Is there a “GM Island” in ESO?

notimetocare · December 2017

Unlikely. GM island in WoW is nearly a decade out of use. Having a character is no longer needed to handle issues

Anacario · December 2017

What if they hide on Artaeum?! What if the GMs are all Psijics?!?

Vaoh · December 2017

SirAndy wrote: »

I haven't seen a GM in-game since the PC launch "bot and hack" fest ...

Oh cmon... just because they rarely ever appear/talk in our presence doesn’t mean they don’t exist. I know on like two occasions at least they were spotted on PS4 NA.

runagate · December 2017

Vaoh wrote: »

In WoW, “GM Island” referred to a secret place where Gamemasters would park their characters. Players aren’t ever supposed to make it there. I have spent a ton of time escaping and going out of map in basically every zone but have yet to come across anything like this. Btw, I’m not referring to any unused assets that are often found outside of zones - GM Island is legit a hidden, out of map location that looks unique.

Oh and there’s a small catch..... you’ll probably get permanently banned if you make it there and are seen by GMs. That’s how it apparently worked in WoW lol.

The question presupposes that GMs hang around in-game. They do not.

Recremen · December 2017

I've never seen or heard of anyone finding such a place, but who knows. Our zones are also quite unlike WoW's, of course. They're all disconnected, even if you go outside the map. I like to think our GMs are a more nomadic sort, hiding invisibly among us. Following us around, seeing how our day goes. Waiting at the last boss of our dungeons and privately cheering us on. Checking our inventories to see if we have any contraband, like a police state. Spying on us in our homes. Recording our ERP sessions. You know, the usual!

forwardbias83 · December 2017

Supposedly there are actually several of these hidden "islands" for the different departments as hangouts. GM Island, Programmers Island, etc. I fell off the map once and found one of these places once. Almost died because of slaughter fish, but made it to shore just in time. After several minutes walking through dense jungle, there was a clearing. And then I saw this giant statue of a toilet and next to it a plunger. And as I walked closer, text came up that read Janitor's Island. There was an NPC there that sold buckets, mops and other stuff. But then I got teleported to Stormhaven, and was warned if I tried going back to one of those islands again, that I would be banned. Janitor's Island was boring anyways.

runagate · December 2017

Recremen wrote: »

I've never seen or heard of anyone finding such a place, but who knows. Our zones are also quite unlike WoW's, of course. They're all disconnected, even if you go outside the map. I like to think our GMs are a more nomadic sort, hiding invisibly among us. Following us around, seeing how our day goes. Waiting at the last boss of our dungeons and privately cheering us on. Checking our inventories to see if we have any contraband, like a police state. Spying on us in our homes. Recording our ERP sessions. You know, the usual!

Honestly you hit the nail on the head, except the spying on inventories for contraband. The rest is 100% true.

Shadow-Fighter · December 2017

Clean Test

My ingame GM friend was always in this area. He is offline for many years

PS: i had a screenshot

eso_lags · December 2017

Gm island like from wow? I dont think so.. I can 100% say not in cyrodil 1st because no zos team members dare to enter the lag dump that is cyrodil, in my humble opinion and 2nd i fell out of the map one day and explored the whole of cyrodil... Unless its in bravil but others have gotten inside bravil, i couldnt. But the middle of the imperal bay, or whatever, was really cool.

Vaoh · December 2017

itzTJ wrote: »

Gm island like from wow? I dont think so.. I can 100% say not in cyrodil 1st because no zos team members dare to enter the lag dump that is cyrodil, in my humble opinion and 2nd i fell out of the map one day and explored the whole of cyrodil... Unless its in bravil but others have gotten inside bravil, i couldnt. But the middle of the imperal bay, or whatever, was really cool.

Im mainly looking around starter zones atm. Yeah I agree about Cyrodiil, no GM would go there lol.

Banana · December 2017

I thought I saw Konkle in game once many years ago. But I could have just been seeing things.

Jake1576 · December 2017

Has anyone ever been able to make it into Bravil i'm trying atm and end up always getting ported back to the gate on ps4 na

SinfulPrinc3ss · December 2017

GM on xbox na is a myth. Been playing since 2015 and have never seen one....hire me ill boot those bots right on out i spend enough time online lol

Yolokin_Swagonborn · December 2017

That would require there to be actual GMs...

leetacakesb16_ESO · December 2017

Vaoh wrote: »

In WoW, “GM Island” referred to a secret place where Gamemasters would park their characters. Players aren’t ever supposed to make it there. I have spent a ton of time escaping and going out of map in basically every zone but have yet to come across anything like this. Btw, I’m not referring to any unused assets that are often found outside of zones - GM Island is legit a hidden, out of map location that looks unique.

Oh and there’s a small catch..... you’ll probably get permanently banned if you make it there and are seen by GMs. That’s how it apparently worked in WoW lol.

That was one of the great things about WoW, there were whole unfinished/secret areas out of the normal map. I'd be surprised if there was a GM island in ESO but you never know.

SisterGoat · December 2017

GMs can set themselves invisible, so you would never know if one walked by unless you saw them working in action, or they forgot to take off their non combat pet.

Vaoh · December 2017

Shadow-Fighter wrote: »

Clean Test

My ingame GM friend was always in this area. He is offline for many years

PS: i had a screenshot

@Shadow-Fighter so the area was possibly called “Clean Test”?

Do you still have the screenshot?

Faunter · December 2017

Vaoh wrote: »

Shadow-Fighter wrote: »

Clean Test

My ingame GM friend was always in this area. He is offline for many years

PS: i had a screenshot

@Shadow-Fighter so the area was possibly called “Clean Test”?

Do you still have the screenshot?

Clean Test is a small, flat, untextured, blank zone, completely devoid of anything. It's used to load into the game quickly and test things. This was confirmed by Eric Wrobel in an ESO Live (one of the episodes showcasing Morrowind, I believe?) It is hardly the "GM Island" you're looking for.

As far as I know, there is no such thing as a GM Area in ESO, apart from a few very old inaccessible development test maps. The game being separated into unique zones and maps barred off by loading screens kind of kills any possibility of it, I think. The best you'll probably find is small, insignificant easter eggs. Here are some interesting maps:

Balfiera Island (Its own zone)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=165

Canulus Refuge (??? Lake Canulus in Cyrodiil?)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=199

Overhead (Very early game alpha battleground?)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=706

Pvetest (Self explanatory)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=524

Topal Island (Battleground repurposed to Grand Topal Hideaway home?)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=164

Towers (Very early game alpha battleground?)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=705

Vog
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=702

and many more...

Vaoh · December 2017

Faunter wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

Shadow-Fighter wrote: »

Clean Test

My ingame GM friend was always in this area. He is offline for many years

PS: i had a screenshot

@Shadow-Fighter so the area was possibly called “Clean Test”?

Do you still have the screenshot?

Clean Test is a small, flat, untextured, blank zone, completely devoid of anything. It used to load into the game quickly and test things. This was confirmed by Eric Wrobel in an ESO Live (one of the episodes showcasing Morrowind, I believe?) It is hardly the "GM Island" you're looking for.

As far as I know, there is no such thing as a GM Area in ESO, apart from a few very old inaccessible development test maps. The game being separated into unique zones and maps barred off by loading screens kind of kills any possibility of it, I think. The best you'll probably find is small, insignificant easter eggs. Here are some interesting maps:
Balfiera Island (Its own zone)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=165

Canulus Refuge (??? Lake Canulus in Cyrodiil?)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=199

Overhead (Very early game alpha battleground?)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=706

Pvetest (Self explanatory)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=524

Topal Island (Battleground repurposed to Grand Topal Hideaway home?)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=164

Towers (Very early game alpha battleground?)
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=705

Vog
https://esomap.uesp.net/esomap.html?world=702

and many more...

@Faunter very nice post. Tysm!

Darkhorse1975 · December 2017

forwardbias83 wrote: »

And then I saw this giant statue of a toilet and next to it a plunger. And as I walked closer, text came up that read Janitor's Island. There was an NPC there that sold buckets, mops and other stuff.

The residents of Janitor's Island enjoyed a very brief export business, but since have been embargoed.

KeiruNicrom · December 2017

I bet its that door next to the waterfall in wayrest. Its behind mages guild

coop500 · December 2017

Why would people get banned for finding this place? I'm confused...

Froil · December 2017

I'd assume they all live on Artaeum because they're probably Psijic monks.

Tasear · December 2017

This is interesting thread,

But the question is why would they need it?

If nothing else you can test on public test server. If in fact you can run it things like that painting essel. You could probably Brun into developers.. remember how Gina worried they got caught by players during Livestream of falkreath run.

stevenbennett_ESO · December 2017

I've been there... it's a small island in the Summerset Isles which is mainly lined with beaches. There are beach chairs and cabanas all along the beaches, where the devs lounge and relax in the warm sun, sipping Mai-Tais and getting high with the other elves. (Um... you *do* realize they're called High Elves for a reason, right?)

They didn't ban me when I found the place, but they made me promise never to reveal how to get there, lest the place get overrun with tourists.

AoDD33pfri3d · December 2017

I been to a gm island in flyff, the way to get there is typing a command. The command for theirs was /teleport then type place. For them to teleport player it's /teleport character name/place example /teleport snellnails /gm island

Vaoh · December 2017

AoDD33pfri3d wrote: »

I been to a gm island in flyff, the way to get there is typing a command. The command for theirs was /teleport then type place. For them to teleport player it's /teleport character name/place example /teleport snellnails /gm island

It was mentioned that because of how ESO handles everything in zones, it’s highly likely that the GM Island/Area for ESO is its own instance. Like a delve for example. I’d need to know what it’s called to probably get there lol.

Cryptical · December 2017

KeiruNicrom wrote: »

I bet its that door next to the waterfall in wayrest. Its behind mages guild

There’s a questline that eventually brings you out that door.

Mitrenga · December 2017

Ebony Flask Inn basement floor.

MythicEmperor · December 2017

Knootewoot wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

Uh... what?

It was a pretty simple question there’s like nothing interesting on this forum rn. Every other thread is a complaint to ZOS or nerf thread. Was hoping this would be more interesting or possibly help me find the place.

I have tried swimming to many island surrounded by slaughterfish. In the northern part of Morrowind some islands appear close. So far I haven't been able to reach them. I tried a big supply of healing potions while having mutagen up and I was almost there. But the further away the more the slaughterfish do damage it seems.

Also on other maps I have tried.

What I really liked about SWTOR was the VIP area with the CE-vendor. You could buy a very expensive ring to get there, or if you had CE edition you already had the ring. Nothin was special about the VIP area but it was kinda cool I could go there while others could not and wondered what was there in the beginning of the game.

would be cool if there was a real house of earthly delight only people with a CE could enter.

If by Morrowind you mean Vvardenfell, then you’re referring to Sheogorad. http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Sheogorad

It should have been included in the Morrowind Chapter, but they left out the entire region.