To those that keep turning off my 60+ lights

Vipstaakki · February 2017

Stopnaggin · February 2017

Lol I met someone doing this yesterday. Just take it with a grain of salt, or remove permissions.

CoconutMonkey06X · February 2017

I know this pisses you off (and I am truly sorry it does) but deep down, I am finding this hilarious!

hmsdragonfly · February 2017

Can confirm this is a real issue. Some *unts keep turning off all my light xD

Orlacc · February 2017

Perhaps you can get Barbie and Ken to keep an eye out.

UrQuan · February 2017

I failed at trolling a friend with something like this recently. I started off just switching everything from the state it was already in - if it was off I turned it on, and if it was on I turned it off. Then part way through I decided to just turn everything off, so I went back to the ones I had started with. Then I started to get a sense for just how many lights there were in and around this home and decided it was way too much effort to go and turn them all off, so I just went back to the ones I had already switched and tried to put them back the way they were before I got there (or as close to it as I could remember).

Failtroll is fail

AdamBourke · February 2017

I did this to someone once. wanted to let them know someone had visited.

But then I decided it was a bad idea so stopped doing it.

Either make lights have their own access permissions, or lump it in with decorator status.

rustic_potato · February 2017

Meh. I open my house only to specific people.. If you open it to the general populace of the guild it is expected to have trolls.. Deal with it or be smart..

c0rp · February 2017

Sounds like a lot of coding time that could be spent on more dire things to me. Perhaps the OP could just be more stringent on who he/she allows in the house in the first place?

Cryptical · February 2017

TheNuminous1 wrote: »

You have been the worst kind of trolls I've ever encountered. With this new way to harass people me and many of my guildies have been plauged with serial light extinguishers and it has been a royal pain in my butthole.

Please ZOS add a way for me to switch the lighting permissions so people can't turn them off.

It takes way to long to go around and find all my lights. And ruins the ambiance I have spent so much time creating when random people or friends visit and its all dark.

I've been able to play ESO for years relatively troll free until this awful way to annoy me has been introduced.

I spent a lot on My house with both crowns and gold and have already since console launch but many many hours into decorating. My home is beautiful and I very much enjoy people visiting it! I want them to come and see it! But this new method of trolling makes me lock up my big house take away visitor access and set my tiny house as my main home. Just to keep the trolls away.

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Consider adding a way to stop others from interacting with my lights!!!!

Rather than put the task of making new menu items in the list and add a whole new section to the save file to keep a separate list of approved lighting people...

How about adding one master toggle that turns on all lights in the residence?

You walk in, open housing editor, hit the toggle. All lights turn on. What took them several minutes to do was undone by you in less than 5 seconds.

SolarCat02 · February 2017

Cryptical wrote: »

TheNuminous1 wrote: »

You have been the worst kind of trolls I've ever encountered. With this new way to harass people me and many of my guildies have been plauged with serial light extinguishers and it has been a royal pain in my butthole.

Please ZOS add a way for me to switch the lighting permissions so people can't turn them off.

It takes way to long to go around and find all my lights. And ruins the ambiance I have spent so much time creating when random people or friends visit and its all dark.

I've been able to play ESO for years relatively troll free until this awful way to annoy me has been introduced.

I spent a lot on My house with both crowns and gold and have already since console launch but many many hours into decorating. My home is beautiful and I very much enjoy people visiting it! I want them to come and see it! But this new method of trolling makes me lock up my big house take away visitor access and set my tiny house as my main home. Just to keep the trolls away.

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Consider adding a way to stop others from interacting with my lights!!!!

Rather than put the task of making new menu items in the list and add a whole new section to the save file to keep a separate list of approved lighting people...

How about adding one master toggle that turns on all lights in the residence?

You walk in, open housing editor, hit the toggle. All lights turn on. What took them several minutes to do was undone by you in less than 5 seconds.

This! Problem solved, and now it's no fun to troll anymore.

peniku8 · February 2017

Luckily I can't place any lights since my house reached the item cap, thank god!

a1i3nz · February 2017

@TheNuminous1

At least you're not the name at the top of the guild roster!

MissBizz · February 2017

VampiricByNature wrote: »

I started to sink the lights in a bit or put them in very odd ways to prevent this from happening! I actually have been lucky on my house but my friends have been hit by the great-dark-capers.

Yeah if they are in the wall so you need to use "retrieve" to get them back, people can't turn them off. Figured this out as... I was trying to turn off all of @REzRyder 's lights. lol.

Seriously though hopefully everyone gets their kicks and gets over it. I intentionally only did it to friends that I figured would get a good laugh out of it - not just picking randoms from any guilds.

Tasear · February 2017

On a real note... Maybe lights are turning off when we leave?

SirCritical · February 2017

Tbh I thought earlier that there should be an option to turn off and on all the lights with just a single click or button. Now it seems this would be the solution for "events" like this.

itehache · February 2017

I did this to a guildie once just for the lolz too haha I obviously told him and helped him switching them on again

What can I say... block access to everyone in your house? xD I don't know. I know it can be irritating but the issue are your friends trolling you, not zenimax.

Myyth · February 2017

found the culprit....

TheNuminous1 · February 2017

So to touch on a few subjects.

1. My guilds are huge and if I even let one guild in there are trolls lurking everywhere. So being selective may be an option. But the point is I WANT lots of people in my house. So its more lively. We all know the problem of empty dead homes

2. Even having an option to turn on all the lights instantly dosent stop the ruining of my ambiance. I want the lights always on when people visit not just turned off all day while I'm off line so anyone who visits sees a dark house.

3. Funny trolling amongst friends is fine but this is happening every day. They are always off. And I only have my main guild have access now. So its obviously a troll amongst the rosters.

4. I just want to enjoy my home and have it open to the public without trolls thinking they are funny and going through all my hard work and make me go around fixing everything. Its not what I want to spend my time doing.

danno8 · February 2017

Beats having your lights knocked out.

*crickets*

BlackSparrow · February 2017

TheNuminous1 wrote: »

3. Funny trolling amongst friends is fine but this is happening every day. They are always off. And I only have my main guild have access now. So its obviously a troll amongst the rosters.

If you've narrowed it down to a single guild, here's what I'd try:

Talk to the leader of that guild. Tell them your situation, and see if they can institute a No Griefing policy, possibly stating in the daily announcements that members of the guild have been reporting Housing-related trolling, and that this is against guild policy. It may not stop the trolls, but it would give the guild justification to kick out these players, once found, on the grounds of harassment.
Then, start watching the guild roster. When you log in and find the lights off, go to the guild roster and see who logged in since you last turned all your lights on. Write down all the names.
Then, do Step 2 again.
Then, again.
Do this for a week or two and figure out what member or members are commonly on when your lights go off. Ban them individually from your house and see if the griefing stops.
You may identify some people unfairly, just because they're active... so when the griefing stops, start unbanning people and see if it starts up again. It may be multiple people, so you might need to do some trial and error to get the list narrowed down enough to be sure.
When you figure out who it is, submit the name(s) to your guild leader because, chances are if you're having an issue with this person, other members are as well. Even if the guild doesn't ban them outright, even a stern warning could be enough to curb this behavior.

It's work to do all this, but as annoying as this is, it'd probably be worth it in the long run.

If your guild leader isn't willing to help out with this, just try steps 2-6. It doesn't nip the problem in the bud, but it at least keeps your lights on.

techprince · February 2017

lol.

UrQuan · February 2017

Myyth wrote: »

found the culprit....

No joke, my cat figured out how to turn on my living room lights last week. OK, it was probably an accident, but you never know...

ArchMikem · February 2017

Citizens of Elder Scrolls Online. Please welcome.

Griefers.

Sincerely,
A Veteran player of Minecraft

Shardaxx · February 2017

I've only got about 20 lights and this still annoys me, I wish I could remove visitor's permission to turn off the lights/fires.

Mrquix0tic1 · February 2017

Totes-Bode wrote: »

TheNuminous1 wrote: »

You have been the worst kind of trolls I've ever encountered. With this new way to harass people me and many of my guildies have been plauged with serial light extinguishers and it has been a royal pain in my butthole.

Please ZOS add a way for me to switch the lighting permissions so people can't turn them off.

It takes way to long to go around and find all my lights. And ruins the ambiance I have spent so much time creating when random people or friends visit and its all dark.

I've been able to play ESO for years relatively troll free until this awful way to annoy me has been introduced.

I spent a lot on My house with both crowns and gold and have already since console launch but many many hours into decorating. My home is beautiful and I very much enjoy people visiting it! I want them to come and see it! But this new method of trolling makes me lock up my big house take away visitor access and set my tiny house as my main home. Just to keep the trolls away.

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Consider adding a way to stop others from interacting with my lights!!!!

Take your house off Visitors-ALL. Manually add the names of the 10 people you know who won't turn off your lights to get a reaction out of you. That's the end of your problem.

So, what you're saying is he should restrict his house to ten people because of a light issue? I don't think you have a house, or at least a large one. His house is one of the largest and is used for target dummy DPS testing, guild events like Hide and Seek. If he has to restrict it to a list of twelve or less than he would be changing it constantly. I believe an "all lights on" option would be an easy fix for this issue, or restrict light toggle for visitors.

I would not restrict the number of people access, that simply allows trolls win.

TheNuminous1 · February 2017

Mrquix0tic1 wrote: »

Totes-Bode wrote: »

TheNuminous1 wrote: »

You have been the worst kind of trolls I've ever encountered. With this new way to harass people me and many of my guildies have been plauged with serial light extinguishers and it has been a royal pain in my butthole.

Please ZOS add a way for me to switch the lighting permissions so people can't turn them off.

It takes way to long to go around and find all my lights. And ruins the ambiance I have spent so much time creating when random people or friends visit and its all dark.

I've been able to play ESO for years relatively troll free until this awful way to annoy me has been introduced.

I spent a lot on My house with both crowns and gold and have already since console launch but many many hours into decorating. My home is beautiful and I very much enjoy people visiting it! I want them to come and see it! But this new method of trolling makes me lock up my big house take away visitor access and set my tiny house as my main home. Just to keep the trolls away.

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Consider adding a way to stop others from interacting with my lights!!!!

Take your house off Visitors-ALL. Manually add the names of the 10 people you know who won't turn off your lights to get a reaction out of you. That's the end of your problem.

So, what you're saying is he should restrict his house to ten people because of a light issue? I don't think you have a house, or at least a large one. His house is one of the largest and is used for target dummy DPS testing, guild events like Hide and Seek. If he has to restrict it to a list of twelve or less than he would be changing it constantly. I believe an "all lights on" option would be an easy fix for this issue, or restrict light toggle for visitors.

I would not restrict the number of people access, that simply allows trolls win.

THANK YOU QUIX!!! As YOU are someone that Has actually been in my home and seen what it has to offer I'm glad unread this! It really feels like if be letting the trolls win if I cut off open access to the guild. I already cut 4 other guilds. My house went from having people running in and out to kinda empty

Oh and after matinence go check out the middle pod I finally got my crafting stations and made a workshop! Its glorious!

Mrquix0tic1 · February 2017

I will, and hopefully this rolling restart/crash issue finally gets fixed. Tired of loading screens

~

TheNuminous1 · February 2017

This is my special double weekend! And I hate that I'm losing game time. @Mrquix0tic1 but at least my lights won't be off when we get back in xD. But ya u can start coming over to deconstruct

Ashtaris · February 2017

If you don't have guildies that respect your home and leave the lights as they are, then you need to find new guildes.