Building a player home & looking for feedback.

[Monsto Brukes]

Sure, why not have this as an open topic. I'd say either way between esp or screens, tho personally I have no problems dropping in a simple esp for a :10 run thru.

 

 

So yeah I've made a couple playerhomes that I've never published, but I use the hell out of them on my own. So I thought I'd share . . . see what you guys thought so far.

 

Here's the start to my latest. The space is finalized, prelim lighting/fires. Downstairs: follower beds on left, crapting on right. Upstairs: artifact museum on left, library straight ahead, dunno on right, probably bedroom. Tower will get stairs and a loft-level, for player bed and storage.

 

Shape is based on Clan Battleborn house in WR. I figure to make the outside a walled manor, terminating on the tower and with all the smithing crap out there. 

 

I had also planned on leaving it sparsely cluttered so that the player can customize as they see fit with the various "make your own stuff" mods like Better Containers and SPODUM (with Positioner).

 

Thoughts?

 

june 5 version

[Phinco]

Great job, its actually exactly the kind of thing that players are going to be moving toward.  Now that SKSE memory patch has been implemented into SKSE itself, and the ease of really optimizing the game, players are going to be looking for exactly this.  Its hard to find a home anywhere that is really built for great mods such as make your own guild, or having unlimited followers.  Roleplaying a guild leader and have a base of operations is so high on my list.  Having a place all my followers, 10, 20, whatever it may be can call home as well. Personally this is what im looking for in a home, and that roleplay experience, such as having a woodmill outside to earn a living, a fence that will buy it, people need a reason to live in the house but more importantly, to go back to that house and keep returning.  I would much rather prefer a home that offers different ways to make a living, as suppose to a full house of stuff to look at.  Just the basics, but a place I can hang out with my companions and have it feel lived in.   Keep up the great work.

[Monsto Brukes]

Great job, its actually exactly the kind of thing that players are going to be moving toward.  Now that SKSE memory patch has been implemented into SKSE itself, and the ease of really optimizing the game, players are going to be looking for exactly this.  Its hard to find a home anywhere that is really built for great mods such as make your own guild, or having unlimited followers.  Roleplaying a guild leader and have a base of operations is so high on my list.  Having a place all my followers, 10, 20, whatever it may be can call home as well. Personally this is what im looking for in a home, and that roleplay experience, such as having a woodmill outside to earn a living, a fence that will buy it, people need a reason to live in the house but more importantly, to go back to that house and keep returning.  I would much rather prefer a home that offers different ways to make a living, as suppose to a full house of stuff to look at.  Just the basics, but a place I can hang out with my companions and have it feel lived in.   Keep up the great work.

 

I'm assuming you ran around inside?

 

I actually disconnected the tower area... I was really put off by the dirty, mossy, aged look of the walls n stuff. I mean on the one hand you have the Clan Battle-born house (that's what I started with) all clean and spacious on the inside, then you have a dank mossy old tower off the back end.

 

Do you think it matters that much?

 

Attached is the latest, with the tower disconnected. I didn't have the heart to delete it (= so you'll have to console tcl (make sure you don't have anything selected in console) to see it. Just go towards the back where the entrance used to be and fly around over there, you'll find it. I also thought about making a square/rectangular one out of a different set.

 

I was eventually going to have it branch off to the sides and be part of a wall around the manor. Even toyed with the idea of having the gate be a zone door and everything inside the wall be a separate zone from the rest of the world... kinda like being inside say whiterun or riften. This would allow me to do anything i wanted inside the walls. It would, however, negate external raids.

 

Right now it's connected to the world with the outer area of the house blocked out pretty solid. I'll go ahead and call it "completed basic". The tower is still out there I think.

[Monsto Brukes]

I brought back the tower and redid the way to get up top. Made my own spiral staircase that isn't either rotting away or moldy as fuck. 

 

If I can deal with the mossy walls somehow, I think I'll really like that tower area. Hell it could probably stand alone as a small player home.

 

Beds now work.

dovmanor.esp