House customization

Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:18 am

Yea I know I'm asking for too much but would't it be great if we had more options for decorating our houses. After all the most famous furniture company in the world is from Skyrim = IKEA =)
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Lady Shocka
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:28 am

ha you should have seen my houses in morrowind items stacked and placed perfect. even had a buddy help me build a pillow fort outside seyda neen
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ezra
 
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Post » Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:32 pm

ha you should have seen my houses in morrowind items stacked and placed perfect. even had a buddy help me build a pillow fort outside seyda neen


A pillow fort lol :P
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Christina Trayler
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:14 am

Omg I need to find my morrowind disc and do that!!!
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JUan Martinez
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:57 am

A pillow fort lol :P

it was epic!!!! i dont suggest anyone do it though it took a hell of alot of time. It was like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaGazbXcy3U&feature=related but 3 stories and twice as big. It took something like 3 days to get it perfect and put furniture in it.

The was a pillow fort mod that had a fort as big as the one outside of balmora
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Chica Cheve
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:45 am

it was epic!!!! i dont suggest anyone do it though it took a hell of alot of time. It was like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaGazbXcy3U&feature=related but 3 stories and twice as big. It took something like 3 days to get it perfect and put furniture in it.

The was a pillow fort mod that had a fort as big as the one outside of balmora


Omg it's crazy. And this is why we need a specialized Skyrim furniture company that can do all sorts of arrangements :)
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jenny goodwin
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:42 am

You know what would be awesome? If someone made like an entire town of pillow forts, and then they used whatever you use to mod in Morrowind to fill it with people who sell things and walk around and talk and whatnot!
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:11 am

You know what would be awesome? If someone made like an entire town of pillow forts, and then they used whatever you use to mod in Morrowind to fill it with people who sell things and walk around and talk and whatnot!

there actually is a mod that has a complete fort outside of balmora im sure a modder could add npcs to it
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Taylor Bakos
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:39 am

I do hope for more options in terms of decorating houses, but I don't think they would have furniture stores, maybe they will use the furniture packs from Oblivion again. I agree that being able to add furniture would be a nice addition.

Upgradeable houses would also be cool, perhaps houses can be upgraded with a balcony, or an additional level, basemant, etc.
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Chantelle Walker
 
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Post » Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:05 pm

Personally, as long as there are a few options available I would rather they concentrated on providing interesting and diverse quests and factions and decent gameplay, - a variety of textures and more furnishings are things that can always be added by mods.
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Rachell Katherine
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:35 am

I wouldn't mind it, but it's not a priority.

While we're at it, can I have bookcases that let me add books and place them, so I don't have to fiddle with the physics engine?
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Wanda Maximoff
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:55 am

I've spent countless hours, placing book, artifacts, etc in precise placement. My house looked so wonderful! i love there to be more options.
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Tamara Dost
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:04 am

I hope we have the ability to actually carry and place furniture. I shouldn't have Oblivion's system of just buying rooms, I should have to go to the store, buy a cupboard, and haul it back. It would weigh a lot (around 100, maybe?) and I could hire some muscle to help me out. Being able to perfectly cutomise my room, with any piece of furniture I want, would be great.

I'd also love to see the ability to buy a camp and set it up anywhere outside a town.
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Tikarma Vodicka-McPherson
 
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Post » Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:09 pm

I would love to enchant the outside of my house. You know make it so no one can see the house. I would also like to have a portal that I can recall to at anytime. I would also like to place my house high in the mountains. I want it to be nearly impossible to get to without the use of magic. lol Do I sound like solitary mage to you?
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Jon O
 
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Post » Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:54 pm

I got annoyed of the shelves and stuff i didn't need. But i would love to choose what class furniture and change the color of my bedding and curtains. Also choose the paintings and tapestries :jammasterjay: .
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Charleigh Anderson
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:41 am

Im more interested in being able to place a house in different locations in the wilderness not just in cities. It would be awesome if they had multiple set spots to place a cabin or whatnot in the forests or mountains of Skyrim.
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Laura Richards
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:35 am

It would be nice if there was a "decorate" mode that you could enter whilst in your house that allowed movement static items [IE beds, bookshelves, cupboards, etc] perhaps an option to switch them out for different models [once you have purchased them]. Once exiting out of "decorate" mode the items would then again become fixed in their position.

Like others this isn't a top priority for me, it would be a nice added extra, but it isn't a big deal if it's not there.
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Post » Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:58 pm

Under normal circumstances I wouldn't say this is a priority for me, but then I took a look at what I spent the most time doing in Morrowind. Consequently I must honestly say that this is a PRIORITY for me.

To be clear, I'm not talking about the stupid "upgrade your rooms at the vendor" crap from Oblivion. I'm talking about precision item placement (a la Morrowind). I don't know what's the point in modeling and texturing dropable loot if you have to hide it in containers so it doesn't go rolling and flying all over the place due to "physics" that doesn't account for weight or friction.
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Nichola Haynes
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:15 am

Any system but the horrible, impossible one in Oblivion. There's just something wrong with a physics engine where putting a scrap of paper on a pile of books can set everything else on the shelf flying across the room.... :brokencomputer:
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:12 am

More options would definitely be awesome, but I would settle for being able to place books properly in book shelves, like open them up, drop your books, and voila! There they are nicely lined up in alphabetical order. That, and then removing the annoying 'shutter' bugs which tosses your things all over the room after you spent hours decorating :banghead:
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Killer McCracken
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:28 am

Book arrangement is high priority for me, too, but I'd also like a "middle class" upgrade option for any shacks we may want to buy. It's good to have humbler housing as an RP/starter choice, but the option to make an added payment and get clean carpets would greatly increase shack utility.
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Ellie English
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:30 am

Ideally, I would hope that they implement a very simplified version of the construction set's building-creation into the game. You could acquire the land, draw up a "blueprint", and have it built in-game. I wouldn't even mind if it were totally bare-bones, empty rooms I have to decorate myself from the ground up to save development effort. It's hard to say exactly how much effort this would take (the fact that the construction set will already exist vs giving it a stable representation in the game), but I'd love making some bizarre tower labyrinth for a mage, or an unassuming house full of secret rooms and underground tunnels for a master thief.
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Dawn Farrell
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:02 am

No overflow bags, I hated those things and once there, no getting rid of them.

I want to be able to place lines of torches again as walkways to my stronghold house too.
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:25 am

I want to pick up a table/chair/bed/candlestick and be able to place it where I want. I'd also love for 'dynamic AI' bookshelves that function a little like containers and place books/items on the shelves without Havok making a mess of things :P

Oh, and mannequins on which to display our armor/weapons. Morrowind mods added them, Oblivion mods added them, Fallout 3 mods added them, Fallout New Vegas mods added them (but broke them with the patch). This for Bethesda to incorporate them into the game as a standard feature in my opinion ;)

Also, being able to put trophies (like enemy shields or spears) on your walls would be awesome.
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Christie Mitchell
 
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Post » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:45 am

I'm pretty much with everyone else on this one. It's not a huge priority for me, inability to place anything in Oblivion aside, but its fun to talk about what we'd like.

Ideally, I would like more than one "large" house to be available. Yes, there were two "large" houses in oblivion, (Chorrol and Skingrad), but all of my characters ended up in Skingrad because it was the nicest one. I'd like maybe three "poor" houses, three "middle" houses and three "rich" houses that are in different places, but are all approximately the same luxury and size as the others in their group. ...And I know it's pretentious, but I want the "rich" houses to have, like ten rooms each. I'm that guy, and I'm not afraid to admit it.
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