What if all your characters could group?

Taleof2Cities · January 2016

Pretty sure this isn't doable by ZOS ... but it is fun to whimsically imagine all my characters fighting in a group, in a public dungeon, or adding 8x lag (for 8 characters) in Azura's.

If your characters (mains, alts, mules) could all group at the same time, what would they all be doing?

Would you like to be able to tab between characters so that you are on your Templar main one sec ... and then tab to your crafting mule who might or might not DPS better than a wet gunny sack? All that time, your other characters are on "auto-pilot" and are using the skills assigned to them on their skill bars.

Would you PvE or PvP?

What about taking your top four characters on a gold key run together? What about all 8 front-dooring Black Boot with a ram and siege support? What about grouping up for an e-mote party at the Daggerfall fountain?

(Yeah, slightly bored here while I wait for my plane at the airport.)

Moonshadow66 · January 2016

I imagine it could be fun to have all my characters online at the same time. If it's on one single screen, that is. The combat could be round-based and you have action points for combat/abilties, like f.e. in Divinity Original Sin.. but, then it'd be a different game and not ESO anymore, somehow^^

MrDerrikk · January 2016

I'd imagine it to be something like the Dragon Age series (specifically Origins) where you set up each char with some basic AI moves, and you can switch between and control each when needed. Of course, you couldn't stop time like you can in Dragon Age but it'd be interesting....

My DK would be constantly attacking without stepping out of the red whilst laughing like a manic, my Sorc would take one hit and die (seriously, since I cannibalized his gear for my DK and respecced him he has 10k health I think), and my NB would be healing everything methodically and sighing at the other two.

Lariana · January 2016

There are people who have multiple accounts to have their characters online together for roleplaying at least.

There was this one guy who had a male (his main) and female (a little alt) nord characters on separate accounts. He used to tell a story about how both of them were siblings who never knew their parents, grew up in a hole as slaves to argonians they never met. They somehow escaped, and the girl eventually became his slave, because that's the only life she knew. Although she did most of his work for him, he also "allowed" her a lot of freedom to explore, and she explored everything. Like a lot of people's rears, while he watched on approvingly.

Alabyn · January 2016

I only play one character. But I'd like my cat to pull more weight.

Peel_Ya_Cap_517 · January 2016

Lariana wrote: »

There are people who have multiple accounts to have their characters online together for roleplaying at least.

There was this one guy who had a male (his main) and female (a little alt) nord characters on separate accounts. He used to tell a story about how both of them were siblings who never knew their parents, grew up in a hole as slaves to argonians they never met. They somehow escaped, and the girl eventually became his slave, because that's the only life she knew. Although she did most of his work for him, he also "allowed" her a lot of freedom to explore, and she explored everything. Like a lot of people's rears, while he watched on approvingly.

That is the saddest *** i've ever heard lmao

Gidorick · January 2016

This is actually a pretty cool idea @Taleof2Cities. I had a concept to be able to hire your alts as companions (http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/146133/hirable-npc-companion-concept/p1) but the ability to switch between them on the fly sounds pretty awesome.

It would totally change the way I play... and would make group dungeons a BLAST to solo!

Glaiceana · January 2016

If all my characters could group, hmmmmm...

Well my main would obviously be leader, I guess I'd be playing that one as usual

Rothelnog would have a friendly rivalry with Dances, always trying to outshine him in battle.
Dances would do what he does best; he is a fun argonian.
J'Xena would be following in Ithaera's steps, trying to learn to be a better warrior.
Both J'Xena and Ithaera would often laugh at Dances' antics. Rothelnog would tolerate him; he is more serious

Another awesome concept from you @Gidorick

I'd love to be able to hire my other characters to come along for PvE adventures

Lenikus · January 2016

I only wish i could do that, but if I were to log all of them, I believe Elony, M'Attie, Seth and Nilus would be grinding in cracked wood cave, while Leni, Rena and Luna would be each ganking people that try to come in trough either door / hole...
.... I imagine the group chat would be a bit kinky, tho'.

... What? Yea, i'm a bit weird but my mom had me tested, i'm normal....ish.

Lightninvash · January 2016

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Pretty sure this isn't doable by ZOS ... but it is fun to whimsically imagine all my characters fighting in a group, in a public dungeon, or adding 8x lag (for 8 characters) in Azura's.

If your characters (mains, alts, mules) could all group at the same time, what would they all be doing?

Would you like to be able to tab between characters so that you are on your Templar main one sec ... and then tab to your crafting mule who might or might not DPS better than a wet gunny sack? All that time, your other characters are on "auto-pilot" and are using the skills assigned to them on their skill bars.

Would you PvE or PvP?

What about taking your top four characters on a gold key run together? What about all 8 front-dooring Black Boot with a ram and siege support? What about grouping up for an e-mote party at the Daggerfall fountain?

(Yeah, slightly bored here while I wait for my plane at the airport.)

so basically having ur other chars be AI and be able to switch between them maybe imput a setting like tank setting healer and dps so they follow those roles until you take them over?

if so that would be cool haha I would have a crap ton of dps(all my chars are dps cept my healer still havnt made a tank yet) and enough heals for them all haha

sirrmattus · January 2016

id take them all into VMA and maybe finally beat it!!

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO · January 2016

Five Nightblades, one Templar, one Dragon Knight, and one Sorcerer. I would have the best ninja seige force/farming group.

ListerJMC · January 2016

Hahaha oh dear I can't see a dungeon going well with my three at all!

My Dominion character Faarawae would probably attack Taybeh instead of the mobs, because he's a disgusting vampire among other things.

My Covenant character Taybeh would defend himself and say something about how unoriginal her "Die, vampire!" ravings were, but he probably wouldn't eat her - not while they had company anyway!

And then my Pact character Ceremo would most likely be sobbing in the corner like:

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Totalitarian · January 2016

I'd have no need to solo everything group for Craglorn.

On another word, how it'd be to have all my characters in one place is exactly how all of my fan fic goes (I have characters for them all

).

Xellos77 · January 2016

They'd be having a swinger's party.

nordsavage · January 2016

Your characters technically do not exist in the same universe. They could not all be the one vestige. Plus we do not need thousands of people running around with half a dozen alts eating up everyone's performance and bandwidth. This is a terrible idea that would cause more lag than a population capped keep in Cyrodiil.

Nestor · January 2016

This thread reminded me of this article I read a few years back where one guy would play 36 accounts on WOW at the same time

http://geekologie.com/2008/10/guy-plays-36-world-of-warcraft.php

munkt0r · January 2016

I'd still need to use group finder lol.

wskill · January 2016

They would kill eachother since its practically two humans of wich one is an assassin guildmaster and the other a jekyl and hide complex having fat brute berserker.. against two genies of wich one is a depressed ancient megalomaniac and the other a literal slave of dark forces that wouldnt in their wildest dreams consider any of each allies.

wskill of the botanist club guild would emediately find animosity with the dark slave agnimukha orma because he absolutely hate everything dark sided (lol reminding myself of that video with the christian woman going mad atm).. hes actually skill-equipped with silver bolts go figure. Haobziba the berserker will rend through literally everyone in front of him regardless of what they are unless they are kind to him initially wich none of the prior would, agnimukha orma would kill everything in her path just because she has no choice so that would start haob's rampage while wskill tries to snipe her wich would then trigger Ipos the ancient genie to see the perfect oppertunity to kill them all together at once, wich he probably will because hes the only one of the three that is focussed on AOE.

Last two standing would be Ipos and Haobziba, both built as tanks. Ipos would win out of sheer abillity, Haobziba is quite onedimensional; tank and raise armor rating for more tank. Ipos on the other hand can lower armor and magic resists with one attack and thus conclude the event.

;l

Merlin13KAGL · January 2016

Inventory Hell x 8.

I'll pass.

Lightninvash · January 2016

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Inventory Hell x 8.

I'll pass.

just imagine how long you could grind for though max out the inventory on all chars turn in and get larger inventory then max it out and grind for days for gear/coin and materials.

vamp_emily · January 2016

If all my characters could group, I would be Empress Emily and classified as a "zerg".

Empress Emily would be the most hated Empress of all times. She would take her zerg of Nightblades and sneak into Cyrodiil to night cap Azura Star causing lag to everyone in the campaign.

Empress Emily would demand guild leaders to come forward and kneel in front of her asking for forgiveness for being such foolish leaders. If they ignore her demand, she would night cap every night making people suffer.

[ winks]
Yes, Empress Emily is evil. Hope ZOS never implements this.

Artjuh90 · January 2016

only leads to account sharing which is illegal

Merlin13KAGL · January 2016

Lightninvash wrote: »

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Inventory Hell x 8.

I'll pass.

just imagine how long you could grind for though max out the inventory on all chars turn in and get larger inventory then max it out and grind for days for gear/coin and materials.

@Lightninvash If they made everything automatically auto-stack to the appropriate character, could be interesting.

Shared XP, never waiting for a group...blaming the character that just really screwed up and got everyone killed....er...wait a minute

Of course, the completionist in me would want four more slots available then, and the coder in me would want the substitute AI to learn how I play the individual characters and do the same when I am commanding an Alt, but those are far too much to wish for anytime soon.

It would certainly make (some) things interesting. (PvP could take on a whole new level if you could strategically position certain characters and leave 'standing orders' of a particular type (attack/defend/heal, etc))

bertenburnyb16_ESO · January 2016

I could finally complete some damn craglorn quests

Discord_Days · January 2016

What if you could fight against yourself in pvp? Who would win?

Artjuh90 · January 2016

Discord_Days wrote: »

What if you could fight against yourself in pvp? Who would win?

you would, can't lose, only way to feel like losing when it ends up in a draw :P

TheValkyn · January 2016

A companion system as seen in Star Wars: The Old Republic would be awesome. Your companions could use your skill bar, attributes and gear bonuses that your actual alts use. That would be a lot of fun.

Lightninvash · January 2016

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Lightninvash wrote: »

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Inventory Hell x 8.

I'll pass.

just imagine how long you could grind for though max out the inventory on all chars turn in and get larger inventory then max it out and grind for days for gear/coin and materials.

@Lightninvash If they made everything automatically auto-stack to the appropriate character, could be interesting.

Shared XP, never waiting for a group...blaming the character that just really screwed up and got everyone killed....er...wait a minute

Of course, the completionist in me would want four more slots available then, and the coder in me would want the substitute AI to learn how I play the individual characters and do the same when I am commanding an Alt, but those are far too much to wish for anytime soon.

It would certainly make (some) things interesting. (PvP could take on a whole new level if you could strategically position certain characters and leave 'standing orders' of a particular type (attack/defend/heal, etc))

@Merlin13KAGL or if you could see what char the gear was on via a note or something and see all bag space in one inventory

ProfessorKittyhawk · January 2016

Nothing but a bunch of DPS and a few with some healing abilities. Sounds like a cluster on my end.

Hechicera · January 2016

I'm sure how one would fare. My poor khajiit mule with no weapons, who lives in town clothes, and what few skill points she has are mostly in crafting. Oh Snap!

No really .. Oh S'Nap ... my mule is S'Nap.