EU PTS is dead?

AshySamurai · October 2014

Hi. Tried a few times to find any party for any dung in different time, but it seems that noone plays on PTS. Is anyone on EU PTS AD? Maybe want to group and can't find anyone too? I'm just curious why I can't see anyone around. It's all empty.

Sasky · October 2014

There is no difference between EU PTS and NA PTS.

Character copies have been made from NA at this time. ZOS has indicated EU character copies are coming later. As such, many EU players may be waiting to test. Your best time, then, is probably NA times. Even then, it seems a lot of people come to PTS as a group already and aren't looking to form pickup groups.

suycyco · October 2014

I didn't went in, but it seems (to be confirmed) that you can't copy your caracter en EU pts like they can do on NA one. So it's demotivating lot's of people.

KhajitFurTrader · October 2014

They did say that they want to make character copies from EU server available as well, but because of limitations (both character sets may be too huge), they can't have both simultaneously on the PTS at the moment.

Komma · October 2014

They said they would be doing EU next update and just switch back and forth from update to update.

AshySamurai · October 2014

Thanks to all for the answers. And now I'm even more curious. If PTS don't have EU and NA differences, so where is all people? I don't think that all go to PTS with groups. IMO it's a little odd (odd that PTS is emty, not going with groups). Anyway, I'm going to try my luck a few more times.

Frenkthevile · October 2014

i had the same impression, SO VOID. it's impossible to test a lfg-tool with so few pple imho.

Elloa · October 2014

I'm playing once in a while, usually with my guild to avoid the problem of finding a group.

Frenkthevile · October 2014

edit-lol cancel button, where are you???

AshySamurai · October 2014

PTS Patch Notes wrote:

Grouping and Grouping Tools
Created an entirely new backend system for the Grouping Tools to help you get into groups much faster.
When searching for Dungeons, Veteran Dungeons, and Dragonstar Arena, the group will only form once a full group is found.
When searching for a medium sized Trial, a group will only form once 8 members of required roles are found. The system will continue to search for more player characters once the group is formed.
Added the location “All” for Activity Types (Dungeon, Veteran Dungeons and Trials). This will allow you to group for any of these activities that you meet the minimum requirements for.
The activities will scale to the group leader.
The grouping tool will place you in a group within five levels or ranks of each other.
Fixed an issue where a group leader’s group UI would get out of sync and visually lose group members after jumping to a member in dungeons.
Fixed many issues where the group leader’s UI was lost or hidden due to loading into dungeons.
Fixed an issue where a group leader who changed the size of the group could not start a new search.
Fixed an issue where disbanding a group while another player character was loading would leave that player character in the group.
Added messaging if the group difficulty changed while you were logged out.
Fixed an issue where your UI would not update if the Dungeon Mode was switched while you were in the middle of loading.
Reopening the LFG window after starting a search will now correctly show the previously selected location in the dropdown.
Fixed an issue that caused a 24-person group to be formed by the Looking for Group tool when a large number of player characters tried to form 4-player groups.
Fixed an issue that caused it to appear as if group members had lost health when switching zones.
Fixed an issue that caused group members to appear offline in the UI when they were still online.
Fixed an issue that would remove group members from the group UI when they transitioned between zones.
Fixed an issue where the UI would not show anyone as the group leader.

I don't know how to test it. I can't find anybody at any time. Maybe it doens't works? I though PTS will be full of freelancers like me. Especially if there is no difference between EU PTS and NA PTS. I don't know. Sure, I will try over and over again, but it's a little frustrating.

kevlarto_ESO · October 2014

Shame really a lot of people like to complain about the bugs in a new update but don't want to test it to help make it better /shrug

Gyudan · October 2014

kevlarto_ESO wrote: »

Shame really a lot of people like to complain about the bugs in a new update but don't want to test it to help make it better /shrug

I think EU is feeling a bit left out. NA gets to play with characters that they built for hours and hours, while we only have templates.
Also, I can't test Twice-Born Star, which was the 1.5 improvement that mattered the most to me.