There's not enough leisure in the game. Here ZOS, have some ideas!

Azurephoenix999

I don't think there's enough things in the game that are there just for fun. The trophies you get from public dungeons are a cool start (The Questionable Meat Sack and the Welkynd Stone are my favorites), but everything else in the game has an air of seriousness around it. When there's nothing fun to do, everything in the game becomes a chore.

Here are a few things I believe would make this game more enjoyable:

1. Join in the eating contest in windhelm.
2. Participate in both mounted and foot races in each zone.
3. Fishing competitions
4. Joke weapons
5. Dueling between players

Windhelm's Eating Contest

Watching those guys eating like mad, complaining about stomach aches, choking on food, it really makes me hungry. I just want to get in there and join them. Better yet, I want my friend to join me. I want to compete with my friend to see who can eat the most.

There could be two different kinds of challenge:

1. There's a set amount of food you have to eat, whoever eats it faster wins.
2. There's a set time that you have, eat as much as you can.

There could be a betting system in place. We put the items we're betting into a chest, and whoever wins gets the items. It'd be just for fun and entirely optional.

Mounted and Foot Races

There are lots of quests where you have to run a pre-defined race. It's just disappointing that you can't repeat them. They were fun.

• At least one mounted race and one foot race in each zone.
• A similar betting system to the one described above could be implemented.

Fishing Competitions

Fishing's already in the game, right? Well, why not have fishing competitions? One in each zone. It'd be an excuse to expand on the fishing mechanic:

• More rare fish
• Higher tiers of rare fish (epic and legendary fish)
• The ability to filet rare fish (maybe rarer fish have a higher chance of carrying Perfect Roe?)

They'd work in a similar manner to the bug catching contests in Pokémon Gold and Silver. Each player would have 20 minutes to catch the rarest fish they could. The winner would be determined by:

1. Highest rarity of fish they caught.
2. If players tie, it goes to the one with the most fish of that rarity.
3. If players tie again, it goes to the one with the most fish of the previous rarity.
4. So on.
5. If players tie on all counts, the reward is divided evenly between them.

The reward would be gold, XP, and bait (the bait would depend on the area the fishing competition took place in).

Joke Weapons

Here are some ideas:

• A bow that fires heart-shaped arrows with a pink trail behind them.
• A club that's basically the sponge on a stick they used instead of toilet paper back then. It'd give a tiny bit of poison damage and make them cower in fear (possibly vomit like with the mystery meat).
• Antique pistol that always backfires and takes 30 seconds to reload.
• Something that launches snowballs that snare the target...but do nothing else.
• The dagger of friendship (remember that from the shivering isles?)

Duelling between players

Players both consent to a personal duel between the two of them. This can only be done whilst neither of them are in combat. It will be requested the same way as one would request a trade (walk up to them and interact).

While duelling, players can still be attacked by mobs. If this happens, the duel will end prematurely until the mobs have been dispersed.

The duel can be either to the death, or to the knee. The player that dies during the duel will be revived on the spot upon the conclusion of the duel at no cost to them (no soul gems spent on revival, dying in the duel does not cause their gear to degrade).

Betting system similar to the race and eating contest could be implemented here. Winner takes all. If a duel is interrupted for whatever reason, the items in the duel will go back to the players they came from.

Feedback

I'd really appreciate feedback on this post. Especially if someone from ZOS has anything to say regarding the possibility of this stuff actually happening.

RAGUNAnoOne

1 Yes but add something for other alliances
2 yes
3 yes especially this: The ability to filet rare fish (maybe rarer fish have a higher chance of carrying Perfect Roe?)
4 no thank you you want joke weapons equip a destruction staff
5 hell yes

bedlom

I would prefer they add in chess, and above all... housing!

Azurephoenix999

hmr13.76preeb18_ESO wrote: »

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What the hell does that have to do with anything I've just said!?

bedlom wrote: »

I would prefer they add in chess, and above all... housing!

I agree with both of these things. Maybe it could be like wizard's chess from harry potter? Just a thought.

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Azurephoenix999

RAGUNAnoOne wrote: »

1 Yes but add something for other alliances
4 no thank you you want joke weapons equip a destruction staff

1) Maybe at the guillotine in wayrest there's a quiz, and when you lose your head gets chopped off? Just a thought. I'd love to see things like this all over tbh (it'd give veterans a reason to go back to previous zones).

4) Not even the toilet stick?

TheShadowScout

Azurephoenix999 wrote: »

I don't think there's enough things in the game that are there just for fun.

Agreed...

Azurephoenix999 wrote: »

Windhelm's Eating Contest

I would do it with a set time, and whoever eats more wins, with a wide selection of foods that each take a different time to gobble down. Find out which nom fastest, and then grab more of those then your opponent kind of stuff...
Windhelm makes a good location for this. So might the five finger dance in Reapers march. Not sure if there is a good spot for this in DC lands... maybe the wedding in Alik'r?

Betting... as long as its optional... and don't forget a option to put up some gold pieces as well as items...

Azurephoenix999 wrote: »

Mounted and Foot Races

Not one per zone. One per alliance. More would be taking up too much space...
There is the city wall course in windhelm, and the spikeball track in reapers march... DC misses out again? Hmmm... a repeat of the windrunner quest in the desert might be a option...
Horse races? That too would fit well intot he Alik'r, theme-wise...

Azurephoenix999 wrote: »

Fishing Competitions

I'd much rather have a daily fishing quest instead... buuut, a special fishing location for competetive fishing might be fun as well. maybe.

Azurephoenix999 wrote: »

Joke Weapons

How about...
- a wooden sword and a whole range of wooden and otherwise improvised weapons that do minimal damage (say, 5% normal) - large spoon, riding crop, small rolling pin, broomstick, jesters baton, bouquet of flowers, frying pan, leafy poking stick, plucked chicken, mop, rolled up parchament stack, "the planemeld is nigh" sign, slingshot with rotten veggies as ammo, destruction staff replica that only produces puffs of brown-green smoke and bowel gas sounds...
- "Dibellas staff" a staff weapon that only has a light "attack" sending a pair of kissy lips at your target for a big smooch and a puff of pink smoke, doesn't count as assault and works only on valentines day...
- "Wabbajacky" a small version of the infamous wabbajack (it came into being when once upon a time two staves liked each over very, very much... at least according to uncle Sheo...) that can only be used on aprils fools day, and has a temporary transformative effect, with a big chance of backfire...
- the "Mallet of Bong", a big wooden mallet that sttrikes peoples heads with a distinctive deel bell-ish "bong" sound and makes them experience the "very drunk" visual effect for a little while, only usable on 20th of april...
- "Fireworks staff" a flame staff that only shoots decorative fireworks in random colors, only usable on new years eve (and maybe 4th of July on NA servers)...

Or maybe none of the above. Sounds a little bit like something they could do when they have nothing better to code, and I can think of quite a few non-joke weapons I'd much rather see added to our ESO arsenal before joke weapons that will probably just be used by people to damage others immersion anyways (hence the suggestions with limited usage)...

Azurephoenix999 wrote: »

Duelling between players

Yes.
'nuff said.

Me, I would also like to see "tavern games", both against NPCs, and for two players.
- Arm wrestling, with unequal "strength" values determined by average of health and stamina (sorry limp-wristed bookworm mages, this is a sport for the strong! ) with perhaps even a huge bonus for choosing "big and muscular" in your character design... (common in nord and orc bars)
- Drinking contest, again depending on health/stamina (again, size bonus if it can be coded, perhaps even racial boni for "hardy" races like nords), down more drinks then your opponent before falling over or showing other effects...
- Spell contest, much like arm wrestling only here magica rules supreme, push spell light to one or the other direction through the power of your will... (common in elf & breton bars)
- Insult contest, pick the right line out of the choices, different lines will work in different regions... win three of five or something to make it more of a challenge then getting lucky once...
- Dart board (simple "click at the right time" type minigame)
- Board game (something like checkers, maybe? or four in a row? or both in different bars)
- Card game (possibly of varying type depending on region...)
- Memory game (find the two matching cards...)
- Perception game (...under which shell is the gem?)
- Dancing game, use the right dance emote for the song the tavern bard plays...
- Dares - get a random "dare" which may involve going to a certain place and doing a certain action... sometimes just legwork, sometimes searching for something, sometimes spawning an enemy to be defeated... random.
Each bar might offer one or two of those, different options in different bars...
Oh, and ALL of the possible games ought to be added to Sanguines Demenese in Shadowfen. Just because!

In fact... they -could- add a whole daedric plane of Sanguine, where its always party time, with all those games, races and more, for cross-faction peaceful party interaction! Full of dark seducers in skintight outfits! With free food and drink! Good music! A duelling arena. Hot springs to relax (and oogle other characters in their underwear, BtW, we should get better looking underwear for our characters to be more oogle-able! I wanna see some cute dunmer boys bu... uhm... ) And ***. Uhm... well... or as close as ESO dares to get to *** anyhow.
I'd sooo fu... uhm... fully buy that DLC!

Tryxus

Skooma

All the leisure on Nirn in a bottle

Volkodav

There's Frog races in Skywatch.

Azurephoenix999

WhiskeyRiver.AZub17_ESO wrote: »

There's Frog races in Skywatch.

Can you participate in those? If not, we should definitely be able to.

We need more stuff like this!

MornaBaine

Absolutely NO, JUST NO to the "sponge on a stick"! But otherwise, I'd get a kick out of most of this stuff.

Master_Fluff

There are lizard (or was it frog) races in Alik'r desert too. The hill near Berghama. But joke weapons, yes please. Some of the trophies are sort of like that, so the coding skills are there.

Azurephoenix999

MornaBaine wrote: »

Absolutely NO, JUST NO to the "sponge on a stick"! But otherwise, I'd get a kick out of most of this stuff.

What? No ***-stick?

Skinzz

Not enough leisure? It's called talking a step outside in the real world for once. Lol

abhimat1999rwb17_ESO

I wish zos had implemented some cool things like this before majority of the player base left the game.