Its quaint to think a GM would actually show up in ESO; rumor has it that they actually exist. I've never seen one.

Yeah, some bean-counters probably figured that GMs are just an expense factor not generating any direct profit and just did away with them. You and I know they're an integral part of community building and creating a positive reception, essentially being the everyday 'face' of the company. All the while the suits keep staring at spreadsheets still wondering why numbers are dropping where they were supposed to rise.

So did the Noore re-roll as AD?

Dleatherus wrote: »

dbetterton_ESO wrote: »

So did the Noore re-roll as AD?

always been AD - that was decided back in Nov 2012 when we first formed the guild

D.

My bad...confused you guys with another guild. Carry on...

Nazon_Katts wrote: »

So, any news on this? Or did it vanish in the Palace of Ignorance like so many before?

other than Jessica's response early in the thread i haven't heard a thing back either publicly or privately

to be candid, though i was hoping for something, i was far from expecting it, since that would reflect a company that engaged and responded to its paying clients in an appropriate and timely manner

given that this thread was written because ZOS's responses's have been anything but that, it was a shot in the dark at best

guess it missed its target and time for me to personally stop wasting ammo

D.

ZOS,
Is it that hard to fix obvious bugs/bad mechanics/unbalance issues? I mean, you have them all over the forums. Take note of what players say. Postpone an Update if needed. Fix all the urgent stuff first.
I want to keep loving this game, but my patience can also be perma CCed.

Yep, people seem to forget or don't even know how big they really are. That, however, does come with downsides as well.

An impressive post to be sure. Makes me almost proud there is a banana out there with some scruples. At the very least you have my respect.

To add/expound on your issues:

Communication - I saw a lot of communication a few months ago both on the forums and in game. CSRs even responded in mins in-game on a Friday night.....but that has stopped. Don't know why but a lack of communication has been shown to cause rifts between the players and the devs which usually equals players leaving.

Exploits - I'm all for harsh penalties for exploiters but Zenimax's track record in solving these problems has thus far always led to the exploit being removed at the expense of the players. (which is why it now costs gold to /stuck and why you can only do it twice an hour).

I wish a bit more thought would go into solving problems that both removes the exploit and doesn't hurt the players.

Campaign Balancing - I believe there should be 3, 30 day campaigns. You will then not be allowed to have more than one home per faction. This would allow alts of different factions to each join a home campaign (and then of course one guest).

I also think that while helping the underdog is good, the current low pop/low score bonuses are the wrong way to go. Instead of giving the underdogs free points, they should instead make it more difficult for the top dog to take that factions keeps/resources.


AP Farming/suicide travel - This is an abhorrent practice and why, if I suicide (yes, I have done it...he who is without sin and all that jazz before finger pointing), I do so with discretion however (and rarely).

I was even berated this weekend for attempting to gather together a group to try and take the suicide resource. The idiots would rather allow the enemy to have those resource points (and the AP farming not to mention a leg up on retaking said keep) than suffer some inconvenience. It's very sad and something I disagree with.

Also killing the enemy should not be a single kill every 24 hours. Just halve the AP they get for each successive kill while increasing the reward of the person killed for killing that opponent (maybe +15% more AP per time you were killed with a cap of +65%)

Emperor Farming- As someone who will never be Emperor since I don't have the time to devote 24/7 to it, I am all for gaining the bonus another way, even if it will take a while. Call it a "Battle Scarred Vet" bonus.

Macros - Seeing some of the macros people run to "help" them play is appalling. I'm all for cosmetic macros and maybe allowing the display of damage but draw the line at any macro that gives you a distinct advantage over someone not using it.

I saw some disgusting macroing this weekend.....A DC player had set up a macro inside the door of a resource tower to pour oil continuously when someone entered. I caught on when I ran upstairs and the bot just blindly kept pouring oil without any other movement. I quickly dispatched said bot and they never flinched.

Macro abuse has got to be curbed.

Postern Doors - What can I say but it's BS to run up to a door and have it not work. Something that SHOULD have been fixed months ago. Very sad and exploitative when the enemy knows it wont work, thus creating a gank point.

Death Penalty - Ala DAoC. All for it. And to add to that the death penalties should stack if you are killed again within the recovery period.

Players should also be worth less when killed if recovering.

Death should come at a price to make you not WANT to suicide.

I will say though that if you are rezzed by another player your should come back at full health since this does take real effort and time (and a gem) to accomplish. Really wish Templars had access to an actual rez spell in their skills and a lesser one on the resto staff.


I would also like Vamps and vamp skills to be addressed. Right now you get some MAJOR advantages for being a vampire with very little consequence (and hence why the majority of the PvP pop are vamps). This also means that if you choose not to become a vamp, you are in essence gimping yourself.

Being a vampire should be an "option" for gaining different skills, not necessarily better ones.

Then in short..........

- Bat Swarm is way too powerfull and why every vamp runs it (and why nearly every death I suffer in PvP includes a 1k+ bat swarm on it)

- Dark Cloak is still horribly broken. It seldom wipes negative effects (love being invisible with slow or unstable core on me ) and I often find myself popping out of stealth less than a second after going invis.

- Fix talons. It is still being used to perma CC people. Sucks to die with a full stamina bar just trying to escape.

Makkir wrote: »

They're also looking for a community director
http://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/199?source=Indeed.com

After reading the Job description I am very excited about this.

LonePirate wrote: »

Armitas wrote: »

Makkir wrote: »

They're also looking for a community director
http://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/199?source=Indeed.com

After reading the Job description I am very excited about this.

The most shocking thing about that job description was the mention of a Quality Assurance team. My jaw dropped as I was convinced the ZOS devs did all of their own testing and no formal QA team existed.

My jaw dropped when you assumed there was testing.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Ziz wrote: »

It's a *** joke "passed it along to the Dev team" this *** has been around for a year.

To be clear, this is not the first we're hearing of any of this and many of the points already have fixes or solutions in progress. We just wanted to make sure The Noore know we're passing this post, which they clearly put a lot of time and effort into, along to the individuals who can make the fixes and improvements they're calling out.

I think dear ZOS, you lost the trust of the players. Time for evidences, less promises. And all that is NOT ALL THE ISSUES. Ballance the classes, but fix class bugs first.

hrmm - i may have spoken too soon in terms of no response, but am not at liberty to say anything just yet

stay tuned

D.

In thinking about your post on the campaign imbalance, and the difficulty of fixing this.

Simply condensing the number of campaigns, or making campaign switch costs extremely high does nothing to address what seems to be the core imbalance issue, that there are simply more PvPr's playing for AD than the other factions.

As long as the player base is unbalanced, the non-dominant factions are going to constantly find themselves at the losing end of a campaign. And the dominant faction is going to find itself at the long end of a waiting queue.

So I might suggest that in addition to some of the measures suggested here, or as an alternative, that ZoS offer some kind of temporary alliance switch option. This would be aimed exclusively at the dominant faction, be on a 1st come 1st serve basis, offer a specific number of switchovers to the underdog alliances (based on the numbers ZoS should be generating by constantly montiroring the campaign pops, as they claim to be doing), and only be allowed for vet level characters, so that it can't be as easily exploited to prevent it from working.

However, what I don't know is if there enough people actually willing to make the switch. But without a closer balance on alliance faction numbers, most of these PvP fixes will do little to address campaign domination and swapping.

ZOS_BrianWheeler wrote: »

We will see how the changes from Update 4 go with the removal of the Veteran Campaign, introduction of a...

@ZOS_BrianWheeler‌, looks like you have an unfinished thought there.