Request for Hook Improvements

[MaximusRex]

@JackieKo I hope you can share this with the team.

Galactic Strongholds can be a lot of fun to decorate and create a cool setting that is personal to us in the game, but the way decoration hooks and decos operate can be very frustrating at times.  The right hook isn't in the right spot, the deco would fit in the space but the needed hook isn't there, the offset isn't enough to reach where you want an item to be placed, or the granularity of the offset means that no matter what an item is too far to one side or the other.

The biggest ask for improvement would be to remove the size restrictions on hooks.  Let the player decide if a furniture item fits in a specific place, just simply give us the chance to place it.  This would also fix the issues that many furniture items are assigned to hook limits that don't make sense.  There are many very large items that will fit on hooks smaller than they are, and many smaller items that will only work on hooks much larger then they are.  It is frustrating to grab a Nul obelisk that takes a lare hook and it is barely larger than a small hook, and not even very tall.

My second improvement request is to allow us to place any item on Floor, Wall, or Ceiling hooks.  It could be interesting to hang a carpet like a tapestry, or place a Holocron of Dread on the ceiling like devs have in other places in the world.

And my last improvement request is to reduce the distance that items move by half when adjusting placement, while increasing the total distance they can move significantly, maybe up to 1000 from the current 20.  The current offsets available make it very difficult to line things up, especially if other nearby hooks are not perfectly centered, and at least to me if feels like if the offset distance was about half of what it currently is.  And currently the larger the item is the less impactful those 20 units of offset become.

I hope that the changes could also be mutually beneficial because devs creating decos and hook layouts for some spaces could also benefit from the freedom of trying to decide what types of hoods to place where, and what hook type/size a deco should be made for.

I suggest these changes because I feel they are probably feasible within the confines of the current system and am therefore hopeful that they can be given serious consideration.  Of course a full 3d placement system would have been awesome, but I understand that trying to implement that would likely be akin to building the entire system from the ground up.

[SteveTheCynic]

On 4/25/2024 at 1:36 AM, MaximusRex said:

The biggest ask for improvement would be to remove the size restrictions on hooks

Incorrect.  The biggest ask would be to remove the hook system altogether and let us place decorations where we want them to be.(1)  Well, with three restrictions:

• What are now floor-hook pieces are only allowed on the floor.
• What are now wall-hook pieces are only allowed on walls.
• What are now ceiling-hook pieces are only allowed on the ceiling.

(1) See e.g. ESO or Runes of Magic.

[MaximusRex]

It is correct, I made a post asking for what I wanted, and that is what I want, if you want something else feel free to ask for it, but that doesn't make my ask "Incorrect".  Also, ESO doesn't have the restrictions you want to maintain.

[ScarlettDiablo]

I'd love to see Z added to X and Y too.

And being able to mirror decorations.

Not hook related but I would love to see sitting personnel decos. All those empty chairs, couches. Sleeping position personnel. All those beds empty.