Housing Store

Mortelus

So a lot of people are asking for a public AH, and a lot of other people are dismissing it and standing firmly by the current system.

anyone who has played EQ2, (in the beginning,not sure if it still works like this now) will know what I am talking about.

Housing in EQ2 was great, you could decorate it, store things and set up a shop to sell your wares from. Buyers would look on a listing and see the sellers name and address and there was an option to travel to their home to buy the goods. Buyers would actually come to your home, look around a sit around and chat for a while, and usually while they were there they would buy other things from your store.

This could be implemented in to a market district, where people can rent/buy a store and sell their wares from, other players can walk around having a look at the store. Famous crafters would become well known throughout the community. You could design store signs to hang on you stall so everyone can recognize you.

You could even hire an assistant to help you sell while you are off line, or simply wanting to explore the world. Have the assistant limited to certain times of day or something so dedicated crafters and sellers would need to still spend time at their homes/stalls to sell things.

We would still have the communication between players, and if you go with the market district, it would be awesome seeing hundreds of players shopping around hundreds of different stalls for item.

Listings would be only per faction and each listing would hold 'x' amount of players. when you log in, you are automatically put into a group of shared listings once 'x' number is reached then new loggers would be put into another group of listings. Or a similar workable system.

What are your thought on this.

Marpat_Ninja

This would be an awesome idea!

Lazarus_Long

And maybe you go to the bank and a get mortgage to help finance that new horse. One has to keep up with Joneses and all that.

Seriously though, I am a fan letting the current system ride for a while before I suggest changing it. I think there is a lot of potential in it and I want to see what we, the players, do with it. One thing I have learned in life is that every solution comes with a new set of problems and rushing to judgement about a complex system involving human behavior is a good way to get unexpected problems.

In a few months or more the forums may be flooded with "I told you so" posts that make today's doom sayers tomorrows messiahs. Then again, maybe not.

Hawke

Not just EQ2, but Ultima Online did it first! And then DAOC did it pretty good too.

Firestar_

ESO is not TES without housing :P

Mortelus

Lazarus_Long wrote: »

And maybe you go to the bank and a get mortgage to help finance that new horse. One has to keep up with Joneses and all that.

Seriously though, I am a fan letting the current system ride for a while before I suggest changing it. I think there is a lot of potential in it and I want to see what we, the players, do with it. One thing I have learned in life is that every solution comes with a new set of problems and rushing to judgement about a complex system involving human behavior is a good way to get unexpected problems.

In a few months or more the forums may be flooded with "I told you so" posts that make today's doom sayers tomorrows messiahs. Then again, maybe not.

I am not saying get rid of the current system, keep it in. I am saying add this system also.

I am predominantly a solo player, and I do not want to join 5 x 500 man guilds just to sell some things, nor do I want to pee people off by spamming chat with my wares.

For the solo'er a system like this would be appealing. Keep the larger guild stores, the advantage to them is you do not have to be at the store to sell.

In this system, you have to remain at your store. Swings-and-roundabouts.

Lazarus_Long

This will be my last post in this thread. You get a quote.

"We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees." --Todor Zhivkov

Natjur

I already have a house in ESO, the problem is, other people keep walking into it and looting my desks and cupboards!

annarr1117nub18_ESO

Player Housing in TESO "MUST" be AWESOME such as player housing is in current hit medieval fantasy genre MMORPGs folks!

MercyKilling

I'm behind housing. Hells, I'd even pay money for the feature, as long as I get to build my own house and furnish/decorate it.

Amsel_McKay

They need to FIRST add the ability to search the guild auction house with words... because our guild of 500 has WAY to many items to search... and the lag is crazy when hitting the next button.

Jadeviper1974

Interesting idea, however, I think they should concentrate on stabilizing the game first. Then worry about fluffy stuff.

Jadeviper1974

Amsel_McKay wrote: »

They need to FIRST add the ability to search the guild auction house with words... because our guild of 500 has WAY to many items to search... and the lag is crazy when hitting the next button.

I think they should make it where you can search all of your guilds at once and/or exclude guild "c" while still searching "A,B, D, and E"

Vikova

I have no issue with the concept of housing, but I refuse to expect or get excited about it. I just can't see it happening.