Feature Suggestions For an ESO Companion Mobile App?

malicc211b14_ESO · June 2016

Also sell items to guild traders/ or make an auction house for all players to sell to each other, the mobile app can have this feature, do to on the go selling and buying

DaveMoeDee · June 2016

Timers. I don't expect to be able to initiate research, train in horseriding, or get attachments from emails, but it would be able to see what is ready. Timers would be great.

I am not a fan of allowing people to do things in an app that require characters being in specific locations. You should still have to interact with the location for crafting or horse training. But checking mail for a particular character would be pretty sweet. On the other hand, I can see why they might want you to actually log in to the character.

Listing the PvP populations per campaign would be, as would being able to see which guild members and friends are online. This is information that would help people decide if they are going to go online. Alerts would also be nice on things like a certain Cyrodiil population level or a particular person being online (though I do have some privacy concerns with that).

Lorebook reading would also be cool so I can read the stuff I'm not going to take time to read in-game.

The second screen feature I would like is background info when I am talking to someone. It would be cool to be reminded of people and locations when they are mentioned by an NPC I am talking to. The feature I would most want on a second screen is a map.

Ep1kMalware · June 2016

personally I just want to see buff timers and maybr an invontory manager. Sometimes I get pugs for dungeons like spindleclutch where the tank isnt tank,.. amd bloodspn hits like a truck. often I hcant goin to bed soon. got off late, gotta work early -.-e to do it myself so hotswappig gear could be nice.

DaveMoeDee · June 2016

Davadin wrote: »

OK I just read this again, and as a mobile system analyst of one of the biggest site in Canada, i'll try to pitch in

1. As previously mentioned, having live streaming data to the app is a big NO-NO. This means developing a specific API that a mobile device can access at any time. This also means impacting the megaserver client connections which, most likely, would be detrimental. Best way to go around this is to develop a separate gateway for these data which presumably will be refreshed periodically. Like every 24 hr, or 12 hr or something. This means a lot more resources to work on.
2. Some feature requested like reading lore-books and notes, are HUGE data. with mobile, we don't want people to download a 1GB app. Space is a luxury. This means big datas like Lore-Books would be cached in the server, and only ones the account has discovered is downloaded to the device. Then see point #1 above again.
3. Gated by a separate server means stuff that can pro-actively sync back to the server becomes complicated. Stuff like changing skill bar, or feeding your mount, etc... Meaning, the stuff that goes back and "write" back to ZOS, not just stuff the app "reads" from ZOS. I personally prefer having lag improved than adding stuff like this, back to point #1.
4. Chat is the only exception feature that I can see (and must anyway) to be implemented directly to the megaservers. A bunch of text is significantly a lot more compact than skill bar information.... I can totally see this happening with no detrimental effect to server.
5. I'm personally against this, but with enough feature, I can see how this warrants TESO+ membership only. It is a possible revenue source and I'd rather have this than having ADS inside the app...................
6. Crown store is definitely do-able as it basically a separate instance and a "read-only" function, where purchases is not required to have a live connection to the megaserver.
7. Crafting is a big hurdle too because of one single component: the by-chance logic. Some function in crafting consist of percentage chances.... this means, whatever the result of the "lottery" is calculated and recorded on the server side... meaning it's most likely need to be connected to the megaserver too...

That's all I can think of for now. Sorry to rain on your parade, but in summary, unless ZOS put some serious resources to develop both the app and the infrastructure, they're not going to be able to pull it off WITHOUT affecting the lag issue.......

(or they can go cheapskate and just simply build an app to plugs directly to the megaserver and ignores the tear of the players with +999 ping....)

They don't need images of the lorebooks. Just text. I don't think that the lore book text would be that large compressed. Books with images would not be properly rendered with just text, so they might want to do images for completeness. Judgement call I suppose.

I am generally against any writing back to the live servers. I am also wary of anything real-time that changes a lot, like displaying gear and skill bars. No need to add the complexity right now. But timers make sense to me because once they start, they just continue until they are done.

newtinmpls · June 2016

Gidorick wrote: »

Having the ability to mess with inventory on the go would be AMAZING!

Does this fall too much into "gameplay" @newtinmpls ?

Pretty much yes, but I'm not the devs.

My opinion is yes: view

and no: do

Pupsy · November 2016

I still wish this idea would come to fruition. I love the idea of an ESO app and I feel like it would give me something to do on my phone when I can't access the game. Maybe with an app i'll finally remember to feed my horse every day lol.

Abeille · November 2016

Man, I miss @Gidorick

Yes I support this.

khandakar.faisal · March 2017

It will be nice if we can also have access to Guild Bang for Bidding, Buy or Sell using Mobile Apps..