Questions on the Snow Globe House

bellanca6561n

Delightful, imaginative concept, I've been eager for this to appear. Plus, I'd like to add slots to my current house without having to purchase some grand, massive estate. Old Mistveil Manor is nice and cozy. Thus this seemed ideal....a nice magical portal to, in essence, an annex to my house. Three questions:

1. Can I place the snow globe in my house and enter it from there?

2. Will it put me back in my house when I leave it? This would make sense. But I see it, inexplicably, has an Eastmarch location as well...odd as its architecture is wholly inconsistent with Eastmarch (more like The Hollow City).

3. How many slots does it have for collectible furnishings?

At 4200 crowns it's not exactly something you buy and try. If it does dump me in Eastmarch when I leave it ceases to makes sense...for me at least.

Many thanks!

Drathly

1 + 2 : You can't move the house. It will stay in place in Eastmarch, on a table
3 : I am ESO+, so if you are not it's half the amount of slots

Riverlynn

Had a look at the map while I was previewing the house - drops you just north a Kynesgrove Wayshrine, and a little ways south of Windhelm.

Very pretty house, but my Sleek Creek place has it beat for convenience.

DMuehlhausen

do you see other people running around outside the globe?

Royaji

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

do you see other people running around outside the globe?

Do you see people running outside of other houses? You are heavily overestimating ESO's technology. Every house is an entirely separate instance.

bellanca6561n

MANY THANKS for the thorough, detailed answers!

You've saved me 4200 crowns. Not saying it's a bad deal. It's just not what I'd imagined is all.

I'm content with Mistveil Manor. Nice, cozy, splendid New England late fall feel with easy access to Riften.

Meesha1170

I know someone pointed out that it’s instanced but what a missed opportunity to take a screenshot of your toon looking up at your freind’s big dopey mug looking down at you from the sky above.

Yolokin_Swagonborn

Meesha1170 wrote: »

I know someone pointed out that it’s instanced but what a missed opportunity to take a screenshot of your toon looking up at your freind’s big dopey mug looking down at you from the sky above.

You and me both know that if ZOS even thought of implementing that it would melt the servers for weeks.

bellanca6561n

As the New England poet, John Greenleaf Whittier put it,

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'"

Actually, it's pretty cool as is. Sharli, my main Battlegrounds character, paid the site a visit. You go up to this nice tent with food and such laid out.



And, as Drathly noted, you find the snow globe sitting there on the table.



You click on it and do the Clockwork City shrinky thing to enter it....



And inside it looks like something from the Hollow City in Coldharbor.



Look up and you're still in the tent...yes, a fixed view.



All in all not bad and kind of charming. Now, where I somehow got it into my head that the snow globe would be like a housing object you could place in your home as an annex...that would present its own challenges. The price of novelty can be very high

Its location near Windhelm is not bad really, if you care to venture into Windhelm frequently and listen to all the drunken folks do their drunken talk and such but it's Windhelm during a festival and....well....most locations have something akin to that.

max_only

I have a question.

The fireplace in the furnished snow globe house: is it a cooking station?

Either I pay 4K crowns for the cooking station I’ve been waiting for by buying the holiday pack (the rest of the furniture I don’t like at all) or I pay 5k crowns for a nice house at a good location and I can use that fireplace elsewhere.......

bellanca6561n

What's wrong with the cooking station you get from writ vouchers, Max? It doesn't cost many vouchers.

weedgenius

bellanca6561n wrote: »

What's wrong with the cooking station you get from writ vouchers, Max? It doesn't cost many vouchers.

He's referring to the new item in the New Life Festival pack. It's a cooking station that looks like a fireplace fire.

weedgenius

max_only wrote: »

I have a question.

The fireplace in the furnished snow globe house: is it a cooking station?

Either I pay 4K crowns for the cooking station I’ve been waiting for by buying the holiday pack (the rest of the furniture I don’t like at all) or I pay 5k crowns for a nice house at a good location and I can use that fireplace elsewhere.......

You can also buy the cooking fire separately in the Housing Editor. I think it was around 2k crowns. Obviously the pack gives a better value, but if those other furnishings are just going to be clutter for you then that's always an option.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

I was going to buy this place, but my insurance carrier said they wouldnt cover a glass snowglobe with all the drunken Nords running around Windhelm....

AyeshaBelladonna

The reason the globe is in that tent is because that is the location of the New Life Festival quest giver.

Very sad they put it there, made it a themed holiday house, then decided "oh we will just launch it earlier..... rather than with the festival where we could have attached a gold price and achievement to it like the the Hollowjack festival Cottage. Maybe more time to buy with keep them from being upset." nope ZOS, sorry, still P.O.'d you set a holiday non-notable house precedent, got us all excited and then went for the cash grab. you could at LEAST get the ability to gift houses implemented then so we could take care of the issue ourselves with the gifting system thx.

AyeshaBelladonna

@max_only no. the one that comes with the house is not. the one that comes in the decorating package with the wreaths and snowmen and the fireplace and all that IS.

heaven13

AyeshaBelladonna wrote: »

@max_only no. the one that comes with the house is not. the one that comes in the decorating package with the wreaths and snowmen and the fireplace and all that IS.

Going from the PTS, the Winter Festival Hearthfire is available outside of the pack and is a cooking fire. Not sure if the separate purchase made it's way to the live servers or not though since I haven't checked.

Editing to add that the provisoner version is 2700 crowns when purchased individually so...

Skullstachio

Didn't think there would be this much at"tent'ion, but hey, I have "Snow" idea.

SpiderKnight

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

do you see other people running around outside the globe?

I will pay 10k crowns to have this added, I wanna see enormous players during New Life Festival hovering above drinking their xp mugs, or even drunken Nords puking on the globe, maybe even the late night casual encounter on the picnic table.

SydneyGrey

I'm not buying it in case it's available for gold during the New Life Festival, like the Witch's house was available during the Witch's Festival. They might be hoping people will pay real money for it now, but it could still be available for gold later.

Katahdin

SydneyGrey wrote: »

I'm not buying it in case it's available for gold during the New Life Festival, like the Witch's house was available during the Witch's Festival. They might be hoping people will pay real money for it now, but it could still be available for gold later.

I really doubt that they would do that. They have done some questionable things before but that would be very much a new low. If they did, Im sure anyone who bought it for crowns unfurnished would be demanding a refund.

Aliyavana

It says it uses clockwork technology, so it would make sense to not see people outside