I really like your idea of daily nodes to harvest! That’s kinda like the dragonguard chest that’s next to the shrine. Great idea

Harvestable crafting nodes would probably be exploited, unless it was like a once-a-day-per-account box with random little goodies in it

What about crafting writs? Just need a certification board and a turn-in point. It would be nice to have another reason to see guildies in guild halls, but it might draw population outside of towns

Caelc wrote: »

Zos has given up on updating housing, When was the last real update? 1 to 2 years ago?

I DO wonder if this is because of pricing. Yeah, they look great but for the asking price, they're just not worth the real world money. I honestly think they outpriced themselves with the housing, so financials said they were a bomb while a lot of players would probably own multiple if they were half the price. (much like most of the store)


Crafting nodes that were in-house could always be less of a reward, so it's not broken? it's not a perfect fix but it would be a compromise.

Some of the issues you list are due to the fact that housing is and always has been an afterthought. Housing was added quite late in the life of the game, so some of the features you list are incorporated elsewhere. Instead of daily harvesting nodes (like GW2 or SWTOR for example), ESO has daily hirelings as part of the crafting passives, because these predate housing.

Whenever newbies in my guilds ask 'what the point of housing is', I always reply with: 'Storage, Dummies, Crafting, Decoration'. 1) Storage is a unique bonus of housing and with all Storage Chests unlocked players can get a 'secondary bank' of 360 slots. That's not a negligible number. 2) Training dummies are also only available in housing so they're a great and useful addition to homes and the game in general! 3) Crafting stations While you can find set stations in the world, many of these are DLC locked so using an ESO+ trial to unlock all DLC stations and the CWC-locked Transmutation station for your house, or just using a guild hall that has these unlocked, is a useful QoL perk for people without ESO+ or all DLCs. 4) Decoration can be a fun end in itself, with the monkey fan, music boxes, and talking statues like Abnur or the Augur being unique and fun extras.

Of course, I would be happy too if we could get more functionality in our homes. We've been asking for weapon and armour displays, didn't get them so far; asked for instruments or bard NPCs, got music boxes and only gongs. People have also suggested adding wayshrines and NPCs (like guards, chefs, mages, priests, bards) in dozens of threads, with no result so far. They have tried adding some interaction to houses to be fair (with the Aeonstone furnishing that lights up the other stones in Potato's Retreat, and the baseline Blacksmithing station in Forgemaster Falls) but overall housing gets very little love relatively to its price and other aspects of the game.

But what really bothers me in housing is that it's considered an afterthought that requires other forms of gameplay, but itself has no effect on the game outside of the house. Decorations (existing only to make houses pretty) are locked behind vet HM trials, master writ farms, daily achievement grinds. But once you grind your house complete, it has no effect on anything. In SWTOR fully unlocked houses provide an X% Conquest point bonus for example. Nothing in ESO.

Meanwhile ZOS is perfectly happy to lock powerful Mythic items behind the new mobile game system of scrying and excavating. Can you imagine the outrage if they locked even a single PvE item behind housing? But why not, I ask? Housing requires way more time, money and effort than Greymoor's new 'Antiquities system' minigames, and yet we'll see powerful item rewards for those and none for housing. Even worse, they'll even lock some new decorations behind those minigame grinds so housing fans will once again have to do unrelated grinds in order to get the items that they actually like.

tl;dr: read only the bold stuff; I know my post is long , sorry!

Current Functionality:

1. Target Dummies
2. Storage Containers
3. Attuned Crafting Stations (more convenient than travelling to each station in Tamriel)

For adding more functionality to housing:

1. Port for Free FROM your house to any wayshrine (or add a furniture piece that functions like a wayshrine). The extra loading screen to access the wayshrine not far from the front door does annoy players.
2. Daily Writ Boards and Turn-in Location inside your house! (some of us dislike the lag of a city hub and placing all my characters in a house to do their writs would be very nice!)
3. Vendors/Assistants with more features: as suggested above, when used as furniture the Merchant would Repair, the banker would allow Guild feature access. It would also be great if the Fence would launder and fence without any additional fees - you are letting her stay in your house after all.
4. Shadowy Supplier for your house: Once unlocked on the DB skill tree you should get her as a "furniture" item to place in your house to visit her daily for her offerings. I just adore Remains-Silent and she has a bed reserved for her in my main's house already!
5. Copy of Dragonguard Supply Chest for your house? It would be nice to not have to go to Southern Elsweyr everyday just for this, as more dlcs are added it can become more time consuming to port for these sorts of things. Then again I would also love a Crow npc for my CWC daily in my house....put everything in one place for more efficient morning routine (writs, dragonguard, crow, shadowy supplier)
6. I love the idea of harvestable nodes of some sort for our homes, or farmable plots for prov ingredients even. I also see people requesting a personal fishing hole for their house.
7. More storage and/or varied storage: for example a very large closet but you can only put bound gear items in it. (or for us furniture hoarders, a large storage container that you can only put furniture items in)
8. A buff for logging out in your house for a certain amount of time would be nice (experience, crafting experience, loot double for nodes, faster run speed, find more gold...something customizable so that characters at any stage of the game could use it)
9. Hair-colour changer/Skin colour changer. We have the equippable hair styles/body markings/scars/etc but so far the only way to change hair or skin colour (I think) is to buy a character appearance change token thing. Which is kind of a rip-off if the only thing you want to do is change your hair from red to black. (this could also be implemented similar to other collectibles and you just "equip" your hair colour of choice - but hey, it could be a housing feature I suppose!

That's all I can think of for purely functional features, I find housing a great outlet for creativity so I don't really NEED it to have a lot of function, but I understand how those less inclined to decorating would view housing as very expensive for minimal functionality (and you have to purchase the functionality separately from the house with crowns, gold, writ voucher and whatnot)

xWarbrain wrote: »

Not being able to use ground based attacks on floors that I build sucks. I have the Private Arena and built a whole system of ramps and bridges that we can't even fight on. Massive lake of lava I built over that can't be used for duels or test dummies.

If this is a thing, that is a horrendous shame. It sounds like you put a lot of work into improving the arena only to hit the proverbial "invisible wall". I wonder why they would make that a thing...

Tigerseye wrote: »

I think this DLC should revolve around making houses into functional little businesses (shops, bar/restaurants, guest houses, art galleries, schools, museums etc.) and allow you to add more NPCs for your houses, like receptionists, chefs, waiters, teachers, cleaners and so on.

It could add the things you suggest and also, weekly quests related to keeping the business(es) you made running.

These quests could deliver you a weekly wage, from your business(es), to help you grab back some of the gold you have poured into housing and furnishing.

I know housing is probably supposed to be gold sink, but there is (as far as I know) no other part of the game that doesn't deliver you back your initial investment, and normally more than that, via daily quest rewards etc..

Which means people have to be extremely devoted to housing/furnishing to do it, at all, as it is (pretty much uniquely) a pure financial loss.

I would absolutely love this. Granted, it might require a "preview/visitor" system like SWTOR has (letting ANYONE view your base) it would be amazing to allow your own businesses to run there. Currently, i hate the store system as it's cool but completely locks out average players from selling items unless they are in merchant guild. I think Nazhimeh and other stores would sell better if they let you sell items, as well, specifically when placed in a homestead.




Armor sets and displays, as suggested, would be amazing as well.