Any update as to future UI improvements and plans for additional options & functionality? While on the PC it is an annoyance to use addons (between some people seeing excessive performance hits from them, crashing, and simply updating them constantly) for a variety of reasons as well as simply not being as well-integrated as native toggles, consoles do not have that option, and some items that used to be available in-game such as overhead customizable nameplates and guild tags (seen here from early ESO footage: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/183978/i-went-on-an-archaeology-expedition-on-my-hard-drive-and-found-the-long-lost-oft-demanded-true-ui ) remain unavailable by any means in-game.

For consoles, nearly everything is a major wishlist item, including the chat box (perhaps a mid-way and intuitive compromise might be for it to appear in the bottom-center of your screen when in your inventory, and having it automatically tuck itself back away once you close your bags?) and for many what are essentials such as a combat log. With the more recent information about optional Scrolling Combat Text and Buff/Debuff indicators & timers being slated for implementation in a future patch (and the API restrictions being relaxed on the PC for the Imperial City DLC in the meantime to allow addons to do the job for now), and growing community acceptance of settings/preferences for the UI, my question is:

Has any decision been made as to when we might (or won't) expect to see further UI options added beyond the currently announced toggleable buff/debuff info & scrolling combat text, or are they under discussion currently? Key desired features include general QoL improvements to the UI (usability such as mail replying, guild store sales mails informing you of what was sold and when, toggling the large parchment border that surrounds the entire gameplay camera off or on, etc.) and community-enhancing toggles like overhead nameplates with titles and a represented guild (by using a dropdown list similar to your title that allows you to select a guild to represent on that nameplate).

Other interests include the return of the optional DAOC-style "death spam" channel in Cyrodiil and the Imperial City which when enabled gave a nice sense of action and activity in PVP, seeing a basic message color-coded to indicate which faction did the killing, and showing basic resource/keep updates and captures.

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An additional question I have is regarding PVP leaderboard scoring: will we see any modifiers applied to the rankings, such as time played/logged into PVP areas including Cyrodiil and the Imperial City, rather than raw point totals, to help add more of a skill basis to them?

Also, what about non-score-related, but enjoyable and fun statistics such as the "I remain standing" score from DAOC (your earnings divided by deaths, and I'd like to have that then adjusted by time logged in), basic kills/deaths, killblows, healing dealt, damage dealt, resources/keeps taken, scrolls taken, etc. all filterable by time period for the current day, the prior day ("yesterday"), week, current campaign, and lifetime? For anything not affecting scoring, an optional "hidden" preference may be a potential setting to allow for with these additions.

Will the crafting tier, and associated new materials, to be introduced in IC be permanently exclusive to that zone and DLC? Or will they be available for open-world collection/refining at some later point? (e.g. as part of the planned Wrothgar expansion)

When will consoles get updates like pc gets, because we are not getting catered to at all,
This game is amazing id just like to see some support for the $60 i paid and the $15 i pay a month

So my question is, when are we getting exp potions in the store and craftable, and
Can we look forward to the consoles getting a fix to the game so we can communicate more with our guilds?

Hey @ZOS_JessicaFolsom.

Cheers for letting us know, will be nice to have a dedicated live Q&A session.

However my question is that if you know July 31st is post-PTS patch then the PTS will have 2.1.x drop within the next ten days, surely by now you must know a date of patch drop? It may be worth sharing that with us as a lot of people will require several days in order to download the PTS.

Giving us a day of notice just isn't acceptable this time around and given how you are so certain you must have a date decided already.

Could you possibly release this date?

Cheers!

Thanks for the updates, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom ! Can't wait.

When will you add text chat option on consoles? It needs it really bad..

With all of the content that is now in the Imperial City, does ZOS plan on adding more content to it in the future?

Horse racing?

Will we ever be able to dye the belts of guild tabards??

Are there plans to increase the max veteran rank higher than veteran rank 16?

What would be considered the toughest boss in the Imperial City?

Are there any future plans for guild content?

Spellcrafting?

Are we still getting the actual Undaunted style motif that was shown last year at Quake Con?

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Will the AOE cap on Magicka Detonation remain?

I'll echo a couple of other people here: Veteran Ranks, are they here to stay or go? We all thought they were on their way out but then we're given 2 extra levels with the new content...

Secondly, will a stricter death penalty be introduced to leaderboard-specific PvE content? At the minute it's purely based on time, which is somewhat boring and doesn't promote careful play and strategy.

When will text chat on consoles be implemented?

With regards to TV stones:

TV stones are shared between a group for a boss kill (e.g. 4 people in group, 40 stones from boss, 10 stones each). What if there are multiple groups attacking the same enemy? Is it the group that lands the killing blow that solely gets the stones? Basically, could a sneaky player stand in the distance waiting for a 4-man squad to bring a boss or mob's health low to then Jesus Beam them for the killing blow and run off with 4-40 stones for zero effort?

What is happening with part 2 of the justice system is it still planned like spell crafting or essentially scrapped at this point?

rolling a NB healer on PS4, so i'll appreciate an HUD where i can see my HoT spells countdown