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Homestead Character Pathing? Yes please!
Zenzuki
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So I just saw this in the upcoming patch notes...
"Homestead Character Pathing:
With the addition of Character Pathing to the Housing system, you can build paths for your abode’s many residents (including pets, mounts, and assistants) to follow. You can specify many locations (nodes) for each path, and pick their walk speed, add delays, and even decide whether they loop through to their original location, ping-pong back and forth along the path, or travel between nodes at random. With this new addition, your homes will feel more alive than ever before!"
Yes!!!
This has been a big request for quite some time and I believe an awesome QOL addition for housing.
No longer will we have to watch our poor mounts, pets and assistants be anchored to the ground like sad sacks!
I also like to see that they've not just "called it a day" with housing! First big change was the addition of the "fine tuning" options for placing items to now this!!!
Gotta give props where due....
Excellent job ZOS! Thanks you for another awesome housing addition!
"Homestead Character Pathing:
With the addition of Character Pathing to the Housing system, you can build paths for your abode’s many residents (including pets, mounts, and assistants) to follow. You can specify many locations (nodes) for each path, and pick their walk speed, add delays, and even decide whether they loop through to their original location, ping-pong back and forth along the path, or travel between nodes at random. With this new addition, your homes will feel more alive than ever before!"
Yes!!!
This has been a big request for quite some time and I believe an awesome QOL addition for housing.
No longer will we have to watch our poor mounts, pets and assistants be anchored to the ground like sad sacks!
I also like to see that they've not just "called it a day" with housing! First big change was the addition of the "fine tuning" options for placing items to now this!!!
Gotta give props where due....
Excellent job ZOS! Thanks you for another awesome housing addition!
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NotaDaedraWorshipper✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭This makes me so happy. Finally something to make our houses feel more alive and less empty of life!
I hope they will soon add various placeable npcs aswell, to go along with this.[Lie] Of course! I don't even worship Daedra!5 -
Karmanorway✭✭✭✭✭
✭Im stoked aswell, im building a City inside Earthtear Cavern, lots of lifelike npcs is just what i needed xD oh and the elder scroll, almost there 😂Edited by Karmanorway on July 10, 2020 2:57AM2 -
amapola76✭✭✭✭✭
✭They also mentioned something in the livestream about new "houseguests." (Collectible? Rewards? Purchaseable? I watched the whole thing, but may have missed a couple of details.)2 -
Seminolegirl1992✭✭✭✭✭Karmanorway wrote: »Im stoked aswell, im building a City inside Earthtear Cavern, lots of lifelike npcs is just what i needed xD oh and the elder scroll, almost there 😂
Oooh, may I see your home?@Seminolegirl1992 PC/NA CP 2700+ PVE, PVP, RP, Housing: Tel Galen, Fair Winds, Moon Sugar, Grand Psijic, Forsaken, HOTLC, Bastion, Ravenhurst, Gardner, Alinor, Hakkvild's, Gorinir, Kragenhome, Hundings, & more- feel free to come see!Misery's Master | Unstoppable | Mindmender | Swashbuckler Supreme | Planesbreaker | Dawnbringer | Godslayer | Gryphon Heart | Immortal Redeemer | Tick Tock Tormentor | Dro-m'athra Destroyer | Former Empress2 -
Kittytravel✭✭✭✭✭"Houseguests will also be added. They’ll be collectible characters that you can include in your house to grant it more life."
That's the exact quote they gave so while there isn't anything concrete we can assume we will see the additions of NPC to collect either through Crown Store or more ideally maybe through old quests we've completed; maybe those people we saved in all those zones end up wanting to live with us.11 -
kargen27✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I have been planning for a while to make a kind of live carousel thing using all the Indrik that I have. Now that they will be able to walk in a circle I guess I should quit planning and do it. The carousel is going to be part of an outdoor bazaar I kind of sorta have a little bit laid out. Just gotta start placing stuff.and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."6 -
Zenzuki✭✭✭✭✭I would also like to see the addition of a guestbook.
Just a book we could place somewhere in the property that we could look at and see a list of who's visited and when and maybe how long they hung about.
It'd be nice to see how much all your hard work making a beautiful property is being visited/appreciated while you're offline or running about in Tamriel.
Seeing that they are, in fact, updating the housing experience, it gives me hope that we'll one day see this added as well.Can Open...
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big_ear_midget✭✭✭Kittytravel wrote: »"Houseguests will also be added. They’ll be collectible characters that you can include in your house to grant it more life."
That's the exact quote they gave so while there isn't anything concrete we can assume we will see the additions of NPC to collect either through Crown Store or more ideally maybe through old quests we've completed; maybe those people we saved in all those zones end up wanting to live with us.
So you are going to open a homeless shelter? 0 -
Asdara✭✭✭✭✭
✭yeahhhh but doors tho ^^“The Second Era? Oh, you mean the BEAM Era. Because apparently every problem could be solved with a giant glowing light shooting at everything.”0 -
Zenzuki✭✭✭✭✭yeahhhh but doors tho ^^
NPC's can already interact with doors, so the assistants and "houseguests" shouldn't have a problem (though I imagine ZOS will only allow this pathing to be either "all" indoors or out) thus not having to deal with this.
The pets/mounts...
well, most don't have opposable thumbs so I don't imagine doors are gonna be an issue for them as they don't use them anyway.
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Syldras✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »I hope they will soon add various placeable npcs aswell, to go along with this.
My guess: Crown store.
It would be nice though, to have some guards patrol in front of my mansion, just for decoration.@Syldras | PC | EU
The forceful expression of will gives true honor to the Ancestors.
Sarayn Andrethi, Telvanni mage (Main)
Darvasa Andrethi, his "I'm NOT a Necromancer!" sister
Malacar Sunavarlas, Altmer Ayleid vampire
Soris Rethandus, a Sleeper not yet awake3 -
SydneyGrey✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Chickens that wander around the yard and don't just stay in one spot.
Yes, I like this quite a lot.12 -
NotaDaedraWorshipper✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »I hope they will soon add various placeable npcs aswell, to go along with this.
My guess: Crown store.
It would be nice though, to have some guards patrol in front of my mansion, just for decoration.
Sadly, it's what I guess aswell. But it would be nice, along with some servants. So weird not having personnel in the mansions.[Lie] Of course! I don't even worship Daedra!1 -
kargen27✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I would also like to see the addition of a guestbook.
Just a book we could place somewhere in the property that we could look at and see a list of who's visited and when and maybe how long they hung about.
It'd be nice to see how much all your hard work making a beautiful property is being visited/appreciated while you're offline or running about in Tamriel.
Seeing that they are, in fact, updating the housing experience, it gives me hope that we'll one day see this added as well.
I've wanted a guest book for a while now with an option to allow guests to leave a short note. I usually suggest this along with a drop down menu that would be attached to each house when you got to maps then homes. To access the menu right click on the house name and it would give you a short list of players homes you can port to and visit. The names would be random so each time you access it you get different options. Players would have to opt in for their homes to be on the list.and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."2 -
Nomadic_Atmoran✭✭✭✭✭
✭They also mentioned something in the livestream about new "houseguests." (Collectible? Rewards? Purchaseable? I watched the whole thing, but may have missed a couple of details.)
They did and Im hoping they make all sorts of guests that we can place all over our houses.Penniless Sellsword CompanyCaptain Paramount Jorrhaq VhentKorith Eaglecry - Laerinel Rhaev - Enrerion - Caius Berilius - Seylina Ithvala - Signa Squallrider - H'Vak the GrimjawlYynril Rothvani - Tenarei Rhaev - Bathes-In-Coin - Dazsh Ro Khar - Aredyhel - Reads-To-Frogs - Azjani Ma'LesKheshna gra-Gharbuk - Gallisten Bondurant - Aban Shahid Bakr - Etain Maquier - Atsu Kalame - Faulpia Severinus1 -
Zenzuki✭✭✭✭✭JamieAubrey wrote: »Link to these patch notes ?
Sorry. Not patch notes but notes in this official announcement.
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/58465Can Open...
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Zenzuki✭✭✭✭✭So I was thinking about this and was like, hmmm...
I think I remember something about this very thing, and then it hit me!!!
This is a post of mine from January 2017...Perhaps pets and mounts (and merchants/bankers) could be given a "wandering circle" where they are able to move around and perform their actions - have it so you could see the circle outlined while placing them in the house, and it would be up to players to place them appropriately (using the outlined circle as a guide) so the npcs could move freely.
Would this be possible?
Would really like to see the placed pets and npcs showing a little life.
Better yet. . .
It would be nice to be able to select the npc/pet and then select "record" (or some button of that ilk) and then while holding the object... walk the path you wish the npc/pet to follow! Once you've "pathed" the course to your liking, place the npc/pet down and it will follow that course, stopping at intervals to emote, etc., until it is removed or edited!
This would give the houses life as these things would be moving about the property and whenever you arrive would be at different places all the time. These things just standing rigidly stationary is off-putting and not very realistic of what they should/would be doing naturally!
They're even calling it "Pathing"... sweet!
So now we kinda know about how long it takes to implement a thing in the game! lol Can Open...
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Karmanorway✭✭✭✭✭
✭Seminolegirl1992 wrote: »Karmanorway wrote: »Im stoked aswell, im building a City inside Earthtear Cavern, lots of lifelike npcs is just what i needed xD oh and the elder scroll, almost there 😂
Oooh, may I see your home?
Yes i will show you when its finshed, shouldnt be long now👌1 -
santhoranb16_ESO✭✭✭Thats the best feature since long time!
It will really great to have this addition in ESO.
I'm about 100x more interested in this then the next dungeon/zone!4 -
Nairinhe✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭That's unlikely to happen, but it would be so cool if guest "furnishings" could be NPC we actually met and not just some new characters. Just imagine, you come home and...
YOU KNOW HOW LONG I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU?!7 -
Jaimeh✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I hope the pathing will allow walking along made structures, so if we have built a staircase, or multiple levels, for eg., they can walk there as well.0 -
Syldras✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Some months ago, someone suggested you should be able to put your other chars in your home as "guests". I'm not sure what to think of that though. Seeing them idling around would be one thing, but if they don't react on you at all (just continue what they are doing and ram you when you stand in their way), it would feel a bit weird and unrealistic, actually.
From NPCs, I would exspect that they give some random comment or greeting (as it is with regular guards when you try to talk to them), but getting a random voice and random lines assigned to player chars... I'm not sure about that. I have an exact idea how my chars sound and what they would say or wouldn't say, and I think I'm not the only one (which probably is why the player char is not voiced in dialogues?). So - yeah, what is it for when they just walk through the house like ghosts? I have the same problem with AC games: Masses of people but not interactable, like a cardboard backdrop. It's immersion-breaking for me.@Syldras | PC | EU
The forceful expression of will gives true honor to the Ancestors.
Sarayn Andrethi, Telvanni mage (Main)
Darvasa Andrethi, his "I'm NOT a Necromancer!" sister
Malacar Sunavarlas, Altmer Ayleid vampire
Soris Rethandus, a Sleeper not yet awake0 -
Coatmagic✭✭✭✭✭
✭*imagines playing find the assistant in any of the larger homes* xD
Naw this'll be fun!0 -
Nemesis7884✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭but what do you do with this besides setting it up once and then having it? I would love more things to actually DO in my houses to have a reason to visit them...1 -
terrordactyl1971✭✭✭✭Great idea. I look forward to having all of my pets wandering around my houses1 -
Syldras✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Nemesis7884 wrote: »but what do you do with this besides setting it up once and then having it? I would love more things to actually DO in my houses to have a reason to visit them...
What would you suggest?@Syldras | PC | EU
The forceful expression of will gives true honor to the Ancestors.
Sarayn Andrethi, Telvanni mage (Main)
Darvasa Andrethi, his "I'm NOT a Necromancer!" sister
Malacar Sunavarlas, Altmer Ayleid vampire
Soris Rethandus, a Sleeper not yet awake0 -
Nemesis7884✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Nemesis7884 wrote: »but what do you do with this besides setting it up once and then having it? I would love more things to actually DO in my houses to have a reason to visit them...
What would you suggest?
I dunno
arenas for duels or pet battles, fishing spots, dummies that allow you to level up skill lines,...
lets be creative; what do other mmos do that have really good housing?0 -
terrordactyl1971✭✭✭✭Nemesis7884 wrote: »Nemesis7884 wrote: »but what do you do with this besides setting it up once and then having it? I would love more things to actually DO in my houses to have a reason to visit them...
What would you suggest?
I dunno
arenas for duels or pet battles, fishing spots, dummies that allow you to level up skill lines,...
lets be creative; what do other mmos do that have really good housing?
Would be fun if we could gamble gold on the outcome of pet duels0
