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Houses are too empty; Sell us NPCs!
Nolphi
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Loving the housing so far, great job! I got the big Daggerfall Overlook which is awesome but it lacks people! Let us buy and place NPCs: guards, cooks, visiting nobility, bards, a court jester, etc. There is little atmosphere if you create an awesome castle which is completely empty. And you cannot expect your guildies to just dance and sing in your house for your leisure 
This functionality should be super easy to add, its just the same as the way you can place your assistants. I need my castle to feel alive! Give me a bard that welcomes me home with a song. This stuff would sell!
Edited by Nolphi on February 7, 2017 1:09PM This functionality should be super easy to add, its just the same as the way you can place your assistants. I need my castle to feel alive! Give me a bard that welcomes me home with a song. This stuff would sell! Clan Nolphi Family Gaming
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Turelus✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I want to have Dunmer Pact Guards everywhere.
I did enjoy that SWTOR let you have guards stationed around your housing.@Turelus - EU PC Megaserver
"Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves."5 -
Danikat✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I agree. It would be great to be able to purchase NPCs to put in our houses. They don't have to be new assistants that provide services like the banker and merchant, I'd be happy with 'cosmetic' NPCs that just perform basic emotes like sweeping, reading etc.
Even better for me would be the ability to place my other characters into my house.PC EU player | She/her/hers | PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!
"Remember in this game we call life that no one said it's fair"7 -
Gandrhulf_Harbard✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I want to have Dunmer Pact Guards everywhere.
I did enjoy that SWTOR let you have guards stationed around your housing.
Yeah, you could all sorts of NPCs.
I have a drunk waving his hands around randomly, placed him by a kitchen counter with a smoking grill on top of it, looks like he is making food.
I also have a meditating Jedi student somewhere, and a pacing Jedi master - put the two together it looks like he is giving her a serious talking to.
All The BestThose memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse.
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse.0 -
Balamoor✭✭✭✭✭
✭You do know if they do this the usual suspects will show up to whine that they are doing it that they are too expensive and that they are going to sue because something is offensive right?
Still it's a great idea2 -
BlackSparrow✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yep. This the primary reason I haven't gotten a large+ house... too much space with not enough life! Castles require all sorts of staff just to keep things neat and tidy, especially if their owner is preoccupied by saving the world 95% of the time.Living vicariously through my characters.
My Girls:"If you were trapped in your house for, say, a year, how would you pass the time?"
Nephikah the Houseless, dunmer assassin: "I suppose I could use the break. I have a lot of business holdings now that need management."
Swum-Many-Waters, elderly argonian healer: "I think that I would enjoy writing a memoir."
Silh'ki, khajiit warrior-chef: "Would this one be able to go outside, to the nearby river? It's hard to fish without water!"
Peregrine Huntress, bosmer hunter: "Who is forcing me to stay inside, and where can I find them?"
Lorenyawe, altmer mechanist: "And why would I want to go outside in the first place? Too much to be done in the workshop."
Lorelai Magpie, breton master thief: "I'd go nuts. Lucky for me, I have a little experience sneaking out!"
Rasheda the Burning Heart, redguard knight: "I would continue my training to keep my skills sharp."
Hex-Eye Azabi, khajiit daedric priestess: "I suppose it would be lucky, then, that I built a shrine to Mephala in my backyard."
Yngva Stormhammer, nord bandit (reformed...ish): "I hate being inside even when I'm not forced to be. GET. ME. OUT."
Madam Argentia, vampire dunmer aristocrat: "I suppose it would be more of the same. I have a rather... contentious relationship with the sun."
Mazie gra-Bolga, orc scout: "Uh... I'd have to house train my bear..."
Felicia the Wanderer, imperial witch-for-hire: "What Lorelai said."
Calico Jaka-dra, retired khajiit pirate: "This one would like a rest from her grand adventures. Her jewel shop runs out of stock!"
Shimmerbeam, blind altmer psijic: "Provided that I am confined to Artaeum, I do not think I will want for things to occupy my time."
Shauna Blackfire, redguard necromancer: "Sounds like paradise. I hate people."
Kirniel the Undying, cursed bosmer warrior: "I would feel useless, not being able to fight."
Echoes-from-Dragons, argonian who thinks she's a dragon: "All the better to count my hoard!"
(Signature idea shamelessly stolen from Abeille.)0 -
Gandrhulf_Harbard✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭You do know if they do this the usual suspects will show up to whine that they are doing it that they are too expensive and that they are going to sue because something is offensive right?
Still it's a great idea
Well lets be honest given that these are digital assets that only need be "created" once and used endless times the cost in Crowns of pretty much EVERYTHING in the Crown Store and Housing Store is horrendously overpriced.
Heck they are even overpriced in gold - 100 Gold for a stack of 4 logs for the fire!!!
All The BestThose memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse.
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse.0 -
Jim_Pipp✭✭✭✭✭
✭Fantastic idea. The only suggestion I would add, is that you should be able to apply the "appearance options" (from the collections tab) to the npcs.
That way you can make a drunk (apply drunk personality), or a guard (apply either the dunmer or armoured knights costume), or make your own pocket of oblivion by applying the various xivkyn polymorphs.
P.s. I often rage against crown store pricing, but customisable npcs ADD value to crown store purchases, and maybe people will buy more cosmetics from the Crown store just to full their house with (for example) duchesses and nobles.#1 tip (Re)check your graphics settings periodically - especially resolution.1 -
Turelus✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Just to be clear ZOS when we say sell us NPC's we don't mean Crown Crate Apex rewards.
If you want to know why housing items and crown crates will suck, go play SWTOR and try and decorate your stronghold, see how many items are no longer available at all because of RNG boxes in the store being the only way to obtain them.@Turelus - EU PC Megaserver
"Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves."1 -
zaria✭✭✭✭✭
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I have an fat Khajiit bank alt, he focus in quantity over quality but is toplessDeathlurkZ wrote: »I want a lusty aragonian maid!! and topless kahjit belly dancers..
Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.0 -
Sigtric✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Need some argonian house lizards for my Chateau for sure
Stormproof: Vibeke - 50 EP mDragonknight | Savi Dreloth - 50 EP Magsorc | Sadi Dreloth - 50 EP Magblade | Sigtric Stormaxe - 50 EP Stamsorc | Valora Dreloth - 50 EP Magplar | Sigtric the Unbearable 50 EP Stam Warden
Scrub: Chews-on-Beavers - 50 EP DK Tank | Vera the Wild - 50 EP magicka Warden | Sigtric the Axe - 50 EP Dragonknight Crafter | Sigtric the Blade - 50 EP Lost Nightblade | Sigtric the Savage - 50 EP magicka Templar | Vibeka Shadowblade - 50 Ep Stealthy Ganky Nightblade |
Show Me Your Dunmer
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Lynx7386✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I agree, so long as I can place scantily clad khajiit girls all overPS4 / NA
M'asad - Khajiit Nightblade - Healer
Pakhet - Khajiit Dragonknight - Tank
Raksha - Khajiit Sorcerer - Stamina DPS
Bastet - Khajiit Templar - Healer
Leonin - Khajiit Warden - Tank0 -
Lynx7386✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭DeathlurkZ wrote: »I want a lusty aragonian maid!! and topless kahjit belly dancers..
This guy gets itPS4 / NA
M'asad - Khajiit Nightblade - Healer
Pakhet - Khajiit Dragonknight - Tank
Raksha - Khajiit Sorcerer - Stamina DPS
Bastet - Khajiit Templar - Healer
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DaveMoeDee✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭If they can let us put assistants there, why not? Of course, they need to move and not just stand still like furniture.0 -
DeathlurkZ✭✭✭
I have an fat Khajiit bank alt, he focus in quantity over quality but is toplessDeathlurkZ wrote: »I want a lusty aragonian maid!! and topless kahjit belly dancers..
your hired!0 -
UppGRAYxDD✭✭✭✭✭
✭Why not a capture option for non-quest vital npcs?"Stendarr's mercy be upon you, for the vigil has none to spare."0 -
DeathlurkZ✭✭✭UppGRAYxDD wrote: »Why not a capture option for non-quest vital npcs?
Going to go Borat on them? "You be my wife!" then toss them in a potato sack and carry them to your house?
This isnt Pokemon... But it would be cool if some of the NPCs can be "friended" after doing a quest for them, and maybe the option into persuading them to your house... where you have the option to intimidate them into your basement after you buy the dungeon furniture set from the crown store, then after intimidating them every day they eventually become your servant, like leveling your riding skills at the stable.2 -
Nolphi✭✭✭All great ideas. I really hope they put this in soon. I am going pretty all-out with my castle but its just weird to see all these spaces I am creating being completely empty and silent. Houses need music and a warm atmosphere.Clan Nolphi Family Gaming
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MadLarkin✭✭✭✭Loving the housing so far, great job! I got the big Daggerfall Overlook which is awesome but it lacks people! Let us buy and place NPCs: guards, cooks, visiting nobility, bards, a court jester, etc. There is little atmosphere if you create an awesome castle which is completely empty. And you cannot expect your guildies to just dance and sing in your house for your leisure This functionality should be super easy to add, its just the same as the way you can place your assistants. I need my castle to feel alive! Give me a bard that welcomes me home with a song. This stuff would sell!
Great idea, as long as there's a way to grind for the ones that provide actual utility. Cosmetic ones, I'm fine paying for with crowns.1 -
OrphanHelgen✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Maybe pets as wellPC, EU server, Ebonheart Pact
Finally a reason not to play League of Legends3 -
MythicEmperor✭✭✭✭✭
✭I want Argonian slaves in my Ebonheart chateau
Also, good idea!!
This ^^^^^
When Vvardenfell launches, my Telvanni tower will feel lackluster without them.With cold regards,
Mythic
Favorite Characters:Kilith Telvayn, Dunmer Telvanni Sorcerer (main)
Kilith, Dunmer Magblade (old main)
Vadusa Venim, Dunmer crafter (older main)
Hir Hlaalu, Dunmer Warden
Søren Icehelm, N'wah Warden
Fargoth of Morrowind, Bosmer commoner0 -
AdamBourke✭✭✭✭✭I think that new assistants should be added to the crown store (Especially Guild Trader Assistant), or possibly to a quest reward.
I think that decorative NPCs, such as guards, maids, minstrels, etc should be purchaseable for in-game gold.PS4 - EU
Please put the Eyevea/EarthForge wayshrines back on the map?0 -
MadLarkin✭✭✭✭AdamBourke wrote: »I think that new assistants should be added to the crown store (Especially Guild Trader Assistant), or possibly to a quest reward.
I think that decorative NPCs, such as guards, maids, minstrels, etc should be purchaseable for in-game gold.
It should be the other way around. The "do no harm" approach to in-game stores (an approach ZOS laughably claims to adhere to) is to allow everything that affects gameplay to be achievable through playing, and the stuff that only serves a cosmetic purpose to cost real money.0 -
Gedalya✭✭✭✭✭Loving the housing so far, great job! I got the big Daggerfall Overlook which is awesome but it lacks people! Let us buy and place NPCs: guards, cooks, visiting nobility, bards, a court jester, etc. There is little atmosphere if you create an awesome castle which is completely empty. And you cannot expect your guildies to just dance and sing in your house for your leisure This functionality should be super easy to add, its just the same as the way you can place your assistants. I need my castle to feel alive! Give me a bard that welcomes me home with a song. This stuff would sell!
Can't agree more; this was brought up prior to release too. Having some semblance of life and functionality in these awesome homes is a must.0
