Carbonised wrote: »ZOS wants the new furnishing mats to be ultra rare and expensive.
If they weren't, you wouldn't go spending 200 Crowns on a mug or 400 Crowns on a potted plant, now would you?
It's annoying that survey maps don't allow it but I can understand why they're doing it. As with every PTS release where something can be gained by spending the months before hoarding X item everyone in touch with the game is doing it.
I feel they could do nothing from surveys for launch then sneak the materials in with a patch a month or two down the line with no announcement, this would mean we get what we want but people won't be aware of the coming change until the patch notes go live and the servers are offline.
The_Legendary_Arya wrote: »We´re writing this since 2-3 weeks everytime as Feedback-no reaction till now. Atm NOBODY will be able to make ANYTHING for housing, cause he needs the new Mats, which drop between 1/10 and 1/15 per node. SO need to farm 50-150 Nodes to craft ONE chair or anything.
Surveys NEED to drop the new mats, especilly the old ones.
Or housing is dead the first day coming.
^ Housing and moving in should be a process, no doubt about that. Imagine if we set our homes in few days? That would truly be bad. And no fun.
Same like vampirism - you can buy it in the store (duh!) but then you will miss the experience of getting the vampirism, meeting with the mother of all vampires in a spooky catacombs and a nice quest behind it. It's a choice. By all my heart I'm for the later - never ever buy that kind of stuff in the store, you're missing the point of the game.
That being said, none should just spend days finding the mats for a chair.
redspecter23 wrote: »This feels like it was added solely to keep those with hoarded surveys from flooding the market when the update goes live. I get it. I don't like it. I do see why they might take this approach though. It would be nice if they just came out and said it.
The_Legendary_Arya wrote: »We´re writing this since 2-3 weeks everytime as Feedback-no reaction till now. Atm NOBODY will be able to make ANYTHING for housing, cause he needs the new Mats, which drop between 1/10 and 1/15 per node. SO need to farm 50-150 Nodes to craft ONE chair or anything.
Surveys NEED to drop the new mats, especilly the old ones.
Or housing is dead the first day coming.
I'm pretty sure it will be like that. On the first day people will buy a house, either with gold or with crowns. Then they will enter an empty house and think: 'cool, now it's the decoration time!'. So in all their hope they will go to the crafting station to craft some furniture and then... 'Oops, I don't have any mats for this'. So they will go farming and be crafting one chair per day. Is there any joy in this? Even if some people consider housing as a "long term project"? I lost all my enthusiasm for housing when I found out that furniture and decoration will be the biggest grind in the game. And I agree with statements that housing on the PTS is and will be much more fun...