Update Your Addons!

SteveCampsOut

Apparently my battle with the loading screen boss for the past two days was because the latest patch disagreed with one or two of my Addons from ESOHead. Hopefully ESOHead and it's Addon creators are aware of this and have updated the addons accordingly. For now I'm addon free and happily playing again!

HandofBane

It has been brought up in their threads over at esoui, though I haven't seen any kind of official response last I checked. I had to disable ESOHead and the MapMarkers addons to even be able to log in, as something was causing the whole game connection to time out for me. I switched over to SkyShards/LoreBooks, which fill most of my needs, though I do miss having the gathering map icons as I find resources around the world. Hopefully something gets fixed, soon.

Krym

tbh the addon-system works as "well" as the rest of the game.

when an addon can crash your client, you know you fcked up.

Johnclabob14_ESO

Krym wrote: »

tbh the addon-system works as "well" as the rest of the game.

when an addon can crash your client, you know you fcked up.

Im not saying that the game is bug free...but you do realize that plenty of add-on-using MMO's have the same issue right? In that some addons (if handled incorrectly by the creator) can crash your game client...just sayin.

Dolenz

I run without add-ons and had a couple long loads today so it is not necessarily add-ons causing the issue.

That said I'll play it safe and continue to run without any.

SteveCampsOut

Well I went and checked ESOHead and they indeed updated it on the 17th and it works fine now. I dropped XrysGatherer though since ESOHeadMarkers was updated to do what Gatherer was doing...a couple other addons had updates as well.

StratonAce

Thank you for the suggestion. Updating seems to have fixed my load screen issues so far.

Anoteros

Skyrim this isn't.
Failure on devs it is.

Tavore1138

Why on earth should the devs support addons that remove the need to actually play the game by exploring? In fact why would anyone use addons that remove the need to explore the game - is getting a 5 point achievement so urgent that you'd take away the fun of simply finding this stuff yourself and maybe looking it up if you really couldn't find it?

HandofBane

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

Why on earth should the devs support addons that remove the need to actually play the game by exploring? In fact why would anyone use addons that remove the need to explore the game - is getting a 5 point achievement so urgent that you'd take away the fun of simply finding this stuff yourself and maybe looking it up if you really couldn't find it?

Because I am currently playing on a toaster. I regularly have issues with parts of the world not loading properly, NPCs not appearing on my screen til I have been knocked down to half dead, and things like skyshards not being visible, because that shiny pillar of light doesn't always work properly.

I am in the process of getting a new PC, but until it's here, I will make use of whatever means are allowed by the game, including addons, to make my experience more tolerable without gimping myself because I didn't find something like skyshards to round out my skillpoints for when I dive headfirst into PvP.

SteveCampsOut

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

Why on earth should the devs support addons that remove the need to actually play the game by exploring? In fact why would anyone use addons that remove the need to explore the game - is getting a 5 point achievement so urgent that you'd take away the fun of simply finding this stuff yourself and maybe looking it up if you really couldn't find it?

Regardless of your dim view on addons, I like having an addon that marks my maps showing me where I've found things because I DO Explore everywhere and why shouldn't my map show me where I've found useful items like crafting nodes? Any explorer would mark his paper map with such items!

Muffinatur

Right now I'm repairing my client, but if that doesn't work, I'll try disabling some Add-ons.

Tavore1138

Fair points

Anoteros

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

Why on earth should the devs support addons that remove the need to actually play the game by exploring? In fact why would anyone use addons that remove the need to explore the game - is getting a 5 point achievement so urgent that you'd take away the fun of simply finding this stuff yourself and maybe looking it up if you really couldn't find it?

Because as a MMORPG ESO leaves much to be desired functionality wise.

Daggers

Add-ons should only be culpable to the API - if Zeni have changed the API, they should broadcast this fact to everyone. To not do so would only result in an increase in support queries, which would be counter-productive, and of course extremely dumb.

SteveCampsOut

Daggers wrote: »

Add-ons should only be culpable to the API - if Zeni have changed the API, they should broadcast this fact to everyone. To not do so would only result in an increase in support queries, which would be counter-productive, and of course extremely dumb.

I haven't read the patch notes but I know the two addon's that I use that were causing the long loading times load and save map data so this was causing the long load screens and time outs for me because of these two apps. ESOHead and ESOHeadMarkers.

BmcD73

ESOHead was adding long timeouts every time I zoned, logged in, or reloaded ui. Just deleted it and everything is back to normal. The save file was over 10MB in size while all the others are a few K.

SteveCampsOut

I updated it to the latest version and my issues went away.