LunaFlora wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Personofsecrets wrote: »

Let's hear about Tales of Tribute - it's been a while.

That's so two chapters ago! Just kidding, I love ToT. But don't expect any ToT-related news until the reveal for the next chapter in another six months or so. Tweaks to existing cards and decks, maybe, but nothing newsworthy enough to be mentioned in a reveal until the next chapter.

The new feature looks interesting; I'll definitely be checking out the amazing creations that other players have come up with.

I'm also looking forward to the curated purple coffers for Undaunted dungeon sets.

we've been getting decks every q2 and q4 update since its release so likely in update 44 as well which is earlier than next chapter

My bad, then. But any Q4 reveal is still a quarter of a year away.

The stream was low energy, meandered from the topic, and the presenters didn’t seem like they even wanted to be there.

It's another disappointing update, paired with a depressing, dour stream to announce it.

There are exactly two things I was hoping for from a "big housing announcement" but neither of those happened. I'm totally neutral on Housing Tours right now, and a community voting system is a terrible idea. It's never the people with the actual skills who win; it's always the people who are able to rally their fans or pay off the largest group to vote for them. And since I really am not looking forward to the Infinite Archive changes (for the extremely rare times I'll even go in there), all I got out of that stream was a crate. Heh.

The two things I wanted from the housing system:

—Furniture deconstruction. I don't even care if it's not retroactive to currently existing furnishings, similar to what happened with jewelry decon. I just want to decon those 2 million Void-Crystal Anomalies my alts will be getting as I level their Antiquities and get some darn housing mats out of it for once. Even as a serial looter who hasn't crafted many furnishings, my housing mat supply is still criminally low, so I've done very little with housing despite loving it. Which means I don't spend as much time in game as I could. Which is bad for ZOS's engagement metrics, the ones their shareholders and corporate overlords love so much. Being able to decon furnishings for mats would breathe new life into housing for me and make me spend more time in game.

—Guestbook/guest tracker system. I would love to have a dated, timestamped, per-home list of everyone who's visited my houses within whatever timeframe. I would also love if players could leave notes for homeowners, like when you rent a place at the beach, and the owner has left a cute little book by the door for you to sign. "I loved staying here!" "Your house is so pretty!" "Class of 2028!!!!" "J+D 4ever" "We didn't leave the puke stain on the carpet" "Why are there fake pineapples everywhere" (Okay, not all thoughts should be shared. *LOL* It would be great if homeowners could restrict certain players from leaving comments, to prevent harassment.) There should also be an anonymous visitor toggle, where if someone chooses to be anonymous, the system only records you had that visitor to such-and-such house on such-and-such date/time, but not register their name. (But if you go anon, you should only receive anon visitor info for your own homes until the anon setting is switched off. Fair's fair!) Someone's going to say there should be an option to disallow anonymous visitors to your homes entirely. I probably wouldn't use it, but I sure don't mind people having options that make them feel more comfortable with who visits their homes.

The thing is, unless ZOS had added what they have said is not currently possible (increased furnishing slots or furnishing storage, particularly a furnishing bag like there is for materials) I think many would be making similar posts expressing disappointment and what they would have rather seen.

I am concerned whether it may lack important features such the ability to post a short description, but we’ll see once it’s on PTS. I think it’s a good update to the base game so that we can, if we wish, show houses to the community without having to directly give a link or use an add-on (which of course is not an option on console).

Other options for housing QoL, additions, or features that have been brought up:

- List of all furnishing plans. While this would indeed be useful for console, it seems to me this would provide less extended utility than the ability to tour houses. On PC we probably all have our favorite add-ons that give additional information that a base game addition would not. This should still eventually be added, but hopefully not as an only feature.

- Furniture decon — Again, not something new to actually DO with housing and I imagine would require a lot of additional coding and still wouldn’t have allowed for deconstructing bound furnishings anyway.

- Weather control — Now I do wish this had been added as well! You want to set the desired mood for visitors, which may well include time of day snd weather

- Alts as houseguests — Probably not feasible, considering all the variables that would have to be loaded. I imagine this is why our companions are in predetermined outfits rather than any we may equip them with.

- More options for houseguests — Emotes for pathing and ability to sit on chairs — this is probably #1 for me, and I would love options to have more generic houseguests that could be customized to fill different roles and themes, or if customization isn’t feasible, merchants, guards, barkeeps, etc. of every race and with minimal lines.