While I don't have many alts, I do agree in having said characters as special furnishings. You can make any empty house you have more lively, as well as make use of those giant halls that feel hollow without guests.

Plus, it feels weird entering a home you set for one of your alts as someone else. Rather rude, innit? Even if it's yourself invading your own privacy.

Been a while since I last saw this suggested.

It's one of those things that pops up every few months since it is sucha a good idea.

The only thing your list missed, from the previous iterations of this idea, is to have access to the alts inventory. Would make inventory management lot less of a hassle.

As an extra, I just thought, that maybe they could add some class specific idles to the game. They would really add life to characters in general, and would work doubly well if you could place them in houses. Extra props if you could differentiate between stamina and magicka dps and tank and healer types.

So far ZOS has not commented on it at all. I guess they never will. I guess they make most of their money from loot boxes, weird novelty mounts, and selling huge manors. That and the yearly tithe they get from chapters (i.e. lot of people buy them, play them for a month or two and then leave until next years chapters drops.) Everything else is just irrelevat and does not get much attention from the devs. That incldues housing and adding new features and functionality to it.

I doubt that implementing it would be all that hard, but I alos don't think the game has any mechanisms available at this point that would support it. I.e. they'd actually have to code some new functions, and they'd rather spend all that dev time on making overpriced re-skins of weird mounts to sell on the Clown Store.

Easiest way I could see this done, is by adding "mannequins" items to the game. You'd craft the or buy them and then go to a "mannequin dress up station", which would then clone your characters current attire, physical appearance, and personality settings. This way you would not have to worry about keeping dynamic links between the furnishing version of your character and the real deal. If the character on which it was based changes, then you'd have to update the clone or create a new one.

And personally I'd prefer it that way. I would "craft" versions of my characters in their civvies instead of their battlefield gear and drop them into my many houses. The one's tehy're supposed to live in, and I'd like to see them relax and unwind in their homes when I visit them.

And since all my characters have some ties to one antoher, "retainer, mentor, spouse, adopted daughter, cousins and so on an so on" it'd be really nice to be able to take some screenshots where they actually appear next to one another. -Edit- Oh and if I could create multiple versions of these mannequins... I'd also make versions of them in their sunday bests to drop as visitors in houses of other characters. And also forgot to mention that another fun functionality would be if these "clone" also served as target dummies, maybe for a hefty extra crown fee to incentivise ZOS into making these things. Would make the student/mentor relationship between some character that much cooler.- End of edit-

But all in all, I think ZOS sees this as something that requires too much work doesn't have enough crowns in it to bother with.

Oh please make it happen. Add emotions loops to setup on those characters and we are ready to have one of the best additions to housing!

Back when I played EQ2 they had 'NPC's' you could buy for your home. You could have them napping on a bed or sofa or sitting /standing in your home. They came in different races and were dressed casually. I bought a few to place around my homes and it made them feel less empty.