Do you like housing in ESO?

Lady_Galadhiel

Sylvermynx

Yes but...

I miss the superlative version of housing in RIFT.

Lady_Galadhiel

Yes but...

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I miss the superlative version of housing in RIFT.

Never played RIFT,how is the housing in there?

Starlight_Whisper

YES I LOVE IT!!!

Wasn't sure how to respond to this. I enjoy and have fun with. I not crazy with but I suppose I own like 20 Houses or more. I like giving a platform for my ideas. One house is underwater cave, while other is haunted house for example.

TheImperfect

YES I LOVE IT!!!

Yes with khenarthic bells on and hakoshai lanterns hanging on it. Yes to infinity.

WithMyLaserGun

YES I LOVE IT!!!

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I miss the superlative version of housing in RIFT.

Never played RIFT, how is the housing in there?

Something I love about the housing in RIFT is that you can scale furnishings, so if you want a huge chair (stretched-out texture ofc) then you can do that. There are also these little node things that create lighting in a certain vicinity, without an actual object like a lamp, so it's really easy to create mood-lighting.

But my very favourite thing in RIFT's housing, is the time of day nodes (idk what else to call them) and weather nodes. You can place one, say sunset time, in your dimension (they're not called houses cause many of them don't have premade structures) and it'll forever be sunset. Same with weather, you can add a thunderstorm one to your dimension and the weather will be permanently thunderstorms! One of the best things about this, also, is that this stuff is *really cheap* to buy. There's a whole load of creative freedom in RIFT that ESO does not, and imo, will never have, unfortunately.

They'll never do any of this in ESO because they're too concerned with consistency - time of day, weather etc - despite the fact that many people would like the option to have different time of day in their house, especially when furnishing.

Just realised this is the longest post I have ever written, I guess I really love housing ^_^

coop500

Yes but...

I like it, but wish it was more accessible to poorer players.

It's not fun telling players that, for example, many of the big houses cost 70+ USD

Sylvermynx

Yes but...

It was amazing (I haven't played rift since 2016 due to the direction they were taking the game, and then Trion sold it to Gamigo so it's not the same any more according to my daughter) - the available houses and areas were instanced like here, but you could (with extra functionality due to addons) actually copy housing items from the world, put them in your inventory, and place them in one of your homes.

Editing/moving things was INFINITELY simpler with those tools than what we have here (even with EHT) - and of course, everything you want to do here costs either gold (sometimes lots of it) or real world money. I furnished the Moonshade Pools instance totally free, including increasing the size of one of the "quonset hut" type houses already in the game to a size where I could add interior walls, lots of furniture, indoor potted trees, a bath my daughter made and I remade from her instructions.

https://imgur.com/a/jjSuc - this is the Moonshade Pools house of my Veilsong character which includes a long stair built down to a boat dock in a cove.

https://imgur.com/a/ZtHCI - this is the Three Springs house of my Westerly character (I always pretended they could see each others homes from their own because these instances are quite close together).

There's way too many screenshots there to post anything but the album links, sorry!

@WithMyLaserGun - yes! Exactly, everything you posted!

Lady_Galadhiel

Yes but...

coop500 wrote: »

I like it, but wish it was more accessible to poorer players.

It's not fun telling players that, for example, many of the big houses cost 70+ USD

Housing can get really expensive either with real life money or gold,or both in some cases.

Lephrel

Yes but...

The number of housing slots is laughable. And instead of giving us interesting and good-looking small houses, which we can actually decorate, they only release gigantic, lifeless mega-mansions.

Lady_Galadhiel

Yes but...

Lephrel wrote: »

The number of housing slots is laughable. And instead of giving us interesting and good-looking small houses, which we can actually decorate, they only release gigantic, lifeless mega-mansions.

Yea that chapel will be one of those houses I will never buy with only 700 slots.

Sylvermynx

Yes but...

Lephrel wrote: »

The number of housing slots is laughable. And instead of giving us interesting and good-looking small houses, which we can actually decorate, they only release gigantic, lifeless mega-mansions.

This too - RIFT had an upper limit on items in housing - but even at Moonshade I wasn't anywhere close to it, and that place had thousands of items.

_Zathras_

Am happy with my inn room,who needs more?

I use my Snugpod the most. It is close to a major city and wayshrine, but most importantly an outlaw's refuge. I also have several storage chests inside, which makes it invaluable for stashing gear sets for my alts.

So, overall yes, I like housing. My needs are more utilitarian than decorative.

As has been noted over the years, I wish their Cash Shop focus wasn't on the $100-$130+ palatial houses. While their price point is quite high for a "microtransaction", it is simply too much space for me. I would love to see small and medium sized offerings. They've really missed the boat on that potential revenue stream.

coop500

Yes but...

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

coop500 wrote: »

I like it, but wish it was more accessible to poorer players.

It's not fun telling players that, for example, many of the big houses cost 70+ USD

Housing can get really expensive either with real life money or gold,or both in some cases.

Yeah, I was playing with a friend I newly introduced to ESO and doing Vvardenfell quests with them. We stumbled across the new house and I had the very unfun pleasure of explaining to them how expensive it was to have your own ugly lava property and you STILL gotta decorate it.

AKA, you can buy at least 2 AAA games for the price of one empty pixel house.

GreenHere

Yes but...

WithMyLaserGun wrote: »

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I miss the superlative version of housing in RIFT.

Never played RIFT, how is the housing in there?

Something I love about the housing in RIFT is that you can scale furnishings, so if you want a huge chair (stretched-out texture ofc) then you can do that. There are also these little node things that create lighting in a certain vicinity, without an actual object like a lamp, so it's really easy to create mood-lighting.

But my very favourite thing in RIFT's housing, is the time of day nodes (idk what else to call them) and weather nodes. You can place one, say sunset time, in your dimension (they're not called houses cause many of them don't have premade structures) and it'll forever be sunset. Same with weather, you can add a thunderstorm one to your dimension and the weather will be permanently thunderstorms! One of the best things about this, also, is that this stuff is *really cheap* to buy. There's a whole load of creative freedom in RIFT that ESO does not, and imo, will never have, unfortunately.

They'll never do any of this in ESO because they're too concerned with consistency - time of day, weather etc - despite the fact that many people would like the option to have different time of day in their house, especially when furnishing.

Just realised this is the longest post I have ever written, I guess I really love housing ^_^

(emphasis mine)

That's the biggest reason I just can't bring myself to move out of that free Psijic Manor place they gave us a few years ago -- I just love that the lighting is consistent whenever I go there, no matter what! Nothing worse than building a fully furnished and beautiful home where it's raining or dark or some other nonsense 80% of the time when I go there. I really did like my Mournoth Keep, but I just can't go back to being at the mercy of weather and time after being in Artaeum.

The day ESO starts allowing us to set weather and time of day in our houses is the day they make probably hundreds of dollars from me on housing stuff. Til then, I've yet to find anywhere I want to be more than where I'm at.



Also, I would like to like some of these other houses that are available, but I just can't convince myself to buy a house where I'm forced to enter through the basement or whatever like I'm trying to sneak into my own home. Not only is it annoyingly inconvenient, but it's also just immersion killing. That's another pro of the Psijic place -- the entrance is at least open and inviting... you know, like an entrance should be.

When will we get the option to set the spawn points for our homes?!

MageCatF4F

Yes but...

ESO housing is a mixed bag.

That slot limit. I hit the slot limit on Hunter's Glade. Right now it is at 700/350 if you know what I mean.

I'd like to see the option to drop one item of our choice, or just a limited amount of gold, maybe in a special chest that anyone could loot. This could be a reward for completing a Parkour challenge in your house - or any kind of event.

I'd get a lot more visitors to my open houses if I had the opportunity to bribe them for showing up...

There's other things. Alts as house guests and so on.

DreamyLu

Yes but...

Yes but... The housing limitation is annoying and I will certainly not go for ESO+ just to increase the housing limitation. So, it's like I have a nice toy, but I can't fully use it. A bit frustrating!

Lady_Galadhiel

Yes but...

GreenHere wrote: »

WithMyLaserGun wrote: »

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I miss the superlative version of housing in RIFT.

Never played RIFT, how is the housing in there?

Something I love about the housing in RIFT is that you can scale furnishings, so if you want a huge chair (stretched-out texture ofc) then you can do that. There are also these little node things that create lighting in a certain vicinity, without an actual object like a lamp, so it's really easy to create mood-lighting.

But my very favourite thing in RIFT's housing, is the time of day nodes (idk what else to call them) and weather nodes. You can place one, say sunset time, in your dimension (they're not called houses cause many of them don't have premade structures) and it'll forever be sunset. Same with weather, you can add a thunderstorm one to your dimension and the weather will be permanently thunderstorms! One of the best things about this, also, is that this stuff is *really cheap* to buy. There's a whole load of creative freedom in RIFT that ESO does not, and imo, will never have, unfortunately.

They'll never do any of this in ESO because they're too concerned with consistency - time of day, weather etc - despite the fact that many people would like the option to have different time of day in their house, especially when furnishing.

Just realised this is the longest post I have ever written, I guess I really love housing ^_^

(emphasis mine)

That's the biggest reason I just can't bring myself to move out of that free Psijic Manor place they gave us a few years ago -- I just love that the lighting is consistent whenever I go there, no matter what! Nothing worse than building a fully furnished and beautiful home where it's raining or dark or some other nonsense 80% of the time when I go there. I really did like my Mournoth Keep, but I just can't go back to being at the mercy of weather and time after being in Artaeum.

The day ESO starts allowing us to set weather and time of day in our houses is the day they make probably hundreds of dollars from me on housing stuff. Til then, I've yet to find anywhere I want to be more than where I'm at.



Also, I would like to like some of these other houses that are available, but I just can't convince myself to buy a house where I'm forced to enter through the basement or whatever like I'm trying to sneak into my own home. Not only is it annoyingly inconvenient, but it's also just immersion killing. That's another pro of the Psijic place -- the entrance is at least open and inviting... you know, like an entrance should be.

When will we get the option to set the spawn points for our homes?!

Indeed the weather situation is a thing,I love houses like Psijic Villa and hunters glad where you always have the same light no matter what.
Shame the Shalidor's Shrouded Realm was so massive,the sky there is beautiful and I love it but daaaaamn that thing is way to big for only 700 slots,I mean all the 700 slot houses are too big for their capacity but I think Shalidor and the chapel home with blackwood are way overdone with space and building possibilities for our limit

Marcusorion1

Yes but...

more smaller/medium size options with indoor/outdoor variations and in game purchasing options for the "crown only" houses to allow accessibility to all players.

increased selection of some items that are currently in game yet unavailable to be used in homes would be nice too

above all, stop treating it like the red-haired-step-child and have more regular updates and improvements.

Linaleah

Yes but...

pretty much all of my "but.." issues have been brought up, but in a nutshell the biggest one is slot limits. I haven't done housing in Rift, but I did play with houses in wildstar and being able to resize EVERYTHING was amazing. crown only furnishings, especially when they they provide functionality not available for gold directly (I am aware of crown exchange, its a bandaid), but even just in general. we have strict limits and you can only buy stationary book rows with crowns. sigh...

I don't mind that you can buy furniture with crowns btw. I only mind when its crown ONLY.

Lady_Galadhiel

Yes but...

Linaleah wrote: »

I don't mind that you can buy furniture with crowns btw. I only mind when its crown ONLY.

That's so true,plus those prices...Only looking at the fountains and statues from the furnishing crown store makes some of those bundles look cheap in comparison.

SeaGtGruff

Yes but...

I haven't counted how many houses I own right now, but it's quite a few. [Edit: I currently own 49 houses on PC NA, although a few of them are just inn rooms or apartments.] My goal is to own all of the houses, at least the ones that can be purchased with in-game gold. Why? Because that's part of what I do in Oblivion and Skyrim; it's mainly a question of "completing" each game's content. I do own a few of the crowns-only houses, but I wish they didn't cost so much.

However, right now I mainly use my houses as free places to fast-travel to, although I actually use only a few select houses for that purpose due to their proximities to wayshrines or other services.

Aside from that, I've used a few houses as warehouses for storing all of the furnishings I find while playing the game, with my current warehouse being the Grand Psijic Villa. I plan to eventually furnish my houses with actual furniture, but I'm dragging me feet on getting started.

I'd planned to put all of the crafting stations in at least one of my houses, but I can use some of my guilds' guild halls for that, so there's no rush.

Lady_Galadhiel

Yes but...

WithMyLaserGun wrote: »

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I miss the superlative version of housing in RIFT.

Never played RIFT, how is the housing in there?

Something I love about the housing in RIFT is that you can scale furnishings, so if you want a huge chair (stretched-out texture ofc) then you can do that. There are also these little node things that create lighting in a certain vicinity, without an actual object like a lamp, so it's really easy to create mood-lighting.

But my very favourite thing in RIFT's housing, is the time of day nodes (idk what else to call them) and weather nodes. You can place one, say sunset time, in your dimension (they're not called houses cause many of them don't have premade structures) and it'll forever be sunset. Same with weather, you can add a thunderstorm one to your dimension and the weather will be permanently thunderstorms! One of the best things about this, also, is that this stuff is *really cheap* to buy. There's a whole load of creative freedom in RIFT that ESO does not, and imo, will never have, unfortunately.

They'll never do any of this in ESO because they're too concerned with consistency - time of day, weather etc - despite the fact that many people would like the option to have different time of day in their house, especially when furnishing.

Just realised this is the longest post I have ever written, I guess I really love housing ^_^

Scale furnishing sounds amazing,I did never thought of playing RIFT,I only had a friend years ago who did play it.
Being honest houseguests was a nice thinggy to add to housing but they keep on ignoring the real things people want like you mentioned,changing weather in our own homes,after all its a separate instance so why not give us the freedom to choose?

Lady_Galadhiel

Yes but...

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

I'd planned to put all of the crafting stations in at least one of my houses, but I can use some of my guilds' guild halls for that, so there's no rush.

I am trying to do that right now in my Moonsugar Meadow but it goes very slow.Plus I can see my luck the one day I will be having them all ZOS will come up with the long requested feature to add the all in one crafting table,like a super crafting station where all sets will be in only one woodworking,one blacksmithing,one clothing and one jewelry station

iksde

Yes but...

cap on furnishings...
while in small/medium houses it is fine or even to much in large houses it is not enough...at best you will fill just half of your house or maybe even only 1/3 or 1/4 in bigger houses

to much useless space or to many so single furnishings like many empty bookshelves vs not to much filled bookshelves, many single forgs, plates etc while having maybe few sets of this as single furniture etc

Lady_Galadhiel

Yes but...

iksde wrote: »

cap on furnishings...
while in small/medium houses it is fine or even to much in large houses it is not enough...at best you will fill just half of your house or maybe even only 1/3 or 1/4 in bigger houses

to much useless space or to many so single furnishings like many empty bookshelves vs not to much filled bookshelves, many single forgs, plates etc while having maybe few sets of this as single furniture etc

Yea it is a shame in most houses you cant go into detail if you want to fill up the whole space what is given to you.
It's either going into detail and cutting out space of the house or not having details and filling up all somehow,at least in the manors.

Linaleah

Yes but...

also, completely forgot to mention. lack of dedicated guild housing. right now we are basically just using designated personal homes as guild houses and to say that its not ideal is an understatement.

in many many ways swtor housing is far inferior to ESO, but one thing they do very VERY right is having guild specific houses AND capitol ship.

aurorable

Yes but...

Lack of furnishing slots and cost. My biggest gripe is attunable crafting, I wish they had there own slot or were made into one station, nothing is more annoying then wanting to decorate my home and have station take up a bunch of slots. Also I can't even place all of the collectables either

iksde

Yes but...

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

iksde wrote: »

cap on furnishings...
while in small/medium houses it is fine or even to much in large houses it is not enough...at best you will fill just half of your house or maybe even only 1/3 or 1/4 in bigger houses

to much useless space or to many so single furnishings like many empty bookshelves vs not to much filled bookshelves, many single forgs, plates etc while having maybe few sets of this as single furniture etc

Yea it is a shame in most houses you cant go into detail if you want to fill up the whole space what is given to you.
It's either going into detail and cutting out space of the house or not having details and filling up all somehow,at least in the manors.

yep, as I stated small and medium houses have no problem but bigger have to big problem, I have decorated z dozen of houses, all small/medium are fine, even without eso+ bonus they are managable to decorated good but houses with 600 decorations limit with eso+ and then manors with 700+....are just pathetic, houses with 600 decors I barely decorate fine, without to much details if any are possible without leaving somewhere empty area while with manors...I can only decorate outside or inside, never both places at same time
like for example dagerfall overlook, I have decorated outside castle and just basement, rest of castle is literally empty
serenity falls estate - entire home is empty as it is anyway not to close to entrenacne so no reason to even go in here when barn (or what is this xD) with rest of this areo outside is decorated

Lady_Galadhiel

Yes but...

At some point Zos has to think about something with those attunable tables.I dunno how many sets there re currently but each year we get like at least 5 or 6 more,I mean people or guild leaders who don't have ESO+ won't be able to soon fit all of them in one house if they don't make 2 guild houses and split them,what would be super inconvenient for said guild.

Lady_Galadhiel

Yes but...

iksde wrote: »

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

iksde wrote: »

cap on furnishings...
while in small/medium houses it is fine or even to much in large houses it is not enough...at best you will fill just half of your house or maybe even only 1/3 or 1/4 in bigger houses

to much useless space or to many so single furnishings like many empty bookshelves vs not to much filled bookshelves, many single forgs, plates etc while having maybe few sets of this as single furniture etc

Yea it is a shame in most houses you cant go into detail if you want to fill up the whole space what is given to you.
It's either going into detail and cutting out space of the house or not having details and filling up all somehow,at least in the manors.

yep, as I stated small and medium houses have no problem but bigger have to big problem, I have decorated z dozen of houses, all small/medium are fine, even without eso+ bonus they are managable to decorated good but houses with 600 decorations limit with eso+ and then manors with 700+....are just pathetic, houses with 600 decors I barely decorate fine, without to much details if any are possible without leaving somewhere empty area while with manors...I can only decorate outside or inside, never both places at same time
like for example dagerfall overlook, I have decorated outside castle and just basement, rest of castle is literally empty
serenity falls estate - entire home is empty as it is anyway not to close to entrenacne so no reason to even go in here when barn (or what is this xD) with rest of this areo outside is decorated

The Alpine gallery was okayish with 600 slots imo,I made a little farm out of it.Only problem I did encounter with it was the damn limit of only 10 mounts/pets/houseguests.
I wanted chickens,sheep,horses,pigs,goats,cats,dogs.... well the tipical farm stuff.I missed out on the chickens