Character Copy on the PTS

AngryNord

Will we possibly get the EU characters transferred soon? AFAIK it was said that you'd alternate between copying over US and EU characters?

Nightreaver

As I recall they said they stated that NA characters would have access to 1.5 for a couple of weeks and then they would do a full wipe and copy (not transfer) EU characters to PTS. PTS just got updated to 1.5 last Monday on Oct 13 so I would expect EU characters to be copied 2 weeks from then around Oct 27.

So Happy Halloween.

Volkodav

Oddly enough,of THe 8 chars on the NA server,only 4 of them transfered to the PTS server.Also,..if they wipe out the transfered chars in PTS,will I lose them on my NA server? I have a V4 char I'd hate toget wiped out.I run him every few days.

Nightreaver

@WhiskeyRiver.AZub17_ESO
Characters were copied (Not transferred) on Oct 02. Did you have 8 characters on the NA server at that time or only 4?
What happens in PTS stays in PTS. It has no effect on your characters on the Live server.

Islyn

When can you RECOPY? I leveled my character on NA and have a new one - and I cannot even play there now.

Islyn

Boop!

aneova_ESO

Could we possibly get a /copy command? That way we could just copy the ones we want, and not waste slots with banker alts.

Turelus

Any news on if we will have this for the EU?
It's really frustrating trying to see what effects have on our characters or test things we know before it goes live without the characters we can easily compare.

Ashtaris

As aneova_ESO mentioned, I would love to see "On Demand" character copy between the Live and PTS servers. The characters we got on the PTS were almost a month or so behind what we were using on Live. You can make a lot of changes to a character in that amount of time so that makes it much more difficult to make comparisons, especially with some of the attribute changes concerning stamina.

AngryNord

Turelus wrote: »

Any news on if we will have this for the EU?

My Guess would be shortly after pigs have started flying past my 3rd floor window.

Daenerys

AngryNord wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Any news on if we will have this for the EU?

My Guess would be shortly after pigs have started flying past my 3rd floor window.

instructions unclear, threw pig out window

seanvwolf

DuelWieldingCheesyPoofs wrote: »

but i do think is bang out of order offering US this service and not EU, I dnt think anyone should have this service until everyone can use it, its just not fair, you cant give one and not the other.

Not really a service...

It's not like everyone formally requested this or that it is being offered in the future as an individual case by case service. It's simply something they could do for convenience of testing the databuild. Their NA server is located locally with the PTS making it that much easier. There are internal testers who are on the US servers, so it makes sense from a in-house perspective. I'm glad they at least considered finding a way to do the same thing for EU. It may be because the character names or id numbers themselves are in conflict.

AngryNord

AngryNord wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Any news on if we will have this for the EU?

My Guess would be shortly after pigs have started flying past my 3rd floor window.

Looks like I was right

Tiruviel

How odd that the latest character copy (November 6th) is linked to this thread - and completely unannounced too...

Tiruviel

Doh, missed this bit of information:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• As new Updates become available to test, we will perform additional data copies from the live server.

Kyoma

While I can understand that it is easier to just copy the NA characters it does mean I won't be doing any serious testing on PTS. Why? Well because for a large portion of the things we'd be testing we'd need ALOT more than what the templates offer. Something that you, Zenimax, acknowledged else there wouldn't even be the NA character copy.

tzeraphb16_ESO

Nazon_Katts wrote: »

Why purge? Add an EU suffix and have a rename window pop up upon first login. Heck, even if you left the suffix, people wouldn't mind that much since it's just for testing reasons.

For wanting people to actually test their game on PTS, they do have a strange habit of making access overly complicated. If they want more folks over there, it's gotta be more accessible and should provide incentives.

"Why purge? " My guess is that they want the most people on the public servers

"For wanting people to actually test their game on PTS, they do have a strange habit of making access overly complicated. If they want more folks over there, it's gotta be more accessible and should provide incentives. "

Agreed on that one though.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

During today's PTS maintenance, we copied all characters from the European megaserver to the PTS. Characters were copied today (November 19th.) If you have a character on the EU megaserver, you can now use them on the PTS which is up-to-date with patch 1.5.2.

Please keep in mind this is only a character copy; progression from the PTS will not carry over to the live EU megaserver.

Nightreaver

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

During today's PTS maintenance, we copied all characters from the European megaserver to the PTS. Characters were copied today (November 19th.) If you have a character on the EU megaserver, you can now use them on the PTS which is up-to-date with patch 1.5.5.

When I log on to PTS it is showing 1.5.2

Enodoc

@AngryNord‌
Your window:

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

During today's PTS maintenance, we copied all characters from the European megaserver to the PTS. Characters were copied today (November 19th.) If you have a character on the EU megaserver, you can now use them on the PTS which is up-to-date with patch 1.5.5.

Please keep in mind this is only a character copy; progression from the PTS will not carry over to the live EU megaserver.

AngryNord

My defence is: It happened while I was asleep :P

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Nightreaver wrote: »

When I log on to PTS it is showing 1.5.2

You're correct. We got ahead of ourselves. Sorry about that! I've edited my post.

indigoblades

I Logged into PTS during NA server maintenance and all my copy'd chars where gone ? Anyone else have this problem.

Enodoc

indigoblades wrote: »

I Logged into PTS during NA server maintenance and all my copy'd chars where gone ? Anyone else have this problem.

All characters on PTS (including NA copies) were wiped during the update on 19 November so that EU characters could be copied across. It's only possible for one megaserver to have their characters available at a time.

LonePirate

Yeah, if you're on the NA server, it might be a good idea to create a new character using a template and configure it or progress it to how you want it to be before Update 6 is applied to the PTS. I have a feeling many people are going to want to jump right in to the testing given everything that is confirmed and widely believed to be in Update 6. For once, those of you on the EU server have a huge benefit over those of us on the NA server.

Enodoc

LonePirate wrote: »

Yeah, if you're on the NA server, it might be a good idea to create a new character using a template and configure it or progress it to how you want it to be before Update 6 is applied to the PTS. I have a feeling many people are going to want to jump right in to the testing given everything that is confirmed and widely believed to be in Update 6. For once, those of you on the EU server have a huge benefit over those of us on the NA server.

When Update 6 hits PTS they'll probably wipe again and do a new NA copy

Nightreaver

Would be nice if they split the time between NA and EU so both get an opportunity to test.

Would be even better if instead of copying all characters from one server if we were just given the option to copy our own characters to the PTS. Would much rather have the server filled with people from both servers that actually spend time on PTS than a majority of characters that will never see PTS.

ZOS_GinaBruno

Hi everyone! Just letting you know that we did another character copy last Wednesday, December 10th to copy over the latest European megaserver characters. No new patch was implemented.

Elsonso

Have you come up with a way to have both NA and EU characters loaded at the same time?

Elloa

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We have some good news about testing content on the PTS!

We've completed copying over all the characters from the North American and European megaservers to the PTS. From here on out, you'll be able to access your NA and EU megaserver characters on the PTS.

A couple notes about the copy:

• This is a copy, not a transfer. Your NA and EU megaserver characters are still there.
• No progress made on PTS will be reflected back to the NA and EU megaservers.
• Character data and progress for this upcoming testing period was copied from the live server on November 19th.
• As new Updates become available to test, we will perform additional data copies from the live server.

Thank you for helping us test!

This is a really great news! Now, next good news would be to have the patch released during the hollidays!