KnightsMentor wrote: »

Please ZOS by the Divines! Enough with the grandiose villas and estates. Add more smaller to medium sized homes, abodes that can actually be furnished without spending every last piece of coin purchasing furniture or all the gold materials in the bank to produce enough things to fill the vast blank spaces.

I agree that they should make smaller houses too, but I gotta say that the problem isn't just ZoS when it comes to the expense. Houses seem to be for whales now. I remember "back in my day" when I was buying masses of mundane runes for like 50 gp a pop and thinking THAT was expensive at the time. It was a coordinated effort on the part of people abusing TTC that made them as expensive as they are as a response to the new opportunities presented when ZoS started releasing more and more large homes. People literally just decided to start charging more and more for the things. I will say however that I have brought up more than a few solutions on these forums and so have a ton of other people to solve that problem and ZoS looked at them. ZoS responded by editing a message calling them out (not by me) for conspiracy of which there was no such thing presented in the message. I should know I read it before it was edited. So ZoS knows about the problem and just isn't doing anything about it.

As someone who does (or at this point used to do) housing for a fee it's been hard on me and other serious decorators too. It used to be how I made my gold. How it costs tens of millions in materials alone to do a notable home. That leaves negative space for pay. Most people can't even finish decorating their notables because of the prices. I should know I have like 7 unfinished projects which it would take me like a hundred million plus like $400 in crowns to finish all of. And that's with current market prices, things are only getting more expensive.

And no if anyone is going to respond with "inflation" please save your words. Going from 20-50 to 1500-2000 was not just some inflation.

To each there own, and more options the better BUT i for one prefer the huge houses.

I'm all for more, how much effort can a house take to design as most of them are in-game buildings at there base. Keep the number of huge ones but also add more medium and smalls to keep everyone happy (and spending).

I'm sure some small homes with medium item limits, and medium with manor limits would be very popular.

I prefer a large piece of land without any house.

I would like to see some 700 slot homes that are just.... smaller haha I can understand the logic of them not being able to raise the furnishing cap limits, yet they can't seem to understand that the playerbase already struggles to fill the massive homes and maybe they should just design them a bit smaller? Just because a home is in the "notable home" category doesn't mean it has to have an entire beach and massive ayleid ruins. Probably one reason why I do like Highhallow Hold is because it feels a bit more quaint compared to a lot of their more recent 700 slot homes.... but honestly at this point, I just take advantage of the structure furnishings and build my own homes in places like the Coldharbour Surreal Estate.

I would like to see some balance. Sure - keep making the huge mansions for those that want them, but drop a small/medium home once in a while. The love for Erinbu's cottage shows there is a market for that.

We need that cottage!!!!!

There's a post like this popping up on a weekly basis for years and we still don't have medium houses (available for gold as well) in the game. The big houses are absolutely impressive from a design point of view (and also to try and justify those prices) but with the slot limit being what it is, we can hardly do them justice. Plus, regardless of slots, not everyone wants a build suitable for big houses, for eg., you can't make a tavern, a cozy cottage, etc., with so much space, and it's been too long since we had a smaller housing release for such builds (the last medium one was Lucky Cat Landing?). I think the housing team is the only team who has consistently been improving over the years and listened to the players, given all the new types of furniture we've been getting, so I don't understand why they won't give us more medium houses, since they are clearly listening and accommodating our feedback, and it's the most requested thing (alongside water furnishings). Is the reason financial (ie., medium houses bring less revenue, because they can't be priced like notables), or is there another reason why we can't have them? Also, I'd appreciate at least 1-2 house releases per year available for gold, like we had in the past. The last time was Water's Edge with Blackwood.

Keep the big Notable houses coming and I will buy them!!! Love them!! But also bring out more small and medium houses to as there seems to be a demand.

Yes please. I would love to see more medium and large houses. It is a shame they didn't even include a house you could buy with gold this chapter. Every other chapter in the past even dating back to the base game had houses you could buy once you completed the quest achievment for the zone.

I like big houses, but it would be nice if there were more small and medium ones too.

I'm sure they could reduce the price of the mats needed to make furnishings if the drop rate improved even a little for those rarer mats, like heartwood, mundane runes, or (OMG) the metal powders you need ten of to make one plating. Or maybe they could reduce the amount of mats needed for certain items to be more in line with their size and complexity. Is there a reason a cute little wooden board game takes as much heartwood as a gigantic armoire or table?

My first ever house was Hunding's Palatial hall, which was as large as some of the notable homes. Sadly, it's full now, even though I have room for more furnishings, especially outdoors. That's the downside of classic houses of that size.

There's a gorgeous Redguard palace in Hew's Bane that has not been for sale since I've been playing, though. Wish they'd make that one available again!

I adore small houses, Captain Margaux's place, Moonmirth, the Snugpod and Sleek Creek are the ones I currently own. I was so hoping for a cutsey cottage with sunflowers in the frontyard or something. All my characters IC come from simple backgrounds so I feel no need to ever buy a mansion. I'm quite saddened that so far there is no new gold purchasable house this expansion, it would sell like hot cakes and be an amazing gold sink for the game.

I rather have a small medium house with an increased slot option than another oversized house that I will never buy. but alas..

FayJolyn wrote: »

I rather have a small medium house with an increased slot option than another oversized house that I will never buy.

My thoughts exactly.

GoldenGirl wrote: »

Agree with OP, 100%. More medium/small house options are needed.

I'm still waiting for a Mages Tower... something similar to Tel Galen would work, just smaller and without all the "organic" (rotting flesh atronach) blobs and cancerous-looking fibrous interior structures.

(Someone in another post summed it up perfectly as "Telvanni intestinal chic architecture" and said that "There is nothing about the pink and red gelatinous mess that says mushroom, wizard or elder scrolls to me.")

There is one in High Isle which would be perfect as a 700 slot house, Tor Draioch. A bit of land, some running water ... the pefgect mage hideaway

KnightsMentor wrote: »

Please ZOS by the Divines! Enough with the grandiose villas and estates. Add more smaller to medium sized homes, abodes that can actually be furnished without spending every last piece of coin purchasing furniture or all the gold materials in the bank to produce enough things to fill the vast blank spaces.

That's reason why such a old asset "old mistveil manor" is still very popular house.
I've seen many of neighbours resident out from my home gate. (~_~) Well...little bit strange feeling though.

"House" is the very personal place rather than any of place in the world. It's not kind of "guild hall".
We don't need meaningless vacant huge place, but want very specific something.
(Tree house? river side cottage with water wheel? great view from very high mountain?)

Dear developers. How about watch the "Fallout4 settlement building tour of youtubers".
You'll find something hint from there.

I love huge houses!

I'd be more supportive of a more even spread of house sizes, to be fair for everyone.

There's a new style of architecture every year, and honestly, a lot you could do with each style. Maybe one of each size category, for each style, and spread across the world. Everyone wins.

In the meantime, I think the "modular" thing they've been doing lately is something they should capitalise on more- where the house is sectioned into different modules that are easily blocked off and allow you to focus on only one or the other. Pantherfang, for instance could just be the chapel, or just the keep. I'm sure you could do the same with stuff like Varlisvaea. Houses with dungeonesque basements could be really cool done like this, too.