do it, and if they don’t, they won’t. The only motivation I could think of to get people who aren’t currently interested in housing to be more interested is like someone said above, add more functionality to houses.

Well, I enjoy housing, but I wouldn't touch home tours on a bet. More functionality though, yes, I'd be down for that!

katanagirl1

tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »

I don't think so, because Home Tours is a great idea for a social experience that has innate rewards of seeing cool houses and sharing creative works. Like a duel, or like non-queue Tales of Tribute, or making outfits, the reward is the fun itself.

I wouldn't mind if there was a reward for LISTING a house and getting your first recommend for each property--like a small bunch of housing mats. That would encourage people to list, without creating a game where people have to spam their house to win rewards or making it competitive.

I was going to suggest mats but you beat me to it.

alpha_synuclein

Quantifying creativity through popularity contest doesn't seem like a good idea...

As for the rewards, I wouldn't be against adding some fun incentive to get into (or more into) housing.
But instead of rankings we could have something like previous community events to encourage using tours tool. Example: if x amount of people list or visit a house in x amount of time all get a free house.

Araneae6537

It should stay as it is! Those who enjoy sharing their housing will do so and those who enjoy marveling at these creations now have new means to do so. I am enjoying it!

I don’t want any players to feel the need to put a house up or attract visitors for any tangible benefit — that would only only cause stress and frustration and dilute the postings of actual creations with stuff thrown together to meet criteria or whatever.

No, it’s fine as is.

DigiAngel

Zero interest on this end.....honestly I think the whole housing thing is a complete waste of time.