Housing Wishlist

Sordidfairytale

Floor coverings (e.g. rugs, carpets, mats, etc.) that clip any surface they are set upon, providing a new "smart" top for dueling or placing other player interactable items on top of, so chairs, crafting stations, bankers, don't have to be sunk into the floor covering in order to use them.

Grouping of items.

Tombstones. (My Stam DK lived a good life until he took an arrow to the knee)

Grave holes. (If my Mag DK doesn't improve...)

The ability to scale some items:

• planks
• statues
• Posts
• stained glass windows you purchase from the vendor that really don't fit anywhere.

RANKK7

Stopnaggin wrote: »

RANKK7 wrote: »

• Increase items slots
• Storage

That's all. I don't even care about fancy ideas if the items slots number don't get increased.
Storage would make houses useful, great incentive to buy more, would attract even players who don't care atm about housing.

What happens when the number of stored item's counts against the item limit?

Why should that happen? The stored items are references added inside other references (containers), they would not stress the rendering which I guess is the reason why they are reluctant to increase slot number because consoles.
The storage wouldn't be a problem about that. Those items in short are non existent, it's not about world models with diffuse, alpha and normals, all the maps could have plus collision and markers.
Storage it's a completely different thing and differently handled by the engine, there is no reason they should count against slot items, it's absurd. Don't worry about this.

SirGabenOfSteamia

What would be awesome is if grass would grow longer and thicker outside your house while you're away or offline. Imagine having like a spooky wizard laboratory hidden in thick brush that you wouldn't need housing slots to accomplish. Pull out your good ol' fashion medieval lawnmower and trim it back down to its original size.
Or a paint tool where you can write and draw stuff in your house. I'd love a red paint can or something to spill on my the floor of my torture room and mimic the blood of my victims.

Aurie

Well, it would be nice if there wasn't any grass or scrub at all outside.

It does nothing for the general decor of homes' grounds. It looks untidy and patchy at best, and interferes greatly with placing items and ground cover as it pokes out above anything you place which isn't substantial, like a rock for instance, and ruins the look.

Far better to leave it to players to do their own gardening. What would be useful to craft or buy is some proper ground cover such as customisable areas of lawn and paving. I've tried using large hedges turned on their side and lowered into the ground, but it's difficult to achieve a decent effect.

Maybe @ZOS can think about this?

Eporem

I would love any and all of these additions mentioned as well as a way to show to the owners that you have visited their home, maybe a book of some sort you can sign, or write a little note in.

Lord_Etrigan

daedric styled war table.....pretty please

altemriel

Khajiit would be really happy it her Khajiit skooma bubbler would also release some smoke when used. Everywhere she saw people smoking it, but this bubbler that this one has in her house seems to be broken.


With bubbles, but no smoke
Maoimii

PC0523

altemriel wrote: »

Khajiit would be really happy it her Khajiit skooma bubbler would also release some smoke when used. Everywhere she saw people smoking it, but this bubbler that this one has in her house seems to be broken.

You can hide some incense inside the bubbler to produce this effect. The incense stick hides nicely, but the smoke may seep into the second floor of your house (if applicable).

I have my "skooma room" on the first floor so I opted for what looks like a little can of incense. It doesn't hide quite as well as the incense stick, but the smoke stops a little bit above the bubbler and is contained within the "skooma room."

Though an Activate feature to make it smoke would be pretty cool!

ProfesseurFreder

Asked for it before on another thread, but will repeat here, because I think it's a big one:

place-able WALL PANELS

... in various styles, so that we can break down large chambers (of which the Tamriel housing has MANY) into smaller rooms, without having to use tons of item slots by building them out of blocks... which blocks also don/t usually match the style of the house.

Sigtric

list updated, thanks all

Wolfenbelle

@Sigtric, this is a great thread with excellent suggestions. Since most people have mentioned the most hoped for things already, I'm offering a quality-of-life building suggestion.

Placing objects in homes is much more difficult and clumsy than it needs to be. This is because an object to be placed attaches to the player's character. For this reason, placement is not truly dimensional, but must be within an arc/circle with the character in the center. This is an old-fashioned approach in today's digital environments.

So I wish that objects could be placed independently from the character. This would enable true up, down, left and right dimensionality. I don't mean to suggest that ESO needs complex building tools, but just simple dimensions and rotation would be great. Here is an example from Second Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYAItoufobA

Sticky_Paws

Bc_bmx wrote: »

An easy way to turn lights on or off from housing editor.(light switch)

@Gina_bruno

This is a must. Please!

I hate crafting a light only to find it doesnt give off enough light for the space I want to use it within, a light switch in the housing creator secetion would be amazing. TIA!

Novaesi

Great post! I've revised my wishlist from a previous post and would like to share it here as well.

• Increase decor item limits across all houses.
• Ability to scale certain items. I love the interact-able furniture and the scale of the furniture pieces as is, but there are decor items, plants, trees that I would really appreciate an ability to scale smaller or larger.
• More control over the camera and the toolset options for placing items and/or an ability to zoom out.
• Allow more than one home to be visited by other players while my character is not physically there or if I am offline.
• Remove collision from the top of the canopy beds - to be able to /sit inside it.
• An item that removes ground foliage in a small area - would like to place a table/chairs or a rug outdoors without plants poking through.
• Interior wall pieces that match the current homes brick walls, one style with a door way and one that is just a plain wall to insert wherever.
• More plants and flowers.
• More blocks and wood pieces to build with.
• Stairs - short and long, narrow and wide types.

ProfesseurFreder

Oh, and... again originally posted on another thread, but as this now seems to be the default Housing Request thread it bears repeating here:

... useable beds!!!

Right now you can jump on them and type /sleep or /sleep2 -- but that doesn't work with canopy beds, which are currently useless in housing. It's nice to be able to sit on all the chairs, but we should be able to sleep in all the beds as well!

NordSwordnBoard

Working Sun Dial

The game has shadows moving with the passage of "time", could we get a Sun Dial that works outdoors in the sunlight?

Akunin

Housing should be able to become assigned guild halls. Even go further and make them property of the guild and not the player that created it, public owned. That would make guilds public owned too, but is that such a bad idea?

I'd gladly make my "property" guild owned. I'd give up ownership or even buy one just for that reason.

Also my house is Daggerfall Overlook. There isn't a close wayshrine (closest is north Daggerfall and east) the cost traveling out is crazy, I second making traveling from free.. or put wayshrines near all homes.

mingimingi

Windows! I NEED windows. This is probably impossible to do from a programmer's standpoint, but, ugh. I love me some windows. I love them so much that I just decorate my yards instead of inside of my house. ;}

Vicarra

There are a number of things I would like, mainly for RP and immersion purposes. I came up with my list as I was decorating my current manor house.

The biggest and most important is building blocks. I would really like to be able to place custom walls (indoor and outdoor) and room dividers, stairs and staircases, and windows. I noticed that in several houses, the window placement inside does not even remotely match the outside. I would love to be able to fix this. I would like to be able to change the type of flooring in my house to better reflect my taste. After all, what point is there in being a lord, swimming in money, if you can't make periodic improvements to your house? I should like to be able to "plaster" the walls to change the colour of them, or panel them with wood. Trying to build extra rooms and staircases takes up so much valuable item slottage that could be better spent elsewhere. I want access to the interior walls for each faction. We know they exist.
TLDR wishlist:
Building blocks (interior and exterior)
Interior walls
Placeable windows
The ability to choose flooring and wall style
Stairs and staircases

Secondly, if you're living in a remote castle, you want to have the ability to travel there, typically by horse, right? We know that horses poop, and that we can use that poop for mulching gardens. Therefore, I'd quite like to have a compost bin...i.e., a wooden crate filled with poop and food scraps. Horses also need feeding. I would like to have hay bales (round, square, it doesn't matter) that can be obviously put in the loft of the stables so that we know the horses have food and bedding. A straw bedding without the cloth on top would also be good for bedding for the horses, and a pitchfork and shovel to be able to toss it around and clean up the horses. On the subject of horses, I'd also like to be able to remove the saddles and bridles from the horses in my home. I would never leave a horse tacked up in real life, and I went to a lot of trouble to make saddle racks in my stable...
TLDR wishlist:
Manure/compost bin
Hay bales
Strewn hay/straw
Saddles and bridles separate from the horses
Untacked mounts
Pitchfork
Shovel

Thirdly, if you're living in a smallholding, you want to be able to grow crops. To do that, you need tilled dirt. You also need good dirt if you're growing any kind of a garden, and it's not beyond the realms of imagination that a character can clear areas of stones, and break up the dirt, in order to plant. I like that the scythe is coming, and the bales of wheat, but what I'd like in addition to that are variously sized plots of "tilled dirt", i.e., that come with ridges along where you can plant rows of crops. Preferably, these plots would come in longish rows, since typically you want to be able to walk in between your crops without standing on them and it's easier to plant in long lines. For gardens, patches of dirt the same size as the "dunmer coals" would be awesome. They should probably come under "alchemy" since they're tied to cultivation and alchemy recipes seem to be few. In addition, you'd need a plough and a hoe to be able to put land under cultivation. I can live without having dirt in pots, since careful placement can disguise the lack of dirt anyway, but every holding needs somewhere to grow crops. In addition, planted versions of all the crop plants would be wonderful (i.e., small groups of these vegetables where only the tops are visible as if in the ground) - I have tried "planting" the display carrots, radishes and beets, but you just can't see them amongst the greenery...a waste of item limit. I like that you are doing this with pumpkins, but please don't forget all the others!
TLDR wishlist:
Garden dirt "patches"
Tilled dirt "rows"
Hoe
Plough
"Planted" versions of all vegetables

Speaking of cultivation, I can also live without being able to farm nodes in my house, but any self-respecting alchemist would at least be growing certain herbs in their home. It would be nice to see display versions of all the harvested alchemy plants that I can use in my "garden". If you're level 50 in any of the crafts, it would be nice to see display versions of all the nodes for blacksmithing, clothier, woodworking and alchemy, perhaps unlocked at the relevant vendor as you unlock that level of crafting, or the achievements for gathering a certain number of nodes. In this way, you could create mines, lumber yards, and real gardens.
TLDR wishlist:
crafting nodes for display

I would also like to be able to "group" sets of items that I want to place together, such as tables with tableware, rows of books etc. So many times I've accidentally clicked on a table and picked it up, and ruined 15 minutes worth of fiddling about. If this could also help to improve performance by wrapping the textures and effectively "hiding" the parts of objects that won't be seen, so much the better!

Zypheran

The new Nibineese manor uses large stone platform sections with rounded edges. You can see these resources around the actual house. Can we please have them made available to be purchased or crafted. They would be very useful where so much of the landscape in these houses is unusable, uneven or covered in patchy grass/weeds.

PC0523

It'd be great if dueling worked on custom built structures and surfaces.

Dystopia2020

altemriel wrote: »

Khajiit would be really happy it her Khajiit skooma bubbler would also release some smoke when used. Everywhere she saw people smoking it, but this bubbler that this one has in her house seems to be broken.


With bubbles, but no smoke
Maoimii

Bump

cckat26b14_ESO

I wish eso delvs would just go look at eq2 and there housing system. In my opinion the best system out there. It also seems to be a money maker for them too... so players win, company wins.