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Gold Sinks for the future of ESO

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Sanguine’s Mirror – Lord Sanguine has been watching your adventure and tales of heroism, but finds your appearance lacking as it does not match your flair. He offers you a way to change your appearance, and does not mean your clothing attire. For the modest price of 10,000g you can use his private dressing room and access to his Mirror to give yourself a more appropriate look to live up to your name as the Hero of the land.

While you are in the dressing room you have access to Sanguine’s Mirror which allows you to change your body and face just as in the character creation window; however, it does not permit you to change gender, race, or class. It may be magical in nature, but it can’t do everything. You may change appearances as many times as you like until you find the right look that appeals to you. The dressing room also comes equipped with different lighting scenarios for you to admire yourself, to see all spectrums of the glory that is you. In addition you have access to your account bank so you may try on different outfits in your possession. Once you leave the dressing room there is no way back in, you must pay Sanguine another 10,000g entry fee to get back inside.

Skill Change Potion – A deranged alchemist has created an experimental potion that lets you reset 1 skill or passive returning those skill points back for the price of 500g; however, the potion cannot be used more than once every 24 hours, long term side effects include insomnia, nervous twitching, incoherent rambling, and the occasional nightmares of dremora tormenting you.

The argument is that eventually you get so many skill points later on in the game that there’s plenty enough to go around you don’t have to reset your skills the further you progress. The problem is not having enough skill points available, the problem is you find out the Morph you picked isn’t working out for you or isn’t what you expected for your build. Having to spend thousands of gold for a single morph change is crazy especially if that other morph has gameplay changing mechanics. 500g is a good offset difference, it’s more than you would have spent for resetting any skill or passive, but it’s less than having to reset the whole thing when you want to change 1 skill.

Undaunted Companions – Now that you are a member of the Undaunted, for a flat fee of 1,000g your fellow members would like to join you on your life of adventure and will accompany you across the land sharing in your conquest and exploits. You have the choice of six different companions who will follow you wherever fate takes you. Among the choices are a heavy sword & shield warrior, a heavy two-handed axe warrior, a medium dual wield combatant, a medium bow archer, a light fire staff mage, or a light resto staff healer.

You can obtain an Undaunted Companion once you have completed the first quest to reach [Dungeon Name] and have returned. The Companion levels with you so you don’t have to worry about them falling behind, if you are level 35 then they too are level 35 with the following condition. Their max level is based on your Undaunted Skill, if you are Undaunted Skill 1 then your Companion’s max level caps at level 10 no matter how much further you level, if you reach Undaunted Skill 3 then their max cap is level 30 and so on. The Undaunted Companion will leave you if they suffer a fatal injury, enemy mobs will ignore your Companion if they fall to their knees and come after you, but if you decide to run like a coward then your Companion’s life is forfeit. Should you die before they do then they will reappear next to your resurrected body or at the wayshrine. Undaunted Companions refuse to follow you into a party-dungeon or trial like the Banished Cells or Spindleclutch and will wait outside until you come back out; they do this with utmost respect not to interfere with your personal glory.

Dungeon Currency – Killing dungeon bosses at appropriate level ranges grants you a new PvE currency that can be spent at Undaunted quartermasters allowing you to purchase from their stock including superior and epic (Veteran+) quality versions of dropped Set pieces; special potions with increased effectiveness when used in dungeons and trials; and you may also purchase special gear for your Undaunted Companion increasing their damage, abilities, and improves survival.

Doing dungeons at this point isn’t worth doing more than once; at most you’ll do it to get the extra skill point early game and maybe a piece of loot you’ll use for a few levels. You may not even bother with it later on when skill points become excessive you may ignore it completely. Bosses don’t always give loot, sometimes you get absolutely nothing. A Dungeon PvE currency where bosses always give a fixed amount regardless of their random loot table gives some help to keep players running more often when they can eventually purchase something for their efforts.

Player Housing – Your Sovereign has recognized your deeds and would like to reward you with land ownership, for 25,000g you can have your own estate. Your new home can be accessed by select major cities in each zone including Cold Harbour. Within your home there are 3 notables. First a personal upgradeable storage container that only that character has access. Second a trophy case to hold and display all your trophies earned throughout the game. Third are 3 display mannequins that allow you to show off your crafted gear in your home. You also have your own crafting stations, stables for your horses, and a place for your Undaunted Companion to rest if you decide not to take them with you. You can invite others into your home as long as they are in your Party and you are the leader.

Guild Halls – For Guild Leaders, the price of 50,000g you can have a Guild Hall with various benefits. First it gives you access to an additional 500 slot Guild bank that has separate access permissions. You also receive a message board where officers can post events, news, updates, or whatever is on your mind that any member can walk up to and view it. Third it comes with a special mailbox that allows the guild leader and officers to send message-only mail across to all members with one click.
Edited by phaneub17_ESO on June 9, 2014 1:54AM
  • Daethz
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    Fully agree with your list.
    • Buy a house, upgrade each room. Add-on entire rooms.
    • New horses. Horse Armor.
    • Gamble, there has to be some sort of gambling games in the TES universe? Drunken nords sitting around a table betting gold coins on stuff?
    • Buy mercenaries to assist you with a quest?
    • Have children, pay for stuff they need (And have them beg you for stuff they don't), bring them questing with you when they get old enough?
    Edited by Daethz on June 9, 2014 2:07AM
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  • kaosodin
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    They will ad all that cool stuff, just give them time
  • phaneub17_ESO
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    Daethz wrote: »
    Fully agree with your list.
    • New horses. Horse Armor.
    • Have children, pay for stuff they need (And have them beg you for stuff they don't), bring them questing with you when they get old enough?

    Hmm Horse bling, might be interesting see that upgrading horses are a tad bland with either bags, head plate, or straps. I would prefer more mount types other than Horses later on rather than extra cosmetic features.

    Children NPC in games are always a conflicting thing, you want to create a sense of civilization, but that turned south fast in Skyrim where there are hundreds of kill Braith videos out there.
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    Gold sinks give gold sellers business. How about we make most of these things rewards from dungeons, achievements, long quest lines, etc?
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    kaosodin wrote: »
    They will ad all that cool stuff, just give them time

    Zenimax doesn't seem to know what they are doing to fix so many simple items many other games would have resolved at this point from the launch. I'd like to see all the battle bugs, broken quests, achievements, managika/stamina balance all fixed before they implement anything. At this point the patches make more things worse than actually fix anything.

    The consumers are paying for the huge learning curve of Zenimax and losing subscriptions quicker than most games I've ever seen.
  • DeLindsay
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    Very nice ideas.
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    Good ideas besides the prices being way off. 25k for a house when a horse cost 45k? Not gonna happen.
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  • SecuFox
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    Very nice ideas. I'd especially like to see player housing in ESO.
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    Great list, agreed. I feel the pricing for player and guild housing should be 10x higher though. A house should cost more than a horse.

    That is if it's not just the price for the land and a starter hovel, with many available upgrades. I like the way they did it in heartfire.

    Also: Furniture made by woodworkers, please.
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    Great ideas! I agree that the housing cost would be way higher though.

    Just no kids please! It doesn't make sense anyway, when you can marry an actual person, to adopt an npc with limited dialogues and interactivity. It's like something went horribly wrong with that kid...
    Not to mention most of the children in Skyrim were annoying as hell.

    @Rodario I like that last bit. But maybe not just woodworkers. Different types of furnishings could be crafted by different professionals.
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    Noctisse wrote: »
    @Rodario I like that last bit. But maybe not just woodworkers. Different types of furnishings could be crafted by different professionals.

    Certainly, but woodworkers would benefit the most from additional craftables.
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    I think you should be stuck with the face you chose and be grateful it's not the one you were given. >:)

    Haircuts though.... I'm fine with that.
    Rodario wrote: »
    Noctisse wrote: »
    @Rodario I like that last bit. But maybe not just woodworkers. Different types of furnishings could be crafted by different professionals.

    Certainly, but woodworkers would benefit the most from additional craftables.

    What the *** is a woodworker? Someone who looks after small forests?
    Or maybe a caveman that makes wooden weapons....

    Edited by Tannakaobi on June 10, 2014 8:04AM
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    Probably looking at 2 years down the line for those ideas....
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    Daethz wrote: »

    [*] New horses. Horse Armor.

    By Oblivion! Horse armour is a must-have! ;):smiley:

    Jokes aside though, it is something I would like to see!
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  • GrimlockSaves
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    I have a magical mirror at home that can change my sex without a problem, why on earth would this magical mirror not do the same thing? At least half way...
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    Tannakaobi wrote: »
    What the *** is a woodworker? Someone who looks after small forests?
    Or maybe a caveman that makes wooden weapons....

    I was pretty certain the profession that produces bows and such is called Woodworking ingame, can't check right now though. Carpentry is what I meant, to be clear.
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    So Sanguine is a plastic surgeon eh? I like that.

    It's nice that it's a room rather than an interface, would hate it if I disconnect in the middle of editing and just lose that 10k. At least if you dc you can get back into the room right?
    Edited by Aeradon on June 10, 2014 8:34AM
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    Noctisse wrote: »
    @Rodario I like that last bit. But maybe not just woodworkers. Different types of furnishings could be crafted by different professionals.
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  • Leijona
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    Your list is great, I like all of the ideas and would use a lot of them.
    Especially housing would be a time and money sink. If we ever see it ...
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    Rodario wrote: »
    Tannakaobi wrote: »
    What the *** is a woodworker? Someone who looks after small forests?
    Or maybe a caveman that makes wooden weapons....

    I was pretty certain the profession that produces bows and such is called Woodworking ingame, can't check right now though. Carpentry is what I meant, to be clear.

    Good point, which makes me as daft as you, maybe even dafter... ah well. ;)

    I'm just in a bad mood because I have a day off from work, I would like to enjoy a session of ESO, but then I think about VR zones and constant grinding. I think the key word was 'enjoy'....

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    Pay a small sum of gold 25.000 gold to allow you keep lvl up your horse you have already 20 lvl and you add 10.000 gold for every 10 lvl after that.
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    Tannakaobi wrote: »
    Rodario wrote: »
    Tannakaobi wrote: »
    What the *** is a woodworker? Someone who looks after small forests?
    Or maybe a caveman that makes wooden weapons....

    I was pretty certain the profession that produces bows and such is called Woodworking ingame, can't check right now though. Carpentry is what I meant, to be clear.

    Good point, which makes me as daft as you, maybe even dafter...

    I don't see how any of this makes me daft at all, but ok.
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    Aeradon wrote: »
    So Sanguine is a plastic surgeon eh? I like that.

    It's nice that it's a room rather than an interface, would hate it if I disconnect in the middle of editing and just lose that 10k. At least if you dc you can get back into the room right?

    It would be a zone point, so if you're in that room when you disconnect then yes it would put you back in there. That's the point of making you pay up front and allowing you to stay within there as long as you like, customizing as long as you like as online has a tendency to not always reliably stay online. It also would have its wayshrine point on the outside of the room so you can't just invite someone and have them port to player, they would end up to the closest wayshrine outside of the space.
    I have a magical mirror at home that can change my sex without a problem, why on earth would this magical mirror not do the same thing? At least half way...

    The mirror is simply creating an outside appearance illusion similar to when you put on a costume, you are in fact being tricked by the mirror and all others around you that your looks have changed when indeed its all fake. The point of Sanguine being the owner makes more sense when he's fooling everyone including you.
  • Moloyo
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    Looking at horses, the cheppeast house will probably be 150K
  • smeeprocketnub19_ESO
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    I'm okay with children and babies if they count as non-essential npcs that I can kill.

    Also set up orphanages with a ton of these non-essential npcs.
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    I'm okay with children and babies if they count as non-essential npcs that I can kill.

    Also set up orphanages with a ton of these non-essential npcs.
    You want to be able to kill children and babies?
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    I'm okay with children and babies if they count as non-essential npcs that I can kill.

    Also set up orphanages with a ton of these non-essential npcs.
    You want to be able to kill children and babies?

    well, that is what I was implying. Pixelated ones (seriously, don't call the cops on me)
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    Dungeon Currency – Killing dungeon bosses at appropriate level ranges grants you a new PvE currency that can be spent at Undaunted quartermasters allowing you to purchase from their stock including superior and epic (Veteran+) quality versions of dropped Set pieces; special potions with increased effectiveness when used in dungeons and trials; and you may also purchase special gear for your Undaunted Companion increasing their damage, abilities, and improves survival.

    No no no no no no no no no no, please no.

    There nothing worse than knowing "only 10 more runs until my shoulders. "
    I would much rather not know how long until they drop, than have to do X amount of runs

    Edit: that said, i agree with the rest of your list.
    Edited by j4k3s7a on August 1, 2014 8:36PM
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    I'm okay with children and babies if they count as non-essential npcs that I can kill.

    Also set up orphanages with a ton of these non-essential npcs.
    You want to be able to kill children and babies?

    well, that is what I was implying. Pixelated ones (seriously, don't call the cops on me)

    Um, no, just plain simply no. I'm not going into the reason's why, but it's just outright wrong.
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    I'm okay with children and babies if they count as non-essential npcs that I can kill.

    Also set up orphanages with a ton of these non-essential npcs.
    You want to be able to kill children and babies?

    well, that is what I was implying. Pixelated ones (seriously, don't call the cops on me)

    Um, no, just plain simply no. I'm not going into the reason's why, but it's just outright wrong.

    they are imaginary. This is an adult game. Why can't I kill virtual kids? What harm could it possibly do? No actual kids would be injured, and I would get to be an even more evil villain.

    That frustrated the hell out of me about Skyrim, I couldn't even sneak around kids. Snitches get stitches you little brats.
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