PTS Update 49 - Feedback Thread for Housing & Furnishings

ZOS_Kevin · January 12

This is the official feedback thread for the new houses and furnishings. Specific feedback that the team is looking for includes the following:

What are your general thoughts on new houses?
- Buccaneer Bay
- Night's Den
What do you think of the new furnishings?
Do you have any other general feedback?

xencthlu · January 12

I can't find the Night's Den. I ran around Fargrave looking for it, to no avail. It's not on the crown store or in the gold coast bazaar. Where is it and how can I get it for testing purposes?

seecodenotgames · January 12

I assume the Night's Den is part of the new Night Market, which will be added to PTS on week 2.

xencthlu · January 12

seecodenotgames wrote: »

I assume the Night's Den is part of the new Night Market, which will be added to PTS on week 2.

"Night's Den: The Night Market provides vast opportunities, including a former bank vault in need of a new owner. Hoard your wealth – and your faction's secrets – inside. Plus decorate your den with faction furnishings as you gain favor with your chosen group!

This Notable home can be collected and upgraded from quests and activities available when the Night Market is active, but it is currently unlockable on the PTS server."

lillybit · January 12

Buccaneer Bay doesn't have an exit! There's nothing to interact with to leave. You can Go To Exit through the house menu but still can't leave

Sordidfairytale · January 12

xencthlu wrote: »

seecodenotgames wrote: »

I assume the Night's Den is part of the new Night Market, which will be added to PTS on week 2.

"Night's Den: The Night Market provides vast opportunities, including a former bank vault in need of a new owner. Hoard your wealth – and your faction's secrets – inside. Plus decorate your den with faction furnishings as you gain favor with your chosen group!

This Notable home can be collected and upgraded from quests and activities available when the Night Market is active, but it is currently unlockable on the PTS server."

It's listed in the Housing Tours, but it doesn't show up in the collectibles menu under "Not Collected".

Sordidfairytale · January 12

lillybit wrote: »

Buccaneer Bay doesn't have an exit! There's nothing to interact with to leave. You can Go To Exit through the house menu but still can't leave

I suspect one of the devs was listening to Hotel California. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."

couriersix · January 12

The new Worm Cult door furnishing doesn't fit properly into the empty doors in the Cradle of the Worm Colossus house. I would also like to see a Worm Cult style platform furnishing in the same vein as the Deadlands Floor, Large Square, so we can build balconies in our house.

I would also like to see some Worm Cult style wall/archway furnishings please!

Otherwise, I do like the new pieces and I feel like they are reasonable to obtain.

MoonPile · January 12

Hello!

Review of the U49 Stone-Nest Structural Plans with screenshots:
⭐ https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/805573376017154048/eso-u49-pts-stone-nest-structures ⭐

Quotes from the post:

Notes – Good:

As you can see, these are ENORMOUS!
It was hard to even screenshot them all together! Hide an entire house in just 1 slot! 😹
Fantastic for reskins & custom builds.

Beautiful textures, as expected from the overland models.

Versatile pieces with interesting features! ... lots of creative uses for all!

Could be better / wishlist:

1. Some walls are paper-thin, flat, perfectly straight.

Disappointing because:
A. There are such wonderfully-chunky, uneven, crumbling, bumpy, round-edged pieces throughout Solstice that would have been amazing for ruins & adventure builds (+ other creative uses)!

B. Hard to work with thin walls, everything clips through them.

It’s likely impossible to change these 3D models now. But it’d be wonderful if we could get more of these partial walls, chunky, bumpy, uneven and ruined pieces in a future update. Examples shown in post. (& Druidic structural pieces are a nice example of this.)

2. Door – The entire thing swings open like a hinged door.
Argonian stone doors slide open, no? Given how the model is made (fused), it’s probably impossible to change. Just strange.

4. Would love more building parts, like the rounded roofs / pergolas, windows, etc. in future updates: [examples shown in post]

Arunei · January 12

Can't find where to unlock the Night's Den.

The other house is nice, not really my thing though. The indoor areas seem kind of small though, for a Notable House. I'd have suggested making the outdoor area a bit smaller and expanding the inside. That being said, it's nice to see a Notable House period where a person with ESO+ can (probably) decorate it fairly easily. Too many Notable Houses are far too big to allow for them to be furnished properly.

MoonPile · January 12

Just 2 initial thoughts about Buccaneer Bay:
(*well, besides the bug / ship / entrance issue.)

1. Beautiful red & brick walls! Wish we could have those & other structural items from here as loose pieces to build with.

2. I noticed the door locks right away because they echo a big Wishlist item: the ability to lock / unlock specific interactibles like lights, doors, gongs, bells, etc. so that Limited Visitors can still use specific items, while leaving the rest untouched as a builder intends.

But similar to the animal toggle at Hiddenspring Cottage: we'd love to have non-pet animals roaming in any house, and a UI feature to to "unlock" specific items in any house, rather than toggles in specific homes. Not that they're mutually exclusive! Just a hope the true request / user problem also may be considered or WIP.

DoofusMax · 12:54AM

Buccaneer Bay is awesome looking, but has two major problems that I noted pretty early. First, there's no exit. You can get in easily enough, but there's nothing interactable to get out, at least not anywhere around the point where you zone in. Second, if you jump/fall into the water on the side with the ship (inaccessible - questionable design choice, IMO), there's no way out of the water other than swimming with the slaughterfishies and rezzing on the dock.

Sordidfairytale · 1:28AM

DoofusMax wrote: »

Buccaneer Bay is awesome looking, but has two major problems that I noted pretty early. First, there's no exit. You can get in easily enough, but there's nothing interactable to get out, at least not anywhere around the point where you zone in. Second, if you jump/fall into the water on the side with the ship (inaccessible - questionable design choice, IMO), there's no way out of the water other than swimming with the slaughterfishies and rezzing on the dock.

It is possible to swim around the island and get back onto the island on the back side. Additionally you can "Go To Entrance" from the menu. No need to get nibbled.

gamergirldk · 1:47AM

We need a change on drop rates for funiture plans.

If I farm in Solstrice I should get majority of the plans I find in the style that came with that zone. Stop bloading the drop pool with other zone styles.
This should go for every zone. It would make it more fun and rewarding knowing one have better chance to find a certain style.
I dont mind farming it is just frustration getting 1old plan after another in a new zone.

Baracuta90 · 1:28PM

Night's Den seems completely inaccessible at the moment, so I'm unable to comment on that.

Buccaneer Bay is fabulous. Definitely a big house that offers a lot of different options to focus on or decorate independently. That said, there is one key space that I think would elevate the home's utility be so much more: the ship you spawn in-front of.

Naval-related houses are always in demand in my guilds and social groups around ESO. The Fair Winds was a great addition and did a lot of cool things with land/other ships passing by, but it falls victim to the same troubles that a lot of big houses do.

That size of ship parked at Buccaneer Bay would be a wonderful addition to the house (I would also love to just see it as its own Classic Home, too. With a more fleshed-out, yet accurately-sized below-deck if that were the case).

I say push the invisible wall back so that the ship is accessible, and make the housing entrance/exit an interaction with the wheel, like at the Colossal Aldmeri Grotto.

MageCatF4F · 4:02PM

My pirate crew and I waiting to board ship - except we can't. Well, I as their Captain can't.

As you can see, no one is at all happy about the situation.

Note: I had to add the cannons. They of course don't come with the ship - no no no no cannons in ES. Mechanical spiders yes.

kind_hero · 5:14PM

About the Buccaneer Bay:

Very ambitious build, which shows the current 700 slot limitation is an issue for large housing areas.
I like this place a lot, it is awesome. Here are some remarks:

The rooms are to dark! This is an issue with ESO housing in general. There has to be some sort of incremental setting to control the background lighting of an interior. Also, the light sources should have at least a brighter additional setting.
I am a fan of the Hew's Bane / Redguard 2.0 assets used in this house. When can we expect to see them in the game as furnishings? Especially the wooden walls, stairs and ofc the plaster ones. I really believe these assets will benefit the game, as they fit so many cool themes, like pirates, shanty town, Arabian Nights, lavish palaces or temples. Hew's Bane has such a great mix of them.
What I also like about this place is the use of ladders. We need more of these teleports in our houses. I would like the team to comment if such teleports are possible as a furnishing to be used by the player. Because me and many other players have suggested many times to have portal / grappling / void / ladder teleports in player builds so we can build up and save slots for stair construction.
Which brings me to another point. Why can't we chose where the player spawns in the house? I see with this house the player spawns near a ship which probably it's not yet finished, so we can't exit, but how about being able to chose the spawn and exit point from some preset points or have them entirely customizable. This would make the large housing spaces like this one or the Ayleid ruins, much more interesting. Often a big chore with houses is to run from the entrance to the "core" of the housing creation. This would be a QoL improvement which will also make lots of houses more interesting. Many players place all the function NPCs (banker/merchant/decon etc) at the entrance.
And my last feedback/request related to the (currently) bugged exit of Buccaneer Bay is to have a functional wayshrine, at least for exiting, as a furnishing. Right now people: 1) go to the guild list, look for a guildie in a zone they would like to exit to, teleport there. 2) open the map and teleport to the place they want to go. 3) run to the exit, mount up and run to the nearest wayshrine (which often is not straight forward to reach) and use it. Is it technically complicated to have a wayshrine furnishing as a masterwork item, for example?

About the furnishings:

I like the Argonian temple styled structural furnishings. Now we can make entire temple complexes or very interesting builds! I just hope there are plans to revisit older styles, which are frustratingly lacking structural furnishings!
Regarding the Fargrave styled plates: they look like switches. Can we expect to see some interaction in the future, I mean linking a switch to the opening of a door or turning on a light or a fire?

About the housing limit increase:

This is the thing that really got me excited to play ESO again. I can revisit some of my smaller builds, and add the things I dreamed about years ago.
But there is one more thing I would like addressed or explained if it's not possible to change. The limit of pets/npcs or so called special collectibles. Why can't we have more of these, since there are so many NPCs to collect, from companions to bankers, instructors, or guests? Could they use furnishings in the future? Like using a chair, a bed, or perhaps use an emote or personality we acquired?

Thank you. I really appreciate the new communication style and mindset you showed in the recent streams, and I hope this will continue in real engagement with the community on the forums and PTS forums.