Bigger and smaller potion improvements

• It would add a great amount of convenience to the game if you added individual names and icons for individual potions. Currently tri-stat potions have the same name and icon as traditional health potions, and the same goes for all other tri-stat potions. The best way in terms of immersion would be to create fancy new names such as you did for provisioning, but also a lighter version would do nicely.
• Please remove non craftable level potions, such as lvl 29 or lvl 34, that don't stack with the other ones from the game. Or simply make them stackable within a certain level range. It is very inconvenient to have 4 or 5 stacks of stamina potions of varying levels on your character, all of them in stack sizes of 3 or 4, then having to re-adjust your quickslots after consuming one stack.

Hmm... this one seems like a great topic to let our imagination fly, while waiting to download the updates for the game. I will gradually add some ideas, that I always wanted to see developed in an MMORPG, and that (in my eyes) can boost the sustainability of the end-game player-base a lot, but for now let's start with a couple of these:

1 - Secondary properties and update system for the sets, that we build: In my opinion this is something that needs to happen, because the current set-creation and update system was most likely meant to let players build whatever they want in a relatively fast way. That being awesome and stuff, the product actually lost one of it's main hooks that MMORPGS develop for their players - the constant need to work for your gear in order to make it versatile on the battlefield. We currently have the stacked set bonuses, that are awesome and diverse along with the ability to easily upgrade these with 100% chance of success on the forges, thus increasing their battle quality, but it seams to me that this is not enough. It is not enough because it brings an equalizer for casual and "ultra" hooked players, leaving the second ones with nothing to strive for in the long-term period of their gaming experience. Now what I would like to see is an ability, where players who log in every day can complete certain amount of repeatable quests during every day in Tamriel (Solo ones - earning less points, because they are easier / Dungeon ones - earning more, depending on the time/resources they consume for players), that will qualify them to receive unique items, allowing them to increase the success rate of using special forges... For example - one player uses a two-handed yellow sword with critical rate as primary property... What this special forge can do with this sword however is to: 1 - add a random secondary property for the sword (for example "increase of the attack speed by 2%" or "further increase of the damage with 2%" or "life-stealing 1% of the damage done with this weapon" etc...) and allow the player to gradually update it with 5% chance of success for ... let's say a set amount of gold or farmable resources. The people who log in every day however will have an increased interest to complete quests and be active - by doing so, they will receive "participation/hero points" that will allow them to purchase special scrolls, increasing the chance for update of this secondary ability with a set amount of success rate for every level reached. Let's say that we divide the secondary property update system on 5 levels, and we have added 2% life-stealing ability to our sword on the first level of this system. By default our chance to update this property to "4% life-steal" will be 5% and will cost us 3000 coins to be done... However we have completed 10 quests today and thus we can get our special scroll, that will increase that chance with 25% - thus making the success rate 30%... If we fail to update, the secondary property will remain at 2% and we will be able to try the same thing tomorrow, when we complete another 10 quests ... If we succeed however, we will start preparations to reach the 3rd level of upgrade, that will allow us to grow the "life-steal to 7%". Chances with no scroll here will remain 5%, but using a scroll this time will only grant us 20% of success rate... The fourth level will make the attacks with that weapon to life-steal 10% of the damage done, but the chances with no scroll will be only 3% and the scroll will add only 15%... Finally the 5th upgrade level will allow us to build up our sword with 15% life-stealing of the damage done, but the chances for success with no scroll will be reduced to 1% and the scroll will add only 10% of success rate.

So what is this system solving?

1 - It adds another layer of diversity to the builds that players develop, so that they can become even more unique and personalized with their style of playing;

2 - It adds up to the player's motivation to be constantly involved with the game, to log in every day, to do quests, to PVP and to "work" within the product for additional resources in order to be able to improve his gear in unique ways;

3 - It balances the gold amounts within the player-base, thus reducing the inflation rate of the monetary system in the two mega-servers and through it - it keeps lower leveled players able to actually get the stuff they need at normal prices - instead of just watching the interstellar ones in the auction houses ...

4 - It is not a punishing, but a rewarding system - meaning that if the player fails to update, he won't lose the item quality, that he already invested in. But he will have to log in tomorrow and re-do some quests, kill some players in PVP, do some dungeons, gather some materials etc. in order to try to update his gear again.

(5 - and this should be implemented with extreme caution) - Lower success rate increase scrolls can be available for purchase within the crown store, that add up half the chance of the normal ones for each upgrade level, that will be available. Thus players will be motivated to purchase the ESO+ membership, without ruining the balance of the game in ridiculous ways - turning it into a pay-to-win product.

I am done for the moment guys, but I will add some more ideas gradually. Kudos for the topic.

I'm onboard with this idea. I would l like to hear more of "This is something we're considering/not considering" as well as explaining pros and cons, but this is a great step either way.

I think the biggest things for me are:

Unarmed Combat- (skill line) I suspect this one to require minimal work, the biggest part mainly in balancing.
Underwater Exploration- I suspect this would take a major overhaul amount of work.
Utility skills- Things like the old detect life, underwater breathing, pick lock spell, night eye, ect. Maybe set to a rotodial like potions/consumables/trophies.
Vampire bite animation which looks more "traditional" like reusing WW bite animation.
Poison system that was mentioned sound good. Maybe have weapon coating and thrown.

It was only a matter of time before I found this thread.

Curiosities:
Could you show us more screenshots or provide details of the Champion System that did not make it to Live? I think there was the screenshot with the Steed that had things like Flame Boost or Physical Mastery. And some perk where you could feed horses twice a day.

Plant Placement:
If a new plant were introduced, would the plant be added to a loot table and have a chance to spawn in existing plant locations? Or would the plant need to be manually placed.

Gore:
Player character gore. I personally dislike it, but here goes. If ESRB / PEGI / others were not an issue, how difficult would it be to implement gore such as decapitation or being utterly destroyed by siege weapons with the current system? Are the animations and code already present? Would it need to be developed?

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I'm sure there is a lot on the discussion board for the Twitch. Will space some questions for next time based on responses to the ones in this thread.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have... special events on daedric princes' summoning days (for example: 21st of First Seed for Azura, 2nd of Sun's Dusk for Boethia) with proper benefits like a daedric artifacts that exsists for 2 weeks and disappears after. I think it would be interesting and very competitionly events for entire community.

And more...Please, guys, gimme a function to convert any armor to disguise/costume. I hardly need a khajiity heavy armor cosume

What would it take to implement the ability to repair our own equipment, to craft repair kits, to have full outfit Repair Kits, or take enchantments off gear?

Repair Our Own Gear:

Would it have to be done at a crafting station OR could it be done on the go like charging enchantments as long as we had the mats in our inventory, not the bank?

How I envision it working (Each additional Ingot, Sanded Plank of Wood, Leather or Cloth would add X% to the durability, and would cost the same amount of materials as the initial crafting of the item cost to go from 0% to 100%, but you wouldn't use any more of the improvement materials and would of course keep your enchantments, traits, and racial style).


Crating Our Own Repair Kits:

Would it have to be done at a crafting station? (so either in town or at a Set Crafting Location)
Would it be good for any type of item or would they be separated out by material type?

How I envision it working If they would be like the merchant bought ones, I think you would need to use the average amount of materials for that type in all three stations, for example for lvl 26-34 gear you would use up 3 Sanded Beech , 2 Cotton Cloth and 2 Leather hide (since they are both for the same tier I divided the average amount of an Armour item between the two), 3 Orichalcum ingots. Then you would be able to use it to repair just like the purchased ones.


Full Outfit Repair Kits:

Nothing to say except that when I need 1 repair kit, I need 9 repair kits cuz I go hard in the paint.


Taking Enchantments OFF Gear:

1st off, Why is this NOT a thing?

If it WAS a thing, Would this destroy the item and give you 100% chance to have the Glyph but nothing else, or would you deconstruct the item in order to have a chance to get back the Glyph plus the other materials that went into it?

How I envision it working : Glyph Removal would be a secondary option within the deconstruction UI, where it would be a 50%-100% chance based on an enchanting passive to remove the Glyph and you would also have a smaller but still increasing chance,( based on your Extraction/Unraveling Passive for the type of item it is), that the item would also yield some of the regular materials given by normal deconstructing but not the same amount. This way the game would know that you were more intent on getting the glyph back than the raw materials....


Rockclimbing/Climbing?
In a game where pickpocketing, theft and MURDER are possible, and being caught is a very real possibility, I feel it is completely necessary to make rockclimbing/climbing a reality as well to give the players who take part in these activities the chance to do so inconspicuously, or if not, then at least to escape when caught in the act.

How I envision it working : Rocks; trees; mushrooms; roofs; LADDERS. These should all be interactive/climbable. Like with boobytraps where in sneak you can disarm them, with climbing, you should be able to see specific spots/handholds/footholds in sneak mode and eventually make your way to the top by focusing on these spots and selecting "E" to move to it, be it up, down or over. These spots should only be visible when within arm/leg reach and definitely not when in regular run/walk mode. These prompts would not show up otherwise so they would be like a secret path/not annoying people with glowing spots all over their screen.
Because you would be in sneak, climbing would deplete your stamina just like moving in sneak does, and if you attempted to move to the next spot without enough left, you would come out of stealth, falling down to whatever point the landscape would catch you at, possibly injuring yourself or falling to your death just like it is now.

P.S.What would it take to add some greater realistic texture to the environment instead of just visual texture so that we could really interact with it?

New systems:

1. Creating a barbershop/makeover system
2. Implementing a housing system for players/guilds
3. Character journal system - add entries in game w/screenshots and auto-uploaded to a web journal. Viewable by players in game and via web browser.
4. Adding armor preview
5. Monthly/seasonal events
6. PVP arena matches
7. Physical library in game where player can see all the books they've collected (by this I mean an actual interior space decorated like a library with interactive books) -- possibly in conjunction with player housing?
8. Add gift shop to the Crown store -- low cost items that can be sent directly to other players if desired such as tokens of affection, gag gifts for friends, items with unique charges/temp effects for fun, etc.
9. Change armor/item appearance system

General stuff of interest:

1. Pipeline process of adding a new zone (different phases of completion)
2. From concept art to finished product (creating armor or new mobs, etc)
3. Adding new social animations for avatars
4. Add trophies and disguises to collections and other inventory management upgrades

Hmmm okay.... how hard would it be or how would it be done to make PvP rewards worthy of cleaning out my inbox?

When you capture a Keep in Cyrodiil and claim it for your guild, the Quartermaster in the keep gives access to your Guild Store. This is a little used and little known feature that could be awesome in linking together PvP and PvE in a meaningful way. But because it's obscured, it's not often used, and because of that fact, it gives no advantage over the guild kiosks.

1. It should be obvious when a guild claims a keep and that the guild store is available. In contested keeps, you could make a killing on PvP items. There could also be a systematic gain that there is a tax paid by the resources captured for that keep that gives additional revenue to the guild for items sold.

2. The second idea is a bit more half-baked, but I think could be enhanced to be awesome. One of the problems with trading and war is logistics, but the only place I've seen it modeled is in EVE. If the resources became centers of logistics for the war effort, supplied by the guild that owns the keep, and useable by anyone of the alliance for services that they might normally have to return to a keep for- for a discount for members of the owning guild- then it seems like it would add more of an infrastructure around PvP. Then if you put in the added complication of the supplies for the resources being a carryable item- and more importantly a lootable item- either dropped when killed like the scrolls, or indeed, just lootable from the body.

I know that neither of these is fully fleshed out, but I thought that they were solid ideas to build on to make Cyrodiil a more dynamic place, still built around PvP, but with other objectives that support the greater war.

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New systems:

1. Physical library in game where player can see all the books they've collected (by this I mean an actual interior space decorated like a library with interactive books) -- possibly in conjunction with player housing?

Or if it being in conjunction with player housing s too difficult, maybe it could be a room (or instanced room) accessible from the Mages Guild (possibly in Eyevea?) that everyone could access but you would only be able see/access the books/scrolls/notes that you personally had found. That way they would only have to develop a single asset and everyone would get access to the functionality.

Some of my suggestions are echos of others. Things that I feel would be interesting to explore are:

• Player Housing
• Guild Halls
• Stacking food and drink buffs
• Multi-player emotes: hugs, high-fives, etc.
• What goes into adding classes or skill trees: Perhaps drawing from the Bard's College as an example of something not implemented, or Legerdemain as something more recently added.
• Enhancing the client to run as a 64-bit application (interesting for us CSE folks at least.)

I would like to see a much larger Cyrodil area with more strategic based campaigns. If you look at World War Two online, that has a map covering southern England, Northern France, Belgium, Holland and much of North Germany. So it can be done but might need a separate game engine to which players port.

The basis of that campaign is taking tactical points - villages - which block lines of communication so you cant raid beyond the front line - although paras can launch raids beyond the need to co-ordinate with ground forces or they lose all supply.

With three factions fighting it would introduce strategy and tactics to the campaign and possibly a formal alliance system. Campaign victory would be taking and holding strategic objectives that could vary from campaign to campaign.

It would also mean that there would need to be dedicated high commander groups to direct the campaign for each side. That is done in WWII online by having the commanders decide where to attack with attack objectives. Unless a village is an attack objective it can't be attacked. Similarly bridges can't be destroyed unless High Command allows it.

IMHO the campaign is bunfight atm and while I enjoy it I think it could be expanded to be much more interesting.

Hmmm. Was this actually a part of yesterday's (3/27) show? I watched pretty much the whole show and I don't recall any segment on the Armchair Developer. Maybe when I took a bathroom break they whizzed through it. It that's the case, can anyone tell me at what point in the video stream I could find it?

In a new segment in our biweekly Twitch show ESO Live called “The Armchair Developer,” we want to take a closer look at these feature requests, explore the pros and cons of implementing them and all the work involved – from concept and artwork, to building and balancing, all the way to the live patch.

Hey, ZOS_GinaBruno! I watched the ESO live yesterday, looking forward to The Armchair Developer segment, but I didn't see it! So what happened? Will it be in the next ESO Live?

What would be involved in developing a guild recruitment notice board in game and would it be a feasible mechanism both as a game element and in reducing guild zone chat spamming?