I don't want to belittle your dissatisfaction with the Cottage's flaws (you are entirely right to be unhappy about this,) but I'm afraid it's not a new development. Speaking of off center, here's a small taste of Highhallow, released in 2022:


Across from a currently centered doorway, to really highlight the problem. There's also whatever is going on here:

Where it looks like a wall tile is clipping through a ceiling tile.

And these stair railings that should really not be visible when they're not accomplishing anything.


And just a few feet down from that: AAAAAA


Highhallow's worth 100 USD and is one of the worst constructed homes in the game. Nothing aligns. Everything is sideways and off center. I don't know a from scratch builder that would put up with misalignments of that level.

Even further back, Lucky Cat Landing from 2019! The textures don't fully load in on the doors.


Lucky Cat's fountains are clearly just an Elsweyr fountain that's been clipped into the walls. You can tell, because they didn't do a good job clipping it in. The side faucets are spilling water directly down the side of the home.


And this PS1 era reject is supposed to be a window. I genuinely think they uploaded the wrong texture files for it, because look at it. Not even base game assets look this bad. It is mush.


But at least Lucky Cat is only 40 USD?...

I frequently call Willowpond Haven, released just last year, the most beautiful home in the game, but then it has problems like this:


Why is that post there? I don't know. Anyway, my point is, this is a longstanding problem and I'd also like to see player homes assembled better.

I use precision edit when housing, and with addons I enter the angles to make sure everything I need to be aligned or perpendicular is really so where needed. That being said, I think these are really minor issues regarding housing. The Wall event has shown a decline in quality which worries me more than anything that happened in ESO since launch. So, I kind of expect to see less quality content for housing as well. The problem with your issue in the post is that it's not going to be fixed. These problems remain baked into the game, same with the more annoying invisible walls in many houses.

My largest issue with housing is the very slow pace of releasing furnishings from content already in game for many years. It took 7 years to see an update of Alinor furnishings, because it happened to get a DLC which revisits the Summerset theme.

Housing is a huge system in the game, and the devs only release curated selections of the assets they add with each DLC, and maybe several times a year, they add an item from the older styles through the luxury vendor. But while doing that, they add very large and expensive houses for players to buy. I am not sure if this game will be up 3 years from now, and am really sorry to say this. The studio was working on a new mmo for 7 years, and it got cancelled just like that, with a lot of talented people leaving, none knows where. Who knows what new business decision like that awaits?

I agree. There are so many glaringly crooked, off-center things in many of the houses. Not trying to give the devs a hard time about it, but there is a difference between how an artist does something, versus an engineer/architect/craftsman does the same thing.

Examples
The Tamriel gallery house, the upper floor of the rotunda/dome floor is not aligned with the door. No one laying stone floor tiles would do it like that. Maybe if the tiles were at 45° angles, it would be acceptable, but the weird 15°ish angle is bad. Also, the top of the dome from the outside is skewed off center.

Houses that have windows that don't line up interior/exterior. Waters edge in Leyawiin has an interior window that doesn't exist on the outside because there is a stairway there.

The "Solitude platform, square wooden" has angled pieces of wood sticking up that IRL would be tripping hazards that no carpenter worth his weight in sawdust would make plus it makes it difficult to use multiples linked up as flooring since the bumps stick up everywhere, forcing you to try to hide them with other objects.

The list goes on. I think it's just a lack of understanding the perspective of the "real world" craftsman. If you are building something that is meant to last (stone) or has some significance/importance, attention to detail is first and foremost.

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Alphawolf01A wrote: »

The list goes on. I think it's just a lack of understanding the perspective of the "real world" craftsman. If you are building something that is meant to last (stone) or has some significance/importance, attention to detail is first and foremost.

Medieval architecture isn't exactly known for its precision.

Just wanted to say this (saying it as an archaeologist who knows how prehistoric, antique or medieval buildings look like in their foundations)

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Alphawolf01A wrote: »

The list goes on. I think it's just a lack of understanding the perspective of the "real world" craftsman. If you are building something that is meant to last (stone) or has some significance/importance, attention to detail is first and foremost.

Medieval architecture isn't exactly known for its precision.

True... but it's frustrating when you spend 5 minutes trying to line something up perfectly, only to eventually realise it's not your own alignment that's the problem, it's the house itself.

Northwold wrote: »

I find the misalignment of things like floors very annoying but also true to life (I live in an old house and have to overlook every morning that the floorboards don't line up to the walls), so it's not ideal but not a deal breaker for me.

The slow pace of furnishing releases, the inconsistency of architectural items supposedly of the same style so they don't fit together, the failure to release complete sets of architectural furnishings for each style, drive me mad though. Together with the usual why did it take such an incredibly long time to get even one transparent window and why don't we now have vastly more, and will we EVER get more water assets than fountains and things like the crown store trough.

There doesn't seem to be any consistency in what, exactly, furnishing releases are aiming to achieve. Once they opened themselves up to releasing structural sets, they needed to commit to releasing FULL structural sets of everything. Otherwise, what are we supposed to do with them in places like moon sugar meadow? Build multi coloured Vegas inspired pastiches? The offerings seem to oscillate between drip feeding structural pieces and drip feeding nice-to-have decorations without any eye on, for instance, aiming to have a complete suite of structural furnishings available for all the major styles by end 2026 (for example).

It doesn't bother me so much that we don't have a complete set of structural furnishings for every style—it bothers me more that certain elements are practically nonexistent. With every new release of structural furnishings, I wonder why we don't get roofs? Or if we do get roof elements, it's something like a domed Nekrom roof or tiny Nekrom shingles, of which you'd need far too many to cover an entire roof (hello, furniture slot limit!).

Well, Moonsugar was one of my favorite projects even without Elsweyr structural furnishings—Fargrave style is a great addition.

Lugaldu wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Alphawolf01A wrote: »

The list goes on. I think it's just a lack of understanding the perspective of the "real world" craftsman. If you are building something that is meant to last (stone) or has some significance/importance, attention to detail is first and foremost.

Medieval architecture isn't exactly known for its precision.

Just wanted to say this (saying it as an archaeologist who knows how prehistoric, antique or medieval buildings look like in their foundations)

These aren't medieval buildings though. These are digital products that this company charges sometimes over 100 USD for. I can understand some mistakes sometimes. I'm an artist in my spare time. I'm also a mechanic and if the product I sell had this many mistakes, constantly, I wouldn't have a job. I don't mind errors. We're all human. But so many so often show a pattern of carelessness and bad management. It feels a pattern that is game wide at this point. It really does point to a management issue. They should be pulling up their workers for this many mistakes and also if something isn't ready they should say hey this house just isnt ready yet.

kind_hero wrote: »

The Wall event has shown a decline in quality which worries me more than anything that happened in ESO since launch. So, I kind of expect to see less quality content for housing as well. The problem with your issue in the post is that it's not going to be fixed. These problems remain baked into the game, same with the more annoying invisible walls in many houses.

If that's the case, and we are getting things of lower and lower quality then shouldn't that be reflected in the prices... Notable houses remain outrageously expensive. Anyway, I'd rather they fixed their quality assurance process and keep these prices, than us getting things that seem almost unfinished. I know players are happy to support the CS, especially with cosmetics, furnishing and houses, but there are frequently issues with them that are either never fixed or take years to fix, and that's a bad practice, driving paying customers away.

robwolf666 wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Alphawolf01A wrote: »

The list goes on. I think it's just a lack of understanding the perspective of the "real world" craftsman. If you are building something that is meant to last (stone) or has some significance/importance, attention to detail is first and foremost.

Medieval architecture isn't exactly known for its precision.

True... but it's frustrating when you spend 5 minutes trying to line something up perfectly, only to eventually realise it's not your own alignment that's the problem, it's the house itself.

As someone with several decades on the planet, and having severe OCD, let me impart some wisdom: You have to accept the things you cannot change ... or do what I do and re-skin the house.

Gabriel_H wrote: »

twisttop138 wrote: »

Lugaldu wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Alphawolf01A wrote: »

The list goes on. I think it's just a lack of understanding the perspective of the "real world" craftsman. If you are building something that is meant to last (stone) or has some significance/importance, attention to detail is first and foremost.

Medieval architecture isn't exactly known for its precision.

Just wanted to say this (saying it as an archaeologist who knows how prehistoric, antique or medieval buildings look like in their foundations)

These aren't medieval buildings though. These are digital products that this company charges sometimes over 100 USD for. I can understand some mistakes sometimes. I'm an artist in my spare time. I'm also a mechanic and if the product I sell had this many mistakes, constantly, I wouldn't have a job. I don't mind errors. We're all human. But so many so often show a pattern of carelessness and bad management. It feels a pattern that is game wide at this point. It really does point to a management issue. They should be pulling up their workers for this many mistakes and also if something isn't ready they should say hey this house just isnt ready yet.

They are representations of buildings built in a world whose technology is at a medieval level.

I'll cede that point to you Gabriel. In my opinion though, medieval realism is not the cause of these imperfections. Having door handles be on opposite sides of the door or a window on one side and a staircase and no window on the other, I don't believe are intentional quirks to keep us immersed in the time period that games may take inspiration from. But ymmv.

Problem is, people still throw down $100 for the houses regardless. Why would zos bother doing a better job? Not saying they shouldn't fix some of these issues, and improve future quality control, but unfortunately folks keep buying so they have little incentive to.

Many craftsmen were conscripted by the Stirk Fellowship to siege down the Writhing Wall and never returned home . You need to be prepared to offer 50000 crowns per home if you want a new generation to learn the trade well.

I once posted a screenshot of the eave over the front main door in Merryvine Estate being very crooked. It’s much more crooked than one can explain using words like realism, medieval imperfections, etc. of course, it never got fixed. Like others have said, we pay real money for these so it would be nice if they would just take more care with some of the obvious basics. And there’s another post about the Sunport wall, not matching well along the edge with the Sunport doorway. And if one searches, there’s so many more posts about things that have never been fixed. I remember one post about an Alinor tree that has a missing branch with just leaves floating in space where the branch would be, very glaring once you see it. Even if they miss things in quality control, they should consider fixing them after they’ve pointed out.

twisttop138 wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

twisttop138 wrote: »

Lugaldu wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Alphawolf01A wrote: »

The list goes on. I think it's just a lack of understanding the perspective of the "real world" craftsman. If you are building something that is meant to last (stone) or has some significance/importance, attention to detail is first and foremost.

Medieval architecture isn't exactly known for its precision.

Just wanted to say this (saying it as an archaeologist who knows how prehistoric, antique or medieval buildings look like in their foundations)

These aren't medieval buildings though. These are digital products that this company charges sometimes over 100 USD for. I can understand some mistakes sometimes. I'm an artist in my spare time. I'm also a mechanic and if the product I sell had this many mistakes, constantly, I wouldn't have a job. I don't mind errors. We're all human. But so many so often show a pattern of carelessness and bad management. It feels a pattern that is game wide at this point. It really does point to a management issue. They should be pulling up their workers for this many mistakes and also if something isn't ready they should say hey this house just isnt ready yet.

They are representations of buildings built in a world whose technology is at a medieval level.

I'll cede that point to you Gabriel. In my opinion though, medieval realism is not the cause of these imperfections. Having door handles be on opposite sides of the door or a window on one side and a staircase and no window on the other, I don't believe are intentional quirks to keep us immersed in the time period that games may take inspiration from. But ymmv.

Oh absolutely. I'm not saying there are no issues, and things like joins and styles should match up. I'm just saying that things like walls being crooked may not be accidental, but rather a deliberate design choice to try and convey a sense of realism.

I can list a whole host of interior/exterior inconsistencies that make zero sense. My favourite one to ignore is in Ebonheart Chateau - inside you have windows on the stairs on the left/right towers, outside you have no windows just bricks. Drives me nuts everytime I remember it.

SummersetCitizen wrote: »

If it bothers anyone that much, I would request a refund and spend your crowns elsewhere.

We shouldn't have to pass on houses we otherwise really enjoy because of poor construction. I found a workaround for this one but many of the flaws in multiple previous houses don't have solutions. The real solution is for them to inspect these houses and fix the most glaring flaws before releasing them for purchase.