Enodoc wrote: »

So instead of going to the bank, you go to the lodge, end up with an almost identical UI screen when you talk to the innkeeper, and if your room rental lapses you lose all your stuff?

in my early age i travel a lot, and i never been in any bank to store my stuff; always at the guest house. in some place l left few things for over a year, and on my return where all there, waiting for me, like the nice owner.
this was happening in nepal, sumatra... over 25 years ago. i think tamriel could be just the same, a nice place for adventurer, instead of proposing a wall street banking in a rpg game.

the way we dream could be different, but at the end is the game immersion that make the difference. the eso banking match a game like sim city, more then a fantasy world.

this is my opinion, becouse as a backpackers and cycle-tourist i feel that starting from the inns, the game could have a great content to develop a better immersion and less boring item managment.
you just rent a montly room, and store all your stuff in there, instead of messing with space...

you do not need to agree with me, but going to the bank daily in a fantasy game is a thing, accept it is another.

lordrichter wrote: »

Most innkeepers don't want anything to do with your junk and would prefer that you take it with you when you leave.

you get it!
in the time you rent a room you pay for it, and the innkeepers are happy to keep your junk for the money they get.
so almost all of your firsts consideration was made on a wrong base.
thought, the second part of your post is interesting.

I think the Inns should be a place to hang out and meet other players, but in ESO they are not. I wish there was a nice big Inn like The Bannered Mare in Skyrim. I'm only level 26 so maybe there is somewhere. Inns should be a focal point in a town.

Just let me buy or construct my own house, decorate it with trophies, furniture etc...Then give me a chest to store infinite amout of items in it.

What I'd like to see is something similar to the things that I used to have in another MMORPG:

People could have a personal house in which they could buy and place a bed. Sleeping on that bed gave a buff (honestly it's been so long since I played I forget what the buff was, I can't remember if it was a boost to power or a boost to experience). The sleep only lasted about a minute, and the duration of the boost only lasted a short amount of time (thirty minutes maybe?). You could also have two sleep buffs in 24 hour real time cycle.

Perhaps something like this could be implemented in Inns;

50g to rent a Cot Bed in a little box-filled attic room, gives a 10% boost to Stamina, Health and Magicka
100g to rent a Straw Bed in a poor-look room gives a 20% to all stats for thirty minutes
200g to rent a Comfortable Bed in a nice room to give a 30% boost to stats for thirty minutes
500g to rent a Luxury Four-Post bed in a suite for a 50% boost to all stats for thirty minutes including a 10% experience boost (maybe? I don't know).

These buffs as mentioned could only be implemented once every two "Tamriel days" (which is what, six or eight hours?) so people couldn't abuse it.

Also, in this other MMORPG I played, there was something that could be thrown in private houses called "feasting" which let you invite ten people to a table where you'd place a feast and they would "dine" at the table which would give a buff and increase attack power.

How about the Inns lower floors be implemented by a person being able to talk to the innkeepers to throw a "feast" which would cause a buffet of items to show up on a nearby table. Anyone in the area could "dine" and by dining gain a buff (such as a good boost to attack power - and the buff only worked if your character sat there until the feast was physically over in the three to five minute span it lasted). In the game I played there was no limit to how many feasts you could attend a day but there was a limit to how many you could throw, and there were only a limited number of "plates" that could be dined from (ten). Some feasts were better than others and offered far better buffs than other ones did, but these cost more to make or buy). Imagine...provisoners could "craft" these feasts perhaps to take to the table, but have to pay the inn to hire the table.

Things like this would give inns FAR more use in the game than just being somewhere to pick/finish a quest or pick up a few food items to take on the quest. It might give people more reason to meet in game and socialise, even for a few minutes.

Might not happen but I can dream. It seems sad having the beds and the inns there but being very unusable. I liked being able to sleep at inns in Skyrim and Oblivion, it made the roleplay aspect nicer. People may flame these ideas or whatever but it's just a thought.

These things would help with going to Boss fights or to grind for a short while, and it'd feel slightly more roleplayish than Experience potions that only work if someone is grouped or married couples experience boost. And as I said, it'd give at least some solo players an incentive to briefly interact with a few others they don't know for the sake of a free meal (who doesn't love free grub?).

Ahhhhhhh, my mind does wander.