Adding a space to an existing zone -- Would you freak out?

Dusk_Coven

Suppose ZOS wanted to explore, say, the Great Houses in Vvardenfell with some questlines and really needed a new overland space.
Would you freak out if they had a cart transport you to "somewhere in Vvardenfell", even though the island has already been mapped.

Cadbury

Sure, why not? This could be a viable and cost effective way to revitalize some older areas and make them fresh and relevant to new players. A win-win for ZOS.

LickingHistSap

Why not just add the space TO vvardenfell as well?

Royaji

ZOS will freak out. I can already hear the screams about cutting the content into pieces to sell it to us twice.

Korah_Eaglecry

Is it really that hard to overlay the new content with the old? Its not like they don't have the tech to make changes to your experience that differs from others. Players running around the EP starter zone will see something completely different than what a player that has already completed the island experience.

Ajaxandriel

The zones are representative AND have not been spanned at their maximum.

First, for obvious scale reasons, the explorable open-world is mockup of the "actual" continent.

Among the traditional regions of Tamriel, only Highrock and Valenwood have been mapped, all the other races territories are yet to be completed.

Moreover these zones left unknown places between them.
Or even...inside them!
Many uncharted mountains in Valenwood and Summerset, uncharted hills and coasts in Rivenspire, and so on!

Last but not least, the instances.
Dungeon-type places are already "out" the open-world map while beeing on Tamriel (Scalecaller in winter version of mountains in Stormhaven for instance).
I'd add the homesteads, which can not reasonably be "one" for each player-character of a server in the story, in facts there must be hundreds of Tel Galen out there... (with different names ... wish we could really rename the homes in the list...)

Regarding Morrowind: Red-Mountain, Sheogorad, Blacklight, Necrom and Port-Telvannis regions are yet to be displayed...

jaekobcaed

I'd be ok with this only after the rest of the game world has been filled up. Otherwise, I don't see a point, since they can continue making DLCs and chapters to fill in the world until it's all mapped out. I envision an ESO where every part of the world -- even uninhabitable areas like parts of Black Marsh and the Alik'r Desert -- are fully in the game world. It's amazing enough that we get to explore nearly all of Tamriel, but man, how awesome would it be to literally have every inch of Tamriel be explorable?

LMar

There's so much empty space in the zones anyway so they can fill that up !

AerunSun

Nirn is a lot more then Tamriel. Therefore can we go places other then what we look at now at the map. Why not explore Yokuda, Atmora or Pyandone. Or take it even further, travel in time to join Ysgramor and relive the night of tears.

F.I. a lot of Skyrim dlc' took you to whole new area's by means of caves, hidden door, boat, etc. F.i. Shire, Wyrntooth, Bruma, etc.

Where or when you go is a a matter of using fantasy to rewrite Lore.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Given that the Vvardenfell map already has a chunk of it shown on the map but completely inaccessible... and there is no mention of Silver Run (encountered here) or where it used to be when we visit same...Vvardenfell may have been a bad example for what you're asking; there's already a large piece of it they could use for exactly for what you're describing.

As they already add new content to existing zones (several of the dungeon entrances were added in this manner) I doubt ZOS would change their model now.

Sylianwe

Sure! Because why not? It's always exciting when changes happen to certain zones; I tend to see it as pocket realms seeping through.

idk

Zos has already made changes to existing zones with the addition of housing. In some cases they had to make changes to the map. So also some DLC dungeons with one base game zones. That requires changes to an existing zone.

So it already happens.

Nestor

They do this already. There are a few caves and delves added to the original 15 zones. Auridon has one in the center part of the zone. One in Deeshan almost in the Mournold city limits. There are others.

All it takes is to add a door or cave opening which does not change the overworld all that much. There are even caves and delve doors that dont open, those could be used.

Juzz

Nay, would like the world to evaluate with the time/chapter progress - that’s the right way to do imho

Iccotak

I mean there is a whole other section of Morrowind that could be a whole Chapter zone or pieced out in DLC zones.

Turelus

I wouldn't care.

There will always be minor conflicts or inconsistencies in maps with ESO, but as long as they try their base to make it flow I don't see an issue with it.