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.

Unless you can't do it due to concerns about performance, it would be good to increase the population cap. I believe it was 36 players on PTS and that number is too small given the size of the zone. It would also make some of the complaints about not seeing anyone go away.

LukosCreyden wrote: »

I think the team needs to accept that, over the years, ESO has cultivated a playerbase that is mostly solo-orientated. As such, new releases should probably keep this in mind. Most players are either going to wanr to be able to solo stuff, or clear it with other randoms in-zone.
There of course must always be a place for organized group enjoyers, but I do not think this is it. Not entirely, anyway.

I've gotta disagree. I'm a primarily solo player and I don't enjoy trials very much. That being said, the game will always do better in the long term by offering variation. So many players have left the game because it was too easy and presented no challenge. I also know a lot of people who don't enjoy trials because of the choreographed nature of raids and trials. This offers large group challenges with a bunch of puzzles, harder bosses, things to unlock, etc. ESO needs variation and difficulty tiers.

GeneralGrundmann wrote: »

I am not even so into housing like others here, still I can imagine the pain and frustration.

My suggestion is, after you completed a furniture for the first time, you can buy it for 100% of the given price.

With the second completion, you get a 20% discount, paying 80% of the given price.
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I like this idea! I have also been suggesting that they should allow buyability after 1, and if they really feel it's more fair to do it this way, fine. However, it grinds my gears that the system is completely imbalanced and unfair towards Housing as is:

Today, players have already unlocked the newest Mythic within just hours of the Night Market being live!
(EDIT: I accidentally completed it today too! Wish I could trade it in for my final Lead of the Solstice Bismuth Tower instead.)

The Signet:


That means they can already USE it infinitely and even reconstruct it for all of their characters.
That's great!! Legitimately, not a problem!

But meanwhile, us poor sods in Housing have to suffer through the awful months-to-years-long grind to unlock any of our furnishing Leads 3/3 to be able to use them in the same capacity. (Plus, Blue and Green are still not buyable at all.) It's imbalanced and unfair towards us.

So I don't think the % discount tiers are even needed, considering that Mythics work right away for combat-focused players, and even reconstruction only needs Transmute Crystals that can be gained passively and pretty easily. Why should Housing items have all these extra roadbumps?

It's also a win-win when Leads drop easily:

1. It's an effective gold-sink: Many of us will gladly spend our gold to buy items – in bulk, at that! (Whereas if I can't even get the unlock, there's nothing to buy. With how awful Maps are, I'm certainly not buying those anymore).
2. Improves morale, retention, AND keeps content evergreen: We're more likely to redo activities when drop rates are good because we love to get useful, "free" items even after we unlocked it. (Whereas currently, everything about the grind is so bad that it even ruins entire areas for us, driving us away – whether or not we even manage to unlock. A number of us just give up & lose interest because it's too frustrating; what a waste of the Devs' work.)

So I wish ZOS would please let ALL Antiquities be buyable after 1 find. This would vastly improve the Treasure Maps issue too, since the bulk of the problem is the 2/3 – 3/3 Leads grind.

+ quoting @anadandy again: "No one is getting OP because they bought 10 Colovian tapestries."

Yessirrr its been a blast, put my solo build to work which ended up turning into a semi tank for groups I joined, was a fun challenge. I especially love how creative Zos got with the dune style worm boss lol, was not expecting that. Really badass, was a fun surprise.

The last skirmish boss and the last holder of the relic fragment I needed wiped our group lol and despawned so that sucked but I am still happy I didn't beat everything in one go like I expected.

Frayton wrote: »

Brakkish wrote: »

It's so simple a tank can do it.

Sturdy Leeching plate and Crimson Twilight, Malubeth and tape down L2. Grab a snack afk, come back and watch stuff die.

It's all fun and games until ZOS realizes this and stops it.

It would certainly solidify my stance that tanks are the master spec, and are favored by the gods.

madman65 wrote: »

I want to enjoy the game, I DON`T want to be frustrated. Looks like my account will go into cold storage ESO.

Your source of frustration is also the source of joy for several people. We don't always get what we want, do we?

GuardianV wrote: »

Erickson9610 wrote: »

There is nothing to encourage faction loyalty, which is really sad considering we're to get end-of-campaign rewards for the effort we put into helping our chosen faction. Just like PTS, we already know which faction will win this time, and it's unclear whether all three factions will get a chance in first place — we may just see the same one or two factions perpetually win as people choose their next faction solely for the rewards they offer.

Locking fragments, item sets, dyes, and other functional items behind faction choice and giving us FOMO that we may never get to see the Night Market more than three times is just upsetting game design.

It's only a few hours in, so this can absolutely flip around, but already 1 faction has 4x the favor that the other 2 have. It concerns me that people will just join that because they are in the lead, which will just cause even more people to join them and then they have such a majority of the players the other factions will have no chance of winning.
Is there anything in place to account for this, or am I just way overreacting?

It won't, PTS had Thousand Eyes dominating the entire time, they also have the appealing younger culture factors going for it, as well as the strongest monster set and most unique dye.

I can also kill trash packs solo (and completed that quest solo as well). But it gets stale and tedious very fast. They drop nothing (apart from the one time fragment), respawn fast, and it becomes really boring to fight all of them just to get to a desired location on the map (for example back to the boss/squirmish/wherever you were after death brings you to the wayshrine).

It's fine if you have a group of several people, otherwise it feels like something to make players spend more time there.