Correct, there’s no story quest. It’s not an exploration DLC, it’s like trials and the infinite archive where there’s lore but there’s not a deep multi quest questline because it’s group content. The questlines this year are just Thieves Guild and Sheogorath Takes a Holiday. That said, Night Market does open some interesting lore opportunities if you’re interested in Daedra & Fargrave.

I got the starter quest from the crown store, talked to the Curator through all the different dialog, but nothing to point to what I should do next except "Talk to the Curator". I abandoned the quest, talked to the Curator again and THEN I got the quest of "Those Who Would Rule".

Esha76 wrote: »

I've been with this game since early beta. Absolutely love the base game content. Still play is over and over with different characters and combinations to this day. However, there is a distinct difference in the quality (in my opinion), and type of writing in many of the chapters. By that I mean..... base game is a little, dare I say "darker"? A little more mature? New chapters seem to be a little more light hearted and even a bit "bubbly".

Oh yeah I feel this! I recently re-played the earlier DLCs, and when I did some of the Summerset quests, I was like "Wow man they really went all out with some of these situations", it was such whiplash considering the more tame newer quests.

Wayshrine takes me to the nearest oasis. With a bright yellow portal to the Starlit Plaza should I decide to exit.

The obly option is saw was to revive at wayshrine... which took me to the oasis. Then I had to portal back to the starlit plaza

This is 2026, not 1996. People are playing at all times of the day and night, in all time zones. Getting modern adults together on a regular bases, while it does happen, is difficult to repeat regularly. As counterintuitive as it seems, MMOs need to consider the solo player as its main audience, and group play as appendant or emergent game play for select content.

The smart thing for a Developer to do is incentivize group play; not punish solo play, or make an entire zone off limits for solo play for the majority-and no I don't want to hear about how super cool and elite badass you are. Thats not most of us.

This was not a well thought-out idea, just like Craglorn wasn't until they changed it.

Any AI engine will tell you that roughly 80% of modern players, play predominately solo for the reasons I mentioned above.

This wasn't it. It needs to be retuned

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.

For me, this is worst designed content ever released to ESO.

I know ESO through and through but is all way too confusing for me.

It's group content that is way too hard for a normal trial or DLC dungeon group. I died more in an hour than in playing 3 years of ESO doing group finder DLC dungeons and trials daily.

So, we basically need a Cyrodill-style PvE zerg to make the content tolerable or enjoyable. No problem. But this is were the bad design comes in.

My night markets are are almost empty. If this is group content were people need to group organically like a conquering a keep in Cyrodil, you should funnel all players to the same instanced zones of the market so they can actually meet and group up and all start at the starting entrance door of every wing together and prepared.

So that didn't happen so I tried group finder and played with 5 groups but there it gets even more weirdly designed. I need to transfer to my groups instance, I get ported to the center and need to figure out where they are halfway in their boss fight. So I need to to run along through veteran mobs hoping I don't die only to be blocked by sand doors because I don't have an item. What item...no idea. Where to get the item...no idea. Someone in my group maybe has the item? So I run around and around and eventually can backtrack the path my group used to get there. I finally arrive at the boss I have never seen before and get one shotted randomly by one of the 5000 things flying around. Now I respawn at the wayshrine somewhere totally different and my hunt to my group can start again, this time with 3 other members that recently joined or died.

Then according to the menu there are boss keys and a trial I can do... but must have other keys for it to open or something. Where are those keys, how to get them, who knows. Are there groups in the finder that have those keys...who knows.

And then I saw randomly daily quests in between packs of mobs that I don't have time to read for, because otherwise I get oneshotted in the back one millisecond after pressing E.

It will be very curious to see how telemetry data is for this event and player retention because the groups I joined the mood was very sour with people constantly dropping out because they were tired of dying (what they said in group chat).

If this is the new experimental free content we can expect in the future...things are bleak.

If have no problem with the difficulty of the event. I can mitigate that. But the grouping design is totally not player friendly and this needed a lot more UI and tutorials as well because this is something completely new we have never seen and done before. We need more handholding or a tutorial easy district to learn how everything works.

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?

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.