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Suggestion: private servers?
DonEiosah
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The idea of private servers is fascinating because then you pay so much a month for the privacy with other friends on your own world. This would be fantastic if Bethesda and Zenimax work together to make it possible. For some of you that like to farm and not have the worry of bots or others stealing resources right in front of your eyes, let me know what you think about private servers.
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Kalik_Gold✭✭✭✭✭
✭Basically allow mats to grow in housing? Hmm right, that would work. Moon Sugar meadows and other large fields would be a real good purchase then.Main: (PvP & PvE)PS5/NA - Ras Kalik a Redguard Templar - Daggerfall Covenant • 1550+ Champion
Ras Kalik a Redguard Templar, the Vestige
PvP:
Aurik Siet'ka a Redguard Necromancer
Cacique the Sage of Ius a Redguard Warden
Jux Blackheart a Redguard Nightblade
Goliath of Hammerfell a Redguard Dragonknight
Kaotik Von Dae'mon a Redguard* Sorcerer
PvP: (Specialty)
Tyrus Septim an Imperial Lycan Sorcerer
Tsar af-Bomba a Redguard Vampiric Nightblade (Bomber)
Movárth Piquine a Nord Vampiric Necromancer
Uri Ice-Heart the Twin a Nord Vampiric Warden
Voa a Priest of Sep a Redguard* Necromancer
PvE:
Cinan Tharn an Imperial Dragonknight (Tank)
Bates Vesuius of Dawnstar an Imperial Dragonknight (Damage)
Herzog Zwei the Genesis an Akavari* Templar (Healer)
Tav'i at-Shinji a Redguard** Warden (One-Bar)
Lucky Hunch the Gambler - a Redguard Nightblade (Thief)
Leveling...
Two-Big-Horns an Argonian Arcanist
Styx of Akatosh a Goblin* Arcanist
Zenovia at-Tura a Redguard** Sorcerer
Yesi af-Kalik a Redguard Templar
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Passives of another race used. (RP)
*Breton
**Imperial
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Ras Kalik the Vestige, a renown Redguard warrior; He has been blessed to save Tamriel from Molag Bal’s destructive Planemeld while reuniting the Five Companions. His further accomplishments after defeating Molag Bal, has been to stop the destruction of Morrowind, the Clockwork City, return order to the isle of Summerset and create a new king in Wrothgar and a queen in Elsywer. These events have made him a living legend and continue to lead him into new adventures throughout Tamriel, as well as into the hearts of many ladies including the Elf Queen, Aryenn. Over many years of adventurous travels, Ras Kalik had become a loner, until he re-visited his homeland of Alik'r.
Alik'r and it's cities were overrun by the undead Ra-Netu and therefore he made an allegiance with Alik'r's own Ash'abah tribe. These Ash'abah with his help, cleansed the city of Sentinel in Alik'r desert and it's surrounding areas of the undead brought to life by the Withered Hand. After rescuing Sentinel from the undead zombies, King Fahara’jad’s personal bodyguard the Goliath of Hammerfell, who was given this name by Imperials in the region; was asked to assist the tribe after learning of the defeat of the Withered Hand to the Ash'abah. Kalik promised Goliath he would task him with fighting living enemies on the battlefield if he so desired. Goliath being a Yokudan warrior wields a massive sword in respect to the Ansei, a gift given by the Imperial, Cinan Tharn. Not many soldiers are able to wield double two handed weapons, but Goliath loves to get up and personal in a fight, so he also carries a giant maul, both weapons laced with magical flames.
Jux Blackheart is a master thief that masquerades as a Bard at the Sisters of the Sands inn, with his younger sidekick Lucky Hunch for pilfering and gambling during this time. Jux was known to infiltrate any towns bank vault he came across and even delved into Ayelid ruins without detection. Kalik can vividly recall the night he met the famed thief. Jux found himself rummaging thru a slightly inebriated Kalik’s pocket for too long, on a full-mooned night and because of his greed and the glimmer of his golden armor in the moonlight. He lost his left pinky fingertip as a lesson! But in return, he gained a new friend, as it was his first time since a child being caught red-handed...
Upon arrival back in the Alik'r after many moons of adventuring, Ras Kalik ventures to Bergama. Visiting The Winking Jackal, he runs into Jux Blackheart, who introduces him to the coin game Crowns vs Forebearers (Heads vs Tails) and Golden Dwemer (RBG).... Jux constantly takes gold from the unfortunate thru theft or gambling, his biggest gambling victim is actually his partner in crime known as Lucky Hunch the Gambler. Lucky doesn't mind losing any gold coins to Jux... as Jux saved him from Altmer slavers in Summerset, by stealing a key and sending him on a boat to the mainland years prior. Lucky spent years in slavery with Khajiits in Summerset and picked up the art of subterfuge, using illusion magic disguises and stealing there.
Kaotik Von’Daemon an outcast, and a half-caste between a Breton mother and a Redguard father. Kaotik become a pariah due to his conjuration of Daedra pets. He was taught healing magic during his childhood years by his Breton mother. His father due to Redguard customs exiled him from the desert, sending him by wagon caravan to be a soldier in the war in Cyrodiil. He happened to meet Kalik while traveling from Alik'r, during this long caravan ride the caravan he was in was ambushed in Bangkorai by a group of bandits. Kalik by chance was also traveling thru this area on his Auridon Warhorse (which was bestowed to him by his friend, Darien Gautier). During this ambush, Kalik was able to rescue five hostages from the bandits. Kaotik was the first rescued, and Ras Kalik also recruited him to be in the Ash'abah tribe. These core Ash'abah tribesmen may never be seen together in travel as they partake in their own adventures but they always know what each other is doing; as they frequent a hideout in northern Bankorai. Their hideout an old Orc castle ruin, is kept watch by Nuzhimeh and she passes messages written between them, and frequently they also enjoy her company and her bed.
The other men rescued were a Dunmer banker, an Imperial mercenary and two other soldiers, an Imperial and a Breton Knight, stating proudly he was an Akavir descendent. One of the Imperials, Cinan, claimed to be related to Abnur Tharn the Battlemage of the Imperial Elder Council (One of Ras Kalik's mentors in the Five Companions). Cinan Tharn was really Abnur's drunkard treasure hunting illegitimate son. He was caught smuggling artifacts out of the Ayleid ruins in Cyrodiil and the elder of the two Imperials was Tyrus Septim a retired Imperial navy battle-mage (now a Lycan mercenary living in the city of Rimmen) and guard to the Tharn family. As much as Abnur Tharn hated his half-sister Euraxia, he dislikes his bas†ard son Cinan more. Tyrus now a ruffian and privateer had been paid by Abnur Tharn to watch over Cinan as much as possible. Cinan Tharn a drunkard, loves to drink at least a quarter barrel of Nord mead before he raids various delves and dungeons for relics to sell on the black market. Cinan also plans to one day, run an illegal gambling ring... which he thinks will net him more gold for his wares.
The Dunmer captive shackled to the Imperials looked familiar to Kalik from his time in Morrowind.... and he recognized him as Tythis Andromo a House Telvanni slave-owner and banker from Vvardenfell. During a rough interrogation to Tythis, Ras Kalik learnt why the bandits accosted him. The racist Dunmer was providing slaves as soldiers for the Three Banner War. The bandits were trying to negotiate a lucrative ransom for Andromo and the Imperials.... Kalik did not need any of this gold and he could never set Tythis free as he did with the two Imperial soldiers. His past involvement with slavery and war crimes, made Kalik's blood boil. He chose not to execute Tythis, as he figured the worse punishment for this former rich and opulent slave owner, is to now be an imprisoned servant for Ras Kalik and the tribe.
Herzog Zwei the Genesis a reknown Imperial/Akavirri battle-mage. His roots going back to Akavir through his mother’s bloodline. (His mother is descended from the Akaviri, through Versidue-Shae, and his Imperial father met her in Hakoshae, while traveling) Herzog earned the nickname "the Genesis" from his father as a child, as he was his mother's first born child, and last, as she tragically died in child-birth.
Herzog was seeking to purchase an artifact from Cinan Tharn, before their capture and was meeting Tyrus while in Rimmen, who introduced him to Cinan. This artifact being the Ayelid artifact; the sword Sinweaver. After their rescue and the exchange of gold to Cinan for the sword he decided to slip away before Ras Kalik could question who he was, and why the Akavir descendant really wanted that sword. Herzog was headed to Nagastani — An Ayleid ruin in eastern Cyrodiil. He had read in scrolls that the Sword would give him magical powers to meet his mothers spirit, if he performed an Ayleid ritual at an old shrine hidden there. Equipped with the artifact sword, he was off to start his own adventure but Ras Kalik, did indeed notice the sword however and instead sent a letter to Jux Blackheart (whom also was interested in Ayleid treasures), to attempt to find Herzog and acquire the sword. (*Azani Blackheart in Elder Scroll's Oblivion is Jux's descendant some 747 years later)
And so the Redguard, Imperial and Akaviri men parted ways ... While Ras Kalik went off to Elsweyr to encounter the latest threat to Tamriel, with Abnur Tharn and Sai Sahan - - DRAGONS!! Little did Ras Kalik know a few people were awaiting him in Senchal besides Sai. A necromancer survived his attack on the Withered Hand, while in Alik'r. The necromancer known as Auriek Siet'ka is also following him to the land of the Khajiits and Cacique the Sage of Ius a Shaman mystic who has become attuned spiritually with Tu'whacca (a Redguard God) and Ius (the Animal God), after being burned severely by the escaped dragons in Elsywer, is awaiting his arrival also. Aurik is a soldier of the Daggerfall Covenant that was introduced to necromancy while in the military, even though this magicka art is not spoken of openly by most of the Military leaders. He came to Alik'r and worked with the Withered Hand before Ras Kalik intervened on their plans. After the defeat of the Withered Hand, he aligned with the Worm Cult, and is constantly adapting and perfecting his necromantic arts.
After his journey to Rimmen, Kalik heads south to Senchal, in the southern regions of Elyswer. This new adventure will also put him on a path to meet a strange Redguard man. The stranger which was infected with an untreated Peyrite disease and also was the exiled from the Order of the New Moon cult, due to his sickness. He originally joined the cult to worship Laatvulon, the green dragon, mistakenly thinking it was the Daedric prince Peyrite. This confused and suffering cultist is known as Tsar al-Bomba and he is on a path to spread the disease. He was originally infected in Orccrest while recruiting members there. Can Ras Kalik and the shaman Cacique cure this poor soul, only time will tell. Little does Tsar al-Bomba know, that his infection is tied to Vampirism, and eventually the desire for blood will take over his mind. Senchal also offers Kalik his latest love interest... Aeliah. Whom he fondly led thru battles with the Dragonguard.
After the trek thru the heat, tropical and desert climate of Northern and Southern Elyswer, Ras Kalik heads north to the cold mountain range of Skyrim. His companion friend Lyris beckons for him with a letter sent by crow...
Movárth Piquine - a former vampire hunter (now infected), within the Fighter's Guild (and a secretive necromancer) was in Skyrim working with the Morthaal Guard. On a patrol mission he was caught in Frewien's ice curse outside of Morthaal with the frozen undead. Movárth's vampiric infection kept him from becoming an undead minion to the curse. He was able to use necromantic ice-magic to encase himself safely until he was freed with Freiwen, when the Vestige Ras Kalik broke the curse.
Uri Ice-Heart - brother of Urfon Ice-Heart. The twin sons of Atli and Oljourn Ice-Heart. The Ice-Heart family are originally from Markarth but now reside on the Jerall Mountain range near Cyrodiil, with their younger sister Araki. The twins had joined the Winterborn Reachmen while living in Markarth. Urfon pushed west to Orsinium with the Winterborn Clan, leaving his family behind. Uri stayed behind with his parents and sister to live in the family cabin for safety, avoiding the Vampire plague infiltrating the Reach. After news reaches him and he hears of Urfon's death... Uri leaves and heads home and is seeking vengeance. Meanwhile, his sister has also moved on to Windhelm to join the Fighter's guild. He will visit his sister, once before going to seek vengeance and she will craft him armor mixed with ice, called Stalhrim armor. Uri fearing death, after his brother's passing, falls victim to the convincing talk of Movárth at a Nordic tavern, and will also becomes a vampire.
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PeacefulAnarchy✭✭✭✭✭
✭Can you explain how that would functionally work on a megaserver game like ESO?
Are you suggesting a private instance you can hop into? If so, that seems like it would be a big competitive advantage for mats and gear farming.
Are you suggesting a totally separate private server with no tradable in game resources crossing over? That seems like it would be a huge technical hurdle given ESO's megaserver structure.8 -
DonEiosah✭✭✭If it's possible to do this with Minecraft and or fallout 76 they are a multi million dollar organization...they can afford it to be commenced.
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DonEiosah✭✭✭It seems for the subscription we pay it should be entitled to us as the gamer to have such freedom. Especially when the servers keep failing to recognize some of the rng that takes place in the megaserver.1
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DonEiosah✭✭✭Also the matter of bots and cheaters in the game that all tops it to exploits. This is an unfair advantage for most players on the megaserver and they hardly do anything about it. For eg. (Picking up a rare item and it doesn't appear in the craft bag.) Or (Farming materials that sometimes doesn't save for that specific area.)1
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DonEiosah✭✭✭To top it all off this would be a great advantage for people who just want to play with their friends and have a good time without trolls or drama. [snip]
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DonEiosah✭✭✭Unacceptable something needs to be addressed here. There are little kids on as well and don't need that inappropriate behavior period.1
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DonEiosah✭✭✭Would you want that to happen to your girlfriend, mother, nieces or any of family related? How is it fair to the players who are trying to level up and receive rewards or in-game gear for that matter?1
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DonEiosah✭✭✭There is so much *** in the cloud who's to say it's not already in the game. It's just they need to bring it out.1
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Necrotech_Master✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭fallout 76 works functionally different from this game, it is "session based" almost like GTA 5
ESO is a persistent world run from the server, you would have to have both the serverside code and the client code and then make them be able to connect
however we technically only have access to the client code, the server code is essentially proprietary property that they are likely never going to releaseplays PC/NA
handle @Necrotech_Master
active player since april 2014
i have my main house (grand topal hideaway) listed in the housing tours, it has multiple target dummies, scribing altar, and grandmaster stations (in progress being filled out), as well as almost every antiquity furnishing on display to preview them
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Amottica✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭This is an MMORPG. Not a small multiplayer often found on Steam.
Also, more importantly, Zenimax has essentialy said never too small servers. In relation to another suggestion that woujdl have retained the MMORPG but would have split the population, hence a smaller population, Gina stated this game is designed for a large population so they will not do anything to water that down. I have paraphrased it here.
So sorry to burst the bubble here but this will never happen.
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✭✭✭✭✭Would you want that to happen to your girlfriend, mother, nieces or any of family related? How is it fair to the players who are trying to level up and receive rewards or in-game gear for that matter?[snip]
Nothing you have listed here is even remotely as much of a widespread issue you are making it out to be. And no one is gating any content in this manner, whatsoever.
And if anyone is doing that level of harassment in game, report them. That's what the report feature is for.
Outside of that, maybe an online game is not for every player. That is ok
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ZOS_IcymodGreetings,
This thread has been moved to the General ESO Discussion section, as it is better suited there.
Thank you for your understanding.
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Mrtoobyy✭✭✭✭I would love to try ESO on A private server. Would it be able to make ESO vanilla work? I mean pre One tamriel? When I bought the game back in 2014 I bought a Physical copy with cd's. But maybe they don't contain any game files but launcher files?3 -
TaSheen✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭The only conceivable way this could work would be if once you opted for a private server, you could not return that instance of a character to the megaserver.
Or, well, hmm. Maybe if you simply created new characters ONLY for that private server. I don't play the FO games, so have no clue about how that works there.______________________________________________________
"But even in books, the heroes make mistakes, and there isn't always a happy ending." Mercedes Lackey, Into the West
PC NA, PC EU (non steam)- four accounts, many alts....1 -
Mrtoobyy✭✭✭✭The only conceivable way this could work would be if once you opted for a private server, you could not return that instance of a character to the megaserver.
Or, well, hmm. Maybe if you simply created new characters ONLY for that private server. I don't play the FO games, so have no clue about how that works there.
I really wouldn't mind starting from scratch if it meant more stable servers, playing on previous parches etc. I feel like there are so many options to explore. Maybe I have been playing too long (beta days) but there are so many little things that I miss.2 -
AzuraFan✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Only if anything you did there did not carry back to the public servers. I think it would be great to be able to play ESO alone (meaning nobody else in the world), especially if you could then fill a part with companions. But it would be a separate experience to the public servers, obviously. It would be unfair to be able to harvest mats, chests, etc. on a private server and bring those back to the public ones.
(I'm hoping that when ESO eventually shuts down, they will offer a way to play as a single-player game - I'd pay for that.)6 -
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✭✭✭I would love to try ESO on A private server. Would it be able to make ESO vanilla work? I mean pre One tamriel? When I bought the game back in 2014 I bought a Physical copy with cd's. But maybe they don't contain any game files but launcher files?
I have the original physical copy as well and I recently did try installing it. It still offers to choose the megaserver based client installation, meaning you could have the LIVE client (NA Megaserver, currently used as well) or the LIVE-EU client (EU Megaserver, obsolete after One Tamriel came out). A few weird things I did discover from this though:- Not updating the client after the installation (keeping it as 1.0) will show the ESO Beta NDA upon launching it, similarly to the current ToS, EULA, etc.
- The EU version is only updated to 2.5.10, meaning that the update service for it is still active.
PC-EU @maitsukas
Posting the Infinite Archive and Imperial City Weekly Vendor updates.
Also trying out new Main Quests, Companions, ToT decks, Events and Styles on PTS.2 -
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✭✭✭✭✭JanTanhide wrote: »it would be nice! You can do it with Fallout 76 so why not with ESO?
Fallout 76 is not an MMO. The map space is much smaller than ESO, and the player limit per server is something like 20.
Even if ESO had a more "normal" MMO server structure (like WoW with it's dozens of servers), it wouldn't remotely be the same as FO76 or any of the other small-server/couple-dozen-player games.
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✭✭i think at this point you start getting into the territory of "why did you even buy this game"skingrad when zoscharacters:PC/NA but live in EU 150+ ping lyfe- EP - M - Strikes-with-Arcane - Argonian Stamina Sorc - lvl 50 - The Flawless Conqueror/Spirit Slayer
- EP - F - Melina Elinia - Dunmer Magicka Dragonknight - lvl 50
- EP - F - Sinnia Lavellan - Altmer Warden Healer - lvl 50
- EP - M - Follows-the-Arcane - Argonian Healer Sorcerer- lvl 50
- EP - F - Ashes-of-Arcane - Argonian Magicka Necromancer - lvl 50
- EP - M - Bolgrog the Sinh - Orc Stamina Dragonknight - lvl 50
- EP - F - Moonlight Maiden - Altmer Magicka Templar - lvl 50
- EP - F - Maxine Cauline - Breton Magicka Nightblade - lvl 50
- EP - M - Garrus Loridius - Imperial Stamina Templar - lvl 50
- EP - F - Jennifer Loridius - Imperial Necromancer tank - lvl 50
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Freelancer_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭i think at this point you start getting into the territory of "why did you even buy this game"
For many of us if we only bought games that were nearly perfect for us we wouldn't be buying anything ever.
I didn't get SWTOR or ESO because I wanted to play an MMO in the Star Wars/Elder Scrolls Universe. I got them because they were the only content in that universe that was anything like the single player games I'd rather be playing and neither product looks like they'd be enough of a financial disaster for me to get the single player games I'd rather be playing any time soon.7 -
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✭✭✭✭✭I have no problem with private servers as long as they are completely separate from the megaservers and characters and goods cannot be moved between them.PCNA4 -
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✭✭✭How should those private servers be monitored to make sure players are not cheating/botting/exploiting whatever.And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon1
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