Lumen_Flare wrote: »

Greetings to all who read this. If you, like me, have gotten into ESO Housing, then you know why this topic comes up again and again and again...and again....
I bring up this age old dilemma because of the new houses coming with Horns of the Reach, and no commitment from the devs on increasing max furnishings.

Linchal Manor, and even more so, High Hall, NEED more item spaces. This isn't a I couldn't build a chair cathedral becuz mai limits post. This is a legitimate help request:
With only 700 slots, the decorations are so terribly limited, you really would have a hard time doing the notable homes justice. I own a Mournoth keep, and with 400 items it was a challenge to fill at first glance. Breton Rugs carpeted most of the floor without issue, and looked fine. Furniture didn't take very much to add. Lighting, no problem. I even went and build a deck outside, and was just under the 200 non premium limit. Then I realized: All I had done was take the first step. I now required over 200 small furnishings, like books, food, cutlery, etc to make the place feel lively. Without them, it was but an empty shell. I don't even have the crafting stations, Merchant/banker/smuggler, training dummy, or anything. Just livening the place up put me on the cusp of 400. I couldn't even DREAM of making the place work with 200. Now look at a place like Earthtear Cavern: You could fit Mournoth keep inside that cave at least twice, let alone if you actually try building over the water. In Earthtear, you will need a TON of lighting simply due to the size of the place, probably a roof (unless you like floating chandeliers), a furnished bar, bedroom above the doorway, all the fixings. To buy just the cave alone is at minimum! close to 14000 crowns, 16.5k furnished. Furnishings from the store will run you a quick bill, bringing just the basics up to almost 200$. Or you can do it with in-game currency, and look high and low for that 1 thing you need, only to find it, if you even can, for an obscene amount of money.

But lets say you pull it off. Finally get every furnishing you might ever want and or need for your guildbase/personal retreat. Now you're staring in the face the most evil challenge in all the game:
the item cap. 350/700 depending on if you were already sacrificing your wallet. To build and or furnish a massive cavern to monumental standards. And here's the best part: when Reach comes out, High Hall will be even bigger still! Its a mansion to furnish in addition to a massive yard and cave, + side buildings! Just TRY, I dare you, TRY and furnish that without tossing zos enough for +. Even with plus it's still too low of an item cap. Linchal will need at least 1000 to make it sane for decorators to work with it. High Hall will be more still. You can't make a massive player home, practically its own plane of oblivion, and then expect the people willing to stab their wallet to death to make it happen to be satisfied with mediocre.

We NEED more item spaces, at least for the larger homes and mansions.That still wouldn't fix all the problems, as the smaller homes have their own shortcomings as well, many of which would be fixed with a broad spectrum increase in player home capacity.