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here is an idea i have for server downtimes/maintenance

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bubbajones
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My idea is this.

there should be an option in the login screen to peruse your lore discoveries while in the login area waiting for server. It would make the downtime pass by and allow you to discover in depth the lore that the makers of this game have been creating for the past 20 years. I know from personal experience I get a book and hit esc as I don't want to read all the text as there is more things to do and monsters to kill. But, if I have a lot of time and cant kill stuff I could use that time to read the books the gamemakers have written and it would be a cool feature to get to know the story in and out.

It shouldn't be that hard to make and everytime you find a book it gets downloaded to your comp so you can read it later it shouldn't really add that much data to your files as it is only text.

I don't know if anyone else thought about this but I think it would be a great feature and really cool to have something to do in the downtime
  • bubbajones
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    4 views and no comments? doesn't anyone else think this is a good idea?

  • KidKablam
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    Or you could go see what's going on outside. =)
  • Splattzilla
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    A lore section would be very neat. I know that there is a lot of content that I missed in previous Elder Scrolls titles. Personally I just browse the forums and reddit in search of new ideas and learn some new things.
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  • Hyperventilate
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    I'd love to be able to re-read everything I've picked up.
  • bubbajones
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    im going to do an in game feedback

    its one of my biggest pet peeves about MMO games is I cant use it when the servers are offline. Personally I think a game where you could use the client to play single player when servers are down and level your player while your waiting for everyone to get back online would be an absolutely awesome game but I don't believe there will ever be one because then you might not pay for as long :?)

    I think reading the lorebooks would be a great idea

  • Midgardian
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    bubbajones wrote: »
    im going to do an in game feedback

    its one of my biggest pet peeves about MMO games is I cant use it when the servers are offline. Personally I think a game where you could use the client to play single player when servers are down and level your player while your waiting for everyone to get back online would be an absolutely awesome game but I don't believe there will ever be one because then you might not pay for as long :?)

    I think reading the lorebooks would be a great idea

    Yeah, because real books, those things don't exist.
  • Fenbrae
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    If i wanted to read lore, i could look it up on the internet. I don't see a reason why they should implement things that can be found elsewhere.
    Also, i think the "go outside" option is quite interesting.
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  • cheeser123
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    KidKablam wrote: »
    Or you could go see what's going on outside. =)

    Where is the waypoint I use to go "outside"?

  • Hyperventilate
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    Midgardian wrote: »
    bubbajones wrote: »
    im going to do an in game feedback

    its one of my biggest pet peeves about MMO games is I cant use it when the servers are offline. Personally I think a game where you could use the client to play single player when servers are down and level your player while your waiting for everyone to get back online would be an absolutely awesome game but I don't believe there will ever be one because then you might not pay for as long :?)

    I think reading the lorebooks would be a great idea

    Yeah, because real books, those things don't exist.

    It doesn't matter if someone is reading a lorebook from a game, or a real fiction book. They're both books, written by somebody with skill that actually took the time to put them into some form of print.

    Don't shun for reading lore-books. Celebrate that there are actually people reading.

  • Midgardian
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    Hyperventilate wrote: »
    Midgardian wrote: »
    bubbajones wrote: »
    im going to do an in game feedback

    its one of my biggest pet peeves about MMO games is I cant use it when the servers are offline. Personally I think a game where you could use the client to play single player when servers are down and level your player while your waiting for everyone to get back online would be an absolutely awesome game but I don't believe there will ever be one because then you might not pay for as long :?)

    I think reading the lorebooks would be a great idea

    Yeah, because real books, those things don't exist.

    It doesn't matter if someone is reading a lorebook from a game, or a real fiction book. They're both books, written by somebody with skill that actually took the time to put them into some form of print.

    Don't shun for reading lore-books. Celebrate that there are actually people reading.

    There is a huge difference. I teach college level writing and literature. Yes, lorebooks are "books," and it's good someone is reading, but if you are going to make the effort, it's better to read something that's going to expand your understanding of human emotions/ideas in reality. And this is coming from someone who is incredibly anti-canonical in the books I have my students read.
  • gustasonmichaelub17_ESO
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    Why are people hating on the OP's idea here?
    What if you're going on a trip somewhere and you don't have interwebs every second? I agree that it'd be pretty neat to have those lorebooks handy on my laptop for when one of the other several books I have handy are too much to take on in the 5-10mins that I have.

    For those of you saying they're not "real" books. WTF do you call Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series? or Tolkien's Silmarillion?
    Somewhere, a writer dreamed up the ES universe and the lore to go with it.

    You people are paying to be a part of that dreamed-up world-- don't go hating on people who care about that world more than you do.
    "Our race has not been strained for all these ages through that sieve of dangers that we call Natural Selection, to sit down, in the tedium of safety.
    The bourgeois is too much cottoned about for any zest in living; he sits in his parlour out of reach of any danger, often out of reach of any vicissitude but one of health-- and there he yawns."
    -Robert Louis Stevenson
  • KidKablam
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    The reason they're hating on it, @gustasonmichaelub17_ESO is in the time it takes someone to program this whole new offline reader element the books will be available to read on uesp.net or elderscrolls.wikia.com.

    Meanwhile there are bugs to fix, content that people will actually use to create, and other more important things.
  • gustasonmichaelub17_ESO
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    @KidKablam Ah.
    Well I may be reading into it incorrectly, but I didn't see the OP as pushing for this right now.
    I saw this as more of a suggestion for future downtimes. (It's an MMO-- there will be downtimes. lol)
    As things stand: yes, I would much rather them devote every resource to getting players in the game, and fixing the game-breakers that are making people leave.

    But--down the line a ways--I do think this'd be a neat implementation.

    In the interim, there will be the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth when servers are brought down to fix said game-breakers. Can't please em all.
    "Our race has not been strained for all these ages through that sieve of dangers that we call Natural Selection, to sit down, in the tedium of safety.
    The bourgeois is too much cottoned about for any zest in living; he sits in his parlour out of reach of any danger, often out of reach of any vicissitude but one of health-- and there he yawns."
    -Robert Louis Stevenson
  • cheeser123
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    Midgardian wrote: »
    There is a huge difference. I teach college level writing and literature. Yes, lorebooks are "books," and it's good someone is reading, but if you are going to make the effort, it's better to read something that's going to expand your understanding of human emotions/ideas in reality. And this is coming from someone who is incredibly anti-canonical in the books I have my students read.

    The fact that you don't say you're a professor of literature belies the fact that you aren't exactly Harold Bloom. Check that critical reading, bro.

    You really have the wrong set of expectations.

    Reading is mental exercise, whether it's news, fiction, trash, romance novels, or Hawethorne. I'm glad you're "anti-canonical" (is that note-quite-professor talk for hipster?) but you totally misunderstand and misconstrue the benefits of reading if you're going to insist that writing must be "good" in order to be worth reading.
    Edited by cheeser123 on April 9, 2014 2:43AM
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