"#1: the entire crafting thing confuses me.... In Skyrim, I made a billion daggers and leveled up quickly ;-) it seems that leveling up blacksmithing/ making wepons and armor in this game will be painstakingly slow. Finding materials in nature is so hard... stealing them and deconstructing them only works one time..."

A: My experience is different. I normally am ahead of my characters level. I deconstruct everything that is not ornament (sells for more to the npc). And I do the daily writs. Specially when you get the survey, you can get tons of mats to bridge any gap (or keep it for tomorrow's writ). I stop doing writs once I reached level 5-10-15 etc before reaching the area where those mats drop.

"#2 What exactly do I have to do to get to Cyrodill? I made it to level 10... It seems I have to join a group of people online to get access... is this true? If so, what's the easiest way?"

A: Some what. The main game works on a megaserver system. That means that more copies of maps (shards) are created if needed. For PvP this would mean somewhat outbalanced system and people loosing and gaining progress cause of this. So you need to choose a campaign. That is basically deciding what copy of the map you are on. for easy reference and for making sure you end up on the same as your friends, they are named. I do recommend joining a levelling campaign, cause the veteran rank players are not allowed in there (so you have a fighting chance).

"#3 What is the deal with joining other folks in this game? People are asking me to join them constantly... So I accept their offer and we pal around together - and i need the headset/mic to do this right? ( i know... first mmo)"

A: There has been some issues with the grouping system on the console. You don't need a headset/mic to group up, but it is convinient, cause you might want to talk with eachother (for example, what to do as a group).

"#4 How would you suggest joining other groups of people? There are guilds... there are "join me" and lets kill things together... etc... there are groups of people who seem to be together and like doing weird emotes in large groups naked or in weird costumes..."

A: tro start with the large groups naked and doing emotes. There is a thing called role playing. That is a separate breed of people in mmorpg's. They go to a further level to pretend it is all real. This includes the way they communicate and how they act to eachother. So they actually go to a waterfall, undress and shower, cause that is what you would do if it was real. And other roleplayers might complain bout your smell if you don't. It is something that is your thing or isn't your thing. I would suggest looking out for the update notes for the console. the grouping is bugged and I'm hopefull they are making some changes/fixes to it.


"#5 Marriage... can you only marry another real player?"

A: I did hear bout someone who married a horse....it wasn't a succesfull marriage. But ye. The purpose of marriage in ESO is to gain xp when playing with your partner. So only real players. besides...otherwise everyone would be after "Crafty Larisse"!

Awesome feedback! Thanks all... and I had no idea that the naked people doing emotes were actually building real skills ;-)
An emote group... wow!