What features/things/ideas should be added for the future of ESO? (Updating* 26th July)

KingRebz

So far ive removed all the things off the list that have been applied to the game; first off I want to thank Zenimax for listening to us and coping with our BS..Thank you.

I will add the requested ideas today.

Phantax

Global/faction Auction House
Player Housing
Smaller/Limited number PvP zones

R1ckyDaMan

full armor previews

That is all.

jimandy

being able to help friends with quest, not just watch them go invis because i've all ready done that part

KingRebz

Thread updated.

KingRebz

I have taken into consideration the community's ideas of improving the list of ideas to be considered by Zeni; it is being updated as we speak

Cahuani

Cloaks!

Cahuani

Also, greater pet/summon variety.

Example: Character is playing as a Wyress kind of sorcerer, therefore does not summon daedra, but forest critters instead.

EJRose83

Two-handed swords that aren't giant claymore type weapons. Also, fast swinging animations. I'm basically vouching for something akin to a samurai wielding a katana.

I'm not a fan of dual-wielding, nor giant bludgeoning tools

Rodario

A guild roster, as explained here.

gamer2571_ESO

more in depth fishing/Fishing guild?
Housing
More weapons , spears, Katana, crossbows
Hunting system maybe a hunters guild?
more and longer dungeons
Guild halls
cosmetic gear
better player music system LOTRO has a great music system called ABC music system
mp3 player to play our own music

Cogo

Phantax wrote: »

Global/faction Auction House
Player Housing
Smaller/Limited number PvP zones

This is ESO. NOT WOW. There will be no WOW AH. How many times do Zenimax have to say that? There will be lots of other options that you have to DO something to trade.....which is the whole idea.

Player housing is in their plan now. 1-2 years away. No time set. BUT, not impossible they put DEVS on that instead of other things like Spellcrafting, since housing IS a very wanted feature.

Smaller/Limited number PvP zones

Um, the Capital city is coming and new Cyrodiil options for just this.

Cogo

gamer2571_ESO wrote: »

more in depth fishing/Fishing guild?
Housing
More weapons , spears, Katana, crossbows
Hunting system maybe a hunters guild?
more and longer dungeons
Guild halls
cosmetic gear
better player music system LOTRO has a great music system called ABC music system
mp3 player to play our own music

I agree on every damn word this lady says!

Housing...take your time, but Fishing!!!!
And all the rest.

Cogo

KingRebz wrote: »

THE THREAD IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION; Instead of just adding each item on the list etc etc everything will be put into an organised matter such as categories etc.

The title says it all guys!

In the future, what would you like to see in ESO that isnt in the game already? it could be things from previous ES games or even things that are new to the series?

Any requests that are common in the posts I will make it bold on the list.

-Different types of mounts
-More pvp options
-Increase the level cap (50 feels too low)
-Naval warships
-Auction House (possibly for each faction?) or a trade bazaar where EVERYBODY can access it, not just big guilders
-Player housing (construction?)
-Guild housing
-Dragon? (Daedra dragons?)
-More classes
-More Skills
-Guild Levelling
-Chat Bubbles (Toggle option on/off)
-Changing friends/guild list and guild chat to character names.
-Unarmed skill line
-Illusion magic skill line
-More variations in armor glyphs like what jewelry has (resistances, damages)
-Poisons
-More morphs
-Pole arms/spears for weaponry
-A Barber where you can change your characters body, hairstyle to his clothing.
-Hairstyles and clothing options
-If construction comes in the game, possibly we can craft decorations for our guilds and houses?
-The ability to design and show off guild banners on mounts, or shields etc
- Guild Halls
-Maybe give the option to right click to add symbols (eg. a star symbol) so you can mark the items.
-Naming items you forge along with a tracking id on them which shows how many users have used the item to kill, what monster has it commonly killed and what npc was it most used on
-New profession such as Farming? where you can grow plants, animals and mounts?
-All already existing professions should have added craft able items for housing
-A set of light, medium and heavy starter armour when starting the game for the first time.
-Senche mounts for khajiit
-Camel mounts for the desert
-More variety in tail types for khajiit: short, stumpy, tufted, fluffy, thin, etc
-Playable daedra races: dremora, xivilai, etc
-Ability to extend clothes crafting to make costumes
-More summons for sorcerers
-Degrading armour (Make it less common or fully remove it)
-the ability to loot books and - in combination with housing, to put those books in a shelf in your house. It should be like a container and the books can be seen in the shelf that you can build your own library. This would make me incredibly happy.
-Guild store "typed search option" to buy- similar as the search option to sell, current system to search and buy is very messy, hard to price, hard to search.
-Free skill/attribute respec- Allow players to learn their class better=better gameplay, put the gold sink somewhere else.
-Dual spec-This will allow accessibility to content a little more. For example a player who enjoys healing but has chosen a dps/control spec for the ease of leveling. This way he/she can have a dungeon role spec & leveling spec. Another example would be at endgame lets say, having a PvP spec & a PvE spec.
-The option to actually turn when you move the mouse, and not just look around. Or if not that, the ability to bind right and left turn movements to a key.
-Clothing stores that sell appearance clothing..meaning we also need appearance slots.
- Cosmetic System
- Ability to hide more armour than just your helmet. Gloves and shoulders at least
- ability to preview armour appearance before binding it to your character
- Ability to lock things in your inventory / bank
- break consumables into potions & food/drink
- ability to set items to junk and have that type of item permanently stay junk even after you've sold the initial batch
- Hot key for at least 3 potions. The single Q slot pretty much makes only health potions relevant
- More jewelry options in character creator that aren't tied together would be nice.
- Armour items would be cool if it said the racial style they are made in on the detail page.
-Official Controller Support
-A new melee stamina traditional warrior focused class. With class abilities based upon stamina and animations that don't look all magical.
-Hot key for Stamina, Health and Magika potions, not just one of them.
-Housing with store
-Public dungeons limited to 5 players maximum.
-More visual variety in lowbie gear; With no AH, there's no real way to get visually distinct stuff other than to craft it, and you can only craft in one style to start.
-Chefs should sell leveled cooking/brewing recipes.
-A way to STOP targeting a mob that I've drawn a bead on but not fired at; right now if I nock an arrow to my bow and get a mob in my sights, there's no way to change my mind - even if I turn my reticle away, the mob will still aggro when I loose the arrow and there doesn't seem to be an intuitive way to un-target. In skyrim 'z' un-nocked the bow, but even turning away worked. Neither of those options work here.
-More intelligent sorting options for Inventory.
-child npc's
-ability to preview armor (like Mogit)
-mounted combat
-other continents
-add all books found to journal (I can't exactly stand there and read with imps beating on me)
-seasons and holidays
-more armor styles
-Lending items
-The ability to enter Cyrodiil after Cold Harbour .
-A better organized bank tab , right now my CE items are just taking up space .
- More coat colors for horses to increase variety, possibly also other types of mounts as long as they fit with Elder Scrolls lore.
- Some way to better trade items to non-guildmates. Doesn't need to be an auction house, a dedicated trade chat channel would already help
- A jewelry making crafting skill
- The ability to name items you created
- More vanity pets - THAT CAN BE AVAILABLE TO ALL (NOT JUST NEW CUSTOMERS..)
- Costumes which go into the disguise slot for character customization purposes
- Poisons - the traits on the alchemy ingredients are already there, now we just need a way to apply them to our weapons instead of ourselves
- a way to filter the items in the guild store by entering a search text - it's hard to find what you're looking for in there right now
- the possibilty to export and import keybinds so I don't have to set them up again for each new character I create
- being able to use shift and control in combination with other keys for keybinds
-Another idea could be new weapon type: - Whips? Flails? Crossbows?
-Reporting Players: Option which allows reporting a player to automatically set them to "ignore": Self explanatory. If you're going to report a player, chances are you wouldn't want to talk to them anymore.
-Guild Store: Fix the sub-categories. They are awful and don't work (glyphs showing in materials sub-category??). Also, they should fix the "R" search button not appearing when you first enter the store. Also, see below about more filters
-Bank, Bags, Guild Bank and Guild Store: Sub-categories for ingredients which filter based on crafting profession. Filter by name. Good for when you just can't see the item you want.
-Bags: Allow additional bags to be purchased (perhaps made by clothiers?) so that people can separate things in their bags (e.g. outfit sets, ingredients for specific brews etc).
-Jewelry creation: Is this in the game yet? If not, it needs to be.
-Public dungeons: Not a good experience. Too many players cause the experience to be trivialised in many cases. They also allow people to constantly farm for items / motifs. And while they are doing that the entire experience of that dungeon is diminished to the point whereby some can't finish their quests because the mobs die so fast. Example: Dungeon Delvers in Dashann....trying to get a spider with 20 other people in the room....not good.
-Armour / weapon preview facility: Right clicking on an item link in chat or on an item in the bank / guild bank / guild store should allow a window to popup showing your character wearing that item. This is good for when you are considering buying an item but want to see what it looks like first.
-Permanent Trash marking option
-Allow us to halt xp gain from kills and quests: This is for those of us who are "completionists" and have been battering the local mob population so much that we're outleveling the zones before we get to them. Yes, that means we're responsible for not leaving it on and thus ending up under-leveled. Perhaps it re-enables with each log in?
-Add additional quests in zones that count towards the zone quest achievement. Coupled with the above suggestion, this means we can get the achievement without having to spend days looking for that one single ellusive quest that may or may not actually exist.
-Mentoring: Allow the possibility that a player can "mentor" another player thereby temporarily boosting the first player to the same level as the second. Allowing them to group up for higher level stuff. Of course, the player won't be able to pick up higher level quests, and the suggestion above for halting xp gain from kills and quests could automatically come into effect, preventing the possibility of "powerleveling" people for real money.
-Underwater swimming + dungeon access / treasure chests / shards / crafting mats all found underwater. Alchemy = underwater breathing pots?
-Ship building (assuming expansions will come it to allow travelling across the seas). This system could expand the clothing (sails and rigging), blacksmithing (nails, fixtures) and woodworking (the boats themselves) crafting professions.
-Add THIEF/ATTACK flag, so you can no longer rob peoples homes without any issues. (Also effects werewolfs in WOLF form in towns and vampires at stage 3 or 4) This will cause the guards to attack you onsite and shops\banks to no longer deal with you.
-Job Boards in towns featuring randomly generated quests that require venturing into "Private" dungeons: Players could get a random quest from an npc / jobboards in the towns. They go in, fight their way through the mini-dungeon to a boss and beat them. There could be different difficulty settings which alter risk vs reward (harder = more loot). This system could be used for mini-dungeons for 1 - 5 players. (There are a number of advantages for this system. Such as players who just want to kill a boss, can "tailor" their adventure based on the level of difficulty required. Also, players who find themselves under-level (e.g. can't find quests) can use these quests as an alternative.)(Players could also use the suggestion I mentioned earlier regarding the ability to disable xp gain. So they can replay these instances without out-leveling their progressive PVE content. )
-More points of interest and general things to do int he wide open spaces of Cyrodil.
-Shared Armor and Jewelry glyph enchantments instead of just the base and only 3 enchantments for armor.
-Expanded guild features: Guild wide mail, Guild announcments, event planner/calander, removed/expanded text limits on message of the day and description
-I would like to see weapons stay visible throughout whether we are riding horse, drinking potions, etc...
-face armor stays on whenever our characters enter into crafting animation
-Like to take one of small row or sail boat for a ride! The way it did in the old Chaos fantasy game. Then I could make it past the slaughterfishes
-New Mail description field is auto-filled in with an item name, if it is blank and a player attaches an item to it.
-"Mail Item" option in right click menu, when you right click on an item in your inventory. It would then automatically open your mail and slot the item into it.
-Ability to mouse click on a player in your field of view and report them. This means the name of the player auto-fills in the player name field of the customer support form. Good for reporting botters.
-Private (and group-able) instances for major storyline quests. Too many times you walk into an instance and the story completes because someone has just killed the mob you've gone in to kill. Cap loot drops to prevent farming.
-More ranks to guilds and allow us to set bank permissions based upon guild rank - i.e. how many items you can withdraw.
-Necromancer Skill Line
-Full Armour Preview (At all times) (During crafting mainly)
(*) Combat Log Channel (good for seeing when you've been stunned, because right now there is no visual cues).

(*) Loot Log Channel (good for when you're auto-looting and just want a quick reference as to what you've picked up).

Both should have the option to be enabled / disabled at will.

(*) More variety of songs in the game.

(*) Grouped players can play instruments together in time as a band (because they are grouped then they all start at the right time).
Water Based ideas
(*) Ship building: A collaborative effort from woodworkers (hull), clothiers (sails), blacksmiths (fixings). Or go the "Skyrim" route and have players collect raw mats to hand in to get the boat.
(*) Different Ship types: from fishing boats to each of the ship sizes seen in the game already. Different Ship types allow for different amounts of inventory storage. Some larger ships could have a Ships-hold and Captains cabin.
(*) Underwater gathering nodes: gems (jewelcrafting), kelp (clothing), different types of underwater plants (alchemy), shipwreck wood (woodworking) and fixtures (blacksmtihing).
(*) Water Breathing Potions (alchemy) and air pockets (for those who have run out of potions).
(*) Hold down Ctrl to dive underwater, Spacebar to vertically rise. Otherwise movement is as normal. W to swim forward. S to swim back. A and D for strafing. Pressing E next to a ship ladder allows the player to climb on-board, but only if the player is allowed (permissions list).
(*) Underwater chests, dungeon entrances, world mobs, etc.
(*) Weapons: Staffs should work. Melee weapons should work. Enchanted Bows could be crafted to fire enchanted arrows which negate water issues.
(*) We know that Tamriel isn't the only land on Nirn. There could be an infinitesimal amount of islands and archipelago's to explored
1- Increasing the level of fish caught with a level location and as a result increase their prices
2- Duplicate rare fish for Achievement have a price, so let them can be sold (bound to player after capture)
3-Take about 50 inventory cells under the debris. Followed by ignoring their weight and can not be returned to the use of character
Gambling.

Dice or card games... any sort of social minigame where you could enter an inn or tavern and pull up a chair and play a round of poker with your friends. If Zeni could design some manner of lore-friendly card game that wasn't poker that'd be sweet. Should be able bet and win gold.
- Add a possibility of crafting jerkins
- Different weather on different parts of continent
- 1,5h swords

Hi, great list!

Please keep this list with POSSIBLE improvement/features. NOT features or other things Zenimax already stated will be or said will NOT be in game.

Could you please REMOVE the features ZENIMAX have stated YES or NO on, like a global AH. That will simply not happen. Or Make a list "THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN"?

You have A LOT of features Zenimax have said is in the works, make a section for them? Like More skills, content, land, mobs, dungeons etc. Lots on your wishlist is in the works!

This is what Zenimax Have stated will NOT be in game:

• -Increase the level cap (50 feels too low) (No plans YET. Lets see how the champion system will work out.)
• Global Action house. Just forget it. Wount happen.
• -Dragon? (Daedra dragons?)
  Dragons don't appear in this era, BUT Zeni have NOT said no to future Dragons, but NO PLANS FOR THEM.
  
• -More classes (No plan. MAYBE 1-2 years away, but NO PLANS)
• -Guild Levelling (No PLANS, but something they are currently considering)
• -Unarmed skill line (They said no... )
• -Underwater content (Not in their plans atm.)
• -Playable daedra races: dremora, xivilai, etc
  (NOT in their plans....but Paul said a maaaaaybe in a pod cast. He quickly said no plans currently.)
  
• -Add additional quests in zones that count towards the zone quest achievement. Coupled with the above suggestion, this means we can get the achievement without having to spend days looking for that one single ellusive quest that may or may not actually exist.
  (Zenimax said GO EXPLORE. This is ESO, not WoW where you "collect things". You actually EARN your stuffs)
  
• -Mentoring: Allow the possibility that a player can "mentor" another player thereby temporarily boosting the first player to the same level as the second. Allowing them to group up for higher level stuff. Of course, the player won't be able to pick up higher level quests, and the suggestion above for halting xp gain from kills and quests could automatically come into effect, preventing the possibility of "powerleveling" people for real money.
  
  Answer:
  There are mechanics that works wonderfully against powerleveling. SINCE ESO is 80% ish from level 1-50, then a new player would LOOSE by leveling to fast or end up in a dungeon they dont belong, have the skills for or simply is not ready for.
  Also, leveling fast in ESO is not a problem. They will do Dungeon scaling. That will be more then enough.

-Free skill/attribute respec- Allow players to learn their class better=better gameplay, put the gold sink somewhere else.

-Dual spec-This will allow accessibility to content a little more. For example a player who enjoys healing but has chosen a dps/control spec for the ease of leveling. This way he/she can have a dungeon role spec & leveling spec. Another example would be at endgame lets say, having a PvP spec & a PvE spec.

ESO have builds. That is "your" dual spec. ESO is another TYPE of MMO then WoW which you are refering too.

PvPers have an advantage in PvE content? (i..e PvP passives) What are you doing about it?

Nick: We don’t have any specific changes but we will look into it.
Paul: We don’t want this game to be one where if you are good in PvE, you can’t do PvP.

This is ESO! Not another MMO.

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Free respec will lead to 1 thing = Complete boredom in a VERY short time, since everyone have done everything.

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Allow players to learn their class better

Players learns how to play their BUILD (not class), better, adapting etc while PLAYING. And CHOOSING the skill with care. You can do 1 Mill DPS and still be a crap player. Personal skill DOES count in ESO. And sorry....that can only be learned by playing.....not calculating.


We have a problem in ESO since most players have WAY to much skill points and
can put them pretty much on over HALF their skills. (If not even more)

Hopefully the champion system will solve that by having almost endless skills to put a point in. Making a VAST difference in "builds". We get 100 classes!!! Nothing is best...nothing is worse.....just depending on your gameplay and your encounter.....awesome!

If players NEEDED to THINK, Look, read the description on the skill, and know earlier from combat, what they are lacking or could use....THEN they learn.

By giving FREE respecs and everyone changes everything all the time....Why have builds? Why have classes at all? Why even have points? Just start at lvl 50 with all skill points? (No thank you, I do not want to play WoW.)

With nothing to stop you to change whatever you want, whenever you want for free, You KILL the game in a month, max. Because you have nothing to do! ALL your chars are boring....you have ALL skills?


Conclusion
Great list and post!!!

Could you separate the features in:
1. Features that ZENIMAX stated "no, will not happen"
2. Features ZENIMAX stated are working on and even maybe have a time plan?
3. Features Zeni are working on, but no time plan
4. New ideas. LOADS if cool idea are in here! Zenimax SHOULD take a look, but make a section for suggestions that are: Not in game, not in plans, not answered already, etc. Example: unarmored skill, new class, Ship building, etc.

KingRebz

Bump! Now that ESO are done with the console releases they can focus on what the fans want!

Any further suggestions people?

EDIT: Ill get the editing done soon

BigM

No need to quote any of these great ideas. But I do have one great idea that would save this game and community.

COMMUNICATION!

HypnoticChronic1

-Player housing
-Poisons
-A Barber where you can change your characters body, hairstyle to his clothing.
-Hairstyles and clothing options
-If construction comes in the game, possibly we can craft decorations for our guilds and houses?
-The ability to design and show off guild banners on mounts, or shields etc
- Guild Halls
-Maybe give the option to right click to add symbols (eg. a star symbol) so you can mark the items.
-Guild store "typed search option" to buy- similar as the search option to sell, current system to search and buy is very messy, hard to price, hard to search.
- ability to preview armour appearance before binding it to your character
- Ability to lock things in your inventory / bank
- break consumables into potions & food/drink
- ability to set items to junk and have that type of item permanently stay junk even after you've sold the initial batch
- More intelligent sorting options for Inventory.
-ability to preview armor (like Mogit)
-mounted combat
-other continents
-A better organized bank tab , right now my CE items are just taking up space .
- More coat colors for horses to increase variety, possibly also other types of mounts as long as they fit with Elder Scrolls lore.
- Some way to better trade items to non-guildmates. Doesn't need to be an auction house, a dedicated trade chat channel would already help
- A jewelry making crafting skill
- The ability to name items you created
- -Mentoring: Allow the possibility that a player can "mentor" another player thereby temporarily boosting the first player to the same level as the second. Allowing them to group up for higher level stuff. Of course, the player won't be able to pick up higher level quests, and the suggestion above for halting xp gain from kills and quests could automatically come into effect, preventing the possibility of "powerleveling" people for real money.
-Underwater swimming + dungeon access / treasure chests / shards / crafting mats all found underwater. Alchemy = underwater breathing pots?

Being a console player Im fairly new to ESO but I have played a few other MMO's and more then a few of the "additions" should have been a no brainer to add to the game from the get go but I think the top 3 they should work on is the player/guild housing cause that would be addition and give the guilds a more "sense of presence", the other thing should be fixing the bank/inventory systems simply put those things are a right mess i.e. the whole items not stacking in the guild bank and the lack of space for the guild bank in general since my guild and I are on console we have to stack items manually and it does become increasingly tedious the tabs would be a great help in the organization process, and lastly the mentoring I have a few friends who are lower lvls and it is difficult for me to help them since I cant see what their seeing in some quests or just remembering what the quest entails in general since it may have been awhile since I did that quest. Needless to say you have my support for all those things listed above.