Suggestion for Player housing

Toorlokviing · February 2016

player housing should be in a pocket realm with your choice of environment and house type. i.e dense jungle with a bosmer style house. building should be much like it was in hearthfire, with optional to hire a contractor do do it for you in exchange for gold. it should also be quest driven for certain additions and for gettting the house in general. there should be certain things you can do like...

Trophy room- hire a taxidermist and do daily quests for certain trophy drops or ingredients from dungeon delves/group
dungeons.
Greenhouse-hire gardener to give you quests to collect alchemy ingredients (when upgraded further you could have 1 of each type of alchemy plant)
Farm (exterior extension to house) hire a farmer and do daily quests to collect seeds or gather food ingredients for a reward in special crafting recipes/ingredients for them
Enchanting Room hire a Enchanter to give you dailies to collect special runes that could be turned in for special crafting mats used in enchanting or receive leg mats for enchanting or glyphs (hopefully by then enchanting has evolved to this point)
Rune Crafting Rooom Hire a Rune Mage to do dailies in collecting certain runes for spellcrafting (when they decide to impliment this)
Kitchen- for crafting those yummy foods from the recipes youve collected (have a chart of missing recipes your need for those collectors out there that tell you what the name of the recipe is and the level it is: includes recipes covered by dlcs)
Bedroom- a nice bed to come home to after a long day of questing or conquesting (should have the bed be an activatable that allows your character to climb in bed and have the option to rp sleep or logout)
Library-Hire a librarian to send you on quests to collect valuable texts to display in your library.
Guest Bedrrom- for those that want their friends to stay for a bit. good for rp.
Living Room- a interactable living space for you and your friends to rp in. (interactable chairs plz)
Barn-another exterior extention to your house where you can select a mount or two from your collections tab to fill in your barn. (should allow you to emote your mounts to show your affection and feed them)
Exotic house pet- should allow you to find a exotic pet via a quest to occupy and roam your property/ interior of your house. (should be a generic one for the dlc with options to add more via crown store. should also allow you to show your affection to your pet via emotes i.e. play, pet, fetch: if a dog type or guar, love, etc. pets should be able to show affection back via their generic way i.e. purring for cats, nuzzling for guars, woofing for dogs, etc. these should also apply to any mount housed at your barn)
Shrine-exterior or interior depending on who you venerate. have a quest to fetch a shrine of chosen entity. i.e. any of the 8 devines, deadric princes you venerate, or outside entities like yffre, magnus, shor, syrsbane, etc (the quest should be different for each category i.e. if your getting a shrine for a deadra..the quest npc would be a deadra worshiper)
Vampire/Werewolf chamberr-this would only unlock if your are either a vampire or a werewolf. quest to obtain this from either lamae bal for vampires or hircine for werewolves. (vampire chamber should look similar to a crypt beneath the house. werewolf chamber should be a wooded area via a secret passage.)
War Room- for those that go out and conquest in the name of their alliance. should have things that reflect their rank in pvp and certain trophies unlocked if you achieved emperorship etc.(should include things like a interactable map of cyrodil that updates every hour with your current campaign status. good for also rping for war too)

Other additions could include banners for the skill lines you represent and should be updated when new skill lines come out to reflect your current favor. could also have banners that reflect each of the 5 guilds you currently belong to or the number of guilds you belong to if you have less than 5. also your choice of silverware and style of furniture should be an option...but should mostly reflect the style of house you chose. your friends and guildies should be able to come visit your home if you are party leader and have a group formed. party leader should have their house as priority to prevent issues.
if anyone else has some things to add then feel free. guild hall should be diff and occupy one of the predetermined spots already in the game. will provide my thoughts if desired.

petraeus1 · February 2016

Awesome list of interesting ideas. An alternative to pocket realms would be how Skyrim implemented the Dawnguard fortress: in an isolated valley, separated from Skyrim proper by a cave and a narrow pass. Easily instanceable, but still 'part of the world', so to speak.

I'd also be down for a 'cheaper' version of housing alongside this system, in which buildings in cities can be bought like in previous TES titles. Their interiors would be instanced and fully customizable. Not to replace the whole: build your own castle type of housing, but as a cheaper alternative.

mattymaats · February 2016

More space please... It's cramped in here!

Magica · February 2016

I really like your idea. I hope player housing wil be like/similar to this.

Toorlokviing · February 2016

i also would like these house and house additions to progress much like a stronghold did in morrowind where you see the house being built over time..there should be cooldowns to when you can build certain addtions so that you see these extensions being built over the time period given. it should take several months in real life for your house to be fully built...that way you take more pride is something that took effort to complete. i also thought about using mats from woodworking like oak, birch, etc to craft your home and furnature. id like to see more use in crafting mats for proffs used in other manners such as this instead of just crafting and writs. stone i think should be a new material for building your house that are farmable in a new area. so ppl who just want the mats and dont want to farm them can buy them off guild traders.

should we get jewelrymaking somewhere down the line, you could also build an extension to you house for the crafting station and dailies from the master crafter in that category.

if im missing some other types of mats that could be used for house building do mention them in the comments below too...we want zos to make this perfect and worth buying off the crown store as a dlc, so comment away.

babylon · February 2016

I'd also like to be in a community with my neighbours around me, and be able to have community events inside the neighbourhood. Not just be all alone and only be able to invite people in. I'd like a little more space to roam about, and the possibility to see others as well.

I do like all your ideas for making our player houses expansive and unique though. Lots of space for each of us, inside a community which could come together for events and random scripted NPC happenings (like holidays, entertainment troupes passing through, and spontaneous interactions) would be ideal for my vision of player housing.

Toorlokviing · February 2016

babylon wrote: »

I'd also like to be in a community with my neighbours around me, and be able to have community events inside the neighbourhood. Not just be all alone and only be able to invite people in. I'd like a little more space to roam about, and the possibility to see others as well.

I do like all your ideas for making our player houses expansive and unique though. Lots of space for each of us, inside a community which could come together for events and random scripted NPC happenings (like holidays, entertainment troupes passing through, and spontaneous interactions) would be ideal for my vision of player housing.

while this would be a good thing for some ppl but, you have to remember there are alot of single players that come from skyrim and would like their own personal space to set up their house. the community thing i think would fit more along the lines of a guild hall or guild housing...that would be more community driven and you c ould have neighbors. if zos goes that far that is.

SSlarg · February 2016

no need for a "pocket realm"

all they have to do is instance the inside of the building like they did in DCUO (DC Universe)

Thybrinena · February 2016

Great suggestions above....however, I do hope they make the player housing areas a bit like LOTRO where folks could ride through and see Guild houses and player houses with unique trophies from dungeon/raid bosses that gave them bragging rights in the village (instance). That would really add a social element to it.

Glaiceana · February 2016

Really awesome ideas! Definitely want a barn and a way to display pets in your house.

I love the idea of it being a pocket realm, originally I wasn't sure about this being implemented, but if it comes with the ability to choose both the environment and house style, it would be worth it. As long as you can invite people to your home/area.

The idea of a vampire/werewolf chamber is very cool! If it came with a personal mini shrine as well that would be very interesting! You could invite people into your home to pass on the gift

Buffler · February 2016

Will the banks have a mortgage option?

Maybe we can screw them over with toxic debt and put eso into a recession and i can watch baliffs turn up to peoples homes to repo goods.....all while im using the curtain twitching emote

babylon · February 2016

Buffler wrote: »

Will the banks have a mortgage option?

Maybe we can screw them over with toxic debt and put eso into a recession and i can watch baliffs turn up to peoples homes to repo goods.....all while im using the curtain twitching emote

This needs to happen! More beggars on the streets! I want to see raiders locked out of their armour and forced to sell their assets....all the chaos inevitably ending with PVPers eating each other to survive

Gidorick · February 2016

As for "pocket realm of Oblivion. " ...No. Just... no. There's more than enough possibilities in Tamriel. Pocket realm as an option, sure, but this shouldn't be the standard option. My character would NEVER settle down in any realm of Oblivion.

As for the rest of it: great ideas! I hope ZOS listens to the community regarding features for homes.

Volkodav · February 2016

I already posted about my suggestions for a home in two other threads like this.

Toorlokviing · February 2016

I forgot to add something to my orginal post and this thread needs bumping too.

Bank-Hire a banker and have access to your bank and guild bank..(hopefully by this time we have 500 slots for bank) maybe make buying bank slots 10% cheaper than if you were to buy them at any other bank and be able to expand beyond the current bank space we can already achieve through this banker.

Thybrinena · February 2016

Nice post @Toorlokviing with a lot of great ideas. I too hope they add some depth to the housing system.

Waffennacht · February 2016

I always wanted to build my house and have it be seen/passed by other players. I doubt too many people would want to give up questing/pvp to see a house, but they may if they just happened by.

The way you built houses in skyrim was really cool