QOL Housing Addition: House Linking

G1Countdown

Currently you can go into your collections menu and link most items to share in chat.

The suggestion grants the owner of a home the ability to link their own home in chat. When you click the link, a small pop-up box would appear. The pop-up box would have a small housing icon (possibly unique to each ZOS created home) at the top center, the same description provided by ZOS found under the collections menu underneath the icon, and somewhere in the pop-up box a clickable link with the player @name listed as the owner to enter the individual's home. This would allow the player-base to share our homes with guildies or even zone chat, especially secondary homes.

Thoughts?

Xerge

Agreed 100%

Raideen

That is an awesome idea. We would need a "Link permissions" tab, preferably without the ability to move furniture so that nothing gets messed up by trolls, but that would be an awesome feature and would open up housing to players in a new way.

+1

idk

SWTOR has a very well thought out design for managing housing and who is invited. iirc, you can see all the houses you have "keys" to and travel to them accordingly. If you want to send an invite to someone specifically to join you in your home, you can do that as well through the design of the system.

I found what we have in ESO clunky and while they have added some very basic things that should have been part of the system from the start, like permission that could not turn on and off lights, there is still a lot left to be desired. Considering the revenue housing generates for the company one would think that some of these things other devs have done very well would be considered here.

Cireous

Hmm, that would be cool

msetten

I thought you meant placing a portal in one house that links to another of your houses. I think that would also be cool. That way you can create a world of houses that your friends can visit.

Sarannah

Would much rather have a bulletinboard in towns where players can post their main house for the public, allowing any player to use and enter it. But not change/move anything in there. This would also make a great tool for players into housing, as those players could check out any listed houses. While on the other hand newer players could use other player's houses to craft, or get other benefits(like vampire stages for example).
Maybe even add the ability for public guests to leave a little note on how they liked the house. Maybe through some sort of guestbook.

Personally I would love to check out other player's houses, and I'm not even that much into housing. While at the same time I would feel great/proud about my own decorated house, as players could use it for crafting/vamp stages/other benefits. (or just to see Cadwell do stupid stuff in there hehe)

Edit: This would mean your house is open for the public, even when you are offline!

doomette

msetten wrote: »

I thought you meant placing a portal in one house that links to another of your houses. I think that would also be cool. That way you can create a world of houses that your friends can visit.

Either this or the OP’s suggestion would be grand. It would save me a load screen if someone wanted to see a house other than my primary, as I wouldn’t have to travel to it. Considering how often the game freezes during load screens, it would save me loads of time and hassle. Plus console users who don’t have access to that nifty housing add-on that lets you go to other’s non-primary houses would get some QoL lovin’.

Jeremy

msetten wrote: »

I thought you meant placing a portal in one house that links to another of your houses. I think that would also be cool. That way you can create a world of houses that your friends can visit.

Yeah, I think that would be cool also.

I actually just wrote a thread about this. haha

G1Countdown

Thank you everyone for your replies. There have been some good alternatives mentioned as well as further thoughts!

I hope they can implement something similar to this. ZOS already has created the ability to link our collections. It would be a small step to put in a 'Travel to' option. This would make housing so much more of a communal area than it is currently. I would consider this or something similar a major update to housing if implemented!

Sarannah

Thinking about it some more, they should combine my idea with yours... public house bulletinboards + the link-house-in-chat for advertising your house as public. And to get players to travel there. Best of both worlds.

Making houses available regardless of their owner being online or offline.

deevoh1991

Omg yes! You could easily also link secondary homes instead of going through such a cumbersome and clunky process of hopping and inviting and waiting for each others load screens

doomette

Besides performance upgrades and an end to the wild buff-nerf rollercoaster, I don’t think I’ve wanted anything more added to the game than this. Not even gear/skill/CP load-outs. (Okay, and maybe an alfiq polymorph)

G1Countdown

@ZOS already has a useable template to implement this. ZOS can repurpose the pop up box that shows purchase pricing when you preview a home and just change out the purchase option for a 'travel to' option. Player clicks travel to @G1Countdown's Grand Psijic Villa and voila!

ZOS, can we implement this please?