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Re: * Very * alarming interventions over guild names in recent weeks
I can remember a thread in this forum some years ago, about exactly that part of the TOS: The use of significant names from within the game, like npc names (and I think even item and place names), for our own naming purposes, being it username, character name or guild names, is forbidden. Official reasoning behind it is that they want to avoid confusion between official and player-generated content.
Of course, in a roleplaying game where many players enjoy making their character a part of the fictional world and refering to existing family names or place names in their player character's name, this caused quite a discussion. In that thread, there were many questions for clarification, and in the end we got explained that using different first name + surname combinations was fine, using place names (for example as a part of Redguard name) would also not be prosecuted. But exact copies of names are forbidden. So you could not name your character "Queen Ayrenn", "Mirri Elendis" or "Pacrooti", for example. Same applies for usernames and guild names.
Now of course I wonder whether the situation described in this thread might have been a case, maybe even AI-based, where the usage of "Pacrooti" in the guild name triggered a report, and then there was dissent whether the name as a whole, including "Hirelings", would break the TOS or not, especially the reasoning of "name might lead to confusion between official game content and player-generated content" part. First mod might have decided differently than the second one.
That was generally part of the discussion back then: The wish for very clearly and detailedly defined rules so there could never ensue the problem of causing a TOS violation by just understanding or individually interpreting a rule differently.
Of course, in a roleplaying game where many players enjoy making their character a part of the fictional world and refering to existing family names or place names in their player character's name, this caused quite a discussion. In that thread, there were many questions for clarification, and in the end we got explained that using different first name + surname combinations was fine, using place names (for example as a part of Redguard name) would also not be prosecuted. But exact copies of names are forbidden. So you could not name your character "Queen Ayrenn", "Mirri Elendis" or "Pacrooti", for example. Same applies for usernames and guild names.
Now of course I wonder whether the situation described in this thread might have been a case, maybe even AI-based, where the usage of "Pacrooti" in the guild name triggered a report, and then there was dissent whether the name as a whole, including "Hirelings", would break the TOS or not, especially the reasoning of "name might lead to confusion between official game content and player-generated content" part. First mod might have decided differently than the second one.
That was generally part of the discussion back then: The wish for very clearly and detailedly defined rules so there could never ensue the problem of causing a TOS violation by just understanding or individually interpreting a rule differently.
Syldras
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Re: Ongoing EU Megaserver Issues – Request for Transparency
Not sure how long I can keep holding on.. this is getting beyond ridiculous. 2nd time this week I want to play and have free time for it and getting this.. Not to mention ESO+ days lost, daily rewards lost, endeavours lost (living in Belgium so only way of getting crate stuff), mount skilling lost and so on... Brilliant, just brilliant. Start rolling out compensation for those hit ZoS, it's the only way. Ps. I'm not talking about some lame free non-combat pet or whatever. -- talking crowns, ESO+ days compensation, ...
Re: Ongoing EU Megaserver Issues – Request for Transparency
ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Just to give a bit more insight into the recent issues, there is a stability problem with the connection between DFW (North American datacenter) and FRA (European datacenter). FRA relies on that connection heavily to remain up and we're working with our provider to investigate and resolve the stability issues.
Probably the new Tariffs on data transfers
Re: FREE FINEDRIN!
To heck with Finedrin he committed the crime he can do the time. It is Burtle that needs freed. That poor little puppy did nothing wrong and all the Khajiit just stand there gawking at him.
kargen27
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Re: Would you like to see the addition of follower dungeons akin to WoW's system? (Explanation below)
I just want something to be done so people stop complaining all the time.
There is SO much of ESO that isn't designed for a player like me and I never stress about it. If I run out of things to do in ESO, I do something else. I'd never, ever, even consider advocating major changes that directly affect things other players have been enjoying for years. Content designed for a completely different kind of player. It's okay that it exists. It shouldn't be offensive to anyone that it doesn't work for them.
IMO, it is a fundamental level of respect that has gone AWOL and a big reason why things are the way they are right now.
I don't stress about not doing dungeons; I just don't do them. If a mode were added for me to be able to complete them without relying on other people, then I would do them. I'm not sure how adding a solo/story mode for dungeons would take anything away from people who play dungeons. The dungeons would still be there, in all their versions, for people to enjoy.
People requesting a feature they would enjoy isn't being disrespectful to others; it isn't people complaining; it isn't people being offended. It's just people wanting more fun in their game.
I disagree. I think it's incredibly disrespectful to request a change that would have major negative ramifications for an entire community.
What are these major negative ramifications? I honestly would like to hear your view on it, because I don't know what you mean by it.
Right now, if I can't solo a dungeon, I don't play that dungeon. Nothing is going to convince me to group up with other people to do dungeons or raids; I'm not interested in playing with a group. If a story mode existed for dungeons, I could experience the story (the main reason I play this game) and it wouldn't impact anyone else at all.
Re: Upcoming U47 PTS changes, based on feedback
randconfig wrote: »PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »The change is only for banner. You can scribe any other skill and put the class mastery on that and it will build crux. Also every line has a crux builder. You can certainly argue that that is still too restrictive, but there are options.randconfig wrote: »That was never the problem with this change, it's the lack of ability to generate crux using subclassed or weapon abilities.We'll also be introducing a failsafe for the Arcanist's Class Mastery script with Banner Bearer — so it's not a complete loss of power. It will generate Ultimate if the effect did not generate a Crux.
1/3 of Arcanist passives require you to generate/consume crux: Fated Fortune, Healing Tides, Hideous Clarity, Implacable Outcome. If I'm a DPS Arcanist and I want to subclass Herald of the Tome for Grave Lord, I now lose access to 3/8 of my remaining two base class skill line passives because of the Bannerbearer change. Additionally, there's no point in slotting any crux consumption abilities, as I will never be able to generate more than a single crux, so 7 abilities/morphs from the two base Arcanist skill lines kept in this scenario are also rendered useless.
Alternatively, if I'm forced to always keep the Herald of the Tome skill line, I have access to Runeblades... But the whole point is I want to use a different spammable/to engage with subclassing or weapon skill lines while being an Arcanist. Perhaps I could use Tome-Bearer's Inspiration, but again, it only generates a single crux and only works with class skills, so at most I would get a single crux, meaning all consumption abilities would be useless to slot and up to 1/3 of my class passives would do nothing.
So your post does nothing to soothe my frustration, as you did not address the core issue with the Arcanist class mastery change, and it doesn't appear that there's any intention to add an alternative method of crux generation to replace the one you're taking away from us, leaving us functionally locked out of engaging with subclassing and weapon skill lines.
You're arguing against a point I did not make. I am pointing out how banner enabled flexibility, and without it, the class is too restricted to utilize Subclassing or Weapon abilities, and that they should not remove it until they implement an alternative solution.
The banner Arcanist script was not game breaking, there's no reason to remove it immediately before you have a solution to the restrictions the Crux mechanic places on only the Arcanist class.
There are several solutions to this in place already.
The following skills will all generate up to three Crux:
- Herald of the Tome: Runeblades, both morphs
- Herald of the Tome: Cephaliarch's Flail morph
- Soldier of Apocrypha: Runic Jolt, both morphs
- Soldier of Apocrypha: Cruxweaver Armor morph on hit
- Curative Runeforms: Runemend, both morphs
- Curative Rumeforms: Chakram of Destiny morph
- Curative Runeforms: Apocryphal Gate, both morphs on port
- Scribing: All Scribed skills except Banner-bearer can generate Crux on cast for characters whose primary Class is Arcanist
You can use any of those to generate Crux to power your skills. If you prefer to use a Subclassed build based around Tentacular Dread instead of Fatecarver, then you have Runeblades or any Scribed weapon or guild or Soul Magic spammable which can generate the Crux you need.
ZOS has been extremely clear in their vision for Crux though: it needs to be either actively cast, or passive forms of Crux generation need to have limitations. As stated in the dev comments:
This means that if you intend to generate Crux to use your abilities, you are required to work towards doing so. And, as stated, Banner-Bearer was gamebreaking since it literally broke ZOS's main rule for Crux generation - that it needs to be actively cast or have a limitation.Crux was designed to play a central role in the Arcanist's rotation, and most of its sources are built on taking actions with an active cost or reacting to events outside of one's control. Passive forms of Crux tend to have a limitation on their activation: Cruxweaver requires taking damage with a mild cooldown and Tome-Bearer's Inspiration requires you to have no Crux active. Both limitations are done to ensure you cannot purely passively generate Crux
Re: Overland Content Feedback Thread
AdmiralDigby wrote: »Hi All. We have seen the multitude of threads related to Overland Content. The increase in weekly threads around this issue has caused some users to have a negative experience on the forum overall, leading to the threads being closed. However, we also recognize there are players who would like to discuss this topic. So, we have made a thread for players who would like to discuss the topic of Overland Content.
With the creation of this thread, please note that future threads created to address overland content will be closed and redirected to this one.
Some ground rules:
- If you do not want to engage in this conversation, please ignore this thread.
- For those engaging in this thread, please keep the conversation civil. Keep the forum rules top of mind here.
- Keep the feedback constructive. The feedback here could help us in the future as we continue conversations around this topic.
Thanks for the continued feedback here.
For many (myself included). Overland is just way too easy for me to enjoy. No matter how good it is, I can't immerse myself in "this big bad villian" when I can kill him in 2 secs easy with an optimized build.
Overland needs to have multiple difficulty levels. The problem is doing this (like Diablo 4 does) would split the player base and make overland feel like a ghost town. Worry not!! I have the perfect solution.
3 difficulty levels. Normal (current overland) - Vet (harder) - HM (or some cooler name whatever). When you select these difficulty levels in overland. It will place a set of debuffs & buffs on you. Making the content more challenging and more rewarding at same time. For example:
Overland: Exactly the same as it is now.
Vet: Damage done reduced by 50% - Damage Taken increase by 25% - XP gained increase by 100% - Gold increase by 200% - Drop rate increased by X%
HM: The above values just dialed up even more.
Don't get caught on my example %'s. They can be dialed to feel. However this would allow multiple difficulty options without dividing the player base up in multiple instances. Then maybe I could enjoy overland content.
The problem with this is if I’m heavily debuffed, someone who’s on current overland might come by and kill the boss in 2 hits.
I might get so much hate for this, but if it’s between splitting overland vs debuff, I’d rather just split the overland.
Majority of the players in ESO prefer to play alone and treat this like a single player game anyways.
Re: * Very * alarming interventions over guild names in recent weeks
In other online services I've used, if it seems like someone is reporting in bad faith, they're the ones who get suspended/banned. I hope ZOS customer support actually follows the patterns of what's going on and punishes the bad actors if that appears to be the case here.
The timing really IS heckin' suspicious. LGBTQ+ communities everywhere tend to see a spike in hate during and following Pride Month. This weird false reporting/name changing happening both times after you do in-game recruiting would be enough to make me take action against the reporter, speaking as a non-ESO mod (after reviewing all the data for myself, of course).
Also...aren't there already guilds in ESO PC/NA called Ready Room and Echoes of Valhalla? Ready Room I know exists, or at least has existed. I have definitely encountered Echoes of Valhalla somewhere before, though dunno if it might've been PC/EU instead. I didn't think there could be duplicate guild names. If these are dupes, what the heck are CS people even doing, if they're not checking whether a name is taken before force-applying it to another guild? Any why are these the names being applied? They have nothing to do with ESO. It seems like something a person filing a name change request would have to ask for, not something CS would have on a list of "names to use in forced changes."
The timing really IS heckin' suspicious. LGBTQ+ communities everywhere tend to see a spike in hate during and following Pride Month. This weird false reporting/name changing happening both times after you do in-game recruiting would be enough to make me take action against the reporter, speaking as a non-ESO mod (after reviewing all the data for myself, of course).
Also...aren't there already guilds in ESO PC/NA called Ready Room and Echoes of Valhalla? Ready Room I know exists, or at least has existed. I have definitely encountered Echoes of Valhalla somewhere before, though dunno if it might've been PC/EU instead. I didn't think there could be duplicate guild names. If these are dupes, what the heck are CS people even doing, if they're not checking whether a name is taken before force-applying it to another guild? Any why are these the names being applied? They have nothing to do with ESO. It seems like something a person filing a name change request would have to ask for, not something CS would have on a list of "names to use in forced changes."
Re: EU Servers are down?
At this point experiencing server issues on eu servers should or could be a weekly endeavour.
YORKSHIRE76
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Re: * Very * alarming interventions over guild names in recent weeks
I'm struggling to see what being "LGBTQ" has to do with any of this. Situation is odd but could have happened to any guild.
Its_MySniff wrote: »Homophobic/transphobic abuse from a name change. I think you are reaching. How do you come to that conclusion? I agree with some of what you say, just not with your witch hunt.
While you are correct in that we have absolutely no way to know for certain, this game's population (whether that's in-game, on these forums or on other social media) have a big problem with anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry. Anyone who's paid attention will have seen the rampant transphobic threads on this forum, the constant misgendering of Tanlorin on Reddit or the incessant "I'm a paedophile, can I join your guild" type comments when LGBTQ+ guilds advertise in-game. It. Is. Awful. And while, again, we can't say for sure that these actions are because of bigots, it's not exactly a losing bet to assume it's the normal morons at work.
