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Fully decorated Stillwaters Retreat | 700/700 + collectibles
Ahoy hoy my friends! I liked the Stillwaters retreat lot so much that i just had to purchase it and let my imagination roam free.
In my version, the dwarven mechanics and engines beneath the frozen lake are still operational and produce enough heat and steam to keep some parts of the lot unfrozen. That way i can rebuild a fort and a yard on the ruins of once blooming dwarven city.
Hope you like it and are inspired!
In my version, the dwarven mechanics and engines beneath the frozen lake are still operational and produce enough heat and steam to keep some parts of the lot unfrozen. That way i can rebuild a fort and a yard on the ruins of once blooming dwarven city.
Hope you like it and are inspired!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lRCQQ5LGA8
Re: Concerned about the potential use of AI on loading screen artwork
This kind of slapdash reeks of contempt. For the original art, for us as players, for the game. "Good enough. No one's going to notice or care."
We're noticing. We care. Pay a real artist to expand the image. The quality of ESO's art is one of its selling points. If you're cutting corners there, you're not "trimming the fat," you're cutting out the bloody heart.
We're noticing. We care. Pay a real artist to expand the image. The quality of ESO's art is one of its selling points. If you're cutting corners there, you're not "trimming the fat," you're cutting out the bloody heart.
xencthlu
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Re: How necessary are player character backstories to you? (anonymous poll)
Imperative.
I can't make a character without a several month long process of planning, involving a fully-researched backstory of at least 5+ pages. Every character needs to have even the most minute details figured out, from their birthday to their hometown and family, and how they came to be where they are. I want everyone to fit as perfectly into the world as possible, and in a lot of cases that means connecting them to other NPCs in the world as well. I need at least a whole PTS cycle to refine their sliders, their fashions, their sets and skill visuals, and everything else because I can't just start a character.
This also means I will go through the whole levelling process slowly - no grinding, just playing through to get up to level 50 with no CP allotted just like a brand new character. I want to experience the levelling process as organically as I can so I can get a feel for them over time, before they finally hit 50 and I can give them their 'real' setup. I'm actually desperate to do that again since I have another character idea, but I need ZOS to release a new Class first - I like each of my characters to be unique with each other, and a lot of that is that their Class is the foundation of who they are and as such I like having only one character per class.
I actually was on a friend's stream during ESOTenfest specifically to talk about my whole process. I know most people don't consider that they need to start prepping a google doc at least 6 months in advance to take notes as they go through minor lorebooks as a required part of the character creation process, but there is nothing more important to me than how my characters are built and how they fit into the world.
If only I could give them some of the cosmetics I have in my mind though... And yes, each new Class is a new opportunity to bring a new character into the world, so I want to see more Classes sooner rather than later.
I can't make a character without a several month long process of planning, involving a fully-researched backstory of at least 5+ pages. Every character needs to have even the most minute details figured out, from their birthday to their hometown and family, and how they came to be where they are. I want everyone to fit as perfectly into the world as possible, and in a lot of cases that means connecting them to other NPCs in the world as well. I need at least a whole PTS cycle to refine their sliders, their fashions, their sets and skill visuals, and everything else because I can't just start a character.
This also means I will go through the whole levelling process slowly - no grinding, just playing through to get up to level 50 with no CP allotted just like a brand new character. I want to experience the levelling process as organically as I can so I can get a feel for them over time, before they finally hit 50 and I can give them their 'real' setup. I'm actually desperate to do that again since I have another character idea, but I need ZOS to release a new Class first - I like each of my characters to be unique with each other, and a lot of that is that their Class is the foundation of who they are and as such I like having only one character per class.
I actually was on a friend's stream during ESOTenfest specifically to talk about my whole process. I know most people don't consider that they need to start prepping a google doc at least 6 months in advance to take notes as they go through minor lorebooks as a required part of the character creation process, but there is nothing more important to me than how my characters are built and how they fit into the world.
If only I could give them some of the cosmetics I have in my mind though... And yes, each new Class is a new opportunity to bring a new character into the world, so I want to see more Classes sooner rather than later.
Re: Would it be neat to have a Jabberwocky as a creation from Sheogorath
Instead of trying to shoehorn things from other IPs into ESO, why don't we actually try to put things from TES lore into ESO first?
Also can we go one week without having to see that overused ninny and his overly-sanitized brand of "this is the Prince of Madness, but we can't legally have him do anything grittier than 'lol so random'" Seriously, there are other Daedric Princes who have significantly less development that deserve it.
Also can we go one week without having to see that overused ninny and his overly-sanitized brand of "this is the Prince of Madness, but we can't legally have him do anything grittier than 'lol so random'" Seriously, there are other Daedric Princes who have significantly less development that deserve it.
tomofhyrule
11
Re: Playing Battlegrounds is not a fun experience.
It's because the MMR is based on Medal Score, which is a nonsensical system.
You can have players at the top of their game, single handedly spawn camping the enemy team the whole match (winning the match for their team) and they get jumped on the leaderboard + in MMR by the enemy they just mollywhopped because somehow the enemy team had more medal score despite losing the game.
This isn't hyperbole - it happens:
The team that won this match got less MMR increase and went up the leaderboard less than the team they not only beat via the objective, but utterly dominated in terms of kills
Medal Score is a terrible system, and leads to awful matches because players are given arbitrary increases/decreases to their MMR.
Additionally, the MMR resets constantly, and is further brought down by being character based and not account based.
You can have players at the top of their game, single handedly spawn camping the enemy team the whole match (winning the match for their team) and they get jumped on the leaderboard + in MMR by the enemy they just mollywhopped because somehow the enemy team had more medal score despite losing the game.
This isn't hyperbole - it happens:
The team that won this match got less MMR increase and went up the leaderboard less than the team they not only beat via the objective, but utterly dominated in terms of kills
Medal Score is a terrible system, and leads to awful matches because players are given arbitrary increases/decreases to their MMR.
Additionally, the MMR resets constantly, and is further brought down by being character based and not account based.
Re: [Solstice Spoilers] Really Appreciate ZOS Bringing Him Back
Just chiming in here. The "gift of Death" turned out tobe a corrupted meridia lantern which got cleansed when activated in meridia's own realm.
Since Darian is (unconfirmed, but my impression so far), blood-related to Meridia, unless I missed some lore in summerset, who knows what might happen once part 2 drops. I am excited to see what happens, because even if the story is a bit pedictable, ZoS has always delivered with very cinematic-feeling final boss battles, which I am very much a fan of.
Darien is a Champion of Meridia, possibly a construct of her own making, meaning he's never been a proper Mortal, Meridia put him on Tamriel for a purpose, most likely to help defeat Molag Bal and the Planemeld, but now he's continuing to serve past that, even if he thinks he has his own free will.
I'm not a big fan of named characters getting killed off like this, since ZOS refuses to establish a canon series of events with game content. The whole "Everything is happening simultaneously in the same year" thing. The events on Solstice are obviously written as a Sequel to the Base Game Questline, but even still, it's very confusing for a player to go through Solstice, see Gabrielle die, then go off to Glenumbra or the Gold Coast for the first time and suddenly she's alive again.
I'm not a big fan of named characters getting killed off like this, since ZOS refuses to establish a canon series of events with game content. The whole "Everything is happening simultaneously in the same year" thing. The events on Solstice are obviously written as a Sequel to the Base Game Questline, but even still, it's very confusing for a player to go through Solstice, see Gabrielle die, then go off to Glenumbra or the Gold Coast for the first time and suddenly she's alive again.
Herald of the Tome - Remove Fatecarver
Yes, I am serious. In my opinion this skill is one of the lowest effort high-damage dealing abilities in ESO, and it's clearly the most used skill. Instead of Fatecarver, give Herald of the Tome something else (something that's not a channeled beam, for once).
This would resolve a lot of headache regarding how to balance both Arcanist & subclassing, as well as how other classes would have to be adjusted to match Fatecarver's huge amount of DPS in pretty much every major scenario. Keeping one skill is not worth the effort & company resources of having to re-do the rest of the game/class balance.
This would resolve a lot of headache regarding how to balance both Arcanist & subclassing, as well as how other classes would have to be adjusted to match Fatecarver's huge amount of DPS in pretty much every major scenario. Keeping one skill is not worth the effort & company resources of having to re-do the rest of the game/class balance.
Operativ
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Re: Should there be a PvE only instance of Imperial City?
Maybe we should have a non PVE dungeon, no mobs, so I can walk through and just get my loot drop
MincMincMinc
10
When will ZOS deal with the score boosting and or server clogging on GH NA/PC?
Firstly I will once again remind everyone this is not a 'conspiracy theory'. There are clips that can be shown in which blatant cross faction alt abuse is being undertaken. Not to mention other TOS violating actions on the part of those engaging in the alt abuse. Gaslighting about it won't change the fact this has been documented and only the forum TOS prevents the videos from being shown here.
Now this has been an ongoing issue for a long long time now now. Some group of people who style themselves as 'highly skilled' get a feeling of entitlement and begin using alts on other teams. Sometimes just to relay opponent's positions and to troll. Other times to feed themselves easy AP and or kills so they can brag about how good they are. In some cases this is done just to prevent opponents from having people on the server and or to sabotage any attempts another team makes to 'fight back'.
At this point we're seeing more and more such individuals openly working together in the same area instead of spreading across the map to maintain an illusion of playing for their own respective teams. They then attack opponents together only to then separate and hang out peacefully they wait for more easy kilsl they can team up on. Often while compatriots on troll alts scream in zone to mock those they are 'defeating with skill'.
This is not random acts of folks 'finding good fights' either as it is habitual behavior occurring routinely. Seemingly for the purpose of boosting the scores, AP gain, K/D ratios of certain player. Score and AP Boosting is supposed to be a bannable offense.
In numerous cases it's a mix of all of the above. Often so people who stream can pretend they're 'good' at cyrodiil while they disparage everyone else as 'trash'.........
This of course has several effects on anyone trying to play the game mode in the manner in which it was designed. Firstly it exasperates the already tiny population limits for other teams by preventing legitimate players from getting on the server. Secondly it effectively lets one group of people bypass the game mechanics that are supposed to limit populations past a certain point. It also lets the more malicious of such, people, actively stalk and harass anyone they take a dislike to. Even when those people have already gotten the abusers banned on other accounts.
I personally have had to deal with one stalker over the last year and a half. Soon as one of his accounts gets pop they're back on another saying and doing the exact same thing. Then by the time ZOS gets around to popping that account the ban on one of their other accounts is over and they just et back on the other. A never ending cycle of harassment, and bother from people despreate for attention.
The net effect is to basically making the Cyrodiil game mode into an asymetrical contest where the people who will do anything to win get to pound down onto those who won't resort to such unsporting, and frankly exploitative, methods. Which makes it less and less enticing for anyone who has no interest in dealing with toxic people who're seemingly protected, and even encouraged, by ZOS's seeming inaction.
So, when will ZOS step in and deal with this blatant cheating and harassment? I don't mind not winning a campaign as I purposely try to find the team and or server which needs people, and not just the one people have pvdoored to death. What I do mind is the constant abuse and cheating being undertaken by those who only ever seem to get a three day ban no matter how aful and blatant they get.
Now this has been an ongoing issue for a long long time now now. Some group of people who style themselves as 'highly skilled' get a feeling of entitlement and begin using alts on other teams. Sometimes just to relay opponent's positions and to troll. Other times to feed themselves easy AP and or kills so they can brag about how good they are. In some cases this is done just to prevent opponents from having people on the server and or to sabotage any attempts another team makes to 'fight back'.
At this point we're seeing more and more such individuals openly working together in the same area instead of spreading across the map to maintain an illusion of playing for their own respective teams. They then attack opponents together only to then separate and hang out peacefully they wait for more easy kilsl they can team up on. Often while compatriots on troll alts scream in zone to mock those they are 'defeating with skill'.
This is not random acts of folks 'finding good fights' either as it is habitual behavior occurring routinely. Seemingly for the purpose of boosting the scores, AP gain, K/D ratios of certain player. Score and AP Boosting is supposed to be a bannable offense.
In numerous cases it's a mix of all of the above. Often so people who stream can pretend they're 'good' at cyrodiil while they disparage everyone else as 'trash'.........
This of course has several effects on anyone trying to play the game mode in the manner in which it was designed. Firstly it exasperates the already tiny population limits for other teams by preventing legitimate players from getting on the server. Secondly it effectively lets one group of people bypass the game mechanics that are supposed to limit populations past a certain point. It also lets the more malicious of such, people, actively stalk and harass anyone they take a dislike to. Even when those people have already gotten the abusers banned on other accounts.
I personally have had to deal with one stalker over the last year and a half. Soon as one of his accounts gets pop they're back on another saying and doing the exact same thing. Then by the time ZOS gets around to popping that account the ban on one of their other accounts is over and they just et back on the other. A never ending cycle of harassment, and bother from people despreate for attention.
The net effect is to basically making the Cyrodiil game mode into an asymetrical contest where the people who will do anything to win get to pound down onto those who won't resort to such unsporting, and frankly exploitative, methods. Which makes it less and less enticing for anyone who has no interest in dealing with toxic people who're seemingly protected, and even encouraged, by ZOS's seeming inaction.
So, when will ZOS step in and deal with this blatant cheating and harassment? I don't mind not winning a campaign as I purposely try to find the team and or server which needs people, and not just the one people have pvdoored to death. What I do mind is the constant abuse and cheating being undertaken by those who only ever seem to get a three day ban no matter how aful and blatant they get.
Telel
7