Sharing Homesteads

nickturner910b14_ESO

I think a fantastic addition to homesteads would be the ability to share ownership with another player. Allowing them to place objects and such, as well as decorating. I purchased a house with a friend of mine and a lot of frustration comes from her not being able to purchase and place objects on her own and needing to trade them to me, thus making it impossible to use her crowns to furnish it. I think a third tier should be added to the permissions to allow the placing/removal of objects. Anyone object?

Livvy

I haven't tested it myself, but if you go into the settings tab, you can't add a permission for someone and set it to decorator?

I saw the option there, but I have never tried it. Just figured that's what it did.

Vapirko

You can share permissions. I may be slightly incorrect but I believe the only thing you can't do if you don't own it is set down trophies or remove items. But I think the person who the permissions are shared with can move items around and place unbound items. Someone correct me if I'm not quite right. Honestly now that it's live I couldn't care less about a home. Seems like a total waste of time and money. If I come across the plans for a dps dummy or can afford one in a guild store I'll get a home for that purpose only, or if homes becomes more useful i.e. storage.

nickturner910b14_ESO

I just double-checked. As I said above, decorators can only move objects already placed. They cannot place new ones, and that makes very little sense in my eyes. Decorators should be able to place objects, or at least add a third tier. This would allow for easier home sharing, and for those creative ones, a way to earn money charging other plays for a decorating service.

KerinKor

nickturner910b14_ESO wrote: »

This would allow for easier home sharing

Indeed, which is why it won't happen, it would make it easier to decorate a home with rare or hard to get items if several players' effoert could be pooled .. clearly that goes against ZOS idea of this new grind, which is obviously intended to be humongous given the Writ costs for the most desirable fixtures.

max_only

This seems like a good idea now, but imagine the Customer Service issues that will arise when people get into arguments and want a "divorce". Extricating what objects belong to who (and who gets the house) is not something ZOS wants to deal with. Think about it.

nickturner910b14_ESO

max_only wrote: »

This seems like a good idea now, but imagine the Customer Service issues that will arise when people get into arguments and want a "divorce". Extricating what objects belong to who (and who gets the house) is not something ZOS wants to deal with. Think about it.

Think about what? If people honestly think that ZOS has any responsibility for that then they deserve to be ignored by support. That's a non-issue as far as I'm concerned. I never said they have to literally share ownership, just an ability to place furniture.

KerinKor wrote: »

nickturner910b14_ESO wrote: »

This would allow for easier home sharing

Indeed, which is why it won't happen, it would make it easier to decorate a home with rare or hard to get items if several players' effoert could be pooled .. clearly that goes against ZOS idea of this new grind, which is obviously intended to be humongous given the Writ costs for the most desirable fixtures.

Once Homestead stops being so new, prices for it will drop as demand drops. So I don't see that being too big of a deal in the long run.

Emphatic_Static

I own a home "with" my girlfriend. She farmed the blueprints, I make the items and place them, she moves them - 1,345,398 times It has been a non issue for us. Check out what we have created!

FULL TOUR ---> https://youtube.com/watch?v=UM24KRpDqbA&feature=youtu.be

Thanks!

Elephant42

This (along with a few others) is a badly needed functionality for homestead imho.

A couple of the others are:

• Allowing players to visit more than one of a friends homes while the friend is offline.
• Allowing for a true guildhall, ie one that is bound to the guild and not to a particular player.

nickturner910b14_ESO

Emphatic_Static wrote: »

I own a home "with" my girlfriend. She farmed the blueprints, I make the items and place them, she moves them - 1,345,398 times It has been a non issue for us. Check out what we have created!

FULL TOUR ---> https://youtube.com/watch?v=UM24KRpDqbA&feature=youtu.be

Thanks!

It's not unworkable, but if I'm at work and my friend wants to decorate, it's an issue

Sordidfairytale

I agree.

As it is now, my wife has to wait until I am home to place items in our home. Otherwise it's a TOS violation if she were to long into my account to place things.

Illurian

My S/O doesn't play ESO (or games in general), so this doesn't affect me, but I 100% agree with you. More collaboration options are only positive benefits in my opinion.