houses look interesting, but weather affects inside the building are still an issue. it should not be snowing inside the pinnacle through all that stone.

new crafting stations look fantastic. in furnished version of the clockwork mansion, there were some very awesome furnishing items, especially all the various tools. its a little odd that the only way to get to the flat roof type area (when facing towards the main room from the entrance platform) is by building up to it, but glad that it IS accessible.

can't wait to update the pts client and see these.

(goes and updates launcher for tomorrow...)

WROTGHAR NEW HOUSE IS SO CLOSE TO MA THAT IT'S PRETTY HARD TO FAST TRAVEL. YOU MUST FIX THIS ZENIMAX FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. thanks.

I like the Wrothgar house but I feel like it needs one or two more small rooms, maybe a hallway leading from the big enclosed room with two rooms on either side. It just feels too OPEN right now. Also weather clipping through the big room. I could have missed something though! I had my UI off.

That's the room where the snow comes in, and also the one that I believe would benefit from having a room or two connected to it.

I just think that we REALLY need walls xD

Feedback on the new crafting stations:

First off, THANK YOU, I really appreciate that these were added in, and I am so excited to remodel my workshop to be clockwork themed.

Now the feedback.
The new stations are on much larger tables, which would be great, if the useability of the stations wasnt so touchy. It seems nearly anything can block their use, including furnishings set on an empty part of the table. I can understand clipping with other furnishings causing them to not be useable, but it is a bit unfortunate that you cant place some of the wonderful crafting themed furnishing accessories on top of them.

Generally I quite like all the new layouts, some feel emptier/smaller than others, but the one that seems really...odd is the provisioning station. I get it, it is a repurposed pipe vent, and I actually quite like the idea, but even moreso than the other stations, it takes almost nothing to render it unable to be used, and because it is so simple, I really want to build a proper stove around it, but cant without blocking its ability to be used.
The idea I had for the provisioning station was if it could be set into a table, instead of just being a bit of a giant beer can. It would be much easier to work it into a functional layout if there was a bit more to it.
Last note on the provisioning station would be that the ability to use it properly seems to be related to it having a "front" but because it is round and simple, there is no obvious front. If adding a table or counter is out of the question, perhaps some kind of marker of where the front is.

The transmutation station is gorgeous, no real commentary. I heard it was over a thousand vouchers though, which seems a bit high, considering the grind required just to get the crystals, it seems a bit overkill to require so many vouchers for the station, which is useless without the crystals, which are a bit grindy to get in their own right. Perhaps bring it down to 350, to be in line with the other top tier voucher items, instead of having it be so incredibly expensive.

Feedback on the rest of the new furnishings:
Please consider changing the prices of crown bought furnishings on the PTS to 1 or at least give us more crowns to play with, as I was only able to buy the new crafting stations before I was tapped out, and I will have to wait till they refresh before I can really have a look at anything else. What I saw in the Orbservatory Prior was awesome, though I wish the glass vessels/orbs were purchaseable outside of buying the Orbservatory Prior furnished.

If I have more thoughts, I will post them, but aside from the problems mentioned, The crafting stations are pretty amazing.

edit: I forgot to mention, it seems pretty arbitrary to have the house hlaalu flower emblem on the clothing station. Perhaps a symbol more apropos to Sotha Sil would be better.

I agree with the majority that snow inside the Pinnacle is a bit odd. Maybe have a closed off area with gigantic doors?

The clockwork home has an issue with the railings. Specifically, you can walk right through them and fall off. I tried to jump on top and went right through them. Didn't end well.

UPDATE: Turns out it is not the whole length of the border, just a small spot that you can walk through. When you initially spawn in, if you turn directly around, the spot is right in front of you overlooking the giant turbine things. It looks solid, but it is not.

Also, it's a bit underwhelming to find that the clockwork house has a doorway on the right as you walk in that you cannot enter. Pretty lame. I'd at least make it an alcove like the one on the left. I understand that it takes you to a sublevel, but there are a bunch of "doors" that lead nowhere.

Lastly, I would say that you should make the bottom of the clockwork structure accessible. For example, I can jump off the ledge into the big grey conveyor belt looking things, run under the "sublevel" landing, and there is a gold disk that is floating. If you try to jump to it, you die before you hit that landing. It would be great to make that landing accessible. Just a neat hidden floor for stuff.

And while I'm mentioning the conveyor belt things, their animation is not smooth. it starts to go in one direction, then randomly stops, stutters, then goes backwards before stopping, stuttering, and reversing direction again. It would look better to have it just continuously move in one direction.

I checked out mainly Pariah's Pinnacle, and encountered some bugs and issues.

It costs gold to travel to your homes

Snow
People have already said before, it's snowing in this house. What I find peculiar, is that it is snowing in the part of the house that has no snow on the floor.

Here in the picture below my character is standing on a floor that has snow on it, but for some weird reason it isn't snowing above her.



It's snowing further outside, it's snowing further inside the home, but at the part where she's standing, which is where the roof almost ends there is no snow coming from above at all!

The floor
The floor is beautiful, but it works in a funny way. Those squares within the octagons work more like sand than stone, as your feet sink into it:



More a peeve than a bug:
Placing carpets across octagons is going to be a nightmare:


Also placing furniture on this floor will be a challenge:


Furniture
There are two pieces of furniture that aren't working properly:


No fire at the top, but there is some fire going on at the base of this brazier.
And this is only for the snowswept version. The regular brazier works just fine.

Similar problem with this craglorn brazier:


Review:
My first impression was: " OMG a snowy peak home, I'm in love, this is so beautiful!" And then walked from room... to room... to another room, and I got lost. And then I tried to place furniture on the uneven floor, and I fell quickly out of love with this home.

It's bigger than the Earthtear Cavern in my estimation, which makes it *way* too big for the number of item slots. I would have loved to have seen this a lot smaller - medium sized home small. And the floor - it looks so awesome! - but it will be a challenge (read:nightmare) when you start to decorate it.

I would also note that the item:

Clockwork Illuminator, Powered Capsule

that come with the furnished clockwork house will repeatedly turn itself off. I don't know if this is working as intended, but none of the other lights do that.

(Also please add a stairway to the ledge above the front door. That space is usable and perfect for quick access to crafting stations, etc.)

I was soooo excited for a house in the SNOW. I adore the waterfall and pond area outside. I agree with a few other ppl that at first the house gets you a little lost. I do wish there was a bit more "rooms" and a little less open space.
I kinda like that it snows inside! lol
I do hope it is NOT a 5 day limited kinda deal since i missed the crown sale and i have to think long and hard about buying crowns at normal price for a home that while i love the snow... it could be a little bit better laid out. Also I wish i knew if there were more snow houses in the near future...... I am sure it will be limited time sell with crowns because that's all the ZOS seems to want to release lately. Which really sucks if you have 5-7 days to come up with the insane price they put on the houses.
I would also like to see more new houses purchasable with gold... except the latest one was really crappy for such a huge price tag I don't see why they can't add more home close to the size of my Forsaken stronghold with a similar gold price tag...
I don't mind buying things with crowns when they are actually priced decently and worth the money...


Also placing items on the floor is a chore in the pariah's pinnacle. You have to set items on the raised diamondy areas which can limit you in your creative process..

I really love these houses!
I feel like the uneveness of the floor in Pariah's Pinnacle could be an issue with decorating but I have to say overall both of these houses are spectacular! I am SO HAPPY that they have nice views!!!! that was one of the things i felt was seriously lacking in many of the other houses. There is a minor bug, I bought Pariah's Pinnacle and it costs money for me to port there, as if it was a regular wayshrine.

I do have one suggestion for housing, you guys keep bringing out more houses and im sure most people will have multiple houses soon if they dont already, so it would be great if we could choose a secondary, maybe even tertiary residence so people can visit more than one of our houses without us having to be there, would be really awesome!

I really like both new houses, they look great.
PP is atmospheric, open places with full of fresh air. Great! Just was expecting a lil bit more unique items in furnished version. House full of blue, green and white craftable items which are BOP. According to me there is no point to buy furnished house - 2 gold items like Orcish Table Grand Furs and Orcish Head stone which I did not found in CS for sell is not worth to pay 3k crowns extra for furnished version of house. Gonna buy this house any way I hope the limit of slots will be at least doubled then, 700 slots is nothing for this house.
Observatory is a finished project, perfectly done! Full of unique items (furnished), but it could use a lil bit more space. Also I'd love to have this one.
I did check Crown Store for new items. I was really glad to find new building components and platforms there but I'm still missing big sized platforms which can be used to make walls, floors and stairs without using a huge amount of slots.
The Clockwork furnishing style is awesome!

What did you think of the two new homes, the Orbservatory Prior and Pariah’s Pinnacle?

• Orbservatory Prior: Love the feel of the place but it feels kinda small for a notable home. I realize it's useless to ask for this not to be crown-only, but PLEASE don't make this limited time only.
• Pariah's Pinnacle: If I liked orcish architecture I'd likely love it. It's big and airy and the snow piles up indoors for days. Okay, maybe the last bit should be fixed.

Was the new quest to obtain your first home clear and enjoyable?
Haven't done it.

Small and medium sized homes no longer have achievement requirements to purchase them. Does this make it more appealing to purchase?
Doesn't effect me but I highly approve of this!

Did you look through the new furnishings in the Housing Editor? What did you think of them?
Gaaaah. Loved them. For the love of Solth-a-Sil don't make most of them crown only or the patterns prohibitively rare. I get you don't want us to get things right a way, but 3 months out of morrowind and telvanni still goes for 500k+ a pattern.

Do you have any other general feedback?
Yes, all specific items:

• Clockwork meal, dish & Clockwork meal, plate - I think they should be reversed? Plate looks more like a dish.
• Clockwork Goblet, recycled water has no water in it
• Daedric Brazier, cold-flame(new) & Daedric Brazier, Coldharbour share the same model