Do you think the megaserver and how phasing works was a good idea?
RazielSR
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Many people claims is a complete disaster. Other say its ok. what do you think?
Edited by RazielSR on June 25, 2014 8:17AM Do you think the megaserver and how phasing works was a good idea? 66 votes
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Megaserver ok. Phasing in some cases should be based on lowest phase in group instead of present every player in their own phase model. So, answer is yes and no as phasing and megaserver are apples and oranges.0
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RazielSR✭✭✭✭✭NOetelameren_turjake wrote: »Megaserver ok. Phasing in some cases should be based on lowest phase in group instead of present every player in their own phase model. So, answer is yes and no as phasing and megaserver are apples and oranges.
Megaserver utilizes phasing in order to group players with friends. so...0 -
Rodario✭✭✭✭✭It's both fine, except for some kinks in the phasing system. I'd appreciate people being phased separately by install language, for example.
>inb4 "There's language specific chats"
Yes there are, but they can only work if everyone uses them, which currently almost no one does.
My native language is German, but even if the localization is perfect, I still vastly prefer the original, since it just sounds so much better to me.
So I'm used to installing a game in English and in the case of an MMO picking an English server, so I don't have to see the silly item and location translations in chat.
Item example: Most superior or epic food items have annoying translation mistakes. "Invigorating something" has been translated to "Something der Belebung", which translates back to "Something of invigoration", rather "of vitalization". A correct translation would have been "Kräftigende/-r/-s/ something"
It's little mistakes like these, which most people will not notice because they installed in their native language, along with me being used to only hearing and seeing English if I installed and picked English, that really annoy me when reading the zone chat.
/rant
Other games have utilized megaservers before ESO, but they managed to group/phase/instance people by either install language or chosen language zone.
I hope this changes at some point.
Edited by Rodario on June 25, 2014 8:49AMVictoria Lux - Templar Tank
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Kenthros✭✭NOtried to get my friend into playing this, was going pretty good until the phasing stopped us from playing together when i did a few quests when he was offline. once that was in the way he stopped playing.But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.0 -
isengrimb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭YESYes. It's nice to see things change when you're done doing something, and seeing the hostiles gone or placated, and you never have to fight your way through that area again. I'll take that over group questing any day.
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Cogo✭✭✭✭✭
✭YESHell yeah!
To many reasons to give.
Hollow city in Coldharbour....The whole zone got loads of quests where you can free people (or sometimes get the option not too) and they pop up in the city!
I like inns, Always go there to most cities....just to hang out.
I saved a bunch of nords in Coldharbour. They are now at the city inn and all offers me mead when I come in. They where not there before I saved em.
Phasing....rocks!Oghur Hatemachine, Guild leader of The Nephilim - EU Megaserver
Orc Weapon Specialist and Warchief of the Ebonheart Pact - Trueflame Cyrodiil War Campaign
Guildsite: The Nephilim
"I don't agree with what you are saying, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"
-Voltaire
"My build? Improvise, overcome and adapt!"1 -
NOnope, its horrid, It is a chore to play with a friend sometimes or just help a guildie out with a quest. It wouldnt be so bad if it was a random and sparse event, but about every single time I have tried to go play with a friend one of us is standing around waiting for the other to finish a phase of a quest or some such nonsense.
I find it abysmal, kills community, people act like *** because there are no repercussion like, damn now no one groups with me for dungeons, no one will take me on raids, no one is inviting me to their guild, etc. etc. everyone is lost in the shuffle.
i could go on alllll day discussing the...well...there might be 2 or 3 good design choices in the entire game lolol...pretty sad
I've chalked it up to one of those: you *** off with until somethin else that will be mediocre for a while comes out. It's the trend in today's world. toss out as much sad garbage as we can and scramble for a few bucks for the shareholders then rinse wash repeat. It's radically degrading the quality and innovation in game development these days. This coming from someone who has been gaming on every platform available since 1983 every single day.0 -
steveb16_ESO46✭✭✭✭✭NOisengrimb16_ESO wrote: »Yes. It's nice to see things change when you're done doing something, and seeing the hostiles gone or placated, and you never have to fight your way through that area again. I'll take that over group questing any day.
Well, years ago LOTRO managed the feat of doing both so it's apparently not rocket science.
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Audigy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭The Megaserver is an idea by gaming companies that is very similar to the EU these days. It is easier to control a cluster of people, than loads which are spread. Easier based on the content you supply, the maintenance hours or the support work you do. Its all about logistics and we people are not asked at all.
While I am a very tolerant person in any aspect of life, I do know that others are not and therefore these changes either in the MMO universe or the world wont work.
We already see the issues if someone wants to rush, another wants to slow down and again another monitors the DPS meter. Three different people, but they must find a common goal, yet many refuse to adjust and lower their own standards for the better of the group.
Therefore I am asking you, how should this unity ever work that politicians and gaming companies dream about?
What looks good on paper, sadly doesn't in reality
Edited by Audigy on June 25, 2014 8:40AM1 -
Pele✭✭✭✭✭Other.
The mega server is a great idea. Phasing, however, needs a bit of improvement as it is not group friendly nor can you aid anyone if you've done the quest they need help with.2 -
fromtesonlineb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
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The mega-server structure and the phasing game mechanic deal with two totally unrelated aspects of the game and both have pros and cons, asking one question combining them in meaningless.Many people claims is a complete disaster. Other say its ok. what do you think?
Edited by fromtesonlineb16_ESO on June 25, 2014 8:45AM0 -
MW2K✭✭✭NOMegaserver: yes
Phasing: noLighting braziers and dispelling wards in Tamriel since 19940 -
Razzak✭✭✭✭✭NOAs an idea it's not only good but it's probably something that will become more or less a standard in the future. In one form or another.
But the implementation is appalling. The only thing that really works is their attempt to sell this idea by their constant mentioning of "megaserver" where an ordinar "server" would be just as good. Basically what we have here is a PR attempt to sell something that doesn't work yet as something better.1 -
Ojustaboo✭✭✭✭✭
✭Not enough voting options.
Some things are good, some are bad.
Some work well, some currently don't.
Not sure if I'd prefer the individual server route or not.
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Cogo✭✭✭✭✭
✭YESEU server up!! Took 7 hours, not 10 as the US server. Wanna know why? Cause both "servers" are in the same virtual environment!
Here we go!Oghur Hatemachine, Guild leader of The Nephilim - EU Megaserver
Orc Weapon Specialist and Warchief of the Ebonheart Pact - Trueflame Cyrodiil War Campaign
Guildsite: The Nephilim
"I don't agree with what you are saying, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"
-Voltaire
"My build? Improvise, overcome and adapt!"0 -
wrlifeboil✭✭✭✭✭YESGood idea but not perfected in practice yet. It adds a lot to the single player game. Even WoW doesn't have the same depth. But as we all know, eso phasing doesn't work that well when players who want to group are on different tracks. They'll have to get over that hump that somehow. If they get that problem resolved, every other mmo will be trying to copy the phasing in eso.0
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joshweps✭✭✭YESyes and no.
Yes its a great idea last thing you want is overcrowded areas but no because sometimes it feels like Im the only one online.0 -
Tannakaobi✭✭✭✭✭NOI actually think yes and no...
They could do with three mega servers, PVP/PVE/RP, obviously a PVP one would allow for open world PVP.1 -
Fi'yra✭✭✭YESfromtesonlineb16_ESO wrote: »
I like the way ESO is right now, considering in my terms of view, the game just left Alpha and is in beta > doing well in fact, having huge fixes, improving the game maintenance by maintenance0