What to do in a house?

rivenjr

Ok, I get that we can craft and have dps dummies, stations for sets. But what the heck are we gonna do in housing once the novelty wears off? My PvP guildies don't see themselves hanging out in a house doing nothing or even dueling.

LordGavus

Whatever you want.
Admittedly, house has more use for RPers than PvPers currently. But more stuff can be added in the future.

Johngo0036

Its a place i intend my wife to spend all her time, cleaning, washing clothes and cooking for me while i adventure around tamriel bringing home the bacon...

If she behaves i might even buy here something nice from the crownstore, like a nice new dress....

LOL....

runagate

https://youtu.be/FGg5YI1hiHI

SantieClaws

Who says a house needs to be a home?

Open a school, a hospital, a theatre?

Or perhaps a tavern like this one yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Cadbury

"What to do in a house?"

lhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXA6CLTDekw

FloppyTouch

It's more something to do and be creative with try new things just have fun it's a great place to test ur dps meet up with friends to try new builds.

I'm just happy when I bored of pvp or pve or grinding mats I can build something or move things around for fun why does it need to be anything more then that just another layer of fun added to the game.

kenneth.friisb16_ESO

SantieClaws wrote: »

Who says a house needs to be a home?

Open a school, a hospital, a theatre?

Or perhaps a tavern like this one yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

I'm currently looking in to making a theater, WITH SHOWS!!

And free admittance

SantieClaws

kenneth.friisb16_ESO wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

Who says a house needs to be a home?

Open a school, a hospital, a theatre?

Or perhaps a tavern like this one yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

I'm currently looking in to making a theater, WITH SHOWS!!

And free admittance

Khajiit can reserve front row seats yes?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

FloppyTouch

kenneth.friisb16_ESO wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

Who says a house needs to be a home?

Open a school, a hospital, a theatre?

Or perhaps a tavern like this one yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

I'm currently looking in to making a theater, WITH SHOWS!!

And free admittance

Im making a floating Pokémon battle arena for dueling

kenneth.friisb16_ESO

SantieClaws wrote: »

kenneth.friisb16_ESO wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

Who says a house needs to be a home?

Open a school, a hospital, a theatre?

Or perhaps a tavern like this one yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

I'm currently looking in to making a theater, WITH SHOWS!!

And free admittance

Khajiit can reserve front row seats yes?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Of course Santie, you will have a standing VIK (Very Important Khajit) ticket!

On another note, do any of you know, whether the total amount of characters allowed in a house, also includes yourself? for example, if a house can hold 12 people, is it 11+me or 12+me?

teladoy

Nothing. A house is a place that excludes you of enjoy the real world, so better don't have a house and be a nomadic.

Molydeus

I like collecting things and my wife enjoys decorating. I have fun creating furniture and putting it right inside the front door of the house for my wife to find when she logs in. I'll come "home" later to see where she's put it (she has decorator status and I let her arrange to her heart's content). She gets a kick out of organizing the place and is endlessly entertained. I eventually made the courtyard my personal project, and I have enjoyed watching it grow from a cobblestoned walkway into a walled garden wonderland, so I can relate to her (and other's) joy over this patch. For someone who isn't into having a "home away from home," Homestead may not make sense to you. For the rest of us it just clicks.

Saturn

It's very simple:

First you go in a house you've spent ages decorating with expensive stuff.

Then you cry over the amount of virtual, or maybe even real, money you have spent on it.

Merkzz23

Got 1 only for the target dummy lol

akl77

Free portal. Then wait for future add ons.

trav2609rwb17_ESO

kenneth.friisb16_ESO wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

kenneth.friisb16_ESO wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

Who says a house needs to be a home?

Open a school, a hospital, a theatre?

Or perhaps a tavern like this one yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

I'm currently looking in to making a theater, WITH SHOWS!!

And free admittance

Khajiit can reserve front row seats yes?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Of course Santie, you will have a standing VIK (Very Important Khajit) ticket!

On another note, do any of you know, whether the total amount of characters allowed in a house, also includes yourself? for example, if a house can hold 12 people, is it 11+me or 12+me?

You always have a free spot for yourself - so number is purely for visitors eg 12+yourself

Khajiit wonders why Santie Claws is in front row ... this one will watch from the side where can see who has dropped something and keep the theater clean. Looks forward to seeing this tavern Santie Claws is opening and see if she hired any bards or has them banned.

Edziu

dont let anyone to go into your home
now you can fap without disturbing

kenneth.friisb16_ESO

@trav2609rwb17_ESO thanks for the insight

@SantieClaws gets a seat in the front, because I have reason to believe that she tends to get her paws in coin purses, that does not belong to her. This way I can keep an eye on her. Those coin purses are for me... hrrmph, I mean, so that the audience don't lose anything during the show

Danikat

This is why I don't mind that furniture plans are obtained by RNG and that it's going to take a long time to get my house decorated. I don't know what I'd do with a fully decorated house except occasionally drop in to craft or use it as a wayshrine.

I'm getting more fun from unexpectedly finding plans for furniture I want, or furniture I'd never considered but like the look of once I preview it and gradually building up to crafting it all. The other night I was digging through a pile of sacks outside the besieged farm in Rivenspire and suddenly came across a plan for a khajiit claw banner, one of the items I'd decided I'd buy from the crown store if I couldn't find it. So that was a really nice surprise.

Of course I'd prefer housing to have more purpose so I'm not only going back there to drop off furniture.

trav2609rwb17_ESO

This one will most likely use the house for good naps when not out exploring. Might also have drinks with friends though so many demands for services that don't think many will get long to sit down before dashing off to save the world again or lighten someone's load.

EvilCroc

Log off.

SantieClaws

trav2609rwb17_ESO wrote: »

kenneth.friisb16_ESO wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

kenneth.friisb16_ESO wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

Who says a house needs to be a home?

Open a school, a hospital, a theatre?

Or perhaps a tavern like this one yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

I'm currently looking in to making a theater, WITH SHOWS!!

And free admittance

Khajiit can reserve front row seats yes?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Of course Santie, you will have a standing VIK (Very Important Khajit) ticket!

On another note, do any of you know, whether the total amount of characters allowed in a house, also includes yourself? for example, if a house can hold 12 people, is it 11+me or 12+me?

You always have a free spot for yourself - so number is purely for visitors eg 12+yourself

Khajiit wonders why Santie Claws is in front row ... this one will watch from the side where can see who has dropped something and keep the theater clean. Looks forward to seeing this tavern Santie Claws is opening and see if she hired any bards or has them banned.

The full details on Santie's Grotto can be found here yes. Khajiit assumes the information it was moved maybe to reduce the number of customers. Khajiit wonders if this has anything to do with a rival tavern yes. If you send a message to @wenxue222 when in EU Tamriel then khajiit will be happy to add you to the friends list and the permission list - it seems you need to be on both in order to be able to find a person and travel to their residence.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-GB/discussion/321102/santies-grotto-now-open-for-business

As for why khajiit is in the front row - why the very best place to cause a distraction for the benefit of others of course ...

This one does not always work alone.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Khenarthi

My house is pure convenience: bought Snugpod, just a few seconds away from the AD writ drop off location, put my assistants inside along with an alchemy and an enchanting station, so now I can avoid running up and down the Elden Root tree every time I decide to do Master Writs. On the rest of the space I'm dumping, warehouse-style, whatever decorating junk drops during questing and exploring.

Enslaved

List of stuff you can do in house.

• decorate it
• sit on chairs
• use test dummies
• use crafting stations
• pretend any decorations beside test dummies were worth your time and effort.

List of stuff you can't do in house.

• Invite lot of ppl at once
• display all your pets, assistants and mounts at once
• have vendor to fix your gear
• access guild bank or guild store
• launder stolen goods, since your fence is crippled, as other assistants are
• sort out your gear, since no stash space was introduced
• open cabintets, lay down on bed, harvest plants
• summon assistants as you please
• put enough stuff, even if an ESO+ subscriber

Even if Zos does not introduce stash for their own out of common sense reasons, they must make a system that helps us sort out all gear we have on all out chars without having to log on each of them. That would greatly improve the value of housing and I would be buying some myself. If they want to spice it up a bit, houses could be "registered" to only a certain numper of chars you got, so for example common Inn room could host just 2 chars. That way, to be able to acess all your inventories at once, you still would need to purchase at least large house.

Simple solution with housing and inventory increase would be like this - each house you have increase each of your chars inventory by a certain number of slots. That would make ppl wanna buy houses. For example, just a plain Inn room could provide +2-3 slots, small one would be +3-5 slots, medium something like 5-10, large 10-15 and huge manors 20 slots. I know that would be enough for me to jump in housing train.

Things that MUST be introduced at some point are upgrades for our assistants. If we are forced to put them inside and tie them to a spot, we must be able to use guild bank, guild vendor, proper fence and merchant that can actually fix your gear. Or give us way to craft repair gear stations or something. That would suffice.

Auros

Sit and relax in your lovely garden, trying to imagine : how beautiful it would have been, if only you could see the scenery behind those walls ... little too high to view behind :P

Prof_Bawbag

I got one of the cheapest ones and put a test dummy in it. That is the only use I have for it and will have for it. I got the house in Malabal Tor next to the dolmen only because it has a small court yard so I don't even need to go in the house. They're ultimately useless to a lot of people. If they introduced storage it would be the only thing I'd likely add.

Duiwel

In b4 ZOS releases something amazing in the future coupled with housing

failkiwib16_ESO

So far, the only people who can use housing for events are duellers & roleplayers. But even that is not optimal, because there is a limit to how many players can be in a house at once.

I intended to wait with housing, till I could afford to have all set crafting stations located in a big house ...I just recently heard that there are limits to what and how much you can have in a house, so I don't now if it is worth it anymore

I have a few guildies who wanted me to view their homes, and one of them does that on a daily base - but it's empty, nothing special and nothing to do there. I go there, look ...get to feel awkward and port out.

I consider this "update" as useless and inventory clutter hell.

BlackSparrow

Housing is primarily a vehicle for the decoration system. You're meant to spend months building up the furnishings to get your house just right for whatever you want out of it... whether that's building a roleplay tavern, making mazes and jumping puzzles for your friends to try, or building up a guild house. It's all about the long-term goals, which will occupy anyone whose creativity is sparked by the furnishing system the same way gaining achievements, endgame gear, Emperor, and leaderboards are longterm goals for other players.

This question keeps coming up, so here's a post I wrote yesterday on this:

BlackSparrow wrote: »

There are a couple small benefits and perks to having a house: the free teleports to any of your houses are nice, and with master writs you can get a DPS testing skeleton and crafting stations put in your home.

But overall? It's basically a little playground you can decorate to your taste, and whatever you get out of it is whatever you put into it, creatively speaking. Some people create mini-games like mazes and jumping puzzles, while other people roleplay taverns, inns, and, yes, brothels. Meanwhile, other people are decorating their houses to certain themes, like Dark Brotherhood sanctuaries, witch's caves, and hunter's cabins. You get out of it what you want out of it. I've likened it to Minecraft before, because it's pretty much the same sort of mindset: you have your own little world and some tools to build it up to your taste... it's more limited than Minecraft, but that's made up by the richer lore and the rest of the game surrounding it.

Personally, I love having one house for each of my characters, and enjoy the challenge of finding the perfect decorations for each of their houses to reflect their stories and personalities. It's immensely satisfying to place items in a way that suggests there are stories attached to them... to know that the pile of fish in the kitchen, the wine bottle thrown on the workshop floor, and the dagger just peeking out from under the pillow all say something subtle but important about the character who lives there. That's what housing does for me.

If that's not your thing? No worries. Get the free inn rooms (and I also recommend the cheap apartments) for the free teleports. Then, sell any recipes you find on the guild traders and never worry about it again. There's nothing wrong with deciding it's not for you. You play how you most enjoy. The important thing is that you're having fun playing the game.

STEVIL

rivenjr wrote: »

Ok, I get that we can craft and have dps dummies, stations for sets. But what the heck are we gonna do in housing once the novelty wears off? My PvP guildies don't see themselves hanging out in a house doing nothing or even dueling.

Side note: i can tell you that more years ago than i choose to admit to i got asked almost verbatim the same question multiple multiple multiple times when i was tasked with setting up desktop computers on my co-workers stations - allowing for different examples of use - of course.



Quoted from another thread on my take of housing usefulness and what to do with... etc (intentionally leaving out brothels)

its possible to run duels in houses.
houses are instanced and you have control over entry.

So, if one is interested in dueling without interruption - like say running a dueling tourney that one can stream without having really annoying interlopers running into the duel and causing interruption after interruption to your broadcast - a house works very well for that. that is a capability the house can provide that cannot be gained elsewhere.

if one want to do so, one can create crafting stations for PVP zone sets and DLC sets and harder to get to sets and place them in your home and invite others (perhaps your guild mates) to use them without going to the PVP zone or owning the DLC. . that's a capability not otherwise available. one could even "rent" the home for such uses for gold if one wanted.

there are lots of other "functions" or more properly "capabilities" that folks can find "uses for" in their housing - in addition to whatever fun it brings them in its own right.

One can always ask "what does it do for me?" and get a very small picture of anything.
One can also always ask "what can i do with it or what can i get out of it?" and often get a much broader, richer more robust perspective.

The one's looking at housing now and asking the latter are gonna be the ones ahead of the curve.

In homestead housing is potential - potential fun, potential use, potential gains - and like all potential it requires creativity, time and effort to turn it from potential into reality and some will choose to do so and others won't.