PTS Cyrodiil Test - Feb 18 @ 2pm EST

ZOS_GinaBruno

Hi everyone!

Next Tuesday, February 18 at 2pm EST/7pm GMT, we are planning to test some changes affecting performance in Cyrodiil and we'd like to invite you to hop in! Gather up your guildies and friends and plan to fight specifically at Castle Roebeck. We're looking for you to group up and zerg (yep, you read that right) while we gather some data on the backend. Some of our Devs also plan to join, so bring your best gear and have fun!

Given this is on the PTS and we'll be flipping some switches around on our end periodically, the experience may not always be smooth and should not be indicative of what to expect on the Live server.

Thanks in advance for your help!

LadyGP

Oh snap!!!!!!!

Love to see these kind of "live tests". Definetly going to have to rally the troops and represent DC (the best faction obviously)!

(logs on to figure out a build).

Tommy_The_Gun

This sounds a bit like a "mad scientist" plan...

Darkivel

Will this be on Blackreach or Vengeance?

Will PCNA players have their actual characters or will we need to make new ones?

How long do you expect this to last, since this is right at the same time as guild trader flip on the live server so many of us will be late?

LadyGP

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

This sounds a bit like a "mad scientist" plan...

Ashes of Creations has been doing something very similar during their Alpha.

This to me reads "We have an idea for some fixes but need more than just some bots to hammer the servers." Sounds like they want to have people on their team monitoring "things" in real time while people play. Also sounds like they want to have some of their people in game to see what it looks like in game vs what the data shows.

This sounds like a very well thoughtout plan IMO. I didn't take this as.. they are just going to flick switches on the fly and maybe something good will happen lol.

I also appreciate them putting more effort into the PTS and testing/working with the community (that constantly complains about feedback given during PTS.... *now is your chance*) before it goes to Prod.

Not sure what isn't to like here.

Soraka

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hi everyone!

Next Tuesday, February 18 at 2pm EST/7pm GMT, we are planning to test some changes affecting performance in Cyrodiil and we'd like to invite you to hop in! Gather up your guildies and friends and plan to fight specifically at Castle Roebeck. We're looking for you to group up and zerg (yep, you read that right) while we gather some data on the backend. Some of our Devs also plan to join, so bring your best gear and have fun!

Given this is on the PTS and we'll be flipping some switches around on our end periodically, the experience may not always be smooth and should not be indicative of what to expect on the Live server.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Dibs on Kevin for EP

ZOS_GinaBruno

Darkivel wrote: »

Will this be on Blackreach or Vengeance?

Will PCNA players have their actual characters or will we need to make new ones?

How long do you expect this to last, since this is right at the same time as guild trader flip on the live server so many of us will be late?

It will be on Blackreach and we will not be doing a fresh character copy (it's currently on EU) so if you normally play on NA, please leverage the PTS templates.

Internally, we have this test earmarked until 4pm EST at the latest but there could be a world where it ends a little earlier.

LadyGP

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Darkivel wrote: »

Will this be on Blackreach or Vengeance?

Will PCNA players have their actual characters or will we need to make new ones?

How long do you expect this to last, since this is right at the same time as guild trader flip on the live server so many of us will be late?

It will be on Blackreach and we will not be doing a fresh character copy (it's currently on EU) so if you normally play on NA, please leverage the PTS templates.

Internally, we have this test earmarked until 4pm EST at the latest but there could be a world where it ends a little earlier.

orrrrr so many of us show up and it's so fun it gets extended?!

JKJK. But seriously... we as a community need to drive as many people as we can to this as possible. Hopefully people read this section of the forums.

TechMaybeHic

Will you share what you are testing and results?

Darkivel

I'll see what I can do to wrangle up an AD group!

React

I'm not sure you'll see the population you're looking for, given that it is during the middle of the day for all of NA on a workday.. better hope the EU crowd turns up for this.

Perhaps scheduling time on a weekend during the day might be better for future tests of this nature?

LadyGP

React wrote: »

I'm not sure you'll see the population you're looking for, given that it is during the middle of the day for all of NA on a workday.. better hope the EU crowd turns up for this.

Perhaps scheduling time on a weekend during the day might be better for future tests of this nature?

7PM EU time so like you said... fingers crossed EU shows up since it's prime time for them. 2PM EST for sure isn't ideal for us in NA but based on what Gina said sounds like they want to be "online" (working) during the test to monitor stuff.

Thats the vibe I'm getting anyways.

Katheriah

Will ZOS be leading lfg groups?

Adamus

scrambles to put in PTO... (denied)

Belegnole

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Hi Gina, If you want unpaid workers to test your game. Your management needs to approve having your staff work during peak play hours. ZOS seams to always schedule things when the least amount of people/players are available.

LadyGP

Katheriah wrote: »

Will ZOS be leading lfg groups?

If I can get off work (shouldn't be an issue) I'll for sure be getting a DC group rolling.

LadyGP

Belegnole wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Hi Gina, If you want unpaid workers to test your game. Your management needs to approve having your staff work during peak play hours. ZOS seams to always schedule things when the least amount of people/players are available.

I think it is more of a... they can't replicate the live experience even if they put in hundreds of bots to simulate it. Bots just don't move/cast the same way we do. This is EU prime time (EU is often left out of stuff or gets hurt by maintenance timings) so this might not be as big of an issue.

I could be 100% wrong on this. Just trying to give ZoS some credit here for their actions recently.

LadyGP

Adamus wrote: »

scrambles to put in PTO... (denied)

I'll send your boss an email telling them you're expect to report for mandatory Cyro testing and this needs to be an approved request.

Adamus

LadyGP wrote: »

Adamus wrote: »

scrambles to put in PTO... (denied)

I'll send your boss an email telling them you're expect to report for mandatory Cyro testing and this needs to be an approved request.

As far as the work calendar is concerned, with Monday being a Fed holiday, this event happens tomorrow.

Belegnole

LadyGP wrote: »

Belegnole wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Hi Gina, If you want unpaid workers to test your game. Your management needs to approve having your staff work during peak play hours. ZOS seams to always schedule things when the least amount of people/players are available.

I think it is more of a... they can't replicate the live experience even if they put in hundreds of bots to simulate it. Bots just don't move/cast the same way we do. This is EU prime time (EU is often left out of stuff or gets hurt by maintenance timings) so this might not be as big of an issue.

I could be 100% wrong on this. Just trying to give ZoS some credit here for their actions recently.

Did you even read what I said? Unpaid workers are you and me, not bots. As to giving them credit...lol. They used the credit up years ago. They have a record for not fixing things or keeping their promises.

Rohamad_Ali

The last time we attempted this was what, 1.6? Fairly certain it fried the test server and everyone was booted. Hope improvements are made.

Dojohoda

Zerging? Did someone say zerging?

LadyGP

Belegnole wrote: »

LadyGP wrote: »

Belegnole wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Hi Gina, If you want unpaid workers to test your game. Your management needs to approve having your staff work during peak play hours. ZOS seams to always schedule things when the least amount of people/players are available.

I think it is more of a... they can't replicate the live experience even if they put in hundreds of bots to simulate it. Bots just don't move/cast the same way we do. This is EU prime time (EU is often left out of stuff or gets hurt by maintenance timings) so this might not be as big of an issue.

I could be 100% wrong on this. Just trying to give ZoS some credit here for their actions recently.

Did you even read what I said? Unpaid workers are you and me, not bots. As to giving them credit...lol. They used the credit up years ago. They have a record for not fixing things or keeping their promises.

Yes I did read what you're saying.

Kevin/Rich/Brian have said many times that no matter how many bots they run internally (prior to pushing to PTS) there just isn't a way for them to replicate the strain put on the server compared to what real life people do while playing - hence the need for this test prior to pushing out to live.

As for being unpaid.... I mean... no one is forcing you to show up. I mean this with the upmost respect - if you don't want to help make eso better no one is forcing you. Personally, as someone who has complained about the performance of cyro for many years - when ZoS asks for us to do something to help them make them game better... I'm going to put in effort.. because I want the game to be succesfull.

If you expect something else then I'm not sure what to say.

olsborg

I actually cant log into PTS because Im not recieving my code to log in.

LadyGP

olsborg wrote: »

I actually cant log into PTS because Im not recieving my code to log in.

I had this happen to me once. I cant remember what one it was exactly but I either had the username spelled wrong or the password spelled wrong and it didn't give me an error. Instead it just went to sending code... but it doesn't actually send a code because you typed the info in wrong.

Check to make sure the username/password is wrong. I know it sounds stupid... but that was my issue.

Katheriah

Belegnole wrote: »

LadyGP wrote: »

Belegnole wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Hi Gina, If you want unpaid workers to test your game. Your management needs to approve having your staff work during peak play hours. ZOS seams to always schedule things when the least amount of people/players are available.

I think it is more of a... they can't replicate the live experience even if they put in hundreds of bots to simulate it. Bots just don't move/cast the same way we do. This is EU prime time (EU is often left out of stuff or gets hurt by maintenance timings) so this might not be as big of an issue.

I could be 100% wrong on this. Just trying to give ZoS some credit here for their actions recently.

Did you even read what I said? Unpaid workers are you and me, not bots. As to giving them credit...lol. They used the credit up years ago. They have a record for not fixing things or keeping their promises.

Maybe they could think of a nice reward for the people that join this test, like a bit of crowns or a special title like 'Helping Hands' or something.

acastanza_ESO

Spawn Volendrung, I dare you :P

LadyGP

acastanza_ESO wrote: »

Spawn Volendrung, I dare you :P

oh my gosh yesssssss hahaha. "BRING THE HAMMER TO ROE" flooding zone chat.

Tommy_The_Gun

acastanza_ESO wrote: »

Spawn Volendrung, I dare you :P

They can probably "flip the switch" to spawn those like u could spawn cheese in Skyrim... XD

LadyGP

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

acastanza_ESO wrote: »

Spawn Volendrung, I dare you :P

They can probably "flip the switch" to spawn those like u could spawn cheese in Skyrim... XD

Imagine they just randomly spawn a hammer. That would be epic. Depends though if they have that live service dynamic implementation though. I don't know if a game this old would have the ability coded into it to do stuff like that.

Just depends.

JonnytheKing

why is this been done on the pts, and what happend too

Katheriah wrote: »

Belegnole wrote: »

LadyGP wrote: »

Belegnole wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Hi Gina, If you want unpaid workers to test your game. Your management needs to approve having your staff work during peak play hours. ZOS seams to always schedule things when the least amount of people/players are available.

I think it is more of a... they can't replicate the live experience even if they put in hundreds of bots to simulate it. Bots just don't move/cast the same way we do. This is EU prime time (EU is often left out of stuff or gets hurt by maintenance timings) so this might not be as big of an issue.

I could be 100% wrong on this. Just trying to give ZoS some credit here for their actions recently.

Did you even read what I said? Unpaid workers are you and me, not bots. As to giving them credit...lol. They used the credit up years ago. They have a record for not fixing things or keeping their promises.

Maybe they could think of a nice reward for the people that join this test, like a bit of crowns or a special title like 'Helping Hands' or something.

that would make to much snese