Midyear Mayhem in a nutshell...

sparafucilsarwb17_ESO · July 2017

Friends of mine that queued last night was at 800 and 805 in line...thats what happens when there is only 2 cp servers

rob_ber · July 2017

Yesterday queued for Vivec on PC/EU, was 775th in queue and 2xx for Shor. When additional campaign was opened (Xarxes), I went there. Xarxes was full within minutes ... and then rollbacks and crashes started .... hmmmmmm

Thalmor-Nordmaster · July 2017

Vivec 720 in current queue. Well, I reckon no PVP for me. Other campaigns like Lol

AnviOfVai · July 2017

Last night was impossible to get into Vivic EU PS4, so I switched characters and went into Shor instead, still had to wait in a que of 35 and took half an hour before I got in, and when I did get in the numbers of EP and DC were crazy! it seemed like there was hardly any AD even though the campaign said all red, blue and yellow was full!? Incredibly laggy too..

zacvanm · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

For those of you encountering long Cyrodiil queues, have you tried joining a lower-population campaign? Or do they all have long queues right now?

EVERYTHING has a long queue. Saw a screenshot on a Facebook group where someone was 491 in the queue. That was for Vivec PS4NA. I play in Shor PS4NA and was 103. Took over an hour to get in and then lag everywhere for the first 30 minutes. After that I was fine and carried on as usual. But every time I queued for BGs I blue screened out while "Entering the queue".

TheHsN · July 2017

:):) there anyone seen more????

Bobby_V_Rockit · July 2017

I imagine its a feeding frenzy for the seasoned PvP Pirhana's with all the fresh mear PvE'ers

DrSweetazz · July 2017

Bobby_V_Rockit wrote: »

I imagine its a feeding frenzy for the seasoned PvP Pirhana's with all the fresh mear PvE'ers

It is! When you can actually get in there..... 2 hours to get in on a Thursday in the middle of the night. We lost a few Ppl to crashes that kicked them out of cyrodil though.

How you gonna expect people to have that happen and just say "Meh just requeue to a lower population campaign and don't play with your friends. Also you have to wait till Monday/Wednesday to reset your campaigns...."

This is the kind of thing that someone there should get in some sort of trouble at Zos for, but I get the feeling no one is held to any standard of responsibility at that office. Everyone is probably just going" whoa, didn't see this coming. Guess we'll have to try and fix it next week."

bloodthirstyvampire · July 2017

Not going to comment are you zos @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

jarrandub17_ESO · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

For those of you encountering long Cyrodiil queues, have you tried joining a lower-population campaign? Or do they all have long queues right now?

This has to be one of the most "out of touch" comments I have read by a dev...and there has been many to choose from.

Unfrickinbelieveable!

Enodoc · July 2017

bloodthirstyvampire wrote: »

Not going to comment are you zos ZOS_GinaBruno ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Given that they've commented 8 or 9 times in this thread already, that's a rather odd statement.

VileDeeds77 · July 2017

Due to the long server que's on every pvp server, I don't think opening only one more server will help much. At least two if not three.

Idinuse · July 2017

o.O

Idinuse · July 2017

bloodthirstyvampire wrote: »

Not going to comment are you zos @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

I find Jessica's posts and to some extent Zos action in opening a, first I hope, server to be quite an improvement in the communications department. Hopefully it keeps up. At least I, and many it seems, appreciate it very much.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · July 2017

Hi everyone,

We will be opening another Standard 7-day Cyrodiil campaign on all servers today. The campaign name will be Kastav, and we will begin spinning it up around 11:00 AM EDT. You should see the new campaign on all servers by 1:00 PM EDT today. Thank you!

MissBizz · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone,

We will be opening another Standard 7-day Cyrodiil campaign on all servers today. The campaign name will be Kastav, and we will begin spinning it up around 11:00 AM EDT. You should see the new campaign on all servers by 1:00 PM EDT today. Thank you!

Fancy!

rhapsodious · July 2017

bloodthirstyvampire wrote: »

Not going to comment are you zos @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

They do have lives...

Thanks for opening another campaign, but will you be renting out more servers (or whatever you do specifically for infrastructure) to improve stability? It was really fun in Cyrodiil last night! ... until the servers crashed.

ChandraNalaar · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone,

We will be opening another Standard 7-day Cyrodiil campaign on all servers today. The campaign name will be Kastav, and we will begin spinning it up around 11:00 AM EDT. You should see the new campaign on all servers by 1:00 PM EDT today. Thank you!

Oh good, all of the campaigns are still pop locked, so another one should be really helpful.

Jailbirdy · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone,

We will be opening another Standard 7-day Cyrodiil campaign on all servers today. The campaign name will be Kastav, and we will begin spinning it up around 11:00 AM EDT. You should see the new campaign on all servers by 1:00 PM EDT today. Thank you!

...and for communications, how does the 75% of the player base know this when you have not posted it in any notices for console players?

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · July 2017

Jailbirdy wrote: »

...and for communications, how does the 75% of the player base know this when you have not posted it in any notices for console players?

When the new campaign is up, we'll put out a message on Twitter (like we did yesterday) to let everyone know. We'll also put up a forum banner to highlight both Xarxes and Kastav.

MissBizz · July 2017

Jailbirdy wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone,

We will be opening another Standard 7-day Cyrodiil campaign on all servers today. The campaign name will be Kastav, and we will begin spinning it up around 11:00 AM EDT. You should see the new campaign on all servers by 1:00 PM EDT today. Thank you!

...and for communications, how does the 75% of the player base know this when you have not posted it in any notices for console players?

Console players can be on the forums too, as well folks will be able to see the new campaign(s) when they look in game.

Saturn · July 2017

ParaNostram wrote: »

148 person queue for Vivec, finally got in, ported to Bleakers, aaaaaand unable to connect to server. Hmm. Can somebody sneak into ZOS headquarters and feed the poor overworked gerbils powering their servers?

How's your Midyear Mayhem been thus far?

To be fair, it might not be a good idea to attempt to log into the most frequented campaign of the all during primetime. That usually seems like standard practice, regardless of any events ongoing. I think we all know already that Cyrodiil is far from stable, so I'm not sure exactly what you were hoping for

ErilAq · July 2017

Not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but I am receiving no AP after I tried to couple the delve buff with the event buff. Tried rebooting and reloading ui, waiting for the buffs to disappear, still nothing. Just a word of caution.

Rahotu · July 2017

Saturn wrote: »

ParaNostram wrote: »

148 person queue for Vivec, finally got in, ported to Bleakers, aaaaaand unable to connect to server. Hmm. Can somebody sneak into ZOS headquarters and feed the poor overworked gerbils powering their servers?

How's your Midyear Mayhem been thus far?

To be fair, it might not be a good idea to attempt to log into the most frequented campaign of the all during primetime. That usually seems like standard practice, regardless of any events ongoing. I think we all know already that Cyrodiil is far from stable, so I'm not sure exactly what you were hoping for

The strangest thing is we don't develop this game and had zero good expectations,the question is,wth were zos expecting to happen? Right now all I can Imagine is the zos team all highfiving each other saying 'look at the numbers...WE SO POPULAR!!!":(

Fuxo · July 2017

Saturn wrote: »

To be fair, it might not be a good idea to attempt to log into the most frequented campaign of the all during primetime. That usually seems like standard practice, regardless of any events ongoing. I think we all know already that Cyrodiil is far from stable, so I'm not sure exactly what you were hoping for

The problem is that it is not stable 3 years after launch. It is not stable even there is a lower population cap. It is not stable after a special PvP debugging weekend they (devs) requested a couple months ago. Now they have created a special 2 weeks long debugging event. Do you think anything will improve? I really doubt it.

The game was advertised with a promise of a massive PvP. The Morrowind expansion was advertised with a promise of a small scale PvP. None of it is working properly. It's just false advertising.

On the other hand, if PvP was working smoothly, many players would like to join and in the end ZOS would need to pay for more servers. That is probably not really desired as this is not good for (their) business.

RazerKlang · July 2017

rome wasn't built on one day though

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · July 2017

Update: The new 7-day Standard campaign, Kastav, is now open on all servers.

bubbygink · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone,

We will be opening another Standard 7-day Cyrodiil campaign on all servers today. The campaign name will be Kastav, and we will begin spinning it up around 11:00 AM EDT. You should see the new campaign on all servers by 1:00 PM EDT today. Thank you!

This is good news. Glad we are at least getting some communication and quick responses with the queue issues. @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Will you be monitoring the campaign pops and consider adding even more campaigns? I know last night was the first day of the event which leads to a lot of initial excitement but it was still just a Thursday. I can't imagine how crowded it will be during weekend prime time. I would think we may need 1, or even 2 more campaigns to accommodate traffic.

red_emu · July 2017

Experiencing lag issues and never-ending queues after which you get kicked from server and have to queue again?
Have you tried a different game?

It's a "No Access to PvP Event" AKA "Loading Screen Unlimited" AKA "I counted all the leaves on the Cyrodill loading screen tree"

Sandman929 · July 2017

Isn't this just another place to get constantly disconnected in?