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Furnishing Limits For Notable Houses
thechef209
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Is there a plan to increase the furnishing limit for these houses or possibly implement a "Readables" Furnishing Type?? Almost a year later and my Lore Library is still missing about 70 book furnishings. Seems silly to have 595 books and only 700 furnishing slots.
Link to my original post:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/681140/request-a-new-readables-furnishing-category-in-housing#latest
Link to my original post:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/681140/request-a-new-readables-furnishing-category-in-housing#latest
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zaria✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭If the reason for the limit is performance on weaker systems as tend to be stated I see no reason not to have separate inside and outside limits. That is inside who has an loading screen like most houses.Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.3 -
Ravenshadow6513✭✭✭thechef209 wrote: »Is there a plan to increase the furnishing limit for these houses or possibly implement a "Readables" Furnishing Type?? Almost a year later and my Lore Library is still missing about 70 book furnishings. Seems silly to have 595 books and only 700 furnishing slots.
Link to my original post:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/681140/request-a-new-readables-furnishing-category-in-housing#latest
I wonder if they could do a bookshelf furnishing, where you could add collected books to it - sort of like how you add sets to a master station. And then when you interact with the furnishing you can see a list of a books to read. Not quite the same thing as displaying all the books, but would definitely cut down on furnishing limits and performance.12 -
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✭✭Ravenshadow6513 wrote: »thechef209 wrote: »Is there a plan to increase the furnishing limit for these houses or possibly implement a "Readables" Furnishing Type?? Almost a year later and my Lore Library is still missing about 70 book furnishings. Seems silly to have 595 books and only 700 furnishing slots.
Link to my original post:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/681140/request-a-new-readables-furnishing-category-in-housing#latest
I wonder if they could do a bookshelf furnishing, where you could add collected books to it - sort of like how you add sets to a master station. And then when you interact with the furnishing you can see a list of a books to read. Not quite the same thing as displaying all the books, but would definitely cut down on furnishing limits and performance.
Would love this, and also if it arranged the books based on how many you added like Skyrim had.2 -
thechef209✭✭Ravenshadow6513 wrote: »thechef209 wrote: »Is there a plan to increase the furnishing limit for these houses or possibly implement a "Readables" Furnishing Type?? Almost a year later and my Lore Library is still missing about 70 book furnishings. Seems silly to have 595 books and only 700 furnishing slots.
Link to my original post:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/681140/request-a-new-readables-furnishing-category-in-housing#latest
I wonder if they could do a bookshelf furnishing, where you could add collected books to it - sort of like how you add sets to a master station. And then when you interact with the furnishing you can see a list of a books to read. Not quite the same thing as displaying all the books, but would definitely cut down on furnishing limits and performance.
The only issue with that is the fact that all the books already exist in menu form in the Journal
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✭✭✭Clearly the intention is to make bookshelves out of the books themselves. For books, by books.PC-NA
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Haenk✭✭✭✭If the reason for the limit is performance on weaker systems as tend to be stated I see no reason not to have separate inside and outside limits. That is inside who has an loading screen like most houses.
This is a non-argument. Might have been a reason when ESO started, but all halfway-modern systems are plenty powerful. Actually I only replaced my system I started playing ESO on to upgrade to Windows 11. It was by all means fast enough, and that was a decade-old system.
And honestly, how important is it if someone visits your house gaming on a potatoe and due to many objects lags down to 30fps instead of 200fps?
I assume it could be a bit of a memory issue on the server side, but most large houses had to be bought with real world money (one way or other), with very few exceptions. So people paid to use them, and ZOS should not limit their use.
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✭✭✭✭✭If the reason for the limit is performance on weaker systems as tend to be stated I see no reason not to have separate inside and outside limits. That is inside who has an loading screen like most houses.
This is a non-argument. Might have been a reason when ESO started, but all halfway-modern systems are plenty powerful. Actually I only replaced my system I started playing ESO on to upgrade to Windows 11. It was by all means fast enough, and that was a decade-old system.
And honestly, how important is it if someone visits your house gaming on a potatoe and due to many objects lags down to 30fps instead of 200fps?
I assume it could be a bit of a memory issue on the server side, but most large houses had to be bought with real world money (one way or other), with very few exceptions. So people paid to use them, and ZOS should not limit their use.
according to the eso support articles, the minimum specs they are still supporting for PC is:
PC Minimum System Requirements:
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 2300 or AMD FX4350 (the intel cpu listed is 15 years old and has 4 cores)
System RAM: 4 GB
Hard Disk Space: 105 GB free HDD space
GPU: Direct X 11.0 compliant video card with 1GB RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® 560 or AMD Radeon™ 6870) (this nvidia card is also 15 years old)
Sound: DirectX compatible sound card
Internet: Internet Broadband Connection
(source: https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/#en/answer/3313)
people on last gen consoles (like PS4) already have a significant amount of issues with houses that are filled to the brim with the current limits
so thats why they havent raised housing limits more than they are now and only "increased" other houses limits by just upgrading what they are classed as (going from staple to classic, or classic to notable)plays PC/NA
handle @Necrotech_Master
active player since april 2014
i have my main house (grand topal hideaway) listed in the housing tours, it has multiple target dummies, scribing altar, and grandmaster stations (fully filled out with current game), as well as almost every antiquity furnishing on display to preview them
in progress: acquiring mundus stones (currently only have the thief)
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thechef209✭✭I think the Furnishing Categories need to be adjusted. This is a screenshot of my original post from about a year ago.
It's a bit perplexing that the Infinite Archive Index Replica and the Feast Among the Dead right next to it both take up 1 Traditional Furnishing spot. I find it hard to believe that these two furnishings require equal CPU and GPU resources to be placed in a house
Edited by thechef209 on May 29, 2026 1:29PM1 -
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A system like the build limit on Fallout 4 settlements would make sense, it was an complexity limit. Complex items cost more to add. Now in FO4 you could cheat the system dropping weapons on the ground and then storing them in build modethechef209 wrote: »I think the Furnishing Categories need to be adjusted. This is a screenshot of my original post from about a year ago.
It's a bit perplexing that the Infinite Archive Index Replica and the Feast Among the Dead right next to it both take up 1 Traditional Furnishing spot. I find it hard to believe that these two furnishings require equal CPU and GPU resources to be placed in a house
But I believe the real reason for the ESO build limit is database size and monitisation
Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.1 -
Al_Ex_Andre✭✭✭Furnishing limits is that's why I don't bother with most books. But yes, the books could be attached to a library meaning they could take no place. (similar to the grandmaster crfating stations.)2 -
thechef209✭✭
A system like the build limit on Fallout 4 settlements would make sense, it was an complexity limit. Complex items cost more to add. Now in FO4 you could cheat the system dropping weapons on the ground and then storing them in build modethechef209 wrote: »I think the Furnishing Categories need to be adjusted. This is a screenshot of my original post from about a year ago.
It's a bit perplexing that the Infinite Archive Index Replica and the Feast Among the Dead right next to it both take up 1 Traditional Furnishing spot. I find it hard to believe that these two furnishings require equal CPU and GPU resources to be placed in a house
But I believe the real reason for the ESO build limit is database size and monitisation
Fallout 76 has the same system. That would work or even consolidate the Furnishing types? I don't think ESO+ subscribers need 110 Collectible Furnishing Spots (which are things like Undaunted Trophies, ESO+ Free Paintings, the 8 Storage Chests, etc.)
Differentiating between Traditional, Special, Collectible, and Special Collectibles implies they already sort by "complexity" or methods of acquisition. Seems logical to have a Readables category to accommodate all 595 books 🤷♂️0 -
mrreow✭✭✭Honestly even if they would, the whole system of acquiring, storing and managing furniture is made so intentionally tedious that it wouldn't solve the bottleneck of why it isn't as fun as it theoretically looks like.
The problem with ESO is that is a perfect game bogged down by rampart monetization, various limits and artificial constraints. Or plainly abysmal drop rates.
It's like there is a housing game that is great but it is made more tedious on purpose to lengthen it artificially and get your wallet out.
If ESO was a restaurant housing would be the drinks. That Coca Cola 0.7 l for 20 dollars.0 -
mrreow✭✭✭Except in the middle of drinking someone would snatch it away and say "Sorry, technology isn't there yet to handle *this*"
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thechef209✭✭Honestly even if they would, the whole system of acquiring, storing and managing furniture is made so intentionally tedious that it wouldn't solve the bottleneck of why it isn't as fun as it theoretically looks like.
The problem with ESO is that is a perfect game bogged down by rampart monetization, various limits and artificial constraints. Or plainly abysmal drop rates.
It's like there is a housing game that is great but it is made more tedious on purpose to lengthen it artificially and get your wallet out.
If ESO was a restaurant housing would be the drinks. That Coca Cola 0.7 l for 20 dollars.
Ironically, if they took the increased furnishing limit perk of the ESO+ subscription and made it standalone and INCREASED it further (i.e., 1000 traditional furnishings for notable houses) I'd buy that subscription every month in a heartbeat.
I would get to finish my Lore Library AND decorate a fair amount, and ZOS retains the Housing players and increases their money flow. Win/Win!0 -
thechalkdust✭✭Ravenshadow6513 wrote: »I wonder if they could do a bookshelf furnishing, where you could add collected books to it - sort of like how you add sets to a master station.
Yes. Two approaches:
1) A Loremaster's Bookshelf that eats multiple books and updates appearance based on how loaded it is.
2) All existing "preloaded" bookshelves (and perhaps even book stacks) could be updated & configured to hold one single book, making the shelf itself readable for guests.
I want both. Not just one or the other.0
