From my understand yes to what you have asked.

You'll be free to go to any zone at any time with the exception of Coldharbour, within all PvE zones you will now see players from other alliances but they will not be flagged for PvP.

There are a number of questions about this still, like how do you get from one zone to another (as some are not connected) and exactly how the level scaling will work, but I assume we'll have more information at a later date.

I agree.

I would really love to see some micro zones which are designed just for connecting the world. Have some content in them but the main purpose would be just to have some interesting ways of connecting each zone for the first time.

Make it feel like leaving Morrowind and walking to Rivenspire for the first time actually feels like a long epic travel across the lands, where you can find new quests on the way (as you pass through Skyrim etc.)

Some high mountain passes, underground caves etc. Also maybe just offer some boats at each port to connect things faster for players who want to move around quicker with a new character and not spend the time travelling.

Sadly as fantastic as the above would be I am a little worried this will be done as you say and more of a open some shrines. As it would take less development time to achieve.

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

At the moment, there is a boat in the starting city of each Faction's first zone that will take you to the other factions once you reach level 50. I assume that same boat will take you to each faction once the One Tamriel change happens.

Indeed. The story progression doesn't work if you do that though, so they will need to adjust how the Alliance Story starts for it to still "make sense".

Turelus wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

At the moment, there is a boat in the starting city of each Faction's first zone that will take you to the other factions once you reach level 50. I assume that same boat will take you to each faction once the One Tamriel change happens.

Indeed. The story progression doesn't work if you do that though, so they will need to adjust how the Alliance Story starts for it to still "make sense".

In Matt's post he said something about Cadwell Quests though, I wonder if that's something changing or just the way the current silver and gold work.

I agree right now this is the part I am most confused about and as someone who cares about immersive story telling continuity and realism is what has me worried with this change.

I really hope they take the time to do this correctly and we don't see another half-arsed change like when starter island were removed from the story order and many conversations became disjointed or made no sense.

Indeed. Story continuity is important. I imagine by the fact that Silver and Gold were mentioned that there will be changes there. Hopefully if they need to change Cadwell's dialogue they will get John Cleese back in; it would be a shame if they revoiced Cadwell to implement these changes, but I think new dialogue from him is going to be needed.

One Tamriel sounds good and all- especially for new players.

My only suggestion/request is for a PvP alliance swap to coincide with the release.

Otherwise, thumbs up.

They're sinking all of their dev time into something that really didn't need to be changed while ignoring the things that do.

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Daggerfall character goes from Stormhaven to Greenshade, you're greeted by a Khajiit that says he heard of you from the Queen... uh, what Queen? I served King Emeric.

The queen the khajiit serves.

Your lack of knowledge of her doesn't restrict her knowledge of you.

She has "eyes" everywhere.

The one thing I hope ZOS take from all the feedback about this is that now they've announced they're doing it they need to do it right.

Currently everything works because you just accept that what you're seeing is an altered reality which has no impact on real world events. A sloppy change would mean all content remains as is but without any barriers on accessing it.

Matt did say the following in his news article.

We are dropping all PvE Alliance restrictions. You will be free to explore of all Tamriel, including other Alliances. It is up to you how you want to role-play your character while doing this. “Silver" and “gold" versions of zones will be replaced by Cadwell quest storylines that you can do in any order you wish.

Now I am wondering what he means by replaced with Cadwell quest storylines, is this something new or just wording used for what the current system is and meaning to access the main zone stories we still have to speak with Cadwell and get the fluff text about why we're suddenly working for other factions.

Also as others have pointed out if we're now running around in a true world rather than an altered reality why are we suddenly able to kill our own factions troops in areas like Vivec's Antlers where EP and DC troops are directly fighting one another.

Other MMO games which shared worlds for opposing factions (like SWTOR) handle this by making the NPC's for your faction always allied with you and the ones for rival factions hostile with PvP flagging if you attack town and village NPC's or guards.

I really worry as to how ZOS will find a way to make this work without it being a sloppy story/immersion breaking change and from previous examples of when they have made changes it's been dreadful and clunky. The biggest showing of this was when they changed the story progression to remove the starter island and for two years (until they reverted it back) they had NPC's with conflicting reports of how you ended up where you were.

I'm interested to hear more about how this is actually going to work and how they handle the issues that myself and Enodoc are predicting.

Turelus wrote: »

Also as others have pointed out if we're now running around in a true world rather than an altered reality why are we suddenly able to kill our own factions troops in areas like Vivec's Antlers where EP and DC troops are directly fighting one another.

This right here is a big one for story continuity. It needs to be done right.

cyclonus11 wrote: »

Sounds to me that you can visit the other alliance zones, but you won't be able to start their main quests until Cadwell. Does that sound right?

That would with for me, I think.
You can do all the side quests and stuff, but not the main story lines unless you either are of that faction, of have unlocked Cadwells.