Housing: Furniture limit - a show stopper for collectors

manavortex

I've started furnishing around on PTS, and I've quickly ran into the realisation that the furniture limit is too low for anyone who loves books.
After properly cluttering up my characters's workspace, I've already used up 80 furniture items, and I haven't even started putting up any bookshelves:



You get around ~200 paperbacks on a single bookshelf. Let's say that the Mages' guild tomes, as they are now, take about thrice that size, means that my character has cluttered a whole shelf's worth of books around her table (typical for her - why put back a book that you'll need again in five minutes?). My husband and I share a flat that's about the size of the Kragenhome, and we have (quick estimate) about 250-ish books upstairs, and about thrice that number in the basement... And we're not even subscribed to RealLife Plus.

The same holds true for collectors, or charming old ladies who gather porcelain cups.
Obviously, the item limit is a show stopper for anyone who likes to surround themselves with many varieties of the same item. I can think of a few ways to balance that out:

1. Exclude small items that someone might want to collect from the item limit completely. I am thinking of books, cooking/alchemy ingredients, tools, soulgems, Dwemer parts...
2. Make only the first instance of a small item count towards the furniture limit - order them by appearance, not by itemID, to include books.
3. Give us pre-filled shelves that count as one item (That is obviously the "lazy" and worst-case solution, as it takes care of my immediate problem, but will severely impact what you are trying to do with Housing - giving players the opportunity to decorate everything how they want it.)

I hope you consider my point.

Endriu

I completely agree, with such a small item limit you can't make a vivid and cozy house. I wanted to make a nice kitchen and a nice fully served table, I can't beacuse of this bizzare item limit...

BlackSparrow

Books, in particular, have been a common complaint since Homestead was on the PTS. Fill up one bookshelf, and whoops, you've spent 100 item slots, which is particularly atrocious on the large houses, which already have severely small item limits for their size. There are a few pre-filled bookshelves in-game (a Redguard one, and I know I saw some in the furnished version of Amaya Lake Lodge) that do at least create a library-like atmosphere without chewing through your item limit, but they're not usable the way the individual lorebooks are.

Overall, it's just kind of disappointing to anyone who was planning a library, study, or den with lots of books.

PriorityBalle

I love @manavortex

@ZOS please listen to your community :>

#IncreaseHouseItemLimit

manavortex

Since I'm being publicly worshipped I have no choice but to second this.

dodgehopper_ESO

Small items in general take up too much space. I definitely think they should reconsider the item count and how it functions.