Mid-Year Mayhem

Anazasi

Lets ask the critical questions regarding this annual event shall we. @ZOS_GinaBruno please give us an update on this as soon as you can.

Are additional servers going to be added for this event?
Are we going to get free or reduced cost if we switch to one of the new campaigns?

No one wants to just assume these things will happen and based on last year we know the que's have a huge potential of being long just to get in on the event.

Marabornwingrion

You'll get new achievements.

Eirella

Can we please not have Mid-Year Mayhem on Vivec? It's already far too laggy as it is, I hate to see how it'll be during the event. Not to mention the queues.

White wabbit

How many will get banned this time I wonder

VaranisArano

Please set up the additional campaigns in advance, not 3 hours into the event after you realize that all the PVEers are coming to Cyrodiil.

No-CP needs it the most, with only 1 campaign open right now, but last year Shor was as busy as Vivec usually is.

Furthermore, can you please make sure the Battlegrounds achievement works? Having to wait til the second week wasn't fun.

GimpyPorcupine

Salivating already. "Welcome to Cyrodiil"

Anazasi

they need to activate the IC locks again so the players on any campaign can control IC

Takes-No-Prisoner

GimpyPorcupine wrote: »

Salivating already. "Welcome to Cyrodiil"

What was the que times for your platform?

Max I saw for PS4 NA, Vivec primetime, was... around 548 AD.

But yes, I am already salivating hard. Cannot wait!!!!

TerraDewBerry

I'd like to have a more firm idea of when midsummer mayhem will be this year because I would like to take a few days off for the event. I know it was July 22 last year, but will it be the same date this year? I would really like to know that.

ZOS_BrianWheeler

Are additional servers going to be added for this event? <-- We will spin up new temporary Campaigns much like last year if the demand for more campaigns dictates it. Most likely these will be 7 day CP enabled campaigns but that could change to 30 day.

Are we going to get free or reduced cost if we switch to one of the new campaigns? <-- Currently in the next update your guest campaign cooldown has been reduced drastically (1 minute after entering the guest campaign). We will update you on Home cost reassignment/reduced cost if/when we do that for the event.

VaranisArano

Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »

GimpyPorcupine wrote: »

Salivating already. "Welcome to Cyrodiil"

What was the que times for your platform?

Max I saw for PS4 NA, Vivec primetime, was... around 548 AD.

But yes, I am already salivating hard. Cannot wait!!!!

I often saw queues of over 300, BUT I would get into Cyrodiil at around 150. I speculated at the time that ZOS messed with the queues to temporarily fix the cross-faction queue exploit. Since that is fixed, it'll be interesting to see what happens with the queues this year.

Vanthras79

ZOS_BrianWheeler wrote: »

Are additional servers going to be added for this event? <-- We will spin up new temporary Campaigns much like last year if the demand for more campaigns dictates it. Most likely these will be 7 day CP enabled campaigns but that could change to 30 day.

Are we going to get free or reduced cost if we switch to one of the new campaigns? <-- Currently in the next update your guest campaign cooldown has been reduced drastically (1 minute after entering the guest campaign). We will update you on Home cost reassignment/reduced cost if/when we do that for the event.

Brian is back!

Beardimus

Any thoughts of a noCP 7 Day @ZOS_BrianWheeler ?

Either for event, or full time?

When Sotha gets manipulated on scores (boosters/switchers as its quiet) it can be a long wait to see campaign out

geonsocal

ZOS_BrianWheeler wrote: »

Are additional servers going to be added for this event? <-- We will spin up new temporary Campaigns much like last year if the demand for more campaigns dictates it. Most likely these will be 7 day CP enabled campaigns but that could change to 30 day.

Are we going to get free or reduced cost if we switch to one of the new campaigns? <-- Currently in the next update your guest campaign cooldown has been reduced drastically (1 minute after entering the guest campaign). We will update you on Home cost reassignment/reduced cost if/when we do that for the event.

be careful now - you're gonna spoil us with all these quick answers..


honestly though - thank you very much...it really helps staying so committed to a hobby knowing that the sponsors actually care enough to respond to our questions and concerns...

you rock sir

Nightfall12

When is this event again anyway?

Mister_DMC

Nice to see Wheels of Steel with the quick response! And yeah when is this? Before summerset or after?

ZOS_BrianWheeler

After Summerset.

And we'll look at the population of No-cP vs. CP to see about opening a No-CP campaign when the event is running.

Darkmage1337

Nightfall12 wrote: »

When is this event again anyway?

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26121

Here is the Midyear Mayhem news post from last year's Midyear Mayhem event, to give you an idea and more information.
I'm sure the event will give the same rewards/bonuses, and maybe even some new ones. More PvP-related furnishings and collectibles would be cool.
Hopefully Midyear Mayhem 2018 will be better than last year's, especially in regards to latency/performance and server crashes, and here's to hoping the 'improved Cyrodiil performances' in the Summerset update will actually be noticeable.

zyk

@ZOS_BrianWheeler Please consider having a plan in place to quickly remove servers after the population spike ends to mitigate trivial emp farming like we saw last year.

James-Wayne

I guess this is the last event for performance testing till the PvP DLC gets announced, so pumped for it.

geonsocal

James-Wayne wrote: »

I guess this is the last event for performance testing till the PvP DLC gets announced, so pumped for it.

Anazasi

Nightfall12 wrote: »

When is this event again anyway?

should start somewhere between june 5th and june 15th. Not sure if its a 1 week or 2 week event.

Maulkin

geonsocal wrote: »

James-Wayne wrote: »

I guess this is the last event for performance testing till the PvP DLC gets announced, so pumped for it.

Excellent use of memery

Kram8ion

Wait oh so no bacon during mid year mayham?

Morgul667

ZOS_BrianWheeler wrote: »

After Summerset.

And we'll look at the population of No-cP vs. CP to see about opening a No-CP campaign when the event is running.

No-CP pleaseeeeeeeee

Takes-No-Prisoner

VaranisArano wrote: »

Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »

GimpyPorcupine wrote: »

Salivating already. "Welcome to Cyrodiil"

What was the que times for your platform?

Max I saw for PS4 NA, Vivec primetime, was... around 548 AD.

But yes, I am already salivating hard. Cannot wait!!!!

I often saw queues of over 300, BUT I would get into Cyrodiil at around 150. I speculated at the time that ZOS messed with the queues to temporarily fix the cross-faction queue exploit. Since that is fixed, it'll be interesting to see what happens with the queues this year.

I’m looking forward to seeing how long the ques are for me too, and I am super glad that got fixed. There were times many could not even get into nor play in Vivec due to how long our que times got. I had to wait a couple of days to even attempt getting in.. Even then I would have to get this body up at 6am to que in at a decent time.

There was no way PS4 NA players could get in with a que of 500+. That is basically 2-3 hours wait time.

James-Wayne

geonsocal wrote: »

James-Wayne wrote: »

I guess this is the last event for performance testing till the PvP DLC gets announced, so pumped for it.

Brian mentioned last time on ESO Live performance updates are coming with Summerset because the DLC is coming. Probably why the dungeon DLC came in Feb too, wait and see I guess.

Serjustin19

And what about the ap farming. Is that still a Bannable offense? Aka role-playing at "Sejanus" if so how long?

Apache_Kid

Before Xarxes and Kastav were brought into play during the mid-year mayhem event last year, Xbox NA had both CP campaigns in the hundreds for queue with Vivec approaching 1000 at some points. Please add more CP campaigns during the event.

Edit: I guess I'm saying that the demand for the campaigns will be there. I promise you. I think it'll be better if you release the extra campaigns on the same day as the event. Will save a lot of time and grief. @ZOS_BrianWheeler

Joy_Division

ZOS_BrianWheeler wrote: »

Are additional servers going to be added for this event? <-- We will spin up new temporary Campaigns much like last year if the demand for more campaigns dictates it. Most likely these will be 7 day CP enabled campaigns but that could change to 30 day.

Are we going to get free or reduced cost if we switch to one of the new campaigns? <-- Currently in the next update your guest campaign cooldown has been reduced drastically (1 minute after entering the guest campaign). We will update you on Home cost reassignment/reduced cost if/when we do that for the event.

Appreciate the response.

Why wait though? We did this last year and we know the beginning of the event has the highest demand and we know on day 1 at least one extra campaign will be needed.

Takes-No-Prisoner

When Mid-year Mayhem starts what I hope to see:

• Vivec - 30 day CP campaign
• Shor - 7 day CP campaign
• Sotha Sil - 30 day Non-cp campaign
• Kyne - 30 day Lv50 below Non-cp campaign (or is this a 7day? correct me if I am wrong)
• Another 7 day CP campaign
• Another 7 day CP campaign
• Another 7 day Non-cp campaign

If memory serves, we got Shor last year. Last year we only really had the 30 day CP, 30 day Non-cp, and Kyne. I also remember the campaign names changed to reflect the Morrowind Chapter, will they get their names rotated out for Summerset Chapter names?