Regarding the new Home Tours feature; I love this new feature and am glad it was added to the game. However, I would like to suggest a few things that I think will improve this feature.
Firstly, I'd suggest the option to search for a house by the house nickname. This would help make it easier to find a certain type of build that there may not be a tag for. Along those lines, it would be nice to be able to have longer nicknames.
The ability to add a brief description would be much appreciated. Just a short paragraph to tell your story, explain your vision, or share hints about secrets. This would add so much more to the immersion and roleplay aspect of the game that so many of us love.
Lastly, and most importantly, the way the recommendations are currently set up favors people with a lot of in-game connections. But there are many of us who are into the housing aspect of the game that don't have streams or large guilds or whatever other connections to really promote their houses. Only having a "recommended" tab, even if it does cycle through different batches, will still inevitably keep the promoted ones promoted, while leaving all the rest buried in an awkward-to-navigate and incredibly long list consisting of literally all the houses submitted. Once it's no longer new, it's pretty much impossible to find without actively searching for it.
I don't know if there's any way to completely solve that problem, but I do have a suggestion to help mitigate it: add a category of "never recommended." Or add a filter to search by number of recommendations in either ascending or descending order. This way you can help promote those hidden gems that might otherwise stay hidden.
Basically, just please give us more ways to search for houses besides just a username or a handful of tags (many of which don't quite fit what we're going for anyway, at least for me).
Edited by ZOS_Kevin on November 7, 2024 10:13AM