Housing item limits too low

BXR_Lonestar · March 2019

I know this is a topic that has probably been discussed before, but being new to customizing my own home (Thank you for the Psijic Manner btw!), but the housing limits are way too low, especially for large houses. I have ESO Plus, which doubles my item limits, and yet, I'm sitting at over half my capacity and I've decorated a small portion of the outside of my house and some portions of my interior.

I know people have asked for straight item increases for the cap, but I always wondered why they don't let us simply buy extra capacity for crowns and crown gems? They could easily sell us, for example, a 100 item increase for standard furniture items, or 10 collectible items, etc. for 500 crows, or whatever their price point is. This way, we are simply paying for however much storage we want - and those revenues could be used for better servers to handle the loading issues having a crowded house may cause or whatever other issues it may cause on Zenimax's back end. I know I personally would love to have the option of purchasing more space. I'm sure that I'm probably not the only one.

Or alternatively, allow simple/basic items like bricks, retaining walls, plants, etc. not count against the cap. Just that alone would provide a massive improvement.

Anyways, just throwing that out there. Let me know what your thoughts are.

Zypheran · March 2019

You say your new to housing so welcome to the community. Indeed you're right, this issue has been raised many times but it never hurts to have another contributing thread.
ZOS have given several bland statements on this saying that it's something they are looking at but offers technical challenges that they are still looking at.... 2 years later - no update.
However, suggestions to have been made by the community to help ameliorate the issue such as;
Separate load cells for internal structures (i.e. 700 slots for inside and 700 for outside)
Creating more one piece clutter, such as filled shelves, laid tables etc.
However, even this goes ignored. I'm sorry to tell you as you as you get into housing, but this is a very neglected aspect of the game. We get very little traction on our requests and ZERO feedback or responses from the dev team.
But it's a great community so welcome 👍

BXR_Lonestar · March 2019

Thank you for the welcome! ESO definitely has an awesome community, and I just absolutely love the game!

Yeah, I saw that people were complaining about it being neglected. Not sure its a hot-button item, but as they sell houses, furniture, etc. for crowns, it only makes sense that they sell storage space for crowns IMO. My thought process was that by linking additional storage space to microtransactions, they could cover the cost of additional server bandwidth or any additional work they need to do in order to significantly expand the number of items we can have in our house. And it is entirely cosmetic, so if people don't want to purchase the extra space, they won't. But lets be honest here, if your serious about house decorating, you gotta have ESO plus for the x2 space, so all those players are already somewhat inclined to spend money investing in the game anyways.

All of the ideas you threw out sound good as well. But IMO, a system that allows players to purchase however much space they want could be a win-win between the player community and Zenimax. We get additional space we want, and the developer gets an additional revenue stream to cover the cost of maintaining additional server space and/or address bugs/glitches/issues that having a full house may cause. At any rate, I thought it would be good to float out there, seeing as Zenimax seems to listen to their community better than Bungie ever listened to its community about Destiny

Mancombe_Nosehair · March 2019

I think that plus subscribers should have higher limits for the massive houses, something like triple, quadruple or even unlimited, but only for the biggest ones.

I neither have plus or a massive house, by the way, nor do I plan on doing so.

MornaBaine · March 2019

Zypheran wrote: »

You say your new to housing so welcome to the community. Indeed you're right, this issue has been raised many times but it never hurts to have another contributing thread.
ZOS have given several bland statements on this saying that it's something they are looking at but offers technical challenges that they are still looking at.... 2 years later - no update.
However, suggestions to have been made by the community to help ameliorate the issue such as;
Separate load cells for internal structures (i.e. 700 slots for inside and 700 for outside)
Creating more one piece clutter, such as filled shelves, laid tables etc.
However, even this goes ignored. I'm sorry to tell you as you as you get into housing, but this is a very neglected aspect of the game. We get very little traction on our requests and ZERO feedback or responses from the dev team.
But it's a great community so welcome 👍

You've covered everything I'd have to say here. It's dispiriting, to say the least. At this point I'd be "happy" to just see them say, "Okay, we looked at it and decided we can't make any improvements. It is what it is." That would at least be honest. But I think they KNOW that many of us buy houses in the HOPE that one day we'll actually get improvements and be really able to enjoy them. They know if they take that hope away by admitting that they aren't actually ever going to do anything their sales will drop.

Nerouyn · March 2019

BXR_Lonestar wrote: »

They could easily sell us, for example, a 100 item increase for standard furniture items, or 10 collectible items, etc. for 500 crows, or whatever their price point is.

You must be super new around here.

Their price point would probably be at least 10 times that. No seriously.

Zypheran wrote: »

Creating more one piece clutter, such as filled shelves, laid tables etc.
However, even this goes ignored.

https://eso.mmo-fashion.com/alinor-bookshelf-grand-full/

BXR_Lonestar · March 2019

New to the forums, sure, but I've been playing the game for a couple years now, and been a plus member for over 6 months. I'm familiar with their crown store pricing. I'm not sure what their pricing point would be for more capacity, but so long as it was a fairly even deal, I would definitely consider using crowns to buy more space for my houses. At any rate, it was just an idea I thought would be worth putting out there for consideration.

notimetocare · March 2019

MornaBaine wrote: »

Zypheran wrote: »

You say your new to housing so welcome to the community. Indeed you're right, this issue has been raised many times but it never hurts to have another contributing thread.
ZOS have given several bland statements on this saying that it's something they are looking at but offers technical challenges that they are still looking at.... 2 years later - no update.
However, suggestions to have been made by the community to help ameliorate the issue such as;
Separate load cells for internal structures (i.e. 700 slots for inside and 700 for outside)
Creating more one piece clutter, such as filled shelves, laid tables etc.
However, even this goes ignored. I'm sorry to tell you as you as you get into housing, but this is a very neglected aspect of the game. We get very little traction on our requests and ZERO feedback or responses from the dev team.
But it's a great community so welcome 👍

You've covered everything I'd have to say here. It's dispiriting, to say the least. At this point I'd be "happy" to just see them say, "Okay, we looked at it and decided we can't make any improvements. It is what it is." That would at least be honest. But I think they KNOW that many of us buy houses in the HOPE that one day we'll actually get improvements and be really able to enjoy them. They know if they take that hope away by admitting that they aren't actually ever going to do anything their sales will drop.

I mean, at this point you have the answer that the cap isnt increasing because it isnt..

notimetocare · March 2019

OP, the item limit is really just something that needs managed. I've made posts on it before. Focus item counts on what matters what needs more or what needs less.

An entry way needs little. Most bedrooms need little. If your house is based on a mage, focus the study. My snow globe has about 1/3rd of my item count. Kitchen is second, and I still have hundreds of slots.

Make proper use of space. If you have a large ballroom for example, you need maybe 30 items to make it look good. Tables and chairs on the edge, a light every other pillar.

I understand why so many hate the limit, but it does not stop anyone from making a good looking house. It makes it so that you get less clutter, but doesn't reduce important things. Think about model homes, for so much of a house that is all you need. Even with my snow globe, I could use far less than I did. I just filled with what I was able to.

Sera67 · March 2019

it doesn't even need to be huge push ether.

Most of blue screen homes on ps4, are do to to many lights or all mundus stones bunched up.

Most of small homes should be 25/50 to 40/80. You look and inn room pic in loading screen... you can't even get 1/4 of that look with out eso+

Domas is my Dwemer Cave, (never had anyone have issue) (200/400) or 700 homes.
200/400 could both be bumped 50. And it should make little differnce.

I get some people want (need) 2000+ item homes... I would go nutts to.

Most of smaller ones need major/Minor bumps and they be more useful. (200/400 is biggest I own) 50 more spots would be a godsend...

Flaming Nix, is pretty full with 100, And pretty meh with 50. Love to see that go 75/150.