Well, but I also like medium houses and properties without a prebuild. I have about even numbers across my accounts.

Really, I like them all. BUT, I get annoyed when the house has too many doors/load screens to go to. I will literally block the doors and make my design in just the yard or part of the house. I like the properties. I also want inn rooms in EVERY zone.

I like all, except the furnishing limit for inn rooms seems awfully small. The apartments and small homes are much better in this regard. Most of all though, I have to like the look, feel, layout of the space. For large homes it really depends — I love the Varlaisvea Ayleid ruins because I like the layout and it feels right to me more sparesly decorated relative to its size. Whereas the Psijic Villa and Thieves’ Oasis seem like they would be much more difficult to include all that I would wish with the item limit. I also love the large open plots and bought Moonsugar Meadow as soon as it became available, so I really like a variety!

All sizes and plots but I like a lot of space.

I like ones with swimming areas like Aldemeri Grotto, Potentates (where I turned Vivecs bed into a pool float and have a pet wander out and chill there), Sweetwater and the one in Behtnik all have cool water features.

I like having the most slots available but I will use whatever the site offers to build something.

I think after all I prefer small homes. I have a lot of houses in all sizes but I find myself gravitating towards my small homes more than any others. In fact I just bought Captain Morgaux's house this week - it was one of the few small ones I didn't own - and I love it! I love being in a busy city with so much activity going on around me and I like how cozy the house is.

I think they all have their charms, actually.

And while I also like big manors, I'm a bit bothered that many crown store houses seem to be extremely huge and expensive, while sometimes a medium sized (and less expensive) house of the same theme would feel big enough for me. I'd buy a smaller Ayleid ruin for a reasonable price, for example, but not the huge one that costs over 100 $/€ - and doesn't even have enough housing slots to furnish it sufficiently.

Manors and Large.

BUT.... what I really want are usable properties without doors. This is an annoying thing and I tend to not want to use the interior areas. If they are going to break them into separate rooms, then each room should have a separate allotment of items that can be placed there that does not count against the rest of the property.

Syldras wrote: »

I think they all have their charms, actually.

And while I also like big manors, I'm a bit bothered that many crown store houses seem to be extremely huge and expensive, while sometimes a medium sized (and less expensive) house of the same theme would feel big enough for me. I'd buy a smaller Ayleid ruin for a reasonable price, for example, but not the huge one that costs over 100 $/€ - and doesn't even have enough housing slots to furnish it sufficiently.

That’s actually my favorite “giant” home because I like the layout and like it furnished with fewer larger furnishings and dramatic lighting! But I certainly wouldn’t argue against a second smaller Ayleid home — yes, please and structural pieces in Ayleid style as well!

In contrast, the layout of Bastion Sanguinaris is really awkward to me and I have to decide what parts I’ll want to use and what I’ll have to block off for lack of furnishing slots… It is not the only one, but perhaps the only one I liked enough to buy anyway after seeing some fantastic builds!

I could have chosen the plot of land option too. I think those are awesome- the only problem I have with them is that building a convincing house on them will eat up your furnishing cap so fast. I'd love them even more if it were somehow possible to do like pre-fab, load-in houses of varying styles so you could do what you want without eating through the 700 limit. ALSO, location is everything to me. I have my absolute favourite little part of the world that is so personal to me which I love, and have been waiting years for the opportunity to live there.

As to the option I actually chose... I very much empathise with the demand for smaller houses: it can feel bad if you can't fill out a giant mansion because of the cap. Buuuuuut... I need space to put all my things. Crafting stations. Mundus Stones, Ayleid Well, Combat Dummy(ies), Lustratorium, Arcaneum, Chironaseum! Secret summoning chambers! Altars! And that's not even thinking about whatever they might decide to include in future years! So, go big!

Definitely medium houses. Mostly because small houses usually do not have an outer area. For me they're right at that sweet spot of having enough space to get creative while having just enough furnishing slots (with eso+). Manor houses are just to big sometimes to properly fill up. And the most expensive houses just don't appeal at me at all. They feel like a soulless cash grab The only reason I would get a manor is for the Lady or Clan Mother title.

If its a 700 slot house it needs to be either a large open property like Cold Harbor Surreal Estate, or a smaller house thats actually capable of being properly furnished like Proudspire Manor.

But houses like the recent High Isle one are just ridiculously enormous and only look complete if you block off huge sections of it.

fizzylu wrote: »

w002exp wrote: »

If its a 700 slot house it needs to be either a large open property like Cold Harbor Surreal Estate, or a smaller house thats actually capable of being properly furnished like Proudspire Manor.

But houses like the recent High Isle one are just ridiculously enormous and only look complete if you block off huge sections of it.

Yeah, it really seems Zenimax has gone in the direction of "bigger is better" and that's just so not true.... and it's extra baffling considering players have time and time again said things like "if you can't increase furnishing slots, just make smaller manors", but Zenimax just continues to ignore it like all other player feedback hahahahaaaa

In this case, they may be going off sales figures. They look to see what is selling and make more of that. Feedback in the forum, if not backed up by sales data, may be much less important to them.

I'm not saying anyone in here needs to heed this, but ... moral of the story: If someone doesn't like large manors because they are too large and hard to decorate, and this is important enough to supply feedback along those lines, they shouldn't buy the large manors.