A Couple Ideas that Would Make this Game AWESOME!

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

Okay, I don't know if any of these I mention have been addressed or not, but hopefully everyone will see this and give me feedback!

1. Player/Guild Housing

-Player housing would be nice. I could decorate it, see all my pets, maybe see some mounts outside (the one im using or maybe 2), waste a lot of time doing it. Also, you could make it free for subscribers and charge a gold price per month like rent to keep their house for non subs or something with crowns idk im sure you guys could make money off of it somehow.

-While guilds tabards and the bank are nice, I would LOVE to see more activity with guilds. Because people can be in five, there are a lot of guilds with tons of players that don't even talk because they've got so many guilds that they only stick to one or don't even talk at all. While I understand that "if someone doesn't want to talk, I can't change that," I would love to see some sort of interaction that lets guild members visit each other (even if they're in a different faction, maybe). Here is where guild houses come into play. Say we have a guild of 60 members with ~20 on at a time. Maybe 13 are in Dominion, four are in Pact, and the remaining three are in Daggerfall. Being able to meet up with those players would be really cool- especially if that is their only toon and there is no other way to see them without being in PvP. At least this way it forces some interaction and keeps it more alive... (I really hate the fact that we can be in five guilds). And really the best part is that it will look awesome having a hall of heroes or something like Jorrvaskr to do events or show off the stuff the guild has done in pvp or something. AND it will give some people with tons of gold something to spend it on and keep the market from getting too pricey (and its a great way for you guys to cash in on crown store sales). <-- seriously zeni do it.

All this could be done in some new area on the map that isn't being used or a new place like Shalidor's isle but just for housing.

2. Barber Shop

I hate my character's hair and I want to change it. Seriously, it is horrible.

3. IN GAME EVENTS!!!!!!!

On holidays, there could be an event somewhere or a minigame to play to earn some sort of cosmetic items or something. WoW has brewfest which is awesome and games like Lord of the Rings Online has TONS of events for each season and major holiday with tons of chances to get free stuff or buy it with event tokens.
Really, I love those things.

4. An Auction House

Yes, I get that we have guild traders but they freakin suck. Almost everyone hates strongly dislikes the way the economy is in this game.
I can't join a great trading guild unless I'm a high level and have tons of money to start with. Change. It.

5. Unique Armor

I had this idea last year while playing a game that I had just crafted legendary armor, but it didn't feel legendary because someone else could craft it the same way or have something with the same name. So, instead of making it something that has different stats- since it is an MMO and that wouldn't be fair or balanced- the option to name something once its been made legendary would be awesome, or another level past legendary that lets you up it even more to give it a name.. idk its just something I feel would be really awesome.

6. The option to play the lute/flute/drum.
While it is nice to emote that preset it would be cool to press a key and play a certain note and write music with them. Just a thought though.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and please give me feedback on the ideas I posted! I know some of them might not be very realistic right now, but maybe in the future. I've run out of ideas, but if I think of more I will update or post in here with ideas. If anyone has anything they think would improve the game, please post it in here too! Maybe Zeni will use some of them

!!

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

Also, I don't know if this is the right board, but I figured it was the best one for it.

usrevenge · August 2015

you can join trading guilds easily... i'm in like 2 or 3.

or maybe it's worse on PC. even still i'm in 2 on PC i think (and i've been offline for like 2 months and only level 35 on my main)

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

usrevenge wrote: »

you can join trading guilds easily... i'm in like 2 or 3.

or maybe it's worse on PC. even still i'm in 2 on PC i think (and i've been offline for like 2 months and only level 35 on my main)

I am in trading guilds but they aren't ones like Iron Bank of Bravos or Elder Scrolls Exchange.

I am talking about big ones that have the best spots. thats stupid..
we should have a auction house in a starter zone or every big city or something.

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

@usrevenge the economy shouldn't rely on guilds and spamming zone

Rinmaethodain · August 2015

I

guild traders

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

MaximusDargus wrote: »

I guild traders

why..? they are horrible compared to a free auction house.
i get that they wanted to be unique but seriously it is a poor idea

Milktray · August 2015

We had all this 'i want AH' rubbish from beta onwards and it's nowhere near 'ALMOST' .. most ppl were against the req's for AH

Rinmaethodain · August 2015

Global auction house will end up flooded with useless items, low lvl gear with cool names put there by new players, and common stuff at ridiculous prices.

Only small % of the listings will be legitimate.

The guild trader system ensure that only people who actually have something to offer will get them. Because it cost gold so people have to make sure that what they put will sell out and they will maintain trader.

Also guild does not have to get a trader to provide sale opportunity to player.
When someone is in 5 guilds, and each do not have trader, that person still is able to list his items to a group of up to 500 people for sale, and buy items from group of up to 4000 players.

With global auction house people wont care what stuff they list because why if they can post anything they like.

Also having guild traders spread out gives some fluctuation and keep market fresh. There are no centralised prices, you can find less visited trader and find cheaper stuff, you can go to convinient trader hub and pay a little more.

Global auction house will turn into giant undercutting fest, which suprise, will hurt buyers as well, not only sellers. Because the buyer will eventually want to sell something.

I can estimate that we have right now about 70 guild traders? They are spread out in guild trader hubs in each zone, and 2 single traders in that zone + one trader in outlaws refuge.

70 guilds can get separate traders, lets say that 40% of people in those guilds are unique accounts this gives 20000 people spread out evently on guild traders.

Now imagine 20000 people in single global auction house everyone trying to sell his honing stones. 2x honing stone for 15g and 30 acutions of that type. That gives 600000 listnings in auction house. Guild traders are already crashy, imagine auction house. And all people crowded in one place to access it.

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

Milktray wrote: »

We had all this 'i want AH' rubbish from beta onwards and it's nowhere near 'ALMOST' .. most ppl were against the req's for AH

until the forums ive never met anyone who likes this more than a AH
and i played in beta

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

MaximusDargus wrote: »

Global auction house will end up flooded with useless items, low lvl gear with cool names put there by new players, and common stuff at ridiculous prices.

Only small % of the listings will be legitimate.

The guild trader system ensure that only people who actually have something to offer will get them. Because it cost gold so people have to make sure that what they put will sell out and they will maintain trader.

Also guild does not have to get a trader to provide sale opportunity to player.
When someone is in 5 guilds, and each do not have trader, that person still is able to list his items to a group of up to 500 people for sale, and buy items from group of up to 4000 players.

With global auction house people wont care what stuff they list because why if they can post anything they like.

Also having guild traders spread out gives some fluctuation and keep market fresh. There are no centralised prices, you can find less visited trader and find cheaper stuff, you can go to convinient trader hub and pay a little more.

Global auction house will turn into giant undercutting fest, which suprise, will hurt buyers as well, not only sellers. Because the buyer will eventually want to sell something.

I can estimate that we have right now about 70 guild traders? They are spread out in guild trader hubs in each zone, and 2 single traders in that zone + one trader in outlaws refuge.

70 guilds can get separate traders, lets say that 40% of people in those guilds are unique accounts this gives 20000 people spread out evently on guild traders.

Now imagine 20000 people in single global auction house everyone trying to sell his honing stones. 2x honing stone for 15g and 30 acutions of that type. That gives 600000 listnings in auction house. Guild traders are already crashy, imagine auction house. And all people crowded in one place to access it.

if every other mmo can do it and make it work fine why cant zeni?
youre obviously not looking at traders because every single listing is 1 embroidery or 3 honing stones or a ton of crap gear
then there are like 4 listings with actual amounts.

its the same thing just spread out. auction houses let you search quantity too so if you dont wanna see anything less than 100 then you can set it to that

i will never view this as a better system than an auction house but i guess that is just my opinion and you have yours so i will just respectfully disagree with you

usrevenge · August 2015

guild traders are a huge gold sink and if there was a central auction house no one would use the guild traders.

the best thing they could do is add a new city with like 10 guild traders.

Milktray · August 2015

Just because other MMO's do something, even if every other game out did it .. it does not mean ESO has to

Rinmaethodain · August 2015

usrevenge wrote: »

guild traders are a huge gold sink and if there was a central auction house no one would use the guild traders.

the best thing they could do is add a new city with like 10 guild traders.

Yes, thats the only thing i would change with guild traders. Take those in abandoned and less frequent locations ( the lone traders far from wayshrines, traders in outlaws refuges) and place them into more attractive places.

Kammakazi · August 2015

Guild Traders are trash. We need a global market. Similar to like RS or Vindictus or something.

KiraTsukasa · August 2015

usrevenge wrote: »

guild traders are a huge gold sink and if there was a central auction house no one would use the guild traders.

the best thing they could do is add a new city with like 10 guild traders.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again:

An auction house will destroy guild traders about as much as auction houses in other games destroy player owned shops. They don't.

Typical auction house setups include a tax on the sold items, usually around 10% of the item cost, sometimes paid upfront from the seller's pocket. Usually, player owned shops have lower costs than auction houses, due the fact that AH sellers usually drive their prices higher to make up for the tax loss. The player owned shops don't have this monetary tax, but pay their own sort of tax by having their shops not as easily accessible, meaning their sales are usually slower. On the consumer side of things, people have a choice. They can visit the AH to find what they're looking for and save time, though they spend more money for the convenience, or they can travel around and spend time to find a lower price.

Milktray · August 2015

Then ofcourse all the GS etc that left now see a reason to come back as we get an AH for them to flood

Gamertaglemieux · August 2015

Housing not big deal to me. Really no interest.

In game events could be pretty cool.

Auction house would be a DISASTER to this game. Please! No auction house! No! Ever!

Barbershop I can get behind.

Easy to join a guild. I'm in 4 now.

Unique armor is great idea. But first they need to have it where player created armor means something. Right now you can pick up armor in game that is great. Players that want to make gold crafting can really forget about it. No use for them as it is now.

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

Milktray wrote: »

Just because other MMO's do something, even if every other game out did it .. it does not mean ESO has to

... the things that some mmos do are the reasons why theyre considered amazing and the best

then there is eso which is ragged on constantly

finally its coming back from its bad rep and im just saying stuff i think would do the game good and help get more people to play

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

Milktray wrote: »

Then ofcourse all the GS etc that left now see a reason to come back as we get an AH for them to flood

yea that would be good for the game too more people come back

they can tax the AH to *** if they want to keep it from ebing flooded

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

Gamertaglemieux wrote: »

Housing not big deal to me. Really no interest.

In game events could be pretty cool.

Auction house would be a DISASTER to this game. Please! No auction house! No! Ever!

Barbershop I can get behind.

Easy to join a guild. I'm in 4 now.

Unique armor is great idea. But first they need to have it where player created armor means something. Right now you can pick up armor in game that is great. Players that want to make gold crafting can really forget about it. No use for them as it is now.

its easy to join guild but the higher up ones really arent that easy

Milktray · August 2015

One of the reasons ppl liked ESO in the first place was No AH

I haven't noticed anyone saying it has a bad rep, that they were unhappy yes

And the TC, AH etc in most mmo's are due to it being the norm and no1 ever having fresh ideas, or if they do be to afraid to run with them.

Aeladiir · August 2015

Yes to all, except Auction House.

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

Milktray wrote: »

One of the reasons ppl liked ESO in the first place was No AH

I haven't noticed anyone saying it has a bad rep, that they were unhappy yes

And the TC, AH etc in most mmo's are due to it being the norm and no1 ever having fresh ideas, or if they do be to afraid to run with them.

the steam metacritic rating was literally 46 percent at one point
forced them into b2p earlier than they wanted
my unique armor idea is a fresh idea and they SHOULD run with it

but they should also run with the other things that make mmos really fun and immersive
just because someone else does it doesnt mean its a bad thing for you to do it as well

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

Aeladiir wrote: »

Yes to all, except Auction House.

:] i can respect that
i wont be heart broken without an AH but i would like some sort of merchant hub or something

Milktray · August 2015

And it doesn't mean they have to either, making it more of a carbon copy of other mmo's isn't going to do much for it.

Actually having 1 mmo that is different in such ways is a welcome change

Zorrashi · August 2015

LiquidSchwartz wrote: »

Milktray wrote: »

We had all this 'i want AH' rubbish from beta onwards and it's nowhere near 'ALMOST' .. most ppl were against the req's for AH

until the forums ive never met anyone who likes this more than a AH
and i played in beta

Really? In almost every poll regarding the AH vs. current system, the split usually goes around 60-40 or 50-50 in some form. Or at least that how it usually ends up. It's not as clear cut a debate as some people make it seem.

kevlarto_ESO · August 2015

I would like to see more sandbox elements as that helps give you the feeling of living in he world and not just playing though the world, housing I am sure this will be in a DLC, and hopefully it will be our chance to own of land build a house, I liked the DLC for Skyrim. I am neutral on the whole AH thing, I am doing ok with out one, and I would do ok with one.

I agree with some of the OP's ideas, and I am sure some of things are coming, ZOS is just very slow.

Audigy · August 2015

LiquidSchwartz wrote: »

Okay, I don't know if any of these I mention have been addressed or not, but hopefully everyone will see this and give me feedback!

1. Player/Guild Housing

-Player housing would be nice. I could decorate it, see all my pets, maybe see some mounts outside (the one im using or maybe 2), waste a lot of time doing it. Also, you could make it free for subscribers and charge a gold price per month like rent to keep their house for non subs or something with crowns idk im sure you guys could make money off of it somehow.

-While guilds tabards and the bank are nice, I would LOVE to see more activity with guilds. Because people can be in five, there are a lot of guilds with tons of players that don't even talk because they've got so many guilds that they only stick to one or don't even talk at all. While I understand that "if someone doesn't want to talk, I can't change that," I would love to see some sort of interaction that lets guild members visit each other (even if they're in a different faction, maybe). Here is where guild houses come into play. Say we have a guild of 60 members with ~20 on at a time. Maybe 13 are in Dominion, four are in Pact, and the remaining three are in Daggerfall. Being able to meet up with those players would be really cool- especially if that is their only toon and there is no other way to see them without being in PvP. At least this way it forces some interaction and keeps it more alive... (I really hate the fact that we can be in five guilds). And really the best part is that it will look awesome having a hall of heroes or something like Jorrvaskr to do events or show off the stuff the guild has done in pvp or something. AND it will give some people with tons of gold something to spend it on and keep the market from getting too pricey (and its a great way for you guys to cash in on crown store sales). <-- seriously zeni do it.

All this could be done in some new area on the map that isn't being used or a new place like Shalidor's isle but just for housing.

2. Barber Shop

I hate my character's hair and I want to change it. Seriously, it is horrible.

4. An Auction House

Yes, I get that we have guild traders but they freakin suck. Almost everyone hates strongly dislikes the way the economy is in this game.
I can't join a great trading guild unless I'm a high level and have tons of money to start with. Change. It.

5. Unique Armor

I had this idea last year while playing a game that I had just crafted legendary armor, but it didn't feel legendary because someone else could craft it the same way or have something with the same name. So, instead of making it something that has different stats- since it is an MMO and that wouldn't be fair or balanced- the option to name something once its been made legendary would be awesome, or another level past legendary that lets you up it even more to give it a name.. idk its just something I feel would be really awesome.

6. The option to play the lute/flute/drum.
While it is nice to emote that preset it would be cool to press a key and play a certain note and write music with them. Just a thought though.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and please give me feedback on the ideas I posted! I know some of them might not be very realistic right now, but maybe in the future. I've run out of ideas, but if I think of more I will update or post in here with ideas. If anyone has anything they think would improve the game, please post it in here too! Maybe Zeni will use some of them !!

To note,

an AH not global, but in combination with our current guild traders. Everyone could buy or sell there, but had to pay a fee to the guild for using their trader.

Unique armor not better in stats, but unique in its look and design.

Events only if they are like at DAOC with the dragons, an event that has a huge impact on the way we play, that changes the story and contributes to our gameplay. Stuff like Halloween & co. I don't want to see at Tamriel.

Gidorick · August 2015

You misspelled "HORSE" @LiquidSchwartz.

LiquidSchwartz · August 2015

Milktray wrote: »

And it doesn't mean they have to either, making it more of a carbon copy of other mmo's isn't going to do much for it.

Actually having 1 mmo that is different in such ways is a welcome change

it will still be different with a couple added things