Assistants should be customizable. Especially with the cost and lack of utility.

Selminus

Creepy bald dark elf banker bro and the chick merchant that can't even repair me would be much better if we could name them and pick their skins. Frankly I was kind of surprised at all I got when I bought the merchant for that many crowns. This would make RPers and home decor people happy as well.

Universe

Actually it is nice that ZOS encourage players to be less superficial!

Vevvev

Being able to decorate them would be a great boon to the housing community.

Taunky

I wish the Merchant was able to sell repairs kits lol

wishlist14

Hey OP, no need to insult Tythis, I'll let you know that he is reliable and meticulous and I trust him with my life savings

He may be bald but he has a heart of gold.😉😊

Jokes aside, i did buy the kitties on my Euro account and they are so adorable i now want them on my main NA account but i cant keep spending so much money especially in these uncertain times.

I wish i could swap my bankers and merchants over as i play mostly on my NA account but i doubt it can be done

TheShadowScout

Nah.
Not when they sell other "merchant" and "banker" options in kittycat... so any more options for them will almost certainly also come in a repurchase with different visuals I reckon...
...which also cuts down on the lag, when those assistants are just one number of dataset and not one number foe each customization option - remember, you can use them in the firld, where every bit of less data they carry is one bit less the servers have to keep track of. Yes, its only so much... but multiplied by the number of players, well, go into cyrodil during primetime someday if you wanna see what that adds up to!

Vevvev wrote: »

Being able to decorate them would be a great boon to the housing community.

What we -could- use instead to boonetize the housing community would be a "servant system" for our homes... I actually had that idea a while ago, as I once posted:

TheShadowScout wrote: »

It would make sense for larger homes to come with special "NPC servant slots"... not to place your NPC servants as immobile furniture, but to have them a completely new category, able to move around your home, with varying animations... so, a cleaning servant might sweep floors (like some we can see in inns for example), a cook servant may move from one kitchen table to the other and do the "cooking" animation, a guard servant might patrol, a bard servant might sing for a while, then stop to get a drink, then sing some more, a dancing girl servant might dance, then stop to rest and idle a bit, then dance some more... etc.
There even could be special classes of homestead NPCs... for those who really want an NPC waifu? (or children who greet their parent when they come home from their life of adventure?)

It would open up a entirely new range of things to sell in the crown store for ZOS, servant NPCs in varying configurations (like, the cleaning servant could come in every race, from breton serf to argonian maid... and possibly even in several appearance "ranks", from lowly barmaid in threadbare apron to fancy noble servants in silk livery...)

The possibilities for servant customization are endless as well, could be as little or as much as ZOS wants to code for us to spend crowns on... we could have a whole "servant customization" tab, where we could slot different hairstyles, makeup, outfits and professions (for the animations they will follow while moving around our homes - like, guard servant, cleaning servant, etc. - there could even be advanced professions as upgrades with limited interactions, like the basic maid just cleans and ignored the player, but the advanced maid profession would also stop their cleaning and bow to their "master" when the player character passes them in the hallways, etc.)

They could even make the basic servant purchasable (well, hire-able, unless you are one of those telvanni slaver scum!) with gold, in varying regions (hire a dunmer dancing girl from a random selection in ebonheart's ebon flask, or hire an breton maid in the inn of wayrest, or a bosmer chef in the inn of elden root, or a nord guard in the windhelm tavern, or a redguard stablehand by the sentinel barzaar, or a altmer butler in the skywatch manor... etc.) or attainable from quests or achievements (save the breton damsel in distress, gain an ever faithful servant? Purchase a manor and find it comes with a butler?) and then just sell the customization options in the crown store for those who want to have their servants personalized (and let's be honest, we all would want that, yes?)

...and they could (and would I presume) of course always sell extra servant slots in the crown store for those who want to have more staff for their home... and they could also put special servants in the crown store (like... hire the normal nord huscarl guard in-game with gold, but you can also buy the buff nord titanborn amazon guard in the crown store, hire the normal breton maid in-game with gold, but you can also buy the lusty argonian version in the crown store, etc.), or put their hiring locations into expansion/DLC regions to encourage people to get that, and so on...

And since those -only- exist in those houses... that's -not- a dataset you always carry "with you", so... only the loadscreen when entering the house will take a bit longer, which doesn't affect the rest of the game. Thus... they can go as wild with the customization options there as they would like!