Housing Map Icons make the map way too cluttered

Phaedrathallassa · February 2017

Hey ZOS: The map is looking really cluttered right now!

All those houses - it is nice that your own house shows up on the world map, but very few people are going to buy all the houses! The greyed out ones are useless to us.

(Not my picture, btw: I am posting on behalf of someone who can't get onto the forums right now).

Currently houses are considered wayshrines in the API, so even though it is possible to write an addon to hide them, it would also hide all wayshrines! That wouldn't be good.

It would be amazing if, in a future update, you could add an option to filter houses separately from wayshrines, or even better, only show purchased houses on the map. Even just classifying houses separately in the map API would be enough for us PC users, although I'm sure console users will have the same complaint!

Please - save the map from never-ending clutter. Give us some filters!

AlMcFly · February 2017

Yuck.

Nestor · February 2017

There is no filter to turn these off?. That's weird.

Faunter · February 2017

"Hey! Look at all these houses you haven't bought yet!"

Il3rotherhood · February 2017

Let me guess, it brings you to the Crown Store if you click on a house icon you don't own ?

Remag_Div · February 2017

Yeah, there definitely needs to be a way to toggle these off.

maboleth · February 2017

I don't have them on my map. Maybe you're using some addon?

Remag_Div · February 2017

Il3rotherhood wrote: »

Let me guess, it brings you to the Crown Store if you click on a house icon you don't own ?

For now it just teleports you to the house.

maboleth wrote: »

I don't have them on my map. Maybe you're using some addon?

They show up after you complete the quest for the free inn.

Danikat · February 2017

I was literally just thinking this. It was moderately helpful to have them all show up on the PTS because I spent a lot of time skipping between houses and often remembered which was which based on the location. But having them all there now just makes my map look cluttered and the vast majority of them are useless to me because I'm never going to buy them.

It would be great if they were considered a separate type of map icon so we have the option to hide them if we want to.

maboleth wrote: »

I don't have them on my map. Maybe you're using some addon?

They don't show up on your map right away - but after you preview a house or use the item 'Anthology of Abodes Available for Acquisition' (which you get at the end of the quest for the free inn room) they appear and from then on they're a permanent part of the map.

boggo · February 2017

The houses are wayshrines, that's why you can't turn them of with a filter. If you do so all the other wayshrines disappear too. Would be nice if they introduced an extra filter for houses.

MasterSpatula · February 2017

Yeah. Apologies to fans of Abstract Expressionism, but that map looks like Sidney Pollack got ahold of it.

maboleth · February 2017

Oh I yes, now I see them, I didn't read Anthology before.

Sinbag · February 2017

wow this is just a way to advertise their new money grab. There needs to be a way to disable these icons!

NeKryXe · February 2017

i've been trying to find out a way to disable the house icon, but somehow it is merged with the wayshrines. so, as far i could understand, looks like we have to completely disable the wayshrines on map and from now on use only guild or friend travel

is there any other ideas to remove those intrusive and awful icons?

Glaiceana · February 2017

Yes we need a way to filter these. But I'm sure an addon maker will come up with a solution soon

Not that that will help console players..

Circuitous · February 2017

Glaiceana wrote: »

Yes we need a way to filter these. But I'm sure an addon maker will come up with a solution soon Not that that will help console players..

In the API they're all tied together - there's no real way to split them up as things stand now.

ZOS, please divide up map markers more intelligently. The map is a real mess right now.

MissBizz · February 2017

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1614-HideHousePreviews.html

Someone made an add-on

AdamBourke · February 2017

The fact that its such a horrible icon makes it worse...

Not looking forwards to my map being ruined tomorrow.... (console launch!)

idk · February 2017

Turn them off in the map filter. Open map, panel to the right and choose the filter icon at top of that panel. It's been in game for a long time.

Funny how that's already a thing.

@Phaedrathallassa

AdamBourke · February 2017

@Giles.floydub17_ESO people dont want to turn off wayshrines (which houses are classified as- as explained by OP).

Most people probably dont even want to turn of houses we own.

We want to get rid of just unpurchased houses.

Also you don't need to tag the creator of a thread - they get notifications automatically.

Huyen · February 2017

They said one work-around is to disable all icons in a filter for Wayshrines...but I want to shut down those stupid markers for houses, not wayshrines!

idk · February 2017

Then this for the meantime. OP is on PC since consoles would never t have seen it yet.

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1614-HideHousePreviews.html

MLGProPlayer · February 2017

Huyen wrote: »

They said one work-around is to disable all icons in a filter for Wayshrines...but I want to shut down those stupid markers for houses, not wayshrines!

There are two add-ons that do that (if you're on PC):

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1614-HideHousePreviews.html
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info865-Nothankyou.html

Oreyn_Bearclaw · February 2017

maboleth wrote: »

I don't have them on my map. Maybe you're using some addon?

For me, they started showing up one by one after I would visit a house of another player. So if you visit them all, they will all be there in black. It is super annoying especially as the tiny EP room is practically on top of the manor when looking at the map. Very frustrating. I think the maps leaves a lot to be desired in this game. It needs way more filters, and we need a mini map (not an addon that consumes all your PC resources).

Ilstar · July 2017

Phaedrathallassa wrote: »

It would be amazing if, in a future update, you could add an option to filter houses separately from wayshrines, or even better, only show purchased houses on the map.

Bump. This would be an excellent quality-of-life improvement in a new patch.

CaffeinatedMayhem · July 2017

Get the No, Thank You addon. You can remove houses from the map and filter by owned, or not owned.

If you're on console, sorry.

Ilstar · June 2019

Are we ever getting this map filter option? I'm tired of trying to get to the Mournhold portal beneath the house icon there. Houses seem useless to me, since they have no practical purpose, as they are not used for teleporting to locations, which should be the way to look at the map: portal map only.

blnchk · June 2019

Ilstar wrote: »

Are we ever getting this map filter option?

I've a feeling that the answer is no, even though it really should have been implemented with the release of Homestead. There are addons for this, but that obviously doesn't help consoles.

bearbelly · June 2019

Ilstar wrote: »

Are we ever getting this map filter option? I'm tired of trying to get to the Mournhold portal beneath the house icon there. Houses seem useless to me, since they have no practical purpose, as they are not used for teleporting to locations, which should be the way to look at the map: portal map only.

Maybe you don't use them as travel portals, but a lot of people do.

But I do agree that it would be nice if the house icons were differentiated from wayshrines in the API so that they can be turned off without affecting our ability to see wayshrines.