Sounds like a great idea.

This would be awesome!

I can't see how it would get any use. You would have to invite people to your home, or count on them choosing to visit if they know you.

spartaxoxo wrote: »

I can see this working well for furniture stores that people make. You place a copy or the furnishings you can make in an attractive way and people can go buy them or browse what else you have to sell.

It would also be a good way for guild leaders to list items that have been donated to the guild.

I think I'd rather have a furniture thrift store or something instead. But for straight up trading, I think I like the guild system better, even with all its flaws

El_Borracho wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

I can see this working well for furniture stores that people make. You place a copy or the furnishings you can make in an attractive way and people can go buy them or browse what else you have to sell.

It would also be a good way for guild leaders to list items that have been donated to the guild.

I think I'd rather have a furniture thrift store or something instead. But for straight up trading, I think I like the guild system better, even with all its flaws

A furniture thrift store is far too niche and I don't even know how they would implement such a thing.

A trader in only your house would just make it easier to do trade people are already doing by scheduling times. There's a lot of within guild and friends trading that exists outside of the guild trade system. This would simplify those transactions rather than being something that competed with a guild trader system as there's only a limited number of people that can visit your home.

Like I know many people/guilds will sell luxury furniture by telling people they can visit their house between 7 and 8pm on Thursday or whatever, or they will link stuff in guild chat and then say WTS and sell it only to their guildmates for reduced prices.

That's the kind of trade a house furnishing would facilitate as entire zones cannot browse your house.

I don't have house visitors.

edit: I also don't have much to sell. I'd never make it in a trade guild, even if I wanted to join one.

Guild trader? Sure, except we don't really have actual dedicated guild halls. So, it will basically be a guild trader in everyone's home and apartment, which doesn't make sense.

Personal trader? Seems pretty pointless. I can only assume you want more stuff/people in your house to interact with and feel more immersed? Might as well add other miscellaneous NPCs in your house: enchanters, blacksmiths, some thieves, drunkards, beggars, etc..
I can imagine you meet an enchanter or some other merchant that you liked and pay them a fee to come set up shop in your residence (sounds dumb, but let's go with it). You're questing in some town and suddenly a random thief NPC starts sneaking behind you. Next thing you know, he followed you to your home and is now sneaking around your merchants and "pretend stealing" from them. You find a quest-starting items from a random drop in the world, and after opening it, you see that it's an invitation to a party for NPC named "Fonzie". You deliver it to them and end the quest. Turns out it's a magical item that binds to whoever opens it first, thus you are now the host and invited some drunkard named "Fonzie". He's now terrorizing your merchants and animals and is in the process of sexually assaulting your atronach training dummy.

VaranisArano wrote: »

Yes...but I'd also like a Banker that has access to my guild stores and a Merchant who can repair my gear so I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get lucky anytime soon.

I Second this! Very very EMPHATICALLY!

BulletMagnetX wrote: »

I'm not sure what you would use it for exactly.

I'd be more inclined to spend time in my houses if they got invaded by bandits and monsters from time to time.

Please this is my worst nightmare, I feel homes are a haven. If it was optional I may use it if I was feeling like it but definitely don't want that by default.

I don't want this persay, but do want a guild bank / guild store assistant. Both for home and the wild.

Would pay 10k crowns happily..

Or a banker that just does both

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

You know if they do add traders to homes it won't be a personal trader only you can set up shop; that would be too much strain on their servers if everyone had their very own in house shop and difficult to track data for them. No, it'll be a global trader that guilds would have to bid against like any other, the difference is you're just paying crowns to have that particular trader in a home that would be connected to all others who placed the same one in their homes as well.

Unless the servers are made of cardboard, they ought not to have a hard time tracking simple lists of items for sale. Just loading a single player probably has more data to track than a thousand of those lists.

What puts strain on the server is a lot of players in the same area, and houses already have strict population caps. So they are ideal for personal traders. In fact, it would probably help the server perform better because it would help thin the general population out across all areas and divide them up more.

Make the banker do it.

No, but as the fellow player above said, as in 'wouldn't want it for myself but I would not be opposed to the idea'.

That is how it was implemented in FO76 with the vending machines and I was never fond of it there, I cannot see myself being fond of it in this game either.

If however it would be implemented like it was in FO76 where the 'stock' was kept in one's own storage - and all the shenanigans that came with that choice - rather than the trader having its own storage as regular guild traders do then no, not at all, not for me neither for anyone else.

I'd rather they make an actual Auction House that everyone can participate on. Then, maybe we can circle back and discuss other trading related concerns.