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Re: Hey ZOS
PC EU has always been more populous during EU prime time and empty otherwise, compared to NA which is more international and therefore always has activity going on.
If you're complaining during prime time, then you're just in the wrong zones.
If you're complaining during prime time, then you're just in the wrong zones.
Okay bye!Are MYM campaigns still up only on PC EU or NA as well? Still, I fail to see how these remaining campaigns mean PC EU is dead.
In any case, my personal impression is that there won’t be nothing meaningful happening to PvP till Vengeance is concluded. Cyro is a hot mess rn but why bother with small changes that do not address the core concerns? Once ZOS gets all the results they need they will rework Cyro big time (hopefully), even if they decide to run 2 modes, the Cyro of nowadays must change if only to run smoothly.
For now, I would say brace yourself for more game breaking sets and systems introduced and left in PvP without adjustments plus all the combat bugs etc. It would be a relief to know how long Vengeance will take but I’m not sure even ZOS knows.
Vengeance is poop and if they rework Cyrodiil to that crap - i will leave this game, so no, thanks.
Re: How Do I Make Money?
xbluerosesx wrote: »typing "selling lusty argonian feet pics" in zone chat isn't cutting it anymore at 1400 cp levels XD
This made me spit out my water.
Re: Survey question - specifically Plentiful Harvest and Alchemy surveys
I've been following this thread with a certain amount of curiosity but it only struck me earlier that one of my survey gatherers might actually not know all the traits of all of the plants/mushrooms, so I checked.
She only knows four traits on four plants/mushrooms, three traits, two traits. one trait on some and no traits at all on eleven. She has 8/8 and all other passives except for snakeblood fully unlocked.
So I did a few surveys with her just out of interest, the first one I got only 4 from 5 nodes but the 6th node gave me 12. After that every survey gave me at least one or two 6 and 12's, one gave me only 6 and 12's.
My sample size was tiny in comparison to you guys but I can definitely say you do not need all traits unlocked to get 6 and 12's to drop.
I had never actually checked her knowledge before which tells me that I have always received 6 and 12's when gathering with her because I would certainly have stopped using her or maxed her knowledge if I had not!
She only knows four traits on four plants/mushrooms, three traits, two traits. one trait on some and no traits at all on eleven. She has 8/8 and all other passives except for snakeblood fully unlocked.
So I did a few surveys with her just out of interest, the first one I got only 4 from 5 nodes but the 6th node gave me 12. After that every survey gave me at least one or two 6 and 12's, one gave me only 6 and 12's.
My sample size was tiny in comparison to you guys but I can definitely say you do not need all traits unlocked to get 6 and 12's to drop.
I had never actually checked her knowledge before which tells me that I have always received 6 and 12's when gathering with her because I would certainly have stopped using her or maxed her knowledge if I had not!
Re: No ranked tot on xbox?
Well Gregory, maybe if I could get any kind of clarity on why a game system is just not on and there is no info anywhere about it. I have played this game for the entire time its been on xbox and tot is one of the things that keep me interested, maybe I outta just say screw it and move on to another game.
Re: Your Play Experience b/t Update 45 and Update 46 with Subclassing and Scribing In Base Game
I had two characters it saved completely. I only saved them in the first place because they were fully leveled up but they were unplayable, subclassing saved them and made them worthy of play rotation.
Re: Why is the answer to ballgroups always sets?
xylena_lazarow wrote: »The players are gone, so mission accomplished!MincMincMinc wrote: »the issue with pvp is there being too many players
Its funny because Greyhost is following the same death pattern that the Lowbie u50 server and the Nocp server followed.
- New players are unable to solo play
- Mid players are unable to solo play, new players are unable to small man group
- The populations boiled down to only guild groups controlling the faction (GH now is just a zerg guild and 1 or 2 ball groups before pop locking)
- Then a guild leaves the game or faction or disbands.
- There is a power vacuum, that faction gets gated repeatedly over night
- Old solo players dont care to seige and wont help fix the map in the morning
- Mid tier players get run over without their group and leave after fighting the uphill battle to retake every day
- Inevitably it becomes a 2 faction map until the 2nd faction guild disbands
- Then its one faction with emp and all keep bonuses and stat boosts gating the other two factions daily each night.
When I ran my PCNA lowbie under lvl50 training guild in the 2015-2017 era we had to swap factions all the time to balance out the map. At some point we got sick having to Pvdoor every day to balance the map for new players to have fun. The second players got forced to their gate keeps, half the faction logs out. Cyrodil was never designed rule wise to help gated factions because they made the fatal flaw where they assumed it would always be pop locked campaigns of XXX vs XXX vs XXX players. However as it becomes XXX vs XX vs X players the trifaction balance method doesn't work.
It didnt help AD had the Aussie guild, love em to death, but they would flip the map 100% ad nightly. Then they translated to nocp and became the final straw for nocp which already had a large consistent ad pressence. Now they are in GH. The only saving grace is that greyhost poplock is soooo low that at least the trifaction balance is somewhat relevant. It will break down though as guilds or ball groups get bored fighting each other and no new players trying pvp fill the voids.
Re: If the servers are overtaxed and not functioning properly, everything else is a waste.
MincMincMinc wrote: »They have already gone over and upgraded the hardware with really no difference.
For about 6-9 months post-hardware upgrade, the game ran at a level I'd never seen in it's history up till that point (and since!). I was streaming often during this time and would frequently be in keeps where there were 50+ players present and on screen at once with zero ability delay whatsoever.
I wish they would explain why the performance suddenly degraded back to pre-upgrade levels just a short 6 months later. It was like someone had flipped a switch - they released a patch and suddenly the ability delay was back during prime time. Since they never bothered to offer any explanation for this series of events, we're just left to speculate on what occurred. Whether the sudden drop was related to the return of ball groups en masse, the spaghetti code compounding the issues further each consecutive patch, or a straight up reduction in server capacity for a reason not given to us.
But to say there was no difference at all is just untrue - the upgrade was genuinely the one single thing they've done in the history of the game that actually made a difference, and a massive one at that.
100% spot on.
i made a post about this exact thing ... 4 days ago? got swept under the rug and moved to a different forum.
you are 100% correct tho. it worked amazing after the upgrade.... slowly went back to crap.
also.... mysteriously works well during midyear mayhems (except this last one).
its not a conspiracy theory its obvious.
Re: If the servers are overtaxed and not functioning properly, everything else is a waste.
Punches_Below_Belt wrote: »There’s no point in analyzing PvP for the twelfth year, developing complex challenging encounters and milking crowns with day-glo mounts with nonsensical animations if the servers just lag and crash. Raising the floor and offering new ability options won’t improve anything if the abilities don’t work when we press the buttons.
I actually agree with this. It doesn't matter if you keep coming out with new/fun things for the game if they don't function right and they continue to erode server performance. This is true in PVP and in PVE. Many people have been asking for years to focus on improving server performance over adding new things to the game, and it would be wise for them to listen to this advice because server performance continues to get incrementally worse every time they add something new.
I'm going to guess that poor server performance is not tied to just ONE thing alone, but a culmination of multiple things: from animation canceling (overloading input into the server system), to graphic lag because of all the new flashy visuals, to being able to stack on so many other/different bonuses on your character and teammates that you weren't able to stack on before. my guess is that it all contributes.
And what Vengeance showed us is that PVP can still be fun, even if they start taking away many of these fun things from us. So IMO, they need to take a hard look and figure out what players can and can't live without, and start simplifying the game. Even if that means they have to go back and reoptimize the game code to get rid of old/unused assets, or assets that are no longer going to be used, they need to do it - that or seriously consider upgrading their game engine and spend the money to buy upgraded modern servers.
If the servers are overtaxed and not functioning properly, everything else is a waste.
There’s no point in analyzing PvP for the twelfth year, developing complex challenging encounters and milking crowns with day-glo mounts with nonsensical animations if the servers just lag and crash. Raising the floor and offering new ability options won’t improve anything if the abilities don’t work when we press the buttons.