First of all, I am happy that we will get this awesome villa, maybe the house I like most so far in ESO and was 99% sure I will never have the crowns to aquire it. The devs have made us an unprecedented gift for which I am grateful.
But this giveaway of the largest Alinor themed house, has already created a huge demand for Culanda Laquer. Prices have gone to 3.5k a piece, and stacks sell for 5k per unit.
This means that for epic Alinor furnishings, just the culanda cost is about 7-10k gold, which I find ridiculous. The means to aquire this style material are limited to a few daily quests and if you get lucky to obtain and succesfully deconstruct a Sapiarch styled item.
I am pretty sure that by the 10th of October and afterwards, these prices will rise, and it will be a major struggle for a crafter to create Alinor furnishings for trading or just for decorating the Villa.
In my opinion, and I bet I am not the only one, this situation must be improved. We have seen good reaction from the devs, by lowering the culanda cost for fine and rare furnishings, so I hope they will hear us now too. I guess they can have more data than we do. Several solutions have been proposed, like changing the style material to the psijic one, which is more available, increase the daily amount of culanda that can be aquired or, my suggestion... add a way to create these furnishings as bound items, for which you don't require the style material. So if you want to trade the items, then you need culanda, if not, you create a bound item without culanda. This system was used for Psijic items, and could be extended to other furnishings as well.
But this giveaway of the largest Alinor themed house, has already created a huge demand for Culanda Laquer. Prices have gone to 3.5k a piece, and stacks sell for 5k per unit.
This means that for epic Alinor furnishings, just the culanda cost is about 7-10k gold, which I find ridiculous. The means to aquire this style material are limited to a few daily quests and if you get lucky to obtain and succesfully deconstruct a Sapiarch styled item.
I am pretty sure that by the 10th of October and afterwards, these prices will rise, and it will be a major struggle for a crafter to create Alinor furnishings for trading or just for decorating the Villa.
In my opinion, and I bet I am not the only one, this situation must be improved. We have seen good reaction from the devs, by lowering the culanda cost for fine and rare furnishings, so I hope they will hear us now too. I guess they can have more data than we do. Several solutions have been proposed, like changing the style material to the psijic one, which is more available, increase the daily amount of culanda that can be aquired or, my suggestion... add a way to create these furnishings as bound items, for which you don't require the style material. So if you want to trade the items, then you need culanda, if not, you create a bound item without culanda. This system was used for Psijic items, and could be extended to other furnishings as well.