PTS Update 49 - Feedback Thread for Housing & Furnishings

MoonPile · January 20

dcrush wrote: »

Being able to lock doors is a really cool feature and I hope there will be a way to implement this in existing houses as well.

If it's possible to add at all, a more comprehensive UI feature as noted here would be preferred:

MoonPile wrote: »

...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.

...a UI feature to to "unlock" [user-designated] items in any house, rather than toggles in specific homes.

I'd rather not have huge shiny locks on everything.

Eurymachos · January 20

One slight annoyance with Buccaneers Bay. It is the only house I know of where the entrance is not at the exit. i.e. when I enter the house, I cannot simply turn around to face the door and press E to use the door. Instead I have to walk several metres forwards.

FYI I use the trick of previewing a house and then exiting the house to get out of longer delves etc.

Ngā mihi,
Eurymachos

MoonPile · January 20

BloodstainedFay wrote: »

Commenting on the Night Market Event House's pile of gold feature (Decorative pile of gold which increases size with owned gold)
Currently it is character dependent and is based on your inventory gold. Whilst I can see the upsides to this, it does make it so we can't have a "set standard" of gold in the house at all times.
Here's a few suggestions
Base it on bank gold, either by default or as a toggle

Pick one character to use as the "gold tracker" (sort of like how you can import housing permissions from other homes)

Deposit gold within the pile of gold itself, letting it serve as a literal "goldsink" that we can feed as we want

This would help roleplayers a lot, allowing us to keep the house in X state without moving gold from char to char. And I'm sure decorators would also enjoy having a more set in stone way of keeping the gold pile

Agree! I'd prefer to have it based on bank, or any of the above suggestions!

1. There seems to be a "sweet spot" at 6 million gold where the door sparkles. (5 mil = a little sparkle at the bottom, 6 = full sparkle.) Beyond 6 mil, it no longer sparkles (bug?) and the pile stops growing at 7 mil. Everything beyond 7 mil is the same visual.
2. If it's tied to the house owner's bank and displays the same amount for all visitors, it has potential to become a vehicle to harass players for their gold. T_T I would still rather it have it rely on bank gold; problem solved with a placed door or gate + Limited Visitor. (Even better if we could have manual, user-designated unlocking in the UI, as described up-thread.)

Here's a full screenshot tour with more info:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/806298509654491136/eso-u49-pts-nights-den-house

Gold level screenshots:

~200k gold:

More below:

5 million gold, little sparkles on door:

6 million, big sparkles:

7 million, max pile, no more sparkles

MoonPile · January 20

MoonPile wrote: »

Agree! I'd prefer to have it based on bank, or any of the above suggestions!
1. There seems to be a "sweet spot" at 6 million gold...

Consolidated feedback for Night's Den:

Good thing the base house is unlocked via the intro quest because the Night Market is a Trial-difficulty area. Most will need to group.
The house comes nicely-decorated as-is. Lots of the new, colorful lanterns I assume will be unbound. Nice!
Vault should be based on bank, designated character, or deposit directly to the house pile.
Bug – the vault door stops sparkling at 7 million+
Could the Vault be enterable so we can swim in the gold pile like Scrooge McDuck? 🥺🙏💰
I couldn't find any way to see a Preview version, without doing the quest. I'd love to see the 3 locked wings. It's impossible to see them in a PTS cycle (even if you find a group for this difficult zone) because you can only pick 1 faction account-wide until the Night Market ends. Please let us preview all 3 wings: I want to pick the faction whose wing I want to build in.
EDIT:
I looked through my tester coffers to see if the items to unlock the wings were in there; pulled everything out of the Update 49 coffers. Doesn't seem to be Those will probably be available in a later update so we can preview the wings, right?
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We really need portals & custom spawn for housing. Else, this will have the same problem as Hall of the Lunar Champion: 1. too many load screens; 2. too many areas to build in, not enough slots.
It's a shame the ceiling is so low. I was thinking to build something outside of the structure with the interesting skybox, but it's impossible. (But I get it, there's probably no landscaping done out there.)

Here's a full screenshot tour with more info:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/806298509654491136/eso-u49-pts-nights-den-house

princesspurpleblob · January 20

MoonPile wrote: »

More feedback for Night's Den:
The house comes nicely-decorated as-is. Lots of the new, colorful lanterns I assume will be unbound. Nice!

I couldn't find any way to see a Preview version, without doing the quest. I'd love to see the 3 locked wings. It's impossible to see them in a PTS cycle (even if you find a group for this difficult zone) because you can only pick 1 faction account-wide until the Night Market ends. Please let us preview all 3 wings: I want to pick the faction whose wing I want to build in.
EDIT:
I looked through my tester coffers to see if the items to unlock the wings were in there; pulled everything out of the Update 49 coffers. Doesn't seem to be Those will probably be available in a later update so we can preview the wings, right?
...

We really need portals & custom spawn for housing. Else, this will have the same problem as Hall of the Lunar Champion: 1. too many load screens; 2. too many areas to build in, not enough slots.

It's a shame the ceiling is so low. I was thinking to build something outside of the structure with the interesting skybox, but it's impossible. (But I get it, there's probably no landscaping done out there.)

Here's a full screenshot tour with more info:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/806298509654491136/eso-u49-pts-nights-den-house

I agree with what Moonpile said. I think the house is lovely and I can see how stress free it will be to decorate for people who wants market vibe house.

However, I'd like to also see all 3 wings unlocked easily on PTS so I can choose which wings I'd like to use - since we can't use all 4 areas (main hall and 3 unlockable wings) with given just 700 slots.

Honestly, I wish each area come with 700 slots - to this day, I'm bitter that I had to block off areas in Hall of the Lunar Champion due to slot limit because I loved all 4 areas. I'm afraid the same thing will be repeated with this home.

Even if manor slot limit gets increased later (hoping 1000 slots at least), that won't be enough for all 4 areas. If we can't get 700 slots for each area, I also would like ability set zone in point as Moonpile mentioned above.

Arunei · 3:07AM

@ZOS_Kevin
When Night's Den is available on live, will it come furnished like it is in the PTS? I'm really hoping so and that it's not just a preview of what it can look like.

Sordidfairytale · 5:16AM

Where will the Night's Den Exit take you when the Night Market is not active?

Arunei · 6:02AM

Sordidfairytale wrote: »

Where will the Night's Den Exit take you when the Night Market is not active?

I imagine it'll work like it does if you buy a House in a Zone/DLC you don't own; when you leave it, you get put back to the Zone you were in previously.

Icy · 7:42AM

Is there a way to preview the Night Den's extra rooms(?)/wings(?)/who knows(?) WITHOUT the achievement? I've checked a template character but there doesn't seem to be a way... (unless I've missed it?)

MoonPile · 6:11PM

Icy wrote: »

Is there a way to preview the Night Den's extra rooms(?)/wings(?)/who knows(?) WITHOUT the achievement? I've checked a template character but there doesn't seem to be a way... (unless I've missed it?)

Hi Icy!
Soarora said these relics will be available next week, here:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/8421406/#Comment_8421406

MoonPile · 6:15PM

MoonPile wrote: »

Consolidated feedback for Night's Den:
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Here's a full screenshot tour with more info:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/806298509654491136/eso-u49-pts-nights-den-house

P.S.
I just remembered another thread requesting Housing Dev communication (link just for reference) because of a mass request re: the upcoming U49 house. Among other things,

Everybody wants to swim in the gold pile!

Assuming there's some weird technical reason the gold vault was made view-only and probably can't be modified – could the Devs tell us in one of those Update threads?

I'd think this is a relatively-safe low-hanging-fruit: Whatever the technical limitation is, most of us would probably understand. It would be better to know the reason and share that around, than see "devs tryna kill our fun" murmurs everywhere. I'm sure many of us would love to see more (in general) from the Housing Devs in a future "PTS Update" thread.
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