Thornblade NA - Currently Unplayable

Monsoon · September 2014

Arito wrote: »

Thorn has crashed at least twice in the past two hours... I wish somebody would say something. Even "oops I spilled water in the server" or "we have a rodent infestation in our server farm" would suffice.

It is hard to find replacement parts for a zx81 nowadays

Ifthir_ESO · September 2014

Sypherpkub17_ESO wrote: »

If their servers can't handle these huge sieges. Maybe they should look into providing us with alternate forms of PvP such as dueling, battlegrounds, 3v3v3 play lists in order to give us options.

Its not the servers, it's the code.

Lava_Croft · September 2014

Still waiting for the advertised massive PvP that is also without game-breaking lag and without constant client crashes.

Cody · September 2014

dang. lag is still bad. guess ill have to wait longer till its fixed.....:(

Makkir · September 2014

I am a little flustered that some of the same individuals who were on an Anti-EG rampage weeks/month ago are now starting to state the same things that I was saying back then about the problem being on ZOS's side and not specifically with EG.
/rolls my eyes at some people

Monsoon · September 2014

Cody wrote: »

dang. lag is still bad. guess ill have to wait longer till its fixed.....:(

You think ZOS is going to fix the lag?

Agrippa_Invisus · September 2014

Another Cyrodiil crash and fantabulous amounts of lag last night.

This is becoming more unfun every day.

Dleatherus · September 2014

@Monsoon‌

thank you for that gif - it was perfect - and i have to say made me laugh out loud in r/l

ty again

D.

Evergnar · September 2014

Thorn (NA) this morning was bad. Population was only 2 bars across the board but I disconnected several times and the lag was fierce. There were some good sized battles going on though. Again, watched some 20-30 players from each faction freeze outside of keep. They had all crashed.

I thought for sure it would be playable in the morning with medium population but nope.

Monsoon · September 2014

GRxKnight · September 2014

I'll ask this again since no one seems to have a response to it...why do ya'll continue to torture yourselves with these crashes, lag, queues and just go elsewhere instead of putting up with it...i think everyone at this point knows the definition of insanity because you all do it to yourselves daily.

Teargrants · September 2014

♪ If your server's crashing and you know it, clap your hands! ♪

Teargrants · September 2014

♪ If your server just crashed again and you know it, clap your hands! ♪

Monsoon · September 2014

$15 a month for this? That has to make the people at Blizzard laugh their arse off

sean.plackerb14_ESO · September 2014

I'm thankful I haven't had a client crash since 1.4.4. However I'm getting tired of the server crashes. Thornblade had another crash tonight while I was playing during a keep battle. Kicked back to the character select screen, and everyone in zone was saying same thing happened to them. ANY kind of communication from ZOS would really help. Even just a simple acknowledgement of the server crashes.

jkirchner71ub17_ESO2 · September 2014

I think there were in fact two rollbacks within a hour along with NUMEROUS crashes. My group of 24 crashed more than a dozen times tonight during sieges and in some cases our group was spread out on the map. And the stupid PATHETIC finger pointing being done in this thread about AD Impulse spamming sorcs causing crashes shows you how ignorant some who participate on these forums truly are. This is an issue only Zenimax can fix or continue to pretend doesn't exist. No matter what alliance you are in this is something we are all suffering with and I think all are getting fed up with.

Columba · September 2014

completely unplayable game. what a joke.

Agrippa_Invisus · September 2014

Friday, 9/26, again utterly unplayable on Thornblade. Numerous instances of no damage being recorded against enemies, of siege bugging the moment you try to put it down, and the game being just fething awful in general.

GRxKnight · September 2014

*sits back and waits for the QQ's to stop*

Skwor · September 2014

Maybe it is time to look at a different direction, perhaps more servers with smaller populations.

Perhaps reduce the population amount cap and make smaller servers. We really do not need 150 people storming a keep, 75 would feel the same for epic scale.

At least until the developers can learn how to do what other game developers have learned?

GRxKnight · September 2014

skwornub18_ESO wrote: »

Maybe it is time to look at a different direction, perhaps more servers with smaller populations.

Perhaps reduce the population amount cap and make smaller servers. We really do not need 150 people storming a keep, 75 would feel the same for epic scale.

At least until the developers can learn how to do what other game developers have learned?

People don't utilize the amount of servers we have now...what makes you think they're going to use it if you add more servers and reduce the pop cap?...people will still sit in queue and blame Zeni for the problem they're having.

All it would take is a few DC and EP guilds to go over to AS and make something out of that campaign. Seriously people use your heads.

demonlkojipub19_ESO · September 2014

GRxKnight wrote: »

skwornub18_ESO wrote: »

Maybe it is time to look at a different direction, perhaps more servers with smaller populations.

Perhaps reduce the population amount cap and make smaller servers. We really do not need 150 people storming a keep, 75 would feel the same for epic scale.

At least until the developers can learn how to do what other game developers have learned?

People don't utilize the amount of servers we have now...what makes you think they're going to use it if you add more servers and reduce the pop cap?...people will still sit in queue and blame Zeni for the problem they're having.

All it would take is a few DC and EP guilds to go over to AS and make something out of that campaign. Seriously people use your heads.

If they reduce the pop cap, people will be forced to utilize other servers or they can go ahead and sit in queues of 150+ instead of the current of around 50. The pop cap at half of current will allow for plenty of people in cyrodil shards and greatly reduce the lag. It needs to be at number where 2 capped alliances can meet at 1 keep and not kill the server, and the current numbers are not that number. 2 capped alliances at the current numbers in one spot with all the effects going on is a graphical mess anyways.

Umeil · September 2014

Dont worry the Que times are getting shorter by the day soon there wont be any Que times at this rate prob 6-8 weeks

Then what will you recommend ?

Best is for Zen to find the problem and fix it VERY VERY soon

demonlkojipub19_ESO · September 2014

We wouldn't have that problem if cyrodil were playable with capped populations. People will leave for all sorts of reasons but they don't need the reason to be because the game was unplayable, because they probably won't come back. There are other things those people will end up playing and they'll be lost.

GRxKnight · September 2014

demonlkojipub19_ESO wrote: »

GRxKnight wrote: »

skwornub18_ESO wrote: »

Maybe it is time to look at a different direction, perhaps more servers with smaller populations.

Perhaps reduce the population amount cap and make smaller servers. We really do not need 150 people storming a keep, 75 would feel the same for epic scale.

At least until the developers can learn how to do what other game developers have learned?

People don't utilize the amount of servers we have now...what makes you think they're going to use it if you add more servers and reduce the pop cap?...people will still sit in queue and blame Zeni for the problem they're having.

All it would take is a few DC and EP guilds to go over to AS and make something out of that campaign. Seriously people use your heads.

If they reduce the pop cap, people will be forced to utilize other servers or they can go ahead and sit in queues of 150+ instead of the current of around 50. The pop cap at half of current will allow for plenty of people in cyrodil shards and greatly reduce the lag. It needs to be at number where 2 capped alliances can meet at 1 keep and not kill the server, and the current numbers are not that number. 2 capped alliances at the current numbers in one spot with all the effects going on is a graphical mess anyways.

Oh I agree that the servers should be able to handle at least 2 popped alliances showing up and fighting each other. But we all know that isn't the case. So why are people just QQ'ing about a known issue that EVERYONE WHO PLAYS/WORKS ON THE GAME KNOWS and PvP on the other 30 day server that Zenimax implemented. Thornblade isn't the only server out there. Why are people treating it like that?

demonlkojipub19_ESO · September 2014

GRxKnight wrote: »

demonlkojipub19_ESO wrote: »

GRxKnight wrote: »

skwornub18_ESO wrote: »

Maybe it is time to look at a different direction, perhaps more servers with smaller populations.

Perhaps reduce the population amount cap and make smaller servers. We really do not need 150 people storming a keep, 75 would feel the same for epic scale.

At least until the developers can learn how to do what other game developers have learned?

People don't utilize the amount of servers we have now...what makes you think they're going to use it if you add more servers and reduce the pop cap?...people will still sit in queue and blame Zeni for the problem they're having.

All it would take is a few DC and EP guilds to go over to AS and make something out of that campaign. Seriously people use your heads.

If they reduce the pop cap, people will be forced to utilize other servers or they can go ahead and sit in queues of 150+ instead of the current of around 50. The pop cap at half of current will allow for plenty of people in cyrodil shards and greatly reduce the lag. It needs to be at number where 2 capped alliances can meet at 1 keep and not kill the server, and the current numbers are not that number. 2 capped alliances at the current numbers in one spot with all the effects going on is a graphical mess anyways.

Oh I agree that the servers should be able to handle at least 2 popped alliances showing up and fighting each other. But we all know that isn't the case. So why are people just QQ'ing about a known issue that EVERYONE WHO PLAYS/WORKS ON THE GAME KNOWS and PvP on the other 30 day server that Zenimax implemented. Thornblade isn't the only server out there. Why are people treating it like that?

Because people aren't going to do that. They have to be forced onto the other servers.

Monsoon · September 2014

I play on thronblade because this is the main 30 days NA. I don t give a fark about the other servers. This is a pride issue...a RvR. In the last week the game has been skewed towards a particular faction BECAUSE of server issue. This means that the winner this month will NOT be the best faction but the one that managed to use the lag to its advantage.

When you are close to capture two keeps that open the door to the scrolls and the server crashes booting you back to your starter point, FCs gone ... you have lost the 2 hours offensive you had built, wasted all that time...got crap AP, and now those keeps are gone and its better to go do something else than play a game that likes to give you a giant middle finger here and then

The lag issues are worst now than they were during the stress test in beta. I swear there were twice as many people in the same place in beta but they werent trying to lag everybody to hell with zerg balls and multiple aoe spams...people were figthing not aoeing spam.

When beta combat was better than 6 months into live you know some people are lucky they still have a job

Icy · September 2014

GRxKnight wrote: »

I just don't see the logic behind not moving to a less populated server if all you're experiencing on thornblade is lag, grief, zerg, impulse spam, crashes, etc. etc....it's like everyone is a masochist or something.

GRxKnight wrote: »

I'll ask this again since no one seems to have a response to it...why do ya'll continue to torture yourselves with these crashes, lag, queues and just go elsewhere instead of putting up with it...i think everyone at this point knows the definition of insanity because you all do it to yourselves daily.

Because the campaign on TB is balanced and fun.

Wabbajack had great fights most of the time because the pops were even.
Chillrend started out well, but then just became depressing as it ended up all one colour or the other.
Thornblade after 1.4 is STILL pretty even, with scores almost tied and keeps evenly distributed.

Yes there are LOTS of crappy crashes (one again earlier today) but at least when we're in there is lots of fun, which is really what I'm in PvP for.

I don't want a buff server; I want good fights.

Ezareth · September 2014

So I haven't PvPed in 3 days due to all of the aforementioned issues. I decide to log into Cyrodiil tonight finally and get a 97 person queue. 10 seconds later my queue pops. Huh? Apparently Thornblade just had a rollback and the guys in line all got pushed through. Good for me.

I charge out to Nikel which is being assaulted, kill someone twice and am immediately whispered that my group is resorting to exploiting by crashing the server when we're losing....except I'm solo and I haven't been in cyrodiil but 5 minutes.

Ahh the joys of PvP, Cyrodiil, and this buggy arse game.

Thornblade Server Cluster:

dcincali · September 2014

Anyone have video of the Aleswell EP/AD Courtyard fight where NO ONE was dying for a good 5 or so min? (This was before the server crashed btw)