Welcome to the Grand Topal Hideaway Arena !

Sotha_Sil

Are you tired of dueling in the same places ? come to the Grand Topal Hideaway Arena ! More than 632 blocks were used for the construction, many argonian slaves died. Unfortunately due to the furnishing slot limit, I could not make it bigger.

NightbladeMechanics

Jim_Pipp

Wow - that looks incredible. So how long did it take you?

Sotha_Sil

Approximately 6 hours haha. I wanted to make it as big as the Colosseum in the begining then I had to lower my expectations. The stones costed me 103K gold .

Lunarhound

Places like this are a good argument for being given the option to set our houses as publicly searchable and open to all visitors. Then again, popular places would always be full with the current player cap at 24.

Aliyavana

those imperial statues (not the redguard ones) are they craftable?

leepalmer95

Damn. I want to make an arena but the fact you used 600+ slot for one off this size

It's cool though. I'm gonna see if there is any bigger blocks to use.

Recremen

Uuuuugh no wonder you hit the limit so fast, you're forced to use individual blocks instead of a larger curved wall structure. >.< You did great with the tools you were given, I just hope we can get some larger architectural pieces at some point.

HoloYoitsu

Nice job, Topal definitely has the best area for building things. I made a temple which turned out nice.

Jim_Pipp

Has anyone experimented with making a staircase up the volcano?

runagate

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

Has anyone experimented with making a staircase up the volcano?

Yes.

I will tell you that those sneaky *** that put up invisible walls all over managed to block off a lot of interesting exploration options.

Sotha_Sil

arcadiadark wrote: »

those imperial statues (not the redguard ones) are they craftable?

I don't know I bought them in the crown store.

Ghost-Shot

HoloYoitsu wrote: »

Nice job, Topal definitely has the best area for building things. I made a temple which turned out nice.

Tell them what the temple is sorc...

ZOS_GinaBruno

Wow, these are great @HoloYoitsu and @Sotha_Sil! Very, very cool.

Dominoid

Lunarhound wrote: »

Places like this are a good argument for being given the option to set our houses as publicly searchable and open to all visitors. Then again, popular places would always be full with the current player cap at 24.

In poking around the code for the Activity Finder for ESO, there is a new one entitled "Home Show" which says - "Queueing for Home Show will take you to player houses at random to vote on." Also some changes in the leader board section with a new category called "House". So seemingly in the future you will be able to visit random people's houses, presumably with them opting in for such things, to vote on their decorating skills. Using the leader board, you will also most likely get to visit the ones the community has determined the most worthy. No word if there are rewards for making the leader board or not.

driosketch

I was going to suggest you could save on the block limit by making the outer walls hollow, but it looks like you may have already done so.

Impressive work.

sirinsidiator

In case you want to take your creation to the live server, you can do so with SaveHouse. Right now you can only save the furniture, but not restore it due to a crash bug in the game, but it should get fixed with the next PTS update and for the release on live.

Sotha_Sil

driosketch wrote: »

I was going to suggest you could save on the block limit by making the outer walls hollow, but it looks like you may have already done so.

Impressive work.

Yes most of the time I spent was placing blocks then removing them in order to place more haha. It was the most handy way to place those blocks and I think the fastest in the end ^^. It is not easy to place them correctly when you are not used too .

@HoloYoitsu very cool indeed! I wonder if we can craft those columns and ty @ZOS_GinaBruno !

SanTii.92

Dominoid wrote: »

Lunarhound wrote: »

Places like this are a good argument for being given the option to set our houses as publicly searchable and open to all visitors. Then again, popular places would always be full with the current player cap at 24.

In poking around the code for the Activity Finder for ESO, there is a new one entitled "Home Show" which says - "Queueing for Home Show will take you to player houses at random to vote on." Also some changes in the leader board section with a new category called "House". So seemingly in the future you will be able to visit random people's houses, presumably with them opting in for such things, to vote on their decorating skills. Using the leader board, you will also most likely get to visit the ones the community has determined the most worthy. No word if there are rewards for making the leader board or not.

That's incredibly interesting and a brilliant idea by zos. Thanks for sharing.

Sotha_Sil

Saved some blocks and could make it even bigger! Edited main post with more screenshots Blocks should not be considered as items. Same goes for planks

Yolokin_Swagonborn

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Wow, these are great @HoloYoitsu and @Sotha_Sil! Very, very cool.

runagate wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

Has anyone experimented with making a staircase up the volcano?

Yes.

I will tell you that those invisible walls all over manage to block off a lot of interesting exploration options.

@ZOS_GinaBruno Look how much excitement all of this freedom brings! Is there any way you could convince the team to do another pass on invisible walls? They really put a damper on creativity as @runagate has said. I realize some are necessary but I feel they could be scaled back a bit on certain houses where it really kills the customizing potential.


Plenty of examples provided in the Invisible Walls Feedback Thread Here

runagate

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Wow, these are great @HoloYoitsu and @Sotha_Sil! Very, very cool.

runagate wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

Has anyone experimented with making a staircase up the volcano?

Yes.

I will tell you that those invisible walls all over manage to block off a lot of interesting exploration options.

@ZOS_GinaBruno Look how much excitement all of this freedom brings! Is there any way you could convince the team to do another pass on invisible walls? They really put a damper on creativity as @runagate has said. I realize some are necessary but I feel they could be scaled back a bit on certain houses where it really kills the customizing potential.


Plenty of examples provided in the Invisible Walls Feedback Thread Here

The strange thing is that before the houses were added most of those places you could get into anyway. Like that mountain south of Daggerfall. I've been all over that thing, though nothing is there. I'd like to siege the manor from there, now that I think of it.

prettynink

Wow, you've created a masterpiece!!! Such a shame you've been restricted to expand your creativity any further, due to the cap. After seeing your creation, I say much like the eso plus (unlimited) craft bag that they should definitely implement an eso plus (unlimited) cap for housing!!!

wizzerd_lg_ESO

That is really beautiful.

I love the Swiss Family Robinson potential Grand Topal has, but $120 in crowns is a bit much for me without more functional decorative options, like being able to staff a place with more NPCs than a half-service banker, merchant, and fence. I hope they bring housing functionality up enough for me to justify this purchase some other time.

wimhwimladimf

Dueling is waste of time. I'd never spend $ on furnishing unless ZOS allow us to make custom Forts/Castle on Cyrodil.

Hortator Indoril Nerevar

Proof that sotha sil is still a mad man (lore joke)

Elsonso

Did @Sotha_Sil buy the island?

kaitousenpai

Did a crappy version of a canton. I mean, it had the volcano. It had the waters. Might as well do a crappy designed Canton to go with it. Proud of my final work though.