Sellable/tradeable surveys

Lydawobbles · August 15

What!!
Thank you!!!

But also, had a question. Are the legacy ones going to be sellable? Or will they stay bound?

If we open them from the “unknown” envelopes will they bind then? Or will we be able to sell individual specific zone surveys?

Thank you!!!

Lydawobbles · August 15

Also, please do treasure maps next 😂❤️

Techwolf_Lupindo · August 15

Where was this comment posted?

Lydawobbles · August 15

In the news post today, it’s not letting me get a good link lol

Lydawobbles · August 15

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/68585

There we go!

XSTRONG · August 15

More tradeable stuff in the game is a good thing. But I would guess selling the mats instead of the surveys will still get you way more gold.

wolfie1.0. · August 15

Lydawobbles wrote: »

What!!
Thank you!!!

But also, had a question. Are the legacy ones going to be sellable? Or will they stay bound?

If we open them from the “unknown” envelopes will they bind then? Or will we be able to sell individual specific zone surveys?

Thank you!!!

We can confirm on monday, but from my understanding its only the new unknown ones that are tradeable. Once you crack them they would be bound.

The legacy ones will still be account bound.

Lydawobbles · August 15

That’s what I’m assuming as well, but thought I’d see if we could get some clarification. Especially on whether they’ll bind when opened.
Craglorn surveys would sell for much more than say Auridon lol

freespirit · August 15

I also see a potential issue.... if they are only tradeable when in their "unknown" state, then you could end up buying surveys for Zones you cannot access.

Hopefully there will be some way of knowing this!!

tomofhyrule · August 15

freespirit wrote: »

I also see a potential issue.... if they are only tradeable when in their "unknown" state, then you could end up buying surveys for Zones you cannot access.

Hopefully there will be some way of knowing this!!

I assume they'll use the same logic they have now.

I don't know if there is a bias toward drops currently that you are either barred from getting zones you don't have or if you can get surveys that you can't access, but I assume the logic of generating the surveys is still there. The only difference is that the survey location is decided when you open the envelope instead of when you open the reward box.

One thing I'd be interested to see though is that zone events have started to drop surveys for that specific zone, so will that continue to drop the bound surveys for that zone, or will they just drop random surveys now, or will they be removed entirely now?

Lydawobbles · August 16

Will one of you lovely pc people let us know how it works out on Monday?

Maitsukas · August 16

Lydawobbles wrote: »

Will one of you lovely pc people let us know how it works out on Monday?

From the PTS:

This is what an unopened one looks like, a simple item that is tradable:

Opening it will generate a random bound survey:

Lydawobbles · August 16

Fabulous!! Thank you very much!

joergino · August 16

While this is nice for new surveys not to take up many inventory slots, this does absolutely nothing for the surveys that already exist. It also does nothing for the horrible survey situation when it comes to actually picking up the resources.

Frayton · August 16

This a great QoL feature. If we can't have a survey vendor where we exchange our surveys for mats, then this is a good compromise. Anything to reduce the inventory pressure and time spent harvesting instead of playing what's enjoyable is most welcome.

Kwik1 · August 16

Seriously, if people don't want to do survey's then destroy your old ones and start selling the new ones. You are getting other rewards for doing your dailies, just consider this an unneeded bonus and ditch it. I do all my survey's once a week and I spend half a day doing them as well as grabbing other resources along the way. I have 18 characters doing all the dailies, and i am usually leveling 2 other characters when not doing these.