Maintenance for the week of February 16:
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – February 16

event tickets... (big sigh)

generalmyrick
generalmyrick
✭✭✭✭✭
after i'm "pot committed" to this dawnwood crap...

all kinds of great items are on sale for event tickets.

and we couldn't save event tickets, so we were forced to use them or lose them....
===================

not a gripe, but more thinking this is poor planning, sloppy planning, INTENTIONALLY confusing like the t-shirt fiasco, and disappointing.

love the game, not going to stop playing but, cmon...
"The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are a popular cultural meme, a metaphor representing the choice between:

Knowledge, freedom, uncertainty and the brutal truths of reality (red pill)
Security, happiness, beauty, and the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill)"

Insight to Agree to Awesome Ratio = 1:6.04:2.76 as of 1/25/2019

Compared to people that I've ignored = I am 18% more insightful, 20% less agreeable, and 88% more awesome.
  • TempPlayer
    TempPlayer
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is careful and meticulous planning all lead up to event ticket being sold on crown store.
  • Tasear
    Tasear
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah it sucks we didn't understand process last year. But I look it like this there's nothing truly necessary for gameplay experience so just will buy a few I like and can afford then next year get others. I really really like that these are outfit styles and not motifs.
  • Linaleah
    Linaleah
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tasear wrote: »
    Yeah it sucks we didn't understand process last year. But I look it like this there's nothing truly necessary for gameplay experience so just will buy a few I like and can afford then next year get others. I really really like that these are outfit styles and not motifs.

    the problem is... unless those outfit styles stay beyond the event? becasue we cannot stock up on tickets, if our luck sucks (as mine does) you are basically stuck hoping that they either show up enough, for reasonable enough price on guild stores... or just buying them with crowns. why do I say this, you ask? let me tell you.

    even if you understood the process, the most tickets you could have going into event is 12. that covers the last berry - which you HAVE to buy during this even, becasue its going away afterwards. even if you have all the other berries and enough feathers to make another nachent indrik? you are still going in with 2 tickets left over after the berry - tops.

    now. there is also a pet, which also seems to be jesters holiday only. that's another 10 tickets. lets do some math! the absolute maximum tickets you can get during this event is 26. how did I come up with this number? given the dates from March 21 to April 2 and that you CAN do more quests early just after the reset? that gives us 13 quest resets.

    assuming best case scenario that we already bought the berry, that gives us 28 tickets to work with. if you want minipet - that leaves us with 18 tickets. that.. will buy you 3 style pages. that's it. you have 3 chances per day to get those style pages. that gives us 39 chances for all the motif pages. I happen to be (yes I'm nuts) doing this event on 3 accounts, and on my main, I'm doing this both EU and US side. out of 12 boxes I got on a first day - wanna guess how many of them contained motifs? if you say zero - you'd be correct. now, its just rng, you say, there are more days still left. yes. there are. but its STILL indicative of drop rates. and I'm NOT the only one with these types of abysmal drop rates.

    and herein lays a problem. a collector? unless they are either very lucky, or very rich - has little to NO chance to collect all the style pages in a single event, and no, don't even dare starting with "you can collect them next year" anniversary specific motifs had higher drop rates, AND we got more boxes per day we could get to increase out chances. and even with severe ticket limits, there was still enough tickets to allow us to catch up on indriks at leas, and usually you'd get enough tickets per event, plus extras to get both the limited time berry AND a feather.

    this is the FIRST TIME that our chances are stacked THAT badly against us... unless of course you cave in and buy tickets with crowns.

    THAT.. is a problem. that mathematically a single player is unlikely to be able to farm up all the pages themselves? IS A PROBLEM.
    dirty worthless casual.
    Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the ***
    Lois McMaster Bujold "A Civil Campaign"
  • Enemoriana
    Enemoriana
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Linaleah wrote: »
    out of 12 boxes I got on a first day - wanna guess how many of them contained motifs? if you say zero - you'd be correct. now, its just rng, you say, there are more days still left. yes. there are. but its STILL indicative of drop rates. and I'm NOT the only one with these types of abysmal drop rates.

    and herein lays a problem. a collector? unless they are either very lucky, or very rich - has little to NO chance to collect all the style pages in a single event, and no, don't even dare starting with "you can collect them next year" anniversary specific motifs had higher drop rates, AND we got more boxes per day we could get to increase out chances. and even with severe ticket limits, there was still enough tickets to allow us to catch up on indriks at leas, and usually you'd get enough tickets per event, plus extras to get both the limited time berry AND a feather.
    Looks like very bad luck. Maybe Sheogorath cursed you for being too serious during jester fectival? Got 2 pages from 3 boxes. 1-2 seems usual. Heard more than once about 3/3.
    I don't think they will cost a lot. And gold is very easy to earn, just do craft dailies with several characters and buy motifs 1-2 days before end of event. You don't have to be "very rich".

    With each event giving berry+feather+extra there will be soon nowhere to spend tickets. For example, after first day I already have morphed indrik, base indrik + 2 feathers + ticket. This event will give 24 tickets more - for pet and one more feather. So I'll end first season with not only morphed, even not morphed+base, but in 5 tickets of morphed and two base indriks. And I missed some days! Maybe somebody will already start one more. Without extra things to spend tickets, I'll end second season with all 5 base indriks... and tickets will just burn. Extra things are good. I'm afraid I'll have to spend tickets on motifs during anniversary event... just not to lose them at all.
    PC EU, @Enemoriana. Ru.
    Houses: Erstwhile Sanctuary as actual Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary, Hunter's Glade as werewolf tavern (downstairs), Strident Springs Demesne as adventurer's house.
    Wishlist: character slots, attunable stations (have 62/83 sets collected), minstrel personality, molten war torte and white gold war torte recipes, Willowpond Haven, Kor and Hildegard houseguests, crown crates.
  • Casdha
    Casdha
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    I got an indrick (don't care about other colors as I will never use this one) and the Staff and Great Sword pages (that is all I use) So I'm good for now.

    I will never buy stuff like this from the crown store.
    Edited by Casdha on March 22, 2019 6:10AM
    Proud member of the Psijic Order - The first wave - The 0.016%

  • Linaleah
    Linaleah
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Enemoriana wrote: »
    Linaleah wrote: »
    out of 12 boxes I got on a first day - wanna guess how many of them contained motifs? if you say zero - you'd be correct. now, its just rng, you say, there are more days still left. yes. there are. but its STILL indicative of drop rates. and I'm NOT the only one with these types of abysmal drop rates.

    and herein lays a problem. a collector? unless they are either very lucky, or very rich - has little to NO chance to collect all the style pages in a single event, and no, don't even dare starting with "you can collect them next year" anniversary specific motifs had higher drop rates, AND we got more boxes per day we could get to increase out chances. and even with severe ticket limits, there was still enough tickets to allow us to catch up on indriks at leas, and usually you'd get enough tickets per event, plus extras to get both the limited time berry AND a feather.
    Looks like very bad luck. Maybe Sheogorath cursed you for being too serious during jester fectival? Got 2 pages from 3 boxes. 1-2 seems usual. Heard more than once about 3/3.
    I don't think they will cost a lot. And gold is very easy to earn, just do craft dailies with several characters and buy motifs 1-2 days before end of event. You don't have to be "very rich".

    With each event giving berry+feather+extra there will be soon nowhere to spend tickets. For example, after first day I already have morphed indrik, base indrik + 2 feathers + ticket. This event will give 24 tickets more - for pet and one more feather. So I'll end first season with not only morphed, even not morphed+base, but in 5 tickets of morphed and two base indriks. And I missed some days! Maybe somebody will already start one more. Without extra things to spend tickets, I'll end second season with all 5 base indriks... and tickets will just burn. Extra things are good. I'm afraid I'll have to spend tickets on motifs during anniversary event... just not to lose them at all.

    as i said, I'm not the only one with this bad of a luck. it seems like for most people - drop rates are low. low droprates = expensive motifs. even if page sells for, lets lowball it and go with 100k per page - that is STILL a lot of gold.

    you know what I did get a lot of? green treasures. which vendor for 100 gold each without passives, but... come nowhere near the value of a single Cadwell's page.

    and that hypothetical scenario I have described? its not hypothetical. its where i'm at. I had enough tickets saved up from last even to buy the last berry I needed immediately and evolve my indrik. I had enough feathers saved up to have nachent indrik recreated. but.... and I will reiterate AGAIN. you could only save a maximum of 12 tickets towards this event, 10 of which had to go towards last berry if you wanted to get dawnwood indrik. having 18 tickets left to buy motif pages is absolute BEST. CASE. SCENARIO. for a collector who also wants a pet. if you skip a pet - you can buy a whole... 5... pages.


    now me, I think that not letting players earn enough tickets to just buy ALL the pages outright? IS BAD DESIGN. but that's just me. cursed by sheo to have terrible rng whenever rng is involved in this game, which is... in most of it.

    P.S. its 26 tickets unless you skip morning of april 2. event ends at 10am EDT, dailies reset at 2am EDT. still not enough to buy everything. (plus 2 you potentially had left over after buying a berry)
    Edited by Linaleah on March 22, 2019 6:20AM
    dirty worthless casual.
    Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the ***
    Lois McMaster Bujold "A Civil Campaign"
  • Enemoriana
    Enemoriana
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Linaleah wrote: »
    as i said, I'm not the only one with this bad of a luck. it seems like for most people - drop rates are low. low droprates = expensive motifs. even if page sells for, lets lowball it and go with 100k per page - that is STILL a lot of gold.
    Absolutely sure they will be much less then 100k. In the end, of course. Drop rates doesn't look lower than before, and 100k is rare even for chests. At least on PC. Can be worse for consoles because of no TTC.
    Linaleah wrote: »
    you know what I did get a lot of? green treasures. which vendor for 100 gold each without passives, but... come nowhere near the value of a single Cadwell's page.
    Get from what?
    Linaleah wrote: »
    and I will reiterate AGAIN. you could only save a maximum of 12 tickets towards this event, 10 of which had to go towards last berry if you wanted to get dawnwood indrik. having 18 tickets left to buy motif pages is absolute BEST. CASE. SCENARIO. for a collector who also wants a pet. if you skip a pet - you can buy a whole... 5... pages.
    Linaleah wrote: »
    now me, I think that not letting players earn enough tickets to just buy ALL the pages outright? IS BAD DESIGN. but that's just me.
    You don't need to buy all pages with tickets!
    Pages are there to get in the end one or two you missed, not to buy all of them. You exaggerate the problem. Each event somebody speaks about terribly low droprate, and each time it ends with lot of pages in guildstores for at least affordable prices. Not 100k each part. Especially for weapon.
    Linaleah wrote: »
    P.S. its 26 tickets unless you skip morning of april 2. event ends at 10am EDT, dailies reset at 2am EDT. still not enough to buy everything.
    "For example, after first day I already have..."
    That's with first two tickets of this event. 24 more remains.
    PC EU, @Enemoriana. Ru.
    Houses: Erstwhile Sanctuary as actual Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary, Hunter's Glade as werewolf tavern (downstairs), Strident Springs Demesne as adventurer's house.
    Wishlist: character slots, attunable stations (have 62/83 sets collected), minstrel personality, molten war torte and white gold war torte recipes, Willowpond Haven, Kor and Hildegard houseguests, crown crates.
  • Roboplus
    Roboplus
    ✭✭✭
    TempPlayer wrote: »
    This is careful and meticulous planning all lead up to event ticket being sold on crown store.

    Ding ding ding.

    Marketing, promotions, events; these things are typically planned an entire year ahead of time. They knew they were going to do this, exactly the way they're doing it, back when tickets first showed up late last year. Why?

    You just spent 3 months farming events (if you participated in the events from late last year, even more time). Maybe you don't even care about the tickets and were just getting them anyway through regular play. Couldn't horde them in case something shows up that you want down the road, because you can only have 12 at a time. So you spent them on what was there.

    Maybe you missed a few days. Maybe you missed an entire event. But you've got enough and now you just need that last berry. Except no, now there's a pet. Now there's a bunch of motif style pieces. Suddenly you might not have enough. Backlash? Why? Technically, if you did every event and are willing to trade there's no reason you can't get everything.

    So what are you going to do? Forsake all the time you spent getting feathers and berries? Miss the newer thing you might genuinely want?

    Well, ESO+ subber or Crown sale purchasee, fortunately you only need a few more tickets. And fortunately you've got the Crowns for it. Crowns that might now be removed from a bloated pool of premium currency that ESO+ subscribers just sit on. Or selling for Gold.

    Gradually, as these events progress and seasons continue to end with steep ticket requirements, there's less Crowns being sold for Gold, because people are casually throwing a few hundred at tickets. Gradually the price to purchase Crowns with Gold goes up. And finally, the value of ESO+ goes up, because Crowns are worth more.

    But that's just a theory.
  • Linaleah
    Linaleah
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Enemoriana wrote: »
    Linaleah wrote: »
    as i said, I'm not the only one with this bad of a luck. it seems like for most people - drop rates are low. low droprates = expensive motifs. even if page sells for, lets lowball it and go with 100k per page - that is STILL a lot of gold.
    Absolutely sure they will be much less then 100k. In the end, of course. Drop rates doesn't look lower than before, and 100k is rare even for chests. At least on PC. Can be worse for consoles because of no TTC.
    Linaleah wrote: »
    you know what I did get a lot of? green treasures. which vendor for 100 gold each without passives, but... come nowhere near the value of a single Cadwell's page.
    Get from what?
    Linaleah wrote: »
    and I will reiterate AGAIN. you could only save a maximum of 12 tickets towards this event, 10 of which had to go towards last berry if you wanted to get dawnwood indrik. having 18 tickets left to buy motif pages is absolute BEST. CASE. SCENARIO. for a collector who also wants a pet. if you skip a pet - you can buy a whole... 5... pages.
    Linaleah wrote: »
    now me, I think that not letting players earn enough tickets to just buy ALL the pages outright? IS BAD DESIGN. but that's just me.
    You don't need to buy all pages with tickets!
    Pages are there to get in the end one or two you missed, not to buy all of them. You exaggerate the problem. Each event somebody speaks about terribly low droprate, and each time it ends with lot of pages in guildstores for at least affordable prices. Not 100k each part. Especially for weapon.
    Linaleah wrote: »
    P.S. its 26 tickets unless you skip morning of april 2. event ends at 10am EDT, dailies reset at 2am EDT. still not enough to buy everything.
    "For example, after first day I already have..."
    That's with first two tickets of this event. 24 more remains.

    those stupendous boxes or whatever they are called. several of them, out of 4 items, with one always being pies you throw, 2 other items were green treasures. the kind you would normally steal, but laundered.

    12 boxes, zero pages so far, even during other events I have NOT had a single day where i wouldn't get even a single page of a holiday motif if I farmed them long enough, even with my terrible rng. even those holiday writs were easier, becasue you could just keep going from character to character to do new life quests and we got more of those quests per character per day.

    you assume prices are going to be cheap. but this is a first even where we are limited to THREE. TRIES. PER. ACCOUNT. all the other events? you could keep farming those boxes, whether by grinding for drops, or doing quests on multiple characters, we were NOT limited to 3. tries. per day, per account. before. that changes things. quite a bit.

    and these are not just weapons, these are very unique weapons.

    something has to change. whether its drop rates or allowing us a chance to get those motifs out of regular boxes rather then special first of the day boxes only. and the limit of 12 tickets per account, meaning you couldn't even stock up in advance? is NOT helping
    Edited by Linaleah on March 22, 2019 6:54AM
    dirty worthless casual.
    Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the ***
    Lois McMaster Bujold "A Civil Campaign"
  • Enemoriana
    Enemoriana
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Linaleah wrote: »
    those stupendous boxes or whatever they are called. several of them, out of 4 items, with one always being pies you throw, 2 other items were green treasures. the kind you would normally steal, but laundered.
    Did i said something about earning money from them? Of course most items cost nearly nothing. That's normal for all events.
    Linaleah wrote: »
    12 boxes, zero pages so far, even during other events I have NOT had a single day where i wouldn't get even a single page of a holiday motif if I farmed them long enough, even with my terrible rng. even those holiday writs were easier, becasue you could just keep going from character to character to do new life quests and we got more of those quests per character per day.

    you assume prices are going to be cheap. but this is a first even where we are limited to THREE. TRIES. PER. ACCOUNT. all the other events? you could keep farming those boxes, whether by grinding for drops, or doing quests on multiple characters, we were NOT limited to 3. tries. per day, per account. before. that changes things. quite a bit.
    You luck is not average luck for this event. I'm not saying you are the only one, but a lot of people got motif. Must be just a bad day for you. With more than one account - sure you'll get more than enough (or you really are cursed...).
    PC EU, @Enemoriana. Ru.
    Houses: Erstwhile Sanctuary as actual Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary, Hunter's Glade as werewolf tavern (downstairs), Strident Springs Demesne as adventurer's house.
    Wishlist: character slots, attunable stations (have 62/83 sets collected), minstrel personality, molten war torte and white gold war torte recipes, Willowpond Haven, Kor and Hildegard houseguests, crown crates.
  • Linaleah
    Linaleah
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Enemoriana wrote: »
    Linaleah wrote: »
    those stupendous boxes or whatever they are called. several of them, out of 4 items, with one always being pies you throw, 2 other items were green treasures. the kind you would normally steal, but laundered.
    Did i said something about earning money from them? Of course most items cost nearly nothing. That's normal for all events.
    Linaleah wrote: »
    12 boxes, zero pages so far, even during other events I have NOT had a single day where i wouldn't get even a single page of a holiday motif if I farmed them long enough, even with my terrible rng. even those holiday writs were easier, becasue you could just keep going from character to character to do new life quests and we got more of those quests per character per day.

    you assume prices are going to be cheap. but this is a first even where we are limited to THREE. TRIES. PER. ACCOUNT. all the other events? you could keep farming those boxes, whether by grinding for drops, or doing quests on multiple characters, we were NOT limited to 3. tries. per day, per account. before. that changes things. quite a bit.
    You luck is not average luck for this event. I'm not saying you are the only one, but a lot of people got motif. Must be just a bad day for you. With more than one account - sure you'll get more than enough (or you really are cursed...).

    the point was to show that my boxes contained DOUBLE of useless filler that's maybe one step above those one time use dazzlers, cause at least you can vendor treasures for.. something. and despite assurances that they fixed the droprates? 4 of the boxes contained banners. 2 of which came on the same character in 2 boxes in a row. sigh.

    given my experience with rng in this game after years of playing it? I'm not getting anywhere near enough of those motifs to complete the collection, and chances are whatever I might get - is going to be duplicates of the most common and least desirable item so even trading for missing pages is going to suck

    and all of that? because we have, BY DESIGN, so few chances to get those to drop within extremely limited time period, and catch up currency is even more limited.

    there are 2 possibilities. ZoS didn't quite think it through in which case - changing how tickets work, or any number of other suggestions - would fix it. or... they did it deliberately to push people into buying tickets on crown store.
    dirty worthless casual.
    Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the ***
    Lois McMaster Bujold "A Civil Campaign"
  • Kram8ion
    Kram8ion
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well for me it’s like the feathers or event tickets and writs are just too confusing and frustrating and sucks the fun out of eso so I’ve just oh jeeze whatever :/ let’s get back to having fun with other ***
    Aussie lag is real!
  • Enemoriana
    Enemoriana
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Linaleah wrote: »
    the point was to show that my boxes contained DOUBLE of useless filler that's maybe one step above those one time use dazzlers, cause at least you can vendor treasures for.. something. and despite assurances that they fixed the droprates? 4 of the boxes contained banners. 2 of which came on the same character in 2 boxes in a row. sigh.

    given my experience with rng in this game after years of playing it? I'm not getting anywhere near enough of those motifs to complete the collection, and chances are whatever I might get - is going to be duplicates of the most common and least desirable item so even trading for missing pages is going to suck

    and all of that? because we have, BY DESIGN, so few chances to get those to drop within extremely limited time period, and catch up currency is even more limited.

    there are 2 possibilities. ZoS didn't quite think it through in which case - changing how tickets work, or any number of other suggestions - would fix it. or... they did it deliberately to push people into buying tickets on crown store.

    One day is not enough reason to panic. Each event in the beginning looks like "oh no, I won't get that styles/rewards/achievements!".

    And if you are sure you'll have terrible luck during all event, just make some gold. That's why things are tradeabe, yes? So if you didn't get from event yourself, you can buy from other players.
    You'll get some from event. Statistically unbelievable that you'll get nothing. Plus some from tickets - that are most expensive in gold (usually swords and staves are). And some from guildstores. That won't take too much. You don't need to buy all for tickets or all for gold, you can combine all three ways.

    P.S. 3 pages from 6 quests. Second bows. MM shows 35k.
    Edited by Enemoriana on March 22, 2019 8:19AM
    PC EU, @Enemoriana. Ru.
    Houses: Erstwhile Sanctuary as actual Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary, Hunter's Glade as werewolf tavern (downstairs), Strident Springs Demesne as adventurer's house.
    Wishlist: character slots, attunable stations (have 62/83 sets collected), minstrel personality, molten war torte and white gold war torte recipes, Willowpond Haven, Kor and Hildegard houseguests, crown crates.
  • generalmyrick
    generalmyrick
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    1. why were we sort of funnelled into getting this first indrik?

    2. i bet reading these forums at all could tell there was quite a bit of confusion regarding this indrik event ticket stuff.

    ============

    Everything made sense to me until yesterday i see that i have to get the dawnbreak indrik and use the 80 odd tickets i already worked for, then there is tons of stuff to buy with tickets.

    the only indrik i wanted was the glowy one. :-)

    NOW, i have to use this even to earn 10 more tickets and buy another feather so i can be ready for (how long) when the indrik i want to come...and NOW, I ASSUME, there will be stuff to buy with the event tickets instead of just wasting them? idk...
    "The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are a popular cultural meme, a metaphor representing the choice between:

    Knowledge, freedom, uncertainty and the brutal truths of reality (red pill)
    Security, happiness, beauty, and the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill)"

    Insight to Agree to Awesome Ratio = 1:6.04:2.76 as of 1/25/2019

    Compared to people that I've ignored = I am 18% more insightful, 20% less agreeable, and 88% more awesome.
  • MornaBaine
    MornaBaine
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    I used to look forward to the events. I've almost completely lost interest in them at this point.
    PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!

  • reoskit
    reoskit
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Linaleah wrote: »
    I happen to be (yes I'm nuts) doing this event on 3 accounts, and on my main, I'm doing this both EU and US side. out of 12 boxes I got on a first day - wanna guess how many of them contained motifs? if you say zero - you'd be correct.

    That's hella bunk, @Linaleah. I did it on 5 accounts, which got something like 3, 2, 2, and 2 style pages. I derped and forgot to open the boxes on my main account; I was a little delirious by the end of the night.

    Maybe shake your computer like a Magic 8 Ball and try again later?
  • max_only
    max_only
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    People who come in and say things like “I got the two pages I wanted” how does that contribute to anything?
    @Linaleah is absolutely correct
    The only solution is for Cadwell’s pages to remain in the Impresario indefinitely
    #FiteForYourRite Bosmer = Stealth
    #OppositeResourceSiphoningAttacks
    || CP 1000+ || PC/NA || GUILDS: LWH; IA; CH; XA
    ""All gods' creatures (you lot) are equal when covered in A1 sauce"" -- Old Bosmeri Wisdom
  • reoskit
    reoskit
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    max_only wrote: »
    People who come in and say things like “I got the two pages I wanted” how does that contribute to anything?
    @Linaleah is absolutely correct
    The only solution is for Cadwell’s pages to remain in the Impresario indefinitely

    IMO, anything that goes in that vendor should stay there indefinitely. This sense of immediacy is completely manufactured and only meant to pressure people to buy tickets with crowns.
  • starkerealm
    starkerealm
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    reoskit wrote: »
    Linaleah wrote: »
    I happen to be (yes I'm nuts) doing this event on 3 accounts, and on my main, I'm doing this both EU and US side. out of 12 boxes I got on a first day - wanna guess how many of them contained motifs? if you say zero - you'd be correct.

    That's hella bunk, @Linaleah. I did it on 5 accounts, which got something like 3, 2, 2, and 2 style pages. I derped and forgot to open the boxes on my main account; I was a little delirious by the end of the night.

    Maybe shake your computer like a Magic 8 Ball and try again later?

    I've gotten 12 boxes (two accounts, two days) at this point, and received a single style page. I'm not too worried about buying the missing pages with gold, but yeah, that drop rate is pretty brutal.
  • reoskit
    reoskit
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    reoskit wrote: »
    Linaleah wrote: »
    I happen to be (yes I'm nuts) doing this event on 3 accounts, and on my main, I'm doing this both EU and US side. out of 12 boxes I got on a first day - wanna guess how many of them contained motifs? if you say zero - you'd be correct.

    That's hella bunk, @Linaleah. I did it on 5 accounts, which got something like 3, 2, 2, and 2 style pages. I derped and forgot to open the boxes on my main account; I was a little delirious by the end of the night.

    Maybe shake your computer like a Magic 8 Ball and try again later?

    I've gotten 12 boxes (two accounts, two days) at this point, and received a single style page. I'm not too worried about buying the missing pages with gold, but yeah, that drop rate is pretty brutal.

    Yikes! I wonder if it's going to be like master writ/survey drops, where you have good and bad days in swells. Why multiple accounts would align in that pattern, I dunno.
  • Enemoriana
    Enemoriana
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    max_only wrote: »
    People who come in and say things like “I got the two pages I wanted” how does that contribute to anything?

    That's not about "wanted". That's about drop rate.
    It can be that somebody has abnormally good or bad luck. More people comment - more info about how it drops.
    This event average droprate is quite good. That means - even if exact person will still be unlucky, there will be a lot of pages in guildstore with not very high prices. And that means there is no reason to keep style for a long time.

    Keeping style or giving much more tickets is not very good idea. What will be reason to participate in events, if everything is nearly free and stay forever? And that the point of all this thing with tickets - to keep activity more or less on same level, not like two explosions a year.

    Just no reason to panic about unobtainable things. As all other events - is may look a bit scary in the beginning, but most things will be easily achieved, if you do event activity most days. Not so is only, maybe, undaunted event with "crown" items.
    Edited by Enemoriana on March 22, 2019 2:55PM
    PC EU, @Enemoriana. Ru.
    Houses: Erstwhile Sanctuary as actual Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary, Hunter's Glade as werewolf tavern (downstairs), Strident Springs Demesne as adventurer's house.
    Wishlist: character slots, attunable stations (have 62/83 sets collected), minstrel personality, molten war torte and white gold war torte recipes, Willowpond Haven, Kor and Hildegard houseguests, crown crates.
  • Edaphon
    Edaphon
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭
    Linaleah wrote: »
    even if page sells for, lets lowball it and go with 100k per page - that is STILL a lot of gold.
    Even on the first day they were already cheaper than that. Next week you probably won't even have to pay 100k for all 10 pages together.
    You just had some bad luck and are now overreacting.

    Enemoriana wrote: »
    P.S. 3 pages from 6 quests. Second bows. MM shows 35k.

    Same drop rate for me and also 2 bows. :p
  • Myrkgrav
    Myrkgrav
    ✭✭✭✭
    I got two Axe pages out of 6 boxes, as well as the purple chest house item hahaha. That's it for now :P I don't really like the Cadwell stuff (even though I think its cute, just not for me) so I'm not super serious about it, but there's plenty more days to have a chance at getting them-- even then, people will probably want to swap extras they got after the event or even during, it's not impossible.
    Edited by Myrkgrav on March 22, 2019 3:07PM
    Morty | ♂ | @morti_macabre | PC NA | EST
    Member of Knights of the Sanguine, Sheogorath's Mortals & Sword Coast Traders
  • majulook
    majulook
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    By my count this game has TEN (10) forms of currency am I the only one who thinks that this is a bit to many??

    Gold — The main currency, used to pay for most services and trade with players
    Crowns — A currency used in the Crown Store
    Crown Gems — A currency used and awarded in Crown Crates
    Alliance Points — A currency earned for participation in the Alliance War and Battlegrounds
    Tel Var Stones — A currency earned and spent in the Imperial City
    Writ Vouchers — A currency accepted by Mastercraft Mediators, earned for completing Master Writs
    Event Tickets — A currency earned only from in-game events
    Transmutation Crystals — A currency used to transmute the traits of equipment, earned for various activities.
    Undaunted keys — A currency awarded from Undaunted pledges
    Outfit Change Tokens — A currency used at Outfit Stations, usually purchased from the Crown Store (technically maybe not a currency but it sure seems like one to me)
    Si vis pacem, para bellum
  • code65536
    code65536
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Linaleah The most you can get from this event is 24, not 26. I wish it was 26, though, since I'm going to be 2 tickets short on EU.

    @majulook Undaunted keys are not a currency yet.

    TempPlayer wrote: »
    This is careful and meticulous planning all lead up to event ticket being sold on crown store.
    QFT.
    Nightfighters ― PC/NA and PC/EU

    Dungeons and Trials:
    Personal best scores:
    Dungeon trifectas:
    PC/Console Add-Ons: Combat AlertsGroup Buff Panels
    Media: YouTubeTwitch
  • Kiralyn2000
    Kiralyn2000
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've never really understood the people who can't manage a bunch of "currencies" - especially when many of them only come from certain things and are only used for certain things. If you needed 6 types of currency for a particular purchase, I'd understand, but.... meh? /shrug


    (I also wouldn't count some of those things as "currency". Like Outfit Change Tokens. If you're going to count that, why aren't you also counting Respec tokens, name change tokens, etc?)
  • Dashmatt
    Dashmatt
    ✭✭✭✭
    Honestly at this stage the only thing wrong with event tickets is that they are, and have been, capped at 12. We have been forced to spend them on duplicate feathers instead of saving them for something cool.

    Now we have events where there are more items available than obtainable tickets. It is clearly a crown sales tactic and it is slimey as heck.
  • heaven13
    heaven13
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭
    I've done the quests so far each done and gotten 1 page out of 3 boxes each day (so currently at 2/6). Not a great drop rate, for sure. I think part of the problem is that the stupendous boxes are limited by account and is compounded by the fact that there is the possibility to have old, worthless treasures and runeboxes instead of the new stuff only.

    Like, I got a cherry blossom runebox in one of the stupendous boxes which is just...no thanks. Couldn't give them away last year, definitely shouldn't be clogging up the loot pool in the new boxes this year.
    PC/NA
    Mountain God | Leave No Bone Unbroken | Apex Predator | Pure Lunacy | Depths Defier | No Rest for the Wicked | In Defiance of Death
    Defanged the Devourer | Nature's Wrath | Relentless Raider | True Genius | Bane of Thorns | Subterranean Smasher | Ardent Bibliophile

    vAA HM | vHRC HM | vSO HM | vDSA | vMoL HM | vHoF HM | vAS+2 | vCR+2 | vBRP | vSS HM | vKA | vRG
    Meet my characters :
    IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL THE SAME NOW, THANKS ZOS
  • reoskit
    reoskit
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you needed 6 types of currency for a particular purchase, I'd understand, but.... meh? /shrug

    You mean like tickets and feathers and berries all being used for one evolved Indrik? ;P
  • generalmyrick
    generalmyrick
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dashmatt wrote: »
    Honestly at this stage the only thing wrong with event tickets is that they are, and have been, capped at 12. We have been forced to spend them on duplicate feathers instead of saving them for something cool.

    Now we have events where there are more items available than obtainable tickets. It is clearly a crown sales tactic and it is slimey as heck.

    This
    "The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are a popular cultural meme, a metaphor representing the choice between:

    Knowledge, freedom, uncertainty and the brutal truths of reality (red pill)
    Security, happiness, beauty, and the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill)"

    Insight to Agree to Awesome Ratio = 1:6.04:2.76 as of 1/25/2019

    Compared to people that I've ignored = I am 18% more insightful, 20% less agreeable, and 88% more awesome.
Sign In or Register to comment.