Official Discussion Thread for "Introducing Homestead"

Faulgor

I'm impressed with the technical side. Didn't expect we'd be able to place furniture so freely, and have so many new things to craft.

A bit disappointed about no houses in DLC zones, though. Those are the most beautiful ones by far.

And hope we'll see increased functionality with future updates. Gardening, more employable NPCs, etc.

lygerseye

@ZOS_GinaBruno,

@ZOS_RichLambert mentioned in the interview that there would be a cap on visitors in a house... What kind of numbers are we talking? Don't want to host a guild event and then only have room for 6.

Dominoid

Forum is glitching . . .

Dominoid

Not adding "infinite" or additional storage slots doesn't surprise me- maybe a future ESO Plus perk. But I don't see anything on displaying at least armor and weapons. Those nifty mannequins from the Thieves Guild need to be utilized. You should be allowed to display any armor/weapon housed in your official bank storage. TIA.

ZOS_GinaBruno

ztyhurstub17_ESO wrote: »

The only feature that I really want is the "Target Dummy" in my home.

Will we be able to set amounts of resistance and HP for them so we can practice long rotations?

I saw a skeleton looking thing in the video, but there was no indication of the features associated with the skeleton. I really hope that a test dummy does not amount to a NPC with 30K health. That would be very disappointing.

It has much more than 30k health. It's more in the realm of millions than thousands.

dimensional

Dominoid wrote: »

Not adding "infinite" or additional storage slots doesn't surprise me- maybe a future ESO Plus perk. But I don't see anything on displaying at least armor and weapons. Those nifty mannequins from the Thieves Guild need to be utilized. You should be allowed to display any armor/weapon housed in your official bank storage. TIA.

I agree, I love gear display cases and mannequins in other games.

gothickaiserub17_ESO

Dominoid wrote: »

Not adding "infinite" or additional storage slots doesn't surprise me- maybe a future ESO Plus perk. But I don't see anything on displaying at least armor and weapons. Those nifty mannequins from the Thieves Guild need to be utilized. You should be allowed to display any armor/weapon housed in your official bank storage. TIA.

mannequins really are a must (and make sure the armor can be dyed) and wigs can be worn (cosmetic hair styles)

dimensional

Faulgor wrote: »

I'm impressed with the technical side. Didn't expect we'd be able to place furniture so freely, and have so many new things to craft.

A bit disappointed about no houses in DLC zones, though. Those are the most beautiful ones by far.

And hope we'll see increased functionality with future updates. Gardening, more employable NPCs, etc.

they will probably add DLC houses at some point. Vvardenfell was datamined with locations tagged for player houses.

quixoteuglyub17_ESO

Any of these 40 options located in Cyrodiil?

Gwynara

This sounds amazing!! Homestead is the perfect update for me, as I enjoy crafting (I have all of them maxed) I also do provisioning and I roleplay a shop owner, trader and chef! I am also working on collecting every throphy in the game so yeah, loving everything about this.

Paulington

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

ztyhurstub17_ESO wrote: »

The only feature that I really want is the "Target Dummy" in my home.

Will we be able to set amounts of resistance and HP for them so we can practice long rotations?

I saw a skeleton looking thing in the video, but there was no indication of the features associated with the skeleton. I really hope that a test dummy does not amount to a NPC with 30K health. That would be very disappointing.

It has much more than 30k health. It's more in the realm of millions than thousands.

So, millions is nice, but how many millions?

I know people in my guild can burn through a two million health dummy in less than two minutes solo, and two minutes is not really a good length of time to test given that most fights are far longer than that now.

I assume there's no downside to giving the dummy something like 82,500,000 health, the health of Rakkhat hard mode? .

ListerJMC

*Hopes desperately for an Eyevea option even though I'm sure there won't be *

I'm interested to see the list of locations and the pricing on them all.

BlackSparrow

This is so exciting! This is the customizability in decoration that I usually have to boot up a Creation Kit to get.

And my RPer brain is already imagining scenarios where all my alts start arguing about the interior decoration.

"Take that ugly monster head off the wall."
"No! it commemorates one of my greatest achievements."
"It's ugly and stares at me."
"Fine. I'll move it to the table."
"That's even worse!"

Clearly, the solution is to eventually get each of my alts their own house to personalize.

One question: In an interview, Rich mentioned that some furniture pieces require multiple skill lines to craft. Is that multiple skills on one character, or would different characters be able to contribute different pieces? I ask because I do not yet have anyone who has masted the secrets of metal, cloth, and wood... so just wondering if I need to start training someone in all three.

Dominoid

quixoteuglyub17_ESO wrote: »

Any of these 40 options located in Cyrodiil?

There are no homes placed directly in Cyrodiil, but there are Imperial homes spread throughout the world. (I suggest checking Malabal Tor, Craglorn and Reaper’s March if you are interested)

Read more at http://www.mmorpg.com/elder-scrolls-online/interviews/introducing-homestead-housing-comes-to-tamriel-in-2017-1000011379/#0Ocmy7rwQPyLiFPI.99

Ilsabet

quixoteuglyub17_ESO wrote: »

Any of these 40 options located in Cyrodiil?

According to this interview, no.

Lord_Eomer

Is next update all about housing only? Will we see some combat balance changes?

BlackSparrow

Lord_Dexter wrote: »

Is next update all about housing only? Will we see some combat balance changes?

Quoth Gina earlier in the thread:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We plan to have a fair amount of skill and item rebalancing in the same update.

Ilsabet

Here's another good interview that answers some additonal questions: http://massivelyop.com/2016/12/06/interview-everything-we-know-about-elder-scrolls-onlines-player-housing/#respond

Including:

How many players can fit in a single housing instance, and can you hand out “keys” to friends so that they can enter when you aren’t around?

Depends on the size of the home – an Inn room can hold a lot fewer players than a Manor. We haven’t yet finalized player caps as we are still performance testing, but it’s pretty safe to say at least 24 players will safely fit into a Manor. Access to your home is permission based, so yes you will be able to allow access to your primary home when offline.

And:

There is no upkeep or rent on a home – once you purchase it, you will always have access to it. Being an ESO+ member doubles the number of furnishings and other items you can place in your home, but like the crafting bag, if your sub lapses those items stay, you just can’t edit your home until you get back to the item cap.

RomansXXI

Will bards by chance be available for hire? I'd love to have a home lightened by music

Dagoth_Rac

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

ztyhurstub17_ESO wrote: »

The only feature that I really want is the "Target Dummy" in my home.

Will we be able to set amounts of resistance and HP for them so we can practice long rotations?

I saw a skeleton looking thing in the video, but there was no indication of the features associated with the skeleton. I really hope that a test dummy does not amount to a NPC with 30K health. That would be very disappointing.

It has much more than 30k health. It's more in the realm of millions than thousands.

1). It may be too late to change, but it would be really nice if we could set "Target Dummy Health" ourselves. I assume Homestead will have it's own settings section. How about putting a slider in there to make target dummy health higher and lower?

2). Will other players in our house be able to interact with the dummy? Like, apply Elemental Drain and Force Siphon and stuff like that?

Mysticman

FINALLY! something I can buy with the 30M in gold I have in the bank. I might just buy every house in the game just because I can but I will probably just buy all the biggest houses available and decorator them with the most expensive items that my gold can buy. I'm hyped bring it on.

Vrienda

Sounds amazing. Hopefully how we customise our homes is closer to RIFT or Fallout 4 than SWTOR.

Loralai_907

I'm pretty excited. I hope the busy quests don't take a long time, that was one of my least favorite parts about housing in Skyrim. I'm ready to start testing! I want to see how things work. With a master crafter, and having done so much of the content multiple times, I'm excited to have something new to do. Hopefully crafting housing items to sell will be worth it and will not be another thing we can't really make decent gold from. If it turns out to not be worth it to create and sell, I'm still excited to buy property and do what I want with it.

Mysticman

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

ztyhurstub17_ESO wrote: »

The only feature that I really want is the "Target Dummy" in my home.

Will we be able to set amounts of resistance and HP for them so we can practice long rotations?

I saw a skeleton looking thing in the video, but there was no indication of the features associated with the skeleton. I really hope that a test dummy does not amount to a NPC with 30K health. That would be very disappointing.

It has much more than 30k health. It's more in the realm of millions than thousands.

Will these Target Dummy be able to fight back, it would be weird to be killed by your Target Dummy

AndyTGD

I think this may be the first time I have had nothing negative to say. Wow, this is unusual. Thank you, ZOS developers. Sounds really promising, can't wait to play around with it.

Dagoth_Rac

Are housing types always tied to zone? Like can we expect to find Breton homes in Glenumbra but never Stonefalls? And High Elf homes in Auridon but never Alik'r Desert? Or are most homes in a zone tied to race of zone but a few unexpected home styles are thrown in there for variety?

Where will the Imperial houses be? I can't imagine they will be in Cyrodiil and Gold Coast is DLC.

Mercutio

Oh wow that looks awesome. Annnddd there goes a few hundred bucks.

Rajajshka

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Are housing types always tied to zone? Like can we expect to find Breton homes in Glenumbra but never Stonefalls? And High Elf homes in Auridon but never Alik'r Desert? Or are most homes in a zone tied to race of zone but a few unexpected home styles are thrown in there for variety?

Where will the Imperial houses be? I can't imagine they will be in Cyrodiil and Gold Coast is DLC.

Judging from the location in the trailer one of the imperial homes looks to be in malabal tor.

SG_Celerrimus

@ZOS_GinaBruno Will we be able to interact with the furniture in our homes? For instance, if I make a chair and table set, will I be able to have my character sit in the chair, or will I have to stick with the /sitchair emote still?

Mercutio

@ZOS_GinaBruno color me impressed. I cannot wait to dive into this.

While maybe you can't give specifics, will there be PvE benefits associated with housing/furniture? For all its faults WildStar had a really great housing system. Can we expect the UI to be as accessible as the one in Wild* was?

Thank you for your time.