Homestead needs more structural items

Zypheran

I for one am beginning to get bored with Homestead, largely because I am so limited in what I can create due to the lack of variety with structural items.
Almost 80 different types of rocks/stones but only 10 different types of platforms/planks! Surely the recent Homestead competition demonstrates to ZOS what people are trying to achieve with their homes. C'mon ZOS, add more structural components and allow us to, quite frankly, improve the houses you have on offer. Many of them are poorly designed because they were copy/paste resources.
Things that are really needed;
- basic walls
- better quality planks/platforms
- stairs/steps
- floors ( this is so important. Many of the yards have very uneven landscape which make it difficult to position workstations. Please give us large squares of flat stone flooring so we can fix this oversight in the vanilla homes.)
All of these resources are already in game. If its too time consuming to make them craftable, then just add them to crown store.
Houses are rather functionless so their value (and they are very expensive) is in the hours of entertainment designing new layouts. But this is often very difficult due to the gross lack of structural resources available. It would also alleviate issues with housing item caps because one set of steps or one wall could save us having to use 20/30 individual components that we are trying to mash together to make these BASIC features.
So c'mon ZOS, please support homestead enthusiasts with some better structural resources.
Please, Please, Please!!

Furinol

They need functionality.

I was thrilled with it - then I bought a house. I go there every two or three days and when I do it is just ....never mind, I actually don't know why I go there.

Rinmaethodain

Am I only one who wants first an improved furnishing system before dumping any more broken furniture into game?

Many furniture pieces needs to have their local coordinate systems reworked, there are many paintings, tapestries, carpets that auto align in wrong way:
- i pick painting and align it to wall but instead of sticking flat to wall it aligns by the edge

There are furniture pieces that are impossible to align to appropriate surfaces:
- breton tablecloths have bend edges and when aligning them to surface (table) they will not lie flat on table, instead hover few cm above because of these bend edges

The lack of precise controls over item positioning is triggering, we can't rorate item by X degrees, we cant move it by X units along X, Y, Z axis. It makes a large part of home furnishing a trial-and-error hassle.

Some kind of free-roam camera mode would be useful too. Detach camera from character and let us place furniture freely in whole residence, give us aerial view.

Item grouping, when i have fully set table with things on it, moving table forces me to move all the pieces with it. Being able to create item groups will allow faster interior redesigning.

altemriel

Zypheran wrote: »

I for one am beginning to get bored with Homestead, largely because I am so limited in what I can create due to the lack of variety with structural items.
Almost 80 different types of rocks/stones but only 10 different types of platforms/planks! Surely the recent Homestead competition demonstrates to ZOS what people are trying to achieve with their homes. C'mon ZOS, add more structural components and allow us to, quite frankly, improve the houses you have on offer. Many of them are poorly designed because they were copy/paste resources.
Things that are really needed;
- basic walls
- better quality planks/platforms
- stairs/steps
- floors ( this is so important. Many of the yards have very uneven landscape which make it difficult to position workstations. Please give us large squares of flat stone flooring so we can fix this oversight in the vanilla homes.)
All of these resources are already in game. If its too time consuming to make them craftable, then just add them to crown store.
Houses are rather functionless so their value (and they are very expensive) is in the hours of entertainment designing new layouts. But this is often very difficult due to the gross lack of structural resources available. It would also alleviate issues with housing item caps because one set of steps or one wall could save us having to use 20/30 individual components that we are trying to mash together to make these BASIC features.
So c'mon ZOS, please support homestead enthusiasts with some better structural resources.
Please, Please, Please!!

yes!!!

and first of all, the caps for furniture and decoration items should be at least doubled!!!

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert

Voxicity

altemriel wrote: »

Zypheran wrote: »

I for one am beginning to get bored with Homestead, largely because I am so limited in what I can create due to the lack of variety with structural items.
Almost 80 different types of rocks/stones but only 10 different types of platforms/planks! Surely the recent Homestead competition demonstrates to ZOS what people are trying to achieve with their homes. C'mon ZOS, add more structural components and allow us to, quite frankly, improve the houses you have on offer. Many of them are poorly designed because they were copy/paste resources.
Things that are really needed;
- basic walls
- better quality planks/platforms
- stairs/steps
- floors ( this is so important. Many of the yards have very uneven landscape which make it difficult to position workstations. Please give us large squares of flat stone flooring so we can fix this oversight in the vanilla homes.)
All of these resources are already in game. If its too time consuming to make them craftable, then just add them to crown store.
Houses are rather functionless so their value (and they are very expensive) is in the hours of entertainment designing new layouts. But this is often very difficult due to the gross lack of structural resources available. It would also alleviate issues with housing item caps because one set of steps or one wall could save us having to use 20/30 individual components that we are trying to mash together to make these BASIC features.
So c'mon ZOS, please support homestead enthusiasts with some better structural resources.
Please, Please, Please!!

yes!!!

and first of all, the caps for furniture and decoration items should be at least doubled!!!

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert

This 10,000%

makreth

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/340684/housing-and-storage-furnishing-ways-to-make-housing-system-more-desireable#latest

makreth wrote: »

Storage in Eso can be a little frustrating especially when someone has a lot of characters or is gathering set items to try out new builds and gameplays. Zos recently announced that double slots are coming for the bank however I'm here to suggest something more to an extent that would make housing even more desireable to people.

As it is now housing doesn't serve a real purpose, anything in house can be found just in a city, a bank, a vendor even guild traders.

Suggestions:

a) Add a wayshrine furnishing (there is one already I've heard) and make it interactable, click on to travel.
b) Special Containers. These could work like the new double bank slots, kind of. If you are an eso+ you can place items in there for a future use or whatever you want for. With the expiration of eso+ you can no longer store in there items but you can still retrieve anything you like.
c)Ways to increase +max player limit. Of course there needs to be a limit to a small zone like the house zones but still there could be a way to increase the limit like +5 or +10 players. This is especially needed for guild houses, which are not here yet.
d) More interactable objects, beds, wardrobes (opening a wardrobe or a nightstand animations), harp,hammock swinging etc. and etc. There are so many things that can be done.
e) Npcs. As it is now I think you can only have what purchased (pets excluded). So here we go, a banker and a merchant. I would add some more NPCs like: Bard, Dancers, Guards-Bodyguards, Cook-Chef, Bartender, Enchanter merchant, stable boy, cleaning lady and any kind you can imagine.
f) Others have suggested that a bonus to exp would be a good idea as well the more you stay in your house the more "rested" experience you get up to a limit.

g) Capacity increase on placeable objects much like the c) suggestion
h) Crafting nodes and provisioning containers. These could be looted or extracted with a long cooldown but still give a nice touch on your house.

Any thoughts, suggestions?

since that thread didn't get much attention... i'm throwing it here....who knows...

RT_Frank

What housing really needs is the ability to pick up and turn in writs in your home. That way I can avoid belkarth's insane loading screen. Would also be nice to pick up undaunted quests, or search up guild traders from your home, but it's mainly the writ thing that I want.

Dragonnord

And ZOS dared to say "Homestead is going to be much better than Skyrim". Yeah, yeah! With the content creator in Skyrim I did my house 100% freely as I wanted, using ANY item I was seeing in the overland. How can Homestead be better lacking furniture, mannequins, weapon display, storage, item limit, etc., etc., etc.?

Smmokkee

Homestead needs to die in a fire.

Evergnar

Completely agree especially on the lack of stairs.

TheHsN

yes u right ... since with new patch they destroy COMBAT PLAY SYSTEM we are all going to stay and sit in our HOUSES ..

we need to make them look better and more comfartable:)...

Hallothiel

CarbonX wrote: »

And ZOS dared to say "Homestead is going to be much better than Skyrim". Yeah, yeah! With the content creator in Skyrim I did my house 100% freely as I wanted, using ANY item I was seeing in the overland. How can Homestead be better lacking furniture, mannequins, weapon display, storage, item limit, etc., etc., etc.?

But Skyrim's house WERE limited in what you could build - iirc could only have a certain combo of extensions, not whatever you wanted.

bellatrixed

Yes please!

- Increased item cap--I want to keep decorating my houses but I'm now at the point where every time I want to put a new item down I have to find one to pick up...

- More structural items! Walls, floors, windows, doors in a few styles already in game--wood, stone, etc.

- Some lots we can buy that are nothing but open ground/landscapes so we can build anything we want on it without a premade building limiting us

Then social features...

- Increased player cap--current one is too small by far

- Ability to give other players keys or some way to access more than ONE home we own if we are offline. I have multiple homes and it really stinks my guild can only get to my primary residence when they'd like to use multiples for RP.

OmniDo

Ive had to resort to "makeshift" walls, using uneven wood planks that no self-respecting Breton, Orc, Dark Elf, or High Elf would ever use in their construction, and then cover them with sideways "hanging" rugs or tapestries.
Due to the fact that only certain items are "solid", Ive also had to get creative with Orc Tapestries, which are (currently) "solid" and mostly flat.

Having functional Doors, floors, walls, and ceilings that come in the standard 3 sizes of small, medium, and large, would be super-useful and item-count saving.