Well I’ll see if I can help out ;3 I’m fairly fussy when it comes to player houses, I’ve yet to have one that I was completely satisfied with. 1. I don’t really have a specific type of house I like, though I know the kind I don’t like are the huge, ostentatious variety. The one thing that will make me uninstall a house immediately is if it has multiple load doors- not inside to outside variety, but you need a loading screen to get to the basement, the master bedroom, ect. My rig, aging as she may be, isn’t bad with loadtimes, but it breaks the flow of the house and I find it unreasonably irritating. 2. As far as missing kinds of houses, I’m not entirely sure that any particular area is underrepresented. Perhaps a few medium or small-size houses for vampries, assassins, or thieves? I know there’s a few larger ones for evil-types, but a few subtler ones would be appreciated. Subtle as in not splattered in blood with Dark Brotherhood symbols everywhere, but darker in atmosphere, a slightly sinister or moody feel. 3. Well I’m not sure if anything hasn’t been done yet. Hm… Oh, I know. An apartment-style living space. Not like a modern apartment, but I think the jist is easy to grasp. It’s a bigger building, perhaps a repurposed estate, and there’s lots of rooms and only one of them is yours. Neighbors can be incorporated, some annoying, some friendly. Some creepy. Crazy landlady, ect. I had the thought about this the other day when I was contemplating how the cities of Skyrim have a max population of twenty. 4. Besides load doors, the largest thing that bothers me with house mods are the mannequins/displays. I find the ‘armory’ idea as just a room jammed full of mannequins to be particularly hideous. Mannequins that are incorporated into existing spaces tend to look better, or if they just have a small little nook instead of plunked down on the floor. I think the best mannequin display I have ever seen was in Rayek’s End. (Rayek’s easily would have been my idea house, I could live with it being too small, but I found its world location to be annoying. It’s right by a road, so you had a 50/50 chance of not being able to fast travel when you went outside due to enemies on the road.) It has one mannequin, but it’s in a little alcove and elevated up. It simply is the loveliest thing. That being said, I love displays. Especially ones for jewelry or other forms of wealth. It just has to be tastefully place. Another tiny peevish thing is when a house mod incorporates a lot of in game items as statics to decorate the house. It looks pretty, gorgeous even, the problem being is that none of that stuff is yours. And not in the way that you can’t snatch it and go, but that you did not earn that item and place it there. Now that I’ve finished talking your ear off, good luck!
