They did something amazing to performance on pts. I had way better performance than on live EU. And i usually dont have problems with it. The loadscreens were supershort and fps skyhigh.

Mystrius_Archaion wrote: »

eso_nya wrote: »

They did something amazing to performance on pts. I had way better performance than on live EU. And i usually dont have problems with it. The loadscreens were supershort and fps skyhigh.

Good to hear. I hope you are correct and their patch notes about it really are amazing. We shall see.

I created a char, didnt take care what alliance i chose, clicked create and a Mourhold loading screen showed up.
As im in EU, i always had not that great connection when loading into PTS, but before i could finish the thought "Oh f, mournhold, that will take a while" i was in.
Next surprise was: it loaded me right into the bank, where a crowd of ~50 other template toons was standing around.
None! of them a black figure.
Than i activated the fps/latency-thingy and saw 95 fps. Usually i get 65 in an "empty"zone and 25 to 40 within populated areas. Latency was ~250, has been worse on pts. Isnt an issue on live tho. While qting around loading screens didnt last longer than 10~ 15 secs and fps didnt drop below 90.
I was really impressed.

Or when you walk into town your summonable pets like scamp, bear and twilight vanish.

I really wish I could disable all costumes(maybe except mine ), non combat pets and non standard mounts. I know it will never happen but still... Non combat pets are the worst. They hurt my immersion so damn bad. I mean wtf, we're fighting and dying and then there's that cute bear cub playing with a butterfly??

Also certain chosen mounts - like storm atronach ones - give me a solid -10 fps when they're near me. Admittedly I do play on a potato but that doesn't make it any less annoying.

Betheny wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

Betheny wrote: »

How about an option to make other players invisible, silent, and have no hitboxes so you can walk through them like they're a ghost

WOOOOOooooooooOOOOOooOOOoooooooOOOOOO.

Don't you mean:

"OOooOo OOooooO oOOOooO OooOooO"

That's what ghosts sounded like in Ultima Online.

Betheny wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

Betheny wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

Betheny wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

Betheny wrote: »

How about an option to make other players invisible, silent, and have no hitboxes so you can walk through them like they're a ghost

WOOOOOooooooooOOOOOooOOOoooooooOOOOOO.

So we speak Ferengi now?

Is that some kind of geek language that you know because you're a geek?

You must be a irl badass, that is why you spend 20h per day here with us geeks.

Do I though? Or do I hit and run and generally avoid hanging out with clowns.

@Betheny, then what are you doing on the forums?

FoolishHuman wrote: »

lnsane wrote: »

I agree to this to some extent (or rather I understand why someone would want this), but at the same time I don't think rendering someone's armour generates significantly less load than rendering a costume. At most, you could maybe have an option to turn off the special effects that come with summoning certain mounts / costumes?

In the end, the game has minimal system requirements. Trying to work your way around those will not only hurt your gameplay, but also your perception of an otherwise pretty successful product. I don't think ZOS would want to compromise on that product so some people will be able to enjoy most of what if offers..

The problem is that every new motif or costume uses a new unique texture and all those texture have to be loaded into memory. NPCs are loaded last, so it can take some time to get what you want done in a city because every player has to be loaded first. If the game only had to load one or two textures per race for armor it would go much faster. Already the players appear as black fígures for a time when they are not loaded in yet, this would be no different, only permanent. I also would be content if NPCs would load first and I could do what I want instead of waiting for other players to load. When I am in Rawl'kha shopping I'm not there to admire fancy costumes, I want the guild traders to load and get on with business.

Let me put it this way;
If I were to bring a rusty old car to a racetrack only to find out I can hardly use it there, that would not be a reason for the racetrack to make their race easier or their track more suitable for old, rusty cars. Instead, they'd tell me to come back when I have a shiny race-car meant for those kinds of racetracks (or not to mind losing every race). Having said that, I'm interested to hear what your specs are.

Apart from that, as others have pointed out, there's plenty of reason for any armour to load slower than a costume. Costumes are 1-item overlays with possibly some dyes added on top. Armours consist of 7 individual items that come not only in 3 different 'weights' (light, medium, heavy), but also in 3 different levels of 'fanciness' based on the item's level (or rather the material they're made of).. all of which have a different look and can be dyed as well. So that's 63 (!) different possibilities within ONE single racial style. Versus one costume...

I know it's tough to find out your system is in need of an upgrade - as it's hardly ever as cheap as you'd like it to be - but unfortunately it sounds as though that is exactly what your option is here. That, or not minding you'll be 'losing every race'. Fortunately, just changing out your CPU (if your socket allows it) can be enough for CPU-heavy games such as ESO.

I would like the banker and merchant and smuggler npcs to only be visible to the player that spawned them.

If you group with the player who spawned them then they become visible.

Simple.