How many furniture storage houses have you got?, and what are the better solutions that could exist?

endgamesmug · October 2023

Im looking at getting another "manor" house because ive just filled up my elsweyr house with my crafted furniture i no longer need or currently have a use for.
I just thought this would be quite the hot topic as a few of us it seems have this issue or maybe hoarding habit. There is that option of selling excess furniture items, but to me currently it gives me the impression of quite a complex pricing structure seemingly a mini game within itself which kinda stresses me. When it comes to selling i choose to stick with the super reliables such as stacks of improvement mats or alchemy mats, bulk items really. Someone mentioned in these forums mentioned about deconstruction of unwanted furniture, i think i could really go for that idea!😁 anyway ill stop going on and see what everyone else thinks of all this 😀

Nestor · October 2023

Too many to list.

LunaFlora · October 2023

three i think

Jaimeh · October 2023

I have three big storage houses as well as some items in a couple of the smaller apartments, and yeah it's a Problem

Mostly because I forget what I have where, so sometimes I end up crafting things I already have, thus needing even more storage in the end... I agree with the commenter above who said they stopped getting furniture just to get it, because I can't even count the multiples of items I have from the luxury vendor that I got just in the off chance I might use them one day, but that day hasn't come yet, so they just keep accumulating. A furnishing bag or the ability to decon furnishings would be awesome solutions (not to mention, you know... extending the slot limit!), but I don't see any of that happening any time soon, so in the meantime something that could be easily implemented and would help a bit, imo, would be to give us a couple more storage chests. Even two chests with a total of 160 space would be great at this point.

freespirit · October 2023

I have all gold purchasable houses, a few crown store ones and all the free ones that have been given away.

I haven't counted recently but the storage houses far exceed the fully decorated ones!

I have on occasion built things from scratch and then decided I did not like them, one that springs to mind was a fully equipped two story hotel, it just never looked quite right so I scrapped it. That is just one example of nigh on 700 items of furniture that needed a home.

There are several more!

Also when decorating I often try several items in a position before picking the one to use, I think this is probably my worst offender for furniture collecting, I would certainly get behind the ability to deconstruct crafted furniture!

DarcyMardin · October 2023

Whichever is my main house at the moment usually ends up being a furniture storage spot as more and more furniture accrues. Mainly this is because I keep intending to do some serious decorating, but never seem to have time for it.

LukosCreyden · November 2023

Like, 5 houses lol. Its a mess!
Furnishings Bag when!?

DivineKitty · November 2023

I have a bunch of apartments and in rooms that I use for storage, and any items that I have more then 10 of, I store in a chest. Admittedly, if I didn't have Add-on's that keep track of furniture for me, I'd be hopelessly lost.

Obviously, an Ideal solution would be to have a furniture storage bag, similar to crafting materials, but that might result in a different problem entirely: Now I'd have about 10 houses that I'd have to actually decorate, instead of writing off as landfill. I guess i could just ignore them, but that seems needlessly wasteful.

TybaltKaine · October 2023

I used to do this, then I just started decorating my houses and selling the stuff I didn't like/use. I had 5 at one point, and that was way too many. I also stopped getting furniture just to get it. Now if I have a specific item in mind, I either craft it, buy it directly or wait for it to come around in the luxury vendor.

Storage space is happy, bank account is happy, and houses look nicer.

SilverBride · October 2023

Zero.

I own 29 houses and all but the new free house we recently received is fully decorated, from the tiny apartments to the large manors.

I keep all furniture in my bank. I only keep bound items, paintings, and some carpets, tapestries and lighting that fit well in many types of builds. Anything extra that I do not end up using I put on a trader and sell.

Lugaldu · October 2023

I don´t use my houses for storage, solely for building and decorating. The bank is my storage place.

endgamesmug · October 2023

My setup goes if it is a primary residence on an account that guildies can use, ill put some effort into decorating it and certainly is the reason why i started experimenting and learning what i could and couldn't do in housing. My main houses are a "Crafting House" & a "Dummy House", both with a practical purpose. I then started branching out and setting up a free travel network, a series of houses set up on each account for free porting around the map(once again-a practical purpose). The only additional house i focus on, on my "crafting account" is the alinor townhouse for smaller furnishings and my painting collection/gallery. 😁

TheImperfect · October 2023

About 3-4. I'm not sure about a solution. I suppose I could not hoard but never know what will be needed. A lot is stuff I bought / crafted that didn't work for what I needed in the end. That should improve somewhat now you can preview furniture in situ a little better.

SilverBride · October 2023

TheImperfect wrote: »

I suppose I could not hoard but never know what will be needed.

That is the same reason that I don't keep things.

If I have no use for a furnishing (except for the few things versatile items that I keep in my bank) I look at it as unnecessary clutter and turn it into profit by selling it. It's not hard to replace if I find a use for it later and I'm not struck stressing over storage space in the mean time.

endgamesmug · October 2023

SilverBride wrote: »

TheImperfect wrote: »

I suppose I could not hoard but never know what will be needed.

That is the same reason that I don't keep things.

If I have no use for a furnishing (except for the few things versatile items that I keep in my bank) I look at it as unnecessary clutter and turn it into profit by selling it. It's not hard to replace if I find a use for it later and I'm not struck stressing over storage space in the mean time.

Yeah i get your thinking for sure, but i think ive created quite a situation for myself not unlike the players that choose to hoard surveys. Going through and trying to figure out the price to sell a few thousand items is too much for me, so ill be vendoring or donating my crafted furniture items I've decided now.

SilverBride · October 2023

endgamesmug wrote: »

Going through and trying to figure out the price to sell a few thousand items is too much for me, so ill be vendoring or donating my crafted furniture items I've decided now.

One thing you may consider that the GM of a housing guild I was once in did is to have a yard sale. Let guilds and friends know when it will be and let them make an offer for the items they want. Most players will give reasonable offers and there is no lengthy pricing that needs to be done.

It won't be done in a day but it doesn't have to be.

katanagirl1 · October 2023

I have the Doomchar house with a small custom build that I never finished (I wanted to make a second story but the stairs are just too large) and I have some target dummies there and I put a few of the larger furnishings from Antiquities there.

I generally put furnishings in the bank but it’s getting really full now.

I would never purchase a house to just store things, especially with crowns and probably not even with gold.

endgamesmug · October 2023

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I have the Doomchar house with a small custom build that I never finished (I wanted to make a second story but the stairs are just too large) and I have some target dummies there and I put a few of the larger furnishings from Antiquities there.

I generally put furnishings in the bank but it’s getting really full now.

I would never purchase a house to just store things, especially with crowns and probably not even with gold.

I started using houses easily bought with ingame gold as an alternative to filling my bank, from years of multiwritting on xbox and now with access to addons i had streamlined my income so i was able to afford to do that. If its not bound i have the possibility of storing on other accounts but i reserve my personal bank for transitory use.

Wildberryjack · October 2023

None. Not exactly. I have a lot of houses and the ones not decorated yet I just drop the furnishings I want to use in them in the main areas. If I get something new I go ahead and drop it in whichever house I want to place it. I'll actually decorate when I get around to it but many of the furnishings I'll want to use will be there waiting. I am also using the housing chests for storage of items that don't belong anywhere just yet. That way my bags and bank don't get full and no houses are nothing but a holding pen.

At the moment I have some furnishings scattered across extra characters but I'm going around dropping stuff where I'm going to want it so it won't be long before there are no furnishings in the bags of any character but my designated decorator.

KnightofGears · November 2023

Two, more or less. I have the fair winds as my "Merchant vessel" and use the lower levels of the crew quarters as storage (sort of a furniture shop), and I'm currently turning the witches festival house into a small garden centre.
Very large items or items I have many of I store in the storage coffers so far.

reazea · November 2023

We should be able to decon furniture is the best solution. Then we could sell or collect the materials needed to make what we want.

dcam86b14_ESO · November 2023

I have well over 13 storage homes at max capacity. I think the furniture bag will be the only solution long term.
A short-term fix would be to introduce a bigger storage chest.

dcam86b14_ESO · November 2023

reazea wrote: »

We should be able to decon furniture is the best solution. Then we could sell or collect the materials needed to make what we want.

totally agree and the same for alchemical things

MageCatF4F · November 2023

13 fully decorated houses, most of them as EHT open houses, and 14 storage houses.

I do not have a problem with using houses for storage. It is inconvenient but not much of a problem.

The better solution (although not for this issue particularly):

More furniture slots for every category of house, even if it is a tiny increase. We have pack space upgrade pets, that stack, are sold in the crown store, and add an insignificant amount of extra regular inventory storage for a price.

It doesn't seem to crash servers or potato machines like our antique Athlon II X4 that still runs the game.

I think the current furnishing limits are unchanged from the initial introduction of housing in 2017 (yes a google search finds a thread from January 2017 no less describing those limits).

So, the same insignificant bone could be thrown to the housing crowd. I know the arguments against. I'm skeptical.

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How many furniture storage houses have you got?, and what are the better solutions that could exist?

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