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UPrime✭✭✭✭Holycannoli wrote: »Holycannoli wrote: »Why does it take over 3 hours from the time the server goes down to get patch notes? There are other games that post them before the patch you know. You should look in to how they do it.
After the patch, they verify some of the fixes and pull them from patch notes if it's still not quite as they hoped. This minimizes post patch changes to notes.
I could sort of understand that if I experienced it in any other MMO but so far this is the only one. Games like Star Trek Online post the notes hours before a patch, even the day before.
I don't understand how their process lets them do that but I do appreciate it. I wish ESO would do similar. I don't want today's patch notes last night but I would like them shortly after the server goes down. I think we all would.
They're patching process is a bit different. STO and Cryptic in general will put all their updates to Test Server first and let them sit there for a few days to sometimes weeks before publishing to Live. So by than the patch notes get vetted. But as they're pushing out the test server build they don't always have the patch notes ready until after.
So, ESO did that, you would get fixes days later then you do now. I prefer the much quicker pushes.2 -
linoge63✭✭✭Attorneyatlawl wrote: »ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »We're currently looking at a few more hours of downtime for today's maintenance. In the meantime, here's a fun new note to whet your appetite:- If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
- Note: While this buff will be visible in areas outside of Cyrodiil, it will only be active while in Cyrodiil.
Incoming complaints about "being forced to pve" inside of Cyrodiil, even though you already have to kill off NPC's to take keeps in the first place and the actual PVP is with players in those areas, just as it will be in delves when people go to get their AP buffs
. This is actually a clever mechanism to encourage people to go into them more, and naturally spread people out a little more to help the server load as a result since it's unlikely in a group of 50 people that everyone's buff is due to expire at the exact same time 
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What's next to surprise me in a good way by the ESO team? The user interface is going to be fixed? Like this: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/160517/blast-from-the-past-tuesday-eso-2-0-is-good-lets-make-it-better ?!
Potent post.
I also clicked on the link ....Im new here and am i correct that this game did have combat log and it was removed?? If so, ....like why????
Did the game also have in the item sold notification, what the item actually was ?
Were material nodes always PVP-- competitive ---item cooldown not player cooldown?
Do you think this game is moving to PVP focused?
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✭✭✭✭✭Nivzruo_ESO wrote: »ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »We're currently looking at a few more hours of downtime for today's maintenance. In the meantime, here's a fun new note to whet your appetite:- If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
- Note: While this buff will be visible in areas outside of Cyrodiil, it will only be active while in Cyrodiil.
To my future AD & EP victims, you didn't have to go into this delve, you are here because you are greedy and your greed has now left you in a puddle of blood.
If you want to wait in a Delve in my home territory for 40 minutes for me to come by and gank me, by all means go for it. Of course next time I will be back with 2-3 stealthed friends, and you will die when you appear. Enjoy your 10 minute horse ride back.
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farrier_ESO✭✭✭Holycannoli wrote: »Why does it take over 3 hours from the time the server goes down to get patch notes? There are other games that post them before the patch you know. You should look in to how they do it.
At a guess: if they have to roll back because the patch fails, they don't get all our hopes up.
Plus, then we have something to read while we download, which reduces posts grumbling about download time.
Plus, reading the notes might stop us all logging in at once.
Yet another indie games programmer.
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✭✭ArconSeptim wrote: »ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »We're currently looking at a few more hours of downtime for today's maintenance. In the meantime, here's a fun new note to whet your appetite:- If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
- Note: While this buff will be visible in areas outside of Cyrodiil, it will only be active while in Cyrodiil.
I knew it!! Cyrodiil delves becoming gank fests!
Thats the thing. For 20% this idea of a gank is off. I'm telling you; it will be zergs. A gank squad in there is going to be like a hair clog in a pipe and the zerg will come pouring through like Drano. And they will be in and out of there just as fast.
No they won't. The mob will die so fast the majority of the Zerg won't get the buff. They won't be "in and out" if they Zerg in.Edited by Dominoid on March 30, 2015 4:06PM0 - If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
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Perphection✭✭✭✭ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »We're currently looking at a few more hours of downtime for today's maintenance. In the meantime, here's a fun new note to whet your appetite:- If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
- Note: While this buff will be visible in areas outside of Cyrodiil, it will only be active while in Cyrodiil.
ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »They are actually encouraging the population to spread out and start a new PVP meta of smaller skirmishes. There will be a somewhat sizable part of the population that will simply camp dungeon entrances or boss locations inside delves now. This is actually "stupid" enough to have a rather large effect.
In addition, some of our community have long requested better incentives to do the delves in Cyrodiil, and increase the skirmishes in them. The general feeling was that the Cyrodiil delves were not worth the potential risk. This change is in response to that feedback, too.
In all seriousness do you think you will ever be able to improve Cyrodiil performance? Or are you confined by technical limitations that could only be overcome with an engine overhaul?
You guys are making lots of changes as of late to spread players out to help combat the lag, is this being done as a last resort, because you have no other ideas how to improve performance?1 - If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
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MAOofDC✭✭✭✭heroofnoneb14_ESO wrote: »I have a good question, Why do you pick 8 AM Eastern to take the NA server down but you take the EU server down at like 3 AM? Couldn't you have the maintenance team come in early on Monday morning get it done when the server population is at one of it's lowest levels and doesn't impact people's play time. I know a lot of people who work during the weekend and have Mondays off and they get shafted almost every week because they can't play for many hours.
Working in IT I get asked to do late nights and week nd work. Most times though, unless it's a physical move of a server or something that requires a PC restart, is the overtime spent isn't worth it.
- Applying it after hours means you have a smaller staff, meaning less staff to help with an issue that occurs (yes, they WILL occur )
- The longer the time from the patch to your moderate traffic means the more time you need to rollback if there is a significant issue. Having few people on means fewer to test, observe, and report.
- If something breaks after the patch and it's late, the person that needs to fix it could be out. Similar to above, but even after applying the patch you still need support folks to help ya.
- Time and a half or extra pay cuts into budgets, reducing the money you have to develop with.
I understand all of that BUT, they do this for the European server. So why is there money and staff to do this in Europe but not in North America? I just saying fair should be fair I want some German freaking out because they can't log into there game while drinking their morning coffee.Guild Master of the Guild <The Wrath of Sheogorath>. CHEESE AND CABBAGE FOR EVERYONE!!!0 -
Awe✭✭✭So, they officaiily announce, that can't code lag reduction and now we must change our play style, instead of reducing lag on mass pvp, they want to eliminate mass pvp... I wonder, do they even remember, that going to cyro delve, you lose area communication with ally?1 -
Cthalion✭✭✭So, they officaiily announce, that can't code lag reduction and now we must change our play style, instead of reducing lag on mass pvp, they want to eliminate mass pvp... I wonder, do they even remember, that going to cyro delve, you lose area communication with ally?
Along those lines, I've been stuck in those cyrodiil delves because the server was full. This might get messy as more people do the delves, then get stuck in there.
Kosmoko.
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✭My question is have the delves been fixed so that if you are in a delve and your faction gets population locked, are you still locked in the delve until the que is gone?1 -
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✭ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »We're currently looking at a few more hours of downtime for today's maintenance. In the meantime, here's a fun new note to whet your appetite:- If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
- Note: While this buff will be visible in areas outside of Cyrodiil, it will only be active while in Cyrodiil.
I will be forced to do PvE in place where I go that I don't have to PvE!!!
Some men just want to watch the world burn... I just want a cold beer!1 - If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
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linoge63✭✭✭So, they officaiily announce, that can't code lag reduction and now we must change our play style, instead of reducing lag on mass pvp, they want to eliminate mass pvp... I wonder, do they even remember, that going to cyro delve, you lose area communication with ally?
Why not remove PVP entirely....make it its own server. Is it that the true numbers of PVP isnt enough to financially support a PVP focused game's existance and that PVP is truly codependent on PVE player power?Edited by linoge63 on March 30, 2015 4:13PM2 -
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✭✭HeWhoCaresNot wrote: »INB4 AD and DC try to joint kill a delve boss and kill each other with spam aoe.
People will just go into a delve that is firmly in their territory. And they probably will have big numbers available so if they spot anyone else trying to go there, it will just be a farm like in enemy resource towers. no one there, they move on with a 20% AP boost.
I see very little PvP in this other than some very one sided wipes.
I think this is true when people enter Cyrodiil, but once out in the field it is way more convenient to run to a nearby delve than to get to a keep to port back to your safe zone then run to the delve to get the buff, then run back to the safe zone keep to port to a keep near the action just to run to that action.1 -
Terminus1✭✭✭In case anyone is interested, the definition of PvP is "You get access to exclusive content and the cost is that you get greifed by other players."
This is moronic at best. You should never EVER give exclusive content to ANY group. Someone in design needs to discover real gaming conventions...1 -
deleted221205-002626✭✭✭✭✭ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »We're currently looking at a few more hours of downtime for today's maintenance. In the meantime, here's a fun new note to whet your appetite:
- If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
- Note: While this buff will be visible in areas outside of Cyrodiil, it will only be active while in Cyrodiil.
OMG! the Q's are gonna be insane!!! turning cyrodiil into PVE land!!!Edited by deleted221205-002626 on March 30, 2015 4:16PM0 - If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
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They just don't know what the patch is bringing to the game.Holycannoli wrote: »Why does it take over 3 hours from the time the server goes down to get patch notes? There are other games that post them before the patch you know. You should look in to how they do it.
After the patch, they verify some of the fixes and pull them from patch notes if it's still not quite as they hoped. This minimizes post patch changes to notes.
30mins to patch and +2-3h to realize what have they done.
I am sick and tired of the several hours it takes to implement their patches. People want to play the game not sit around for hours waiting.
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ZOS_GinaBrunoCommunity ManagerArconSeptim wrote: »ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »We're currently looking at a few more hours of downtime for today's maintenance. In the meantime, here's a fun new note to whet your appetite:- If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
- Note: While this buff will be visible in areas outside of Cyrodiil, it will only be active while in Cyrodiil.
I knew it!! Cyrodiil delves becoming gank fests!
Thats the thing. For 20% this idea of a gank is off. I'm telling you; it will be zergs. A gank squad in there is going to be like a hair clog in a pipe and the zerg will come pouring through like Drano. And they will be in and out of there just as fast.
Don't forget that if it works an people spread out, it might be possible to increase pop locks again.
@ZOS_GinaBruno does everybody in the party get the buff or only the player with the killing blow?
Anyone that contributes to killing the boss will receive the buff.Gina Bruno
Principal Creator Engagement Manager
Dev Tracker | Service Alerts | ESO Twitter | My Twitter2 - If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
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TraumaHawk✭✭ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »They are actually encouraging the population to spread out and start a new PVP meta of smaller skirmishes. There will be a somewhat sizable part of the population that will simply camp dungeon entrances or boss locations inside delves now. This is actually "stupid" enough to have a rather large effect.
In addition, some of our community have long requested better incentives to do the delves in Cyrodiil, and increase the skirmishes in them. The general feeling was that the Cyrodiil delves were not worth the potential risk. This change is in response to that feedback, too.
I'm lost what do you mean delves where not worth the potential risk? I'm somewhat new but wondered I never see any pvp in delves is there or is it changing to soon be gankewrs in the delves?
also what are pop locksEdited by TraumaHawk on March 30, 2015 4:26PM0 -
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They just don't know what the patch is bringing to the game.Holycannoli wrote: »Why does it take over 3 hours from the time the server goes down to get patch notes? There are other games that post them before the patch you know. You should look in to how they do it.
After the patch, they verify some of the fixes and pull them from patch notes if it's still not quite as they hoped. This minimizes post patch changes to notes.
30mins to patch and +2-3h to realize what have they done.
I am sick and tired of the several hours it takes to implement their patches. People want to play the game not sit around for hours waiting.
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Kosmoko.
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deleted221205-002626✭✭✭✭✭TraumaHawk wrote: »ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »They are actually encouraging the population to spread out and start a new PVP meta of smaller skirmishes. There will be a somewhat sizable part of the population that will simply camp dungeon entrances or boss locations inside delves now. This is actually "stupid" enough to have a rather large effect.
In addition, some of our community have long requested better incentives to do the delves in Cyrodiil, and increase the skirmishes in them. The general feeling was that the Cyrodiil delves were not worth the potential risk. This change is in response to that feedback, too.
I'm lost what do you mean delves where not worth the potential risk? I'm somewhat new but wondered I never see any pvp in delves is there or is it changing to soon be gankewrs in the delves?
also what are pop locks
it means theyre giving you a reason to go in them AND a reason for the gankers to be going in there looking for you
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McDoogs✭✭✭✭Does anyone else wait for patch notes with a sense of dread?
What part of the game that I enjoy are they going to ruin this week?
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✭The delves used to be one of the last places to grind xp solo, guess it had to go.
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linoge63✭✭✭michaelpatterson wrote: »ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »We're currently looking at a few more hours of downtime for today's maintenance. In the meantime, here's a fun new note to whet your appetite:
- If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
- Note: While this buff will be visible in areas outside of Cyrodiil, it will only be active while in Cyrodiil.
OMG! the Q's are gonna be insane!!! turning cyrodiil into PVE land!!!
...the fans are standing on their feet chanting..........PVE ....PVE0 - If you contribute to killing a boss in a Cyrodiil delve, you will now be granted a 60-minute AP buff which increases your AP gains by 20%.
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TraumaHawk✭✭michaelpatterson wrote: »TraumaHawk wrote: »ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »They are actually encouraging the population to spread out and start a new PVP meta of smaller skirmishes. There will be a somewhat sizable part of the population that will simply camp dungeon entrances or boss locations inside delves now. This is actually "stupid" enough to have a rather large effect.
In addition, some of our community have long requested better incentives to do the delves in Cyrodiil, and increase the skirmishes in them. The general feeling was that the Cyrodiil delves were not worth the potential risk. This change is in response to that feedback, too.
I'm lost what do you mean delves where not worth the potential risk? I'm somewhat new but wondered I never see any pvp in delves is there or is it changing to soon be gankewrs in the delves?
also what are pop locks
it means theyre giving you a reason to go in them AND a reason for the gankers to be going in there looking for you
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✭✭✭TraumaHawk wrote: »ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »They are actually encouraging the population to spread out and start a new PVP meta of smaller skirmishes. There will be a somewhat sizable part of the population that will simply camp dungeon entrances or boss locations inside delves now. This is actually "stupid" enough to have a rather large effect.
In addition, some of our community have long requested better incentives to do the delves in Cyrodiil, and increase the skirmishes in them. The general feeling was that the Cyrodiil delves were not worth the potential risk. This change is in response to that feedback, too.
I'm lost what do you mean delves where not worth the potential risk? I'm somewhat new but wondered I never see any pvp in delves is there or is it changing to soon be gankewrs in the delves?
also what are pop locks
You have missed out on some of the most fun encounters in Cyrodiil."If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." -- the 14th Dalai Lama
Wisdom is doing Now that which benefits you later.
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McDoogs✭✭✭✭Wait, why would PvE'rs come to cyrodiil to pve for a few minutes to get a 20% AP bonus?2
