iirc i played a game some time ago that had an auto-group function in the game. whenever i would enter an encounter area i'd get a prompt to group with others already engaged. can we do this in this game? imo this would help with all that group content...just spit-balling here.

**Please do note that I am a casual player who loves the questing and exploring aspects of the game, but I despise pvp and being forced to group with lots of players just to be able to progress. My play style and many people's probably differs greatly, but here's my opinion, for what it's worth.

It seems that there's a giant portion of players that all joined the same faction right from the get go. I logged in right when the area opened and within the first ten minutes the thousand eyes faction had already pulled away by hundreds of points. If they somehow manage to lose it would be a miracle, as of now they are over 300k ahead of 2nd place on xbox na.

The instances are basically empty of players and trash mobs can one hit kill any casual player, like myself. Even grouping up with a friend who runs trails regularly, we're still struggling just to make it to the quest objective. We happened to run into a group that was roaming and killing bosses for a while, but many times they would split and go in different directions making it difficult to tag along.

To be quite honest, I can't see any casual player, who's just in it for the fun of the game, finishing this golden pursuit and event in general. Without having a dedicated group to run with, it's just not feasible to sit around and hope a group wanders through that you can tag along with. Many players are in it for the fun of the game, not to get so frustrated that they rage quit. What's the point in playing then?

In my opinion if you want to keep players engaged in the night Market, you either need to nerf the monsters from vet trail level down to something doable for 4-5 people or increase the instance population cap. I realize it's the opening day, but instances are just too empty to support any kind of enjoyment for the average player.

eb.annetteub17_ESO wrote: »

(PS-NA) Apparently there is no way to leave the Night Market outside of traveling to a home outside of Fargrave from your Collections tab. I should be able to use the wayshrine in the plaza to do so.

You can walk out. There's a door near the house that either takes you to fargrave, with a wayshrine nearby or, if you don't own fargrave/deadlands, takes you back where you were before.

... Logged in, YET ANOTHER GOLDEN PURSUIT.

Logged right back out.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

noblecron wrote: »

If you chose ruckus you're instanced with other ruckus players and they have the least population

This is not accurate. Players are not given priority to be instanced with players of the same Faction. There may be fewer players in the Ruckus District right now because folks are prioritizing a different District, but that is not how instancing in the Night Market works. When players enter the main hub and Districts, they join based on when they entered until the zone cap is hit, then a new instance spins up. That's it.

Thank you. I mean no disrespect though but I think instancing numbers need to be double checked as I've been in a few very very dead instances.

How come that every outcry of people disgruntled by the new event zone is brutally supressed by the forum admins? Is this your new openness policy, ZOS?

ariankentara wrote: »

**Please do note that I am a casual player who loves the questing and exploring aspects of the game, but I despise pvp and being forced to group with lots of players just to be able to progress. My play style and many people's probably differs greatly, but here's my opinion, for what it's worth.

It seems that there's a giant portion of players that all joined the same faction right from the get go. I logged in right when the area opened and within the first ten minutes the thousand eyes faction had already pulled away by hundreds of points. If they somehow manage to lose it would be a miracle, as of now they are over 300k ahead of 2nd place on xbox na.

The instances are basically empty of players and trash mobs can one hit kill any casual player, like myself. Even grouping up with a friend who runs trails regularly, we're still struggling just to make it to the quest objective. We happened to run into a group that was roaming and killing bosses for a while, but many times they would split and go in different directions making it difficult to tag along.

To be quite honest, I can't see any casual player, who's just in it for the fun of the game, finishing this golden pursuit and event in general. Without having a dedicated group to run with, it's just not feasible to sit around and hope a group wanders through that you can tag along with. Many players are in it for the fun of the game, not to get so frustrated that they rage quit. What's the point in playing then?

In my opinion if you want to keep players engaged in the night Market, you either need to nerf the monsters from vet trail level down to something doable for 4-5 people or increase the instance population cap. I realize it's the opening day, but instances are just too empty to support any kind of enjoyment for the average player.

Thank you, thank you, thank you…my very same thoughts exactly!!

The mobs near this boulder dash are too close and spawn with too-inconvenient timing, spoiling the puzzle, as players are unable to interact with the pads in combat. A decent fix might be to make the pads interactible during combat.

noblecron wrote: »

LaLiLu wrote: »

Well, i took a look. Not happy at all. Seems to be another only group content. Funny, cause there was no other players, just me. Besides, i hate groups. If i cannot solo it, you can keep it.

Btw. even if it would be possible to solo this in the theory, it's actually not, cause the game keeps stopping. The delay is a catastrophy. Since the last update playing bekame really annoing. The next update should be about the server performace, just saying...

If you chose ruckus you're instanced with other ruckus players and they have the least population

@ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_GinaBruno

Can you guys confirm we can only play with others of the same faction choice? We were told this would not be the case.

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

coop500 wrote: »

noblecron wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

noblecron wrote: »

If you chose ruckus you're instanced with other ruckus players and they have the least population

This is not accurate. Players are not given priority to be instanced with players of the same Faction. There may be fewer players in the Ruckus District right now because folks are prioritizing a different District, but that is not how instancing in the Night Market works. When players enter the main hub and Districts, they join based on when they entered until the zone cap is hit, then a new instance spins up. That's it.

Thank you. I mean no disrespect though but I think instancing numbers need to be double checked as I've been in a few very very dead instances.

The issue is the instance is spread across all 3 districts and the hub. So the game is probably just putting you in an instance where, statistically since Thousand Eyes is dominating right now, all the players in your instance are over there based on happenstance.

Each instance only has 30-something players, so it's not hard to find yourself in an empty one when you're playing a less popular faction.

Every player of every faction can go into every district, and if you want to do the achievements and unlock all the wings of the house, you have to go into all of them. So even if you're in a different faction you can still go wherever the people are.

Yes but if you're trying to do your faction quest and joined the Ruckus, welp I hope you can do it solo.

Minor issue - the map inside the Night's Den home cannot be zoomed out to travel to Tamriel. Has been /bugged as well

I personally think the event could use a bit more player guidance. I did the intro quest and picked a faction, but after that it feels to me like you kind of just get dropped into the content, given some UI elements to give you an idea of what is going on, but not many details. For example:

• I was grouped with another player and when we opened the event's UI, it showed me that a skirmish was active in one zone, but the other player saw it was inactive. We were standing next to each other in the district. I'm not sure why this is?
• I wish there was some very basic, "explain it to me like I'm five" type of in-game, practical guide for where to find all the info on all the smaller event mechanics. There are three zones + hub, and there are roaming bosses in the zones, but then there are also skirmishes (on a different screen from the bosses), and there's a trial and dungeons. Oh and also quests and a faction favour system. It's nice to have a lot of variety, but I would love some more structure/explanation to it haha.
• I went over to the dungeon in the Parch, and the little notif in the corner told me I need some item to go through the sand wall. I couldn't find info in the event UI on the item (might have overlooked it), but a google search told me the means of getting it is described in the achievements window. Up until I found the sand wall I had no clue there even was an item-wall mechanic there lol.

It is possible I misread or missed something, but maybe a bit more obvious guidance would help, at least for total newbies to the event who hadn't been prepping and reading details on it prior? Or did I miss some tutorial NPC somewhere?

There should be some type of awards board for dropped set items. I don’t know if the sets dropped rotate or if it’s completely random. But overland sets dropping in that zone for the level of difficulty doesn’t seem right.

I got a trial set item and don’t know who dropped it or why. There isn’t a lot of time to look, because you are forced to keep up with group randoms or face a long run through trash mobs. I mean the run isn’t that bad because I play a tank but I can see it being a nightmare for someone who is pure dps.

Can we just have the set items mailed to us when they drop in that zone? Also, consider taking the trash items and making one trash item that stacks. I don’t like having to play inventory management while in there. It’s too much loot and go; and you don’t have time to sift through it all.

Who is this for? As someone who does vet trials, has all arenas completed on vet, and occasionally solos dungeons: Who Is This For?? On top of this, can someone tell me why in the oblivion we're forced to wayshrine every time we die (which is way too often)? I see absolutely no point in it other than an attempt to make pvpers feel at home having to run 1000 miles to resume what you're doing.

*Also, this may be the most poorly written (I hesitate to even call it writing) piece of content in ESO. Its literally just got NPCs being like, "Hay let me tell you about these game mechanics!" "Ignore the fact that none of these enemies belong here!" "Have fun grinding!"