Besides building, decorating and roleplay, what can I do in my houses?

OrphanHelgen · January 2017

Besides the part where it is pure fun to build and collect, I'm wondering what you actually can do in housing.

So far for me personal, the skeleton dps dummy are the only reason.
I also read some suggestion on this forum, that a bank with access to guild store and guild bank should be an option.
I think crafting stations are only good atm for doing writs and crafting set items. If you are crafting for writs, I dont see much benefit in picking up the writ in craglorn, traveling back to your home to craft and then travel back to craglorn again to deliver.
Maybe if crafting stations in housing could offer you to chose one set station to have, as well as having the writ boards around your home maybe?

Please correct me if I am wrong, as well as telling me what else I can do in housing and writing down your suggestions

I really hope I to have a reason to stay in the house, looking at the fact I don't do roleplay.

Gargath · January 2017

We should have a possibility to hire a courier (or use huskarl) who could deliver our writs or anything else from inside of the house to relevant destinations in Tamriel.

Annalyse · January 2017

Well, you can have writ boards around your home if you choose a home in a location near writ boards. There are a few in decent spots like that.

There are basic crafting stations offered but there are also attunable crafting stations, so that you can craft sets from your home. Presumably harder to attain (they don't have actual writ voucher amounts on PTS so I'm not sure) but with some time and work you could just fill your house with those and never have to visit certain set sites again. I craft a lot of Julianos for people so I'm looking forward to that, personally.

But at the moment, aside from crafting and the target skeleton, there isn't a lot that it can offer. I personally just like a quiet space to park my characters at the end of a day of playing too, so I'll enjoy that, but until I can manage to get all of the crafting stations my house will actually be fairly inconvenient.

I'm hoping they will offer more in the future. For now, they are mostly just for fun.

FortheloveofKrist · January 2017

Aside from using the housing to craft, decorate, use your test dummy, duel with friends, read lorebooks, and do other things that the rest of us will spend hundreds of hours joyfully geeking out doing...

There is nothing to do.

skiptomyluau · January 2017

I think i read that the beds will be "interactable"

Publius_Scipio · January 2017

shower and bodily functions

AhPook_Is_Here · January 2017

I have a house IRL so this honestly isn't a big appeal to me. I can just imagine when i log off that my character wanders off to his dream home to dust or vacuum or wax his horse or something and I'm ok with that. This leaves me more time to play games instead of being played by games, or get things done around my house.

I get that other people are a whole lot more "immersed" in this game than me, so for them maybe there are some good reasons to do this.

LMar · January 2017

Some of the houses have some really nice spaces for duelling, perhaps people will take their duelling away from wayshrines XD

Waffennacht · January 2017

One even has a dungeon...

50 shades of Eso...

starkerealm · January 2017

Crafting. With enough time you can even set up crafting stations for sets in them. You can port to them for free, so if you're doing something like Mage Guild dailies, that's a minor perk.

Waffennacht wrote: »

One even has a dungeon...

50 shades of Eso...

The "dungeon" is really underwhelming. It's just the same basement you've seen in every Breton castle. It doesn't even have the back room that Evermore's does.

Darkonflare15 · January 2017

starkerealm wrote: »

Crafting. With enough time you can even set up crafting stations for sets in them. You can port to them for free, so if you're doing something like Mage Guild dailies, that's a minor perk.

Waffennacht wrote: »

One even has a dungeon...

50 shades of Eso...

The "dungeon" is really underwhelming. It's just the same basement you've seen in every Breton castle. It doesn't even have the back room that Evermore's does.

It has trap door that leads to the ocean which has sizeable space that can be use to craft buildables on.

OrphanHelgen · January 2017

I actually got an idea myself. Some alchemy crafting, can make plants and once a day you can harvest them. Like cornflowers etc

Maybe you could have a mine as well somewhere and harvest rubedite ore

Yolokin_Swagonborn · January 2017

If I am rich enough to afford my own private villa on a tropical beach, I should be rich enough to conduct ALL of my necessary business from my house by use of carriers, attunments, etc.

That is what being rich is all about. So far, ZOS hasn't delivered fully on that premise. Why spend a ton of gold, time and real money to be land Baron if I still have to crawl back to the town to turn in crafting writs like a peasant?

Here is what I should be able to do from the comfort of my own home.

Accept ALL writs
Turn in ALL writs
Access a merchant to buy, sell, and REPAIR armor.
Duplicate any merchant currently available in game: Grocer, blacksmith, backpack upgrade merchant, even the golden!! Imagine if you were so wealthy and powerful that The Golden came to you every week in case you wanted to buy anything.
Craft from all stations, including set stations
Access my bank, guild banks, guild stores.
Place duplicates of ANY guild trader from ANY town in my house.

ZOS can charge any unreasonable about of gold or real money for these conveniences but they ALL should be available.

Guild leaders: Imagine how attractive your trade or social guild would be if you had copies of ALL of the guild traders in your private mansion. All in one room. As well as all the crafting stations and random things like the backpack upgrade guy. Imagine the social opportunities and utility for the guild that created the most efficient layout of all these things.

That is what being a wealthy baron and dropping 1mil gold on something should feel like. Anything less that that is inadequate.

FriedEggSandwich · January 2017

AhPook_Is_Here wrote: »

I have a house IRL so this honestly isn't a big appeal to me. I can just imagine when i log off that my character wanders off to his dream home to dust or vacuum or wax his horse or something and I'm ok with that. This leaves me more time to play games instead of being played by games, or get things done around my house.

I get that other people are a whole lot more "immersed" in this game than me, so for them maybe there are some good reasons to do this.

Why do horses require waxing? Just out of interest

AhPook_Is_Here · January 2017

FriedEggSandwich wrote: »

AhPook_Is_Here wrote: »

I have a house IRL so this honestly isn't a big appeal to me. I can just imagine when i log off that my character wanders off to his dream home to dust or vacuum or wax his horse or something and I'm ok with that. This leaves me more time to play games instead of being played by games, or get things done around my house.

I get that other people are a whole lot more "immersed" in this game than me, so for them maybe there are some good reasons to do this.

Why do horses require waxing? Just out of interest

You might as well ask why your Jaguar needs waxing, it may not "need" it, but a waxed horse is just more sexy.

Stamden · January 2017

Annalyse wrote: »

Well, you can have writ boards around your home if you choose a home in a location near writ boards. There are a few in decent spots like that.

There are basic crafting stations offered but there are also attunable crafting stations, so that you can craft sets from your home. Presumably harder to attain (they don't have actual writ voucher amounts on PTS so I'm not sure) but with some time and work you could just fill your house with those and never have to visit certain set sites again. I craft a lot of Julianos for people so I'm looking forward to that, personally.

But at the moment, aside from crafting and the target skeleton, there isn't a lot that it can offer. I personally just like a quiet space to park my characters at the end of a day of playing too, so I'll enjoy that, but until I can manage to get all of the crafting stations my house will actually be fairly inconvenient.

I'm hoping they will offer more in the future. For now, they are mostly just for fun.

Any idea what house is best for being near writs?

bebynnag · January 2017

I would love to hire a quest giver that just sits in my house, i can speak to them re the repeatable quests (that i have access to depending on the content i own), i can select as many/few as i want the quests have to be handed in to their normal quest giver.

Ahzek · January 2017

Neighbor wrote: »

Annalyse wrote: »

Well, you can have writ boards around your home if you choose a home in a location near writ boards. There are a few in decent spots like that.

There are basic crafting stations offered but there are also attunable crafting stations, so that you can craft sets from your home. Presumably harder to attain (they don't have actual writ voucher amounts on PTS so I'm not sure) but with some time and work you could just fill your house with those and never have to visit certain set sites again. I craft a lot of Julianos for people so I'm looking forward to that, personally.

But at the moment, aside from crafting and the target skeleton, there isn't a lot that it can offer. I personally just like a quiet space to park my characters at the end of a day of playing too, so I'll enjoy that, but until I can manage to get all of the crafting stations my house will actually be fairly inconvenient.

I'm hoping they will offer more in the future. For now, they are mostly just for fun.

Any idea what house is best for being near writs?

The medium Khajiiti house is located just a short stretch away from Rawl'Kha.