Can we have more open plot houses?

FelisCatus

Like Doomchar Plateau, Stillwaters Retreat, Moonsugar Meadow and Coldharbour Surreal Estate. I like I'm sure many others do like to build entirely our own homes from scratch, it would be great if we had more variety and open space in which to do so.

Marcusorion1

Perhaps some that are not 'Crowns only' would be nice too

Large, open, empty plots help promote the furnishing and mat supply economies as well as a general interest in Housing.

Doomchar was a nice reward but for many housing enthusiasts the layout and atmosphere were limiting to what could be built and ends up being used as a storage facility ( not necessarily a bad thing ).

With more and more of the much appreciated structural elements being introduced a new, open location would be welcome.

Goren

Honestly a basic meadow would be great. No fancy realm, no jungle, no frozen lake, just a simple meadow with a plane field. Pick Stormhaven for example and add a path at the edge of the map with a gate that leads to the open field. The meadow itself can be surrounded by mountains, a river, a cliff, a small fence or a mixture of these.

TheMasterMeme

As a dunmer fan an empty plot of land somewhere in morrowind would be nice as well as having some cool dunmer/daedric/dark textured dwarven structural furnishings to build with it.

FelisCatus

More Daedric realms or pocket dimensions would be awesome. Ideally I'd like an open plot home for every biome.

Kng_Ayumayuma

I've ran across a few empty lots and went [snip]? EDIT: Sorry... and went... golly gee willikers GGW!!!

So, we can build our own homes? The older I get the less I know.

[edited for profanity bypass]

evymyu233

TheMasterMeme wrote: »

As a dunmer fan an empty plot of land somewhere in morrowind would be nice as well as having some cool dunmer/daedric/dark textured dwarven structural furnishings to build with it.

i want this too,i will feed some guar

Supreme_Atromancer

Reading the responses in some of these threads highlights a certain fact:

People are attached to certain (architectural) styles, and, to the credit of the amazing ZOS world-builders, people become attached to certain places in the world, for roleplaying, story, or just aesthetics reasons. Where is your character from? What is their story? What land do they call home? What's your absolute favourite part of the world?

Despite the absolutely beautiful offerings we get each year, it seems unlikely that the small sample would ever be able to gratify the broad diversity in tastes. For instance, my dream home, a Breton sorcerer's tower in eastern Mournoth above Kerbol's Hollow, riiiight on the edge of The Reach is the perfect home for my character, and pretty much the one thing I hope for in Tamriel.



Its so very specific that alone, it might not seem that likely I'd ever get it unless on a whim the idea was so marketable that a designer came along and wanted to work with it.

Conversely, there are some absolutely gorgeous houses that I would buy *in a Nixad's heartbeat* if only they were in the one particular place I needed to be! I feel really sad when I have to let a beautiful house go because the geographical setting makes it useless to me. But how are ZOS meant to be able to anticipate or provide for such a broad array?

I wonder if there was a way that they could provide vacant plots for each zone. Then, provide basic pre-fab houses of each architectural style that you could buy (or collect), and place in any of the plots? The modularity of such a system would contribute hugely to the amazingly creative self-expression that housing allows, and provide for another big draw- allowing us to make our own little part of Tamriel.

Hotdog_23

Galen home or apartment in town would also be nice.

Stay safe

gadget2775

More open plots would be better, but it's possible to improvise using open space in existing homes. Hall of the Lunar Champions is probably my favorite... The right-hand portal area is beautiful, and you can build past the drop all the way down to the water. Took me forever to do, but I built a tower up from the waterline up...very gratifying project.

Haven't played around with the new housing links much but if you're on PS console mine is... |H1:housing:70:@Gadget2775|h|h

Pixiepumpkin

Goren wrote: »

Honestly a basic meadow would be great. No fancy realm, no jungle, no frozen lake, just a simple meadow with a plane field. Pick Stormhaven for example and add a path at the edge of the map with a gate that leads to the open field. The meadow itself can be surrounded by mountains, a river, a cliff, a small fence or a mixture of these.

Agreed. I am not sure how they miss this. The most desired stuff in game would be simple, "pretty" home plots and yet we have none.

A Farmstead would be nice. A house, stables, workshop, green grass, some dirt paths, maybe a crystal blue river running by.
or the same thing without the housing.

Ruj

Pixiepumpkin wrote: »

Goren wrote: »

Honestly a basic meadow would be great. No fancy realm, no jungle, no frozen lake, just a simple meadow with a plane field. Pick Stormhaven for example and add a path at the edge of the map with a gate that leads to the open field. The meadow itself can be surrounded by mountains, a river, a cliff, a small fence or a mixture of these.

Agreed. I am not sure how they miss this. The most desired stuff in game would be simple, "pretty" home plots and yet we have none.

A Farmstead would be nice. A house, stables, workshop, green grass, some dirt paths, maybe a crystal blue river running by.
or the same thing without the housing.

I am waiting for them to release something like this so I can *finally* build my dream castle.

All of the max furniture limit homes simply aren't in the right setting. The closest is Moonsugar meadow, but the trees aren't right and there are building structures there that don't match the castle aesthetic I want.

Western Skyrim is the best zone with that gorgeous aurora borealis at night, but we have no "build something homes" there :C

The closest is the Antiquarian Gallery, but it doesn't have max slots and there's the problem of having to decorate or do something with the existing building.

If we didn't have a max item limit, I'd build my castle there. I started to and realized there was simply no way to both decorate the existing building and build my castle.

Item limit is so low :C

Araneae6537

Ruj wrote: »

Pixiepumpkin wrote: »

Goren wrote: »

Honestly a basic meadow would be great. No fancy realm, no jungle, no frozen lake, just a simple meadow with a plane field. Pick Stormhaven for example and add a path at the edge of the map with a gate that leads to the open field. The meadow itself can be surrounded by mountains, a river, a cliff, a small fence or a mixture of these.

Agreed. I am not sure how they miss this. The most desired stuff in game would be simple, "pretty" home plots and yet we have none.

A Farmstead would be nice. A house, stables, workshop, green grass, some dirt paths, maybe a crystal blue river running by.
or the same thing without the housing.

I am waiting for them to release something like this so I can *finally* build my dream castle.

All of the max furniture limit homes simply aren't in the right setting. The closest is Moonsugar meadow, but the trees aren't right and there are building structures there that don't match the castle aesthetic I want.

Western Skyrim is the best zone with that gorgeous aurora borealis at night, but we have no "build something homes" there :C

The closest is the Antiquarian Gallery, but it doesn't have max slots and there's the problem of having to decorate or do something with the existing building.

If we didn't have a max item limit, I'd build my castle there. I started to and realized there was simply no way to both decorate the existing building and build my castle.

Item limit is so low :C

You can remove all of the structures from Moonsugar Meadow, although not all of the rocks. It still may not suit what you are looking to build, but at least there are no existing non-removable architectural structures that you have to build around or over.

I would LOVE an enchanting glen like Indrik Frolic in Summerset! A natural cave with shafts of light and waterfalls, like the beginning of the Elden Hollow dungeon would also be amazing, although less suitable for building structures in.

Jaimeh

I honestly prefer open plot houses because I like building a lot, so having more of them (in addition to structured houses of course) would be great, because it would mean that I wouldn't have to 'mask' a house to build a given structure and would have an easier time instead of going around the original architecture. Also, I think template houses are better to work with the slot limit even when they are huge, because they are easier to compartmentalize and block off extra areas. The first template house was the Coldharbour Estate, and it was so cool they had a gold option for it as well, I wish they made more releases like that.

FlopsyPrince

Can you build an entire house from scratch?

How would you keep from accidentally moving the parts of the house if that were possible when you were trying to move the things inside it?

Jaimeh

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

Can you build an entire house from scratch?

How would you keep from accidentally moving the parts of the house if that were possible when you were trying to move the things inside it?

Yes, you absolutely can! There's a lot of examples here in the forums and on YT, one very good builder of houses from scratch is @Zypheran if you want to check out their housing threads. As for accidentally moving something like a wall etc., when trying to move another decoration, even if it happens (though the game displays the name of the item you are currently targeting for movement), you can easily click the undo button and put it back in its place. That's what I do for instance for the daily endeavours that say 'decorate with 7 items', I just randomly place some gallery paintings or statues, and the hit the undo to remove them. I've made plenty of buildings from scratch and never had a problem with this. Also, if you are on PC, the EHT addon can conveniently save your build as well.

Yumij

Ohh yes more open plot or sandbox houses would be amazing!
Those types of houses are definitely the ones that bring out my creativity the most.

Another dream (for me at least) would be to have a function where you can set the sky atmosphere of the house.
Kind of like the hourglass of alkosh, but for atmosphere rather than time of day.

FlopsyPrince

Jaimeh wrote: »

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

Can you build an entire house from scratch?

How would you keep from accidentally moving the parts of the house if that were possible when you were trying to move the things inside it?

Yes, you absolutely can! There's a lot of examples here in the forums and on YT, one very good builder of houses from scratch is @Zypheran if you want to check out their housing threads. As for accidentally moving something like a wall etc., when trying to move another decoration, even if it happens (though the game displays the name of the item you are currently targeting for movement), you can easily click the undo button and put it back in its place. That's what I do for instance for the daily endeavours that say 'decorate with 7 items', I just randomly place some gallery paintings or statues, and the hit the undo to remove them. I've made plenty of buildings from scratch and never had a problem with this. Also, if you are on PC, the EHT addon can conveniently save your build as well.

A guildmaster of a crafting guild I am in was talking about accidentally moving the platform items when updating an elevated crafting area, so I figured it could be annoying with lots of items. I would probably act too quickly and mess it up.

Though thanks for the idea about he undo. I have been putting an item away and re-placing it for the endeavor. That may be a better way.

FelisCatus

The ideal for me would be a flat plot home that allows you to change the sky to different colours, as well as weather control and time and day. I would like a flat plot upon which I could build anything. Something of a pocket dimension that is customisable. Ideally I'd build a wizard's tower here.

actosh

Would Love an Option to remove the House in my linchal grand manor.

This Thing Takes away too much space for my custom builds. @ZOS_GinaBruno

FelisCatus

actosh wrote: »

Would Love an Option to remove the House in my linchal grand manor.

This Thing Takes away too much space for my custom builds. @ZOS_GinaBruno

The ability to remove prebuilt homes in existing houses would be amazing.

LunaFlora

actosh wrote: »

Would Love an Option to remove the House in my linchal grand manor.

This Thing Takes away too much space for my custom builds. @ZOS_GinaBruno

it's been mentioned to be passed along to the housing team so at least they know about it, but that's not a guarantee of it getting added of course.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/658726/follow-up-q-a-from-eso-10-year-celebration-event-community-roundtable/p1
Q: We’d like to be able to get empty plots of existing player houses, or the ability to “remove” the house from the plot. Is that something you might consider?
A: Interesting suggestion! Historically, the empty plots aren’t nearly as popular as the houses; that said, we will pass this suggestion along to the Housing team for consideration. Due to how we build out the housing spaces, it is unfortunately not as simple as just “removing” the house from an existing space. Even existing player housing spaces would require additional world building where the house is/was.

vsrs_au

I forget which thread I read this in, but isn't there a major issue with creating your own buildings in ESO? When it rains, it rains inside?

FelisCatus

vsrs_au wrote: »

I forget which thread I read this in, but isn't there a major issue with creating your own buildings in ESO? When it rains, it rains inside?

I have made many custom structures and not had that issue.

WolfCombatPet

vsrs_au wrote: »

I forget which thread I read this in, but isn't there a major issue with creating your own buildings in ESO? When it rains, it rains inside?

This is not an issue at all. Don't know where you heard that.

freespirit

WolfCombatPet wrote: »

vsrs_au wrote: »

I forget which thread I read this in, but isn't there a major issue with creating your own buildings in ESO? When it rains, it rains inside?

This is not an issue at all. Don't know where you heard that.

It very much is an issue!!

Build anything from scratch at the Snow Globe, it will at some point snow inside!

Doomchar Plateaux you get constant smoke and ash inside your building, although tbh in mine I quite like the effect.

Some houses seem more prone than others but it does appear a lot, if not all structural furnishings are not weatherproof.

Hence builder's constantly asking for weather control as well as the time control we already have.

It's really annoying when showing off you new construction and your guests get soggy!!

WolfCombatPet

LunaFlora wrote: »

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/658726/follow-up-q-a-from-eso-10-year-celebration-event-community-roundtable/p1
Q: We’d like to be able to get empty plots of existing player houses, or the ability to “remove” the house from the plot. Is that something you might consider?
A: Interesting suggestion! Historically, the empty plots aren’t nearly as popular as the houses; that said, we will pass this suggestion along to the Housing team for consideration. Due to how we build out the housing spaces, it is unfortunately not as simple as just “removing” the house from an existing space. Even existing player housing spaces would require additional world building where the house is/was.

Isn't it more cost effective to do additional world building on one house vs having to do a whole other biome/complete house?

I would buy these homes (or upgrades to these homes) to turn them into empty plots with 700 item limit:
Willowpond Haven
Antiquarian
Forgemaster Falls
Seabloom Villa
Hakkvild's High Hall (with a different entrance point than underground)
Merryvine Villa
The Gorinir Estate

WolfCombatPet

"Historically, the empty plots aren’t nearly as popular as the houses"

Yeah... because the homes that are empty plots and 700 item slots are crappy biomes.

I can't stand being in Coldharbour. The sounds. The ambiance. All unpleasant and anxiety inducing.

Sugar Moon Meadow is at least not anxiety inducing, but it is a very specific niche biome. It takes a lot of item slots to try to turn it into something else.

Skyrim is a VERY POPULAR game for a reason: most people love alpine settings.
Yet we do not have a single ESO house that is alpine, empty plot, and 700 slots.

freespirit

WolfCombatPet wrote: »

"Historically, the empty plots aren’t nearly as popular as the houses"

Yeah... because the homes that are empty plots and 700 item slots are crappy biomes.

I can't stand being in Coldharbour. The sounds. The ambiance. All unpleasant and anxiety inducing.

Sugar Moon Meadow is at least not anxiety inducing, but it is a very specific niche biome. It takes a lot of item slots to try to turn it into something else.

Skyrim is a VERY POPULAR game for a reason: most people love alpine settings.
Yet we do not have a single ESO house that is alpine, empty plot, and 700 slots.

Stillwaters is 700, has lovely Northern Lights and the rather ugly entrance is fairly easy to disguise, especially as we now have large structural items we can use.

I actually turned the entrance into a library/hotel lobby and then added my Ski Chalet to that, oh and I built a ski slope too..... a small one but it has a button lift and everything! 🙂

WolfCombatPet

freespirit wrote: »

Stillwaters

I had honestly forgotten about that one since it's all snow/frozen lake.

It is pretty, but it is once again a niche setting. I have nothing against niche settings. I would just like the generically popular settings to be available, too.

Preferably ones that come as 2 different packages:
1) Medium sized homes with a pre-existing building
2) empty plot with 700 item limit

^ Those two options would make the majority of players happy. One-bird-two-stones and sell the same house instance with 2 options.

LunaFlora

WolfCombatPet wrote: »

freespirit wrote: »

Stillwaters

I had honestly forgotten about that one since it's all snow/frozen lake.

It is pretty, but it is once again a niche setting. I have nothing against niche settings. I would just like the generically popular settings to be available, too.

Preferably ones that come as 2 different packages:
1) Medium sized homes with a pre-existing building
2) empty plot with 700 item limit

^ Those two options would make the majority of players happy. One-bird-two-stones and sell the same house instance with 2 options.

what would not be niche settings?