Moon Gate - "Miniature"?

Daishichi

I'm confused, and hoped someone might spare me wasting 100k gold: how big is the "Moon Gate", earned for the Elsweyr Achievement "Moonwalker"?

The description reads: "Add a miniature version of a Moon Gate to your home. It's the perfect size for your favorite housecat!"

But the one to-scale pic I can find makes it look four stories tall:



Looks a bit big for a housecat, no? I wanted to use it like a viewing window, but it looks like I'd need to bury ten feet of brick base.

Note to ESO: please stop designing items with pointless extra material like this base, which are too tall to bury in the thickest platforms. It ruins an otherwise useful item like these stairs:

bluebird

Well, praise online previews They indeed save us tons of money by not buying useless things! (Doesn't work for everything of course, but like previewing costume dying and furniture sizes are a godsend)

As for the 'miniature' moon gate, here's the actual Moon Gate in Anequina and the furnishing version, with a player for scale (and no, my character in the bottom picture is not Gaint-Born ). So technically, it's a downscaled moongate.

Daishichi wrote: »

Note to ESO: please stop designing items with pointless extra material like this base, which are too tall to bury in the thickest platforms. It ruins an otherwise useful item like these stairs:

100% agree with this, those un-walkable extra parts on a lot of stairs are super annoying (because they prevent walking up the stairs if you place them on the floor, but often clip through ceilings if you sink them into the floor properly...)

Daishichi

bluebird wrote: »

As for the 'miniature' moon gate, here's the actual Moon Gate in Anequina and the furnishing version, with a player for scale...So technically, it's a downscaled moongate.

Super helpful, thank you! I'm just halfway through the N Elsweyr story missions, so I hadn't seen the actual Moon Gate yet...the furnishing is still not very "miniature" by comparison!

And I don't know what kind of housecats the description writer has, but I'd hate to see the litterbox.

Araneae6537

It makes for a great entry piece so personally, I am glad for the size it is, although scalable furnishings would allow for so many more possibilities!

I think the extra structure beneath the stairs is to facilitate putting them on uneven ground, but I agree it looks a bit excessive on those stairs. I would really love to see more stairs like the ever-versatile natural limestone stairs that you can wrap around, walk under, etc.!

Daishichi

Araneae6537 wrote: »

It makes for a great entry piece so personally, I am glad for the size it is

I figured it was designed as an entrance (and would make a cool one), and you make a good point about the base being for uneven ground...but I hoped to put it atop a ten story tower as a "gaze upon my domain" window, so that base would ruin the floor below it. Oh, well, maybe I'll double up the platform to have the thickness to hide it.

Araneae6537 wrote: »

I would really love to see more stairs like the ever-versatile natural limestone stairs that you can wrap around, walk under, etc.!

Love those limestone stairs, they're what I use throughout my tower, but the problem is it takes 3-5 of them to go up to the next floor, so they eat into your limits. A floor-height stairway that isn't ten feet wide or have a ten foot base to hide would be nice! I mean, since they're obviously for adding a second level to your house, why make none at all suitable for a third floor or beyond?

Araneae6537 wrote: »

although scalable furnishings would allow for so many more possibilities!

OMG, could that ever happen? That would solve the limit problem as well if I could stretch one wall out instead of making one big one out of 6-8 smaller ones. I wonder if that would bypass the performance issues they recently said are the reason they won't be raising furnishing limits anytime soon...adding that to my daydreams, thanks!