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Re: Boring patch again?
For years we've had huge changes every 3 months - no, thanks.
The playerbase was tired and made it clear. Devs reacted accordingly and the past 2 years have been easier on us.
Personally I don't want to come back to dramatic changes every 3 months, I very much prefer as it is now.
The problem is that hardly anyone asked for the huge changes that they used to make every 3 months. I don't think people would mind good changes. It's unfortunate that they only stopped making these rapid changes once the game was in a pretty rough state. Now that serious change is desperately needed, we don't get it.
If they decided to stop making dramatic and rapid changes around early 2017, I don't think there would be many complaints. After Homestead, all they really needed to do was tone down heavy armor and procs a bit more than they already did that patch. Instead, they went way off the rails out of nowhere.
Stamicka
8
Re: Herald of the Tome - Remove Fatecarver
I'm actually really glad the Dev's don't actually listen to the majority of feedback on the forums because the majority of the feedback is so short sighted and myopic. The issue with fatecarver isn't actually "fatecarver" but subclassing as a whole. You know what will happen if fatecarver is removed? Everyone will respec to templar and 90% of DPS will be running jabs. Then we'll have to remove Jabs from the game. Within a week 90% of DPS will be running DK and spamming breath, then we'll have to remove breath from the game....
And the cycle will continue until there are only 3 skill lines left in the game....
And the cycle will continue until there are only 3 skill lines left in the game....
NoSoup
8
Re: PTS Update 47 - Feedback Thread for Infinite Archive Vision Reroll
Did it on a max lvl template with 1 mil Archival Fortunes and it does get rather expensive for each reroll:
1. 500
2. 4000
3. 13500
4. 32000
5. 62500
6. 108000
7. 171500
8. 256000
9. 364500
And every other reroll can offer the Visions that have already been offered before, as I had Unrestrained Endurance for my 7th and 9th attempt.
Having the rerolls cost 200 Fortunes for the first time, then increasing by 100 for each attempt is in my opinion a better solution.
These prices are ridiculous. The 500 fortune reroll is only one even remotely close to worthwhile. But still might be cheaper and easier to just restart if early in a run and get a bad vision selection. But beyond that? 4000 fortunes is like a couple hours of play for me. Why would I ever throw away that much time and effort?
The deeper you get into archive, the less impact any one Vision is going to have, which makes rerolls less valuable. The earlier you are in archive, the more valuable a good vision can be, but if you are early, might as well just restart.
These prices would be a little high if you were literally buying visions. But you are not buying visions. You are buying RNG. That is a steep price for more RNG.
If the goal was to implement a new feature in a way that guarantees the feature will rarely be used, I guess this is well done.
Concerns about disciplinary action
Hi all,
I have some concerns about the game currently; more specifically how breaches of ToS are investigated and how bans are made.
3x of my friends have recently been banned for perceived exploitation and had them reversed on appeal. All they did was run around certain areas collecting resources, no add-ons or mods, no third party installations etc, and then woke up to emails advising them their accounts have been permanently deactivated.
My friends and myself also find it quite relaxing to run around collecting resources. We call it collecting shinies (due to them shining when it's dark in the game). We don't all have tonnes of time to play the game so when we only have an hour or two to commit, we might sometimes just run around collecting every resource we see (not together of course) or loot every container, as one cannot have enough resources for crafting. I personally like running around Bal Foyen as it's relatively small and the abundance of resource there is quite high in the small space. I loot every resource I see, and do it more often now due to the introductions of add-ons/mods on PS5 which highlight resources more clearly. However, now I'm worried I could potentially get banned at some point too, and wondered how ZOS enforce this? I'm not saying I fear I've been reported etc, I just worry because this is something I do each week without fail.
Please note, I appreciate and understand that ZOS cannot divulge specifics relating to other peoples bans - that's not what I'm asking - I'm asking for an understanding of how they process these things, as quite frankly, I cannot understand why they were banned in the first place. Cursory research shows that humans handle all bans, but if their bans were reversed on appeal, based on no evidence of a breach, why were they banned in the first place? Is there an element of AI in dealing with bans etc?
Also seen some posts on the ESO Reddit today with almost identical circs, I.e. ban with no explanation.
I just want to ensure that I am not at risk of waking up to an email to say I've been banned when all I'm doing is collecting resources. I've reported my fair share of bots on my travels and it's usually very apparent they're a bot (sorcerer with pet, no clothes, usually level 3). How do I differentiate myself from a bot - should I kill the odd mob during my travels? Should I need to?
I have some concerns about the game currently; more specifically how breaches of ToS are investigated and how bans are made.
3x of my friends have recently been banned for perceived exploitation and had them reversed on appeal. All they did was run around certain areas collecting resources, no add-ons or mods, no third party installations etc, and then woke up to emails advising them their accounts have been permanently deactivated.
My friends and myself also find it quite relaxing to run around collecting resources. We call it collecting shinies (due to them shining when it's dark in the game). We don't all have tonnes of time to play the game so when we only have an hour or two to commit, we might sometimes just run around collecting every resource we see (not together of course) or loot every container, as one cannot have enough resources for crafting. I personally like running around Bal Foyen as it's relatively small and the abundance of resource there is quite high in the small space. I loot every resource I see, and do it more often now due to the introductions of add-ons/mods on PS5 which highlight resources more clearly. However, now I'm worried I could potentially get banned at some point too, and wondered how ZOS enforce this? I'm not saying I fear I've been reported etc, I just worry because this is something I do each week without fail.
Please note, I appreciate and understand that ZOS cannot divulge specifics relating to other peoples bans - that's not what I'm asking - I'm asking for an understanding of how they process these things, as quite frankly, I cannot understand why they were banned in the first place. Cursory research shows that humans handle all bans, but if their bans were reversed on appeal, based on no evidence of a breach, why were they banned in the first place? Is there an element of AI in dealing with bans etc?
Also seen some posts on the ESO Reddit today with almost identical circs, I.e. ban with no explanation.
I just want to ensure that I am not at risk of waking up to an email to say I've been banned when all I'm doing is collecting resources. I've reported my fair share of bots on my travels and it's usually very apparent they're a bot (sorcerer with pet, no clothes, usually level 3). How do I differentiate myself from a bot - should I kill the odd mob during my travels? Should I need to?
Raanbury
8
Re: EP Sabotaged!
Every single time I'm in Cyro, regardless of faction, zone chat is filled with allegations that the other two factions are teaming up on us, and often other deeper and more sinister theories about highly organized schemes to sabotage and troll us; and people convinced that the other factions always show bad behavior and are the most toxic.
Maybe some of this stuff does happen, who am I to say? But cyro is kind of a free-for-all... you'll always find toxic or rude people or those who try to exploit things in a large enough group of random gamers... and people who just don't know what they're doing and put a camp in the wrong place or make some other mistake... or a guild that has their own agenda and may not be doing what's best for the faction... chances are that it's not always some grand conspiracy against [insert today's faction here]. If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
Maybe some of this stuff does happen, who am I to say? But cyro is kind of a free-for-all... you'll always find toxic or rude people or those who try to exploit things in a large enough group of random gamers... and people who just don't know what they're doing and put a camp in the wrong place or make some other mistake... or a guild that has their own agenda and may not be doing what's best for the faction... chances are that it's not always some grand conspiracy against [insert today's faction here]. If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
Re: Please let the mammoth stay
I opened this thinking it "oh maybe zos decided to remove mammoths from the game after seeing their massive fluffy butts peddle across vivec, looking completely misplaced - happy day". This reality is sadder though, but I am happy people understand that humans need time and spaces to enjoy life, and that living paycheck to paycheck doesn't make you some kind of robot that stops having desires and wanting things.
Ilumia
5
Hot Take: The Alliance Hero Costumes Should Be Free For All Players
For those that don't know, earlier in the year ESO did a series of golden pursuit events giving out the various Alliance Hero costumes as seen on the game website and key art and trailers for the game. Some years before this, another variant of these outfit styles were available for purchase in the crown store but were not available for many years. These two ways have been the only path to acquire these sets, and there is no way to acquire them currently.
As someone who was completely not tuned into how games industry marketing works, I bought the collector's copy of the game back in 2013 based on how cool the key art and cinematics were, and I was darn disappointed that you can never look like the badass dudes in the trailers -- which are meant to represent the player characters. In retrospect, it was a clear case of deceptive advertising. The game doesn't look like those trailers at all, and you cannot even acquire the armor (used in the main marketing imagery for over a decade now) through regular gameplay.
In my opinion, the costumes should be a main reward for having completed an Alliance questline, or be made aquireable somehow for regular players who purchased the game. I really don't mean to be scathing the studio over this, since it is a small complaint all things considered and the game is really very good, but I think something like this would be a nice gesture.
As someone who was completely not tuned into how games industry marketing works, I bought the collector's copy of the game back in 2013 based on how cool the key art and cinematics were, and I was darn disappointed that you can never look like the badass dudes in the trailers -- which are meant to represent the player characters. In retrospect, it was a clear case of deceptive advertising. The game doesn't look like those trailers at all, and you cannot even acquire the armor (used in the main marketing imagery for over a decade now) through regular gameplay.
In my opinion, the costumes should be a main reward for having completed an Alliance questline, or be made aquireable somehow for regular players who purchased the game. I really don't mean to be scathing the studio over this, since it is a small complaint all things considered and the game is really very good, but I think something like this would be a nice gesture.
Re: 2025 new Companions ?
I'd like them to take a break at least for some time and flesh out other game's features more instead, they can't squeeze new companions everywhere forever. Maybe release races which didn't got anything first before for people starving for it. Or even flesh out the feature itself, as there's nothing really to write songs about.
Re: Update on Solstice Treasure Map Leads - Drop Data - July-September 2025
The map leads are so frustrating. I really wish ZOS would do something to fix them.