I want to join an RP server where is the Mega Server Shard questionnaire?

begothprincessb14_ESO · April 2014

In the beginning I was informed that I would have to fill out a questionnaire to be placed inside a server shard. Well, I never got that questionnaire, so my question is how do my Fiance and I join an RP/PvE server?

Gierolf_Whitecoatb16_ESO · April 2014

who informed you of this? ESO has been aiming for a MEGAserver from the beginning, IE: everyone on a single server.

Lalai · April 2014

From my understanding there are only two mega-servers. One for NA and one for EU. There's not server shards divided up into RP/PvE/PvP. Your best bet is to find an RP guild that's active on whichever mega-server you're playing on (either NA or EU).

Baphomet · April 2014

Hate to be the one telling you this but they discarded that system, unfortunately.

DragonMother · April 2014

begothprincessb14_ESO wrote: »

In the beginning I was informed that I would have to fill out a questionnaire to be placed inside a server shard. Well, I never got that questionnaire, so my question is how do my Fiance and I join an RP/PvE server?

Just an FYI, you don't get a questionnaire for anything involving the game, short of account actions, restorations, and game master/development work on your accounts. I would recommend checking the guild recruitment category and get started hunting there.

spidur · April 2014

As much as Mega Server's are going to make it harder for RP/PvP/PvE players compared to that of set servers, I must admit, Guilds will most likely be formed around those presets. Lalai is right, find a guild that is based around Role playing.

begothprincessb14_ESO · April 2014

@Gierolf_Whitecoat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcnTQ6c--s
start at 2:10 Tells about the questionnaire and how it was told to happen. However now apparently that idea was discarded? How did you know it was discarded Baphomet?

Skjlvald · April 2014

Seems a RP guild is kind of a must for RPrs

Xionar · April 2014

It was discarded seemingly ages ago. I recall Devs posting about it in some interviews, not that I can remember where or link them.

Trouvo · April 2014

Well there are RP guilds in the forums there is also our RP guild Bloodline in the Ebonheart Pact, here is a quick excerpt of detail from our website at www.bloodline-eso.com

Bloodline is a detailed, high quality, heavy Role-Play (RP) guild on The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) available for the NA gaming server. In this guild, "Real Life Always Comes First". Bloodline is a fellowship made up of beings for the Ebonheart Pact. Our home is a military/family order, (military in our structure and how we work, but family in the degree of our regard towards each other. We also have many different branches of our order for those characters that don't fall into a "soldier" type of role.

Laura · April 2014

they need to bring it back or have a roleplay toggle that you can phase in and out of. I would like to see a purgatory phase too for people that get reported a lot for trolling. Let them ruin each others good time IMO.

Really was disappointing to hear this was gone.

I say when the bugs and what not are ironed out and the servers are stable we should rabble for this.

Tripp3r · April 2014

begothprincessb14_ESO wrote: »

@Gierolf_Whitecoat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcnTQ6c--s
start at 2:10 Tells about the questionnaire and how it was told to happen. However now apparently that idea was discarded? How did you know it was discarded Baphomet?

due to this i have also been under the impression there is a questionnaire.

smilingmaybe · April 2014

I've never understood the amount of angst over trolling that is far easier solved by using /ignore.

Tripp3r · April 2014

Baphomet wrote: »

Hate to be the one telling you this but they discarded that system, unfortunately.

really? do you have a basis for this argument?

DragonMother · April 2014

begothprincessb14_ESO wrote: »

@Gierolf_Whitecoat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcnTQ6c--s
start at 2:10 Tells about the questionnaire and how it was told to happen. However now apparently that idea was discarded? How did you know it was discarded Baphomet?

Looks like they were not heavily involved with the betas. The questionnaire was never brought up in the beta phases from Nov. last year to release. Nor was it ever suggested during the time the testing was ongoing. The megaserver basically pools everyone together basically with whatever guild, or friends you make. The questionnaire was never implemented, and I really don't know where this guy got this information but it was never mentioned or even brought into the game during the betas. He did state however "Probably" rather than a maybe, or if which at this moment in time, is a big "no", it simply never was added in beta, and looks like it won't be added in live either.

TheGodless1 · April 2014

Laura wrote: »

they need to bring it back or have a roleplay toggle that you can phase in and out of. I would like to see a purgatory phase too for people that get reported a lot for trolling. Let them ruin each others good time IMO.

Really was disappointing to hear this was gone.

I say when the bugs and what not are ironed out and the servers are stable we should rabble for this.

But what you consider "trolling" may not always be trolling...sometimes it's just people tired of seeing or answering the same questions over and over and over again within 5 seconds of the last response/answer. If ya can't deal with the trolls ignore works GREAT! There is also the point that if you can't deal with the trolls MMOs may not be for you. It's the way things are. Not how they should be just are. I wish it were different as well, but over time I have just come to accept that they are like gold farmers...always gonna be there no matter what ya do!

Trouvo · April 2014

DragonMother wrote: »

begothprincessb14_ESO wrote: »

@Gierolf_Whitecoat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcnTQ6c--s
start at 2:10 Tells about the questionnaire and how it was told to happen. However now apparently that idea was discarded? How did you know it was discarded Baphomet?

Looks like they were not heavily involved with the betas. The questionnaire was never brought up in the beta phases from Nov. last year to release. Nor was it ever suggested during the time the testing was ongoing. The megaserver basically pools everyone together basically with whatever guild, or friends you make. The questionnaire was never implemented, and I really don't know where this guy got this information but it was never mentioned or even brought into the game during the betas. He did state however "Probably" rather than a maybe, or if which at this moment in time, is a big "no", it simply never was added in beta, and looks like it won't be added in live either.

ZOS actually said there was going to be at either E3 or PAXeast idr which, but it had been stated by them that this was going to be implemented and never did they say it had been decided not to be included

DragonMother · April 2014

TheGodless1 wrote: »

Laura wrote: »

they need to bring it back or have a roleplay toggle that you can phase in and out of. I would like to see a purgatory phase too for people that get reported a lot for trolling. Let them ruin each others good time IMO.

Really was disappointing to hear this was gone.

I say when the bugs and what not are ironed out and the servers are stable we should rabble for this.

But what you consider "trolling" may not always be trolling...sometimes it's just people tired of seeing or answering the same questions over and over and over again within 5 seconds of the last response/answer. If ya can't deal with the trolls ignore works GREAT! There is also the point that if you can't deal with the trolls MMOs may not be for you. It's the way things are. Not how they should be just are. I wish it were different as well, but over time I have just come to accept that they are like gold farmers...always gonna be there no matter what ya do!

Another bonus to remember is that the ignore feature covers the whole account of the user ignored. So once you ignore them, they are gone forever from your presence, and you can advise your friends to follow that example. Most of the people that troll or grief are either bored with the game, need a few more years before playing this game again (Since it is rated mature), or simply do it because they are callous and don't care a thing about the players trying to enjoy their game their own way.

Lalai · April 2014

Tripp3r wrote: »

Baphomet wrote: »

Hate to be the one telling you this but they discarded that system, unfortunately.

really? do you have a basis for this argument?

The basis for the argument is that the video is extremely old. The sharding discussed has not been present in any beta, and is absent from any guides (including "get started" type guides) currently available. It just doesn't exist. If you want to continue looking for it, feel free.. but people aren't saying it got discarded just to be mean and troll-y. They are actually trying to provide correct information.

DragonMother · April 2014

Trouvo wrote: »

DragonMother wrote: »

begothprincessb14_ESO wrote: »

@Gierolf_Whitecoat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcnTQ6c--s
start at 2:10 Tells about the questionnaire and how it was told to happen. However now apparently that idea was discarded? How did you know it was discarded Baphomet?

Looks like they were not heavily involved with the betas. The questionnaire was never brought up in the beta phases from Nov. last year to release. Nor was it ever suggested during the time the testing was ongoing. The megaserver basically pools everyone together basically with whatever guild, or friends you make. The questionnaire was never implemented, and I really don't know where this guy got this information but it was never mentioned or even brought into the game during the betas. He did state however "Probably" rather than a maybe, or if which at this moment in time, is a big "no", it simply never was added in beta, and looks like it won't be added in live either.

ZOS actually said there was going to be at either E3 or PAXeast idr which, but it had been stated by them that this was going to be implemented and never did they say it had been decided not to be included

While this is true, we both know that they didn't display any hints of the questionnaire or test it out with the beta phases we both were in, @Trouvo. Yes, I recall your informative posts and reviews during the last phase. If they were going to impliment it, they should have during beta to at least test out how well it works, if it worked at all, and whether or not it was too resource heavy for active use by thousands of players at the same time (Stress tests conclusive of course.), we simply didn't see any of that in the beta phases, at all. I'm just stating what I do know from my experiences, I'm sure you understand where I am coming from.

Trouvo · April 2014

DragonMother wrote: »

Trouvo wrote: »

DragonMother wrote: »

begothprincessb14_ESO wrote: »

@Gierolf_Whitecoat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcnTQ6c--s
start at 2:10 Tells about the questionnaire and how it was told to happen. However now apparently that idea was discarded? How did you know it was discarded Baphomet?

Looks like they were not heavily involved with the betas. The questionnaire was never brought up in the beta phases from Nov. last year to release. Nor was it ever suggested during the time the testing was ongoing. The megaserver basically pools everyone together basically with whatever guild, or friends you make. The questionnaire was never implemented, and I really don't know where this guy got this information but it was never mentioned or even brought into the game during the betas. He did state however "Probably" rather than a maybe, or if which at this moment in time, is a big "no", it simply never was added in beta, and looks like it won't be added in live either.

ZOS actually said there was going to be at either E3 or PAXeast idr which, but it had been stated by them that this was going to be implemented and never did they say it had been decided not to be included

While this is true, we both know that they didn't display any hints of the questionnaire or test it out with the beta phases we both were in, @Trouvo. Yes, I recall your informative posts and reviews during the last phase. If they were going to impliment it, they should have during beta to at least test out how well it works, if it worked at all, and whether or not it was too resource heavy for active use by thousands of players at the same time (Stress tests conclusive of course.), we simply didn't see any of that in the beta phases, at all. I'm just stating what I do know from my experiences, I'm sure you understand where I am coming from.

Yes, of course I understand I just wanted to be specific for users that were not aware that at one point this was going to be a "thing", as it had been stated by the devs at one point.

DragonMother · April 2014

*nods @Trouvo* I gotcha. Understood.

begothprincessb14_ESO · April 2014

Perhaps, in light of recent events an RP toggle like suggested might be the way to go. A way to flag that your character likes to RP and would like to be grouped with other RPers. I dont really know how the Mega Server works now, or how it hosts every single player through out NA/EU. It just seems too large to handle.... Imo. However I do think this lack of choice, needs to be addressed.

Trouvo · April 2014

begothprincessb14_ESO wrote: »

Perhaps, in light of recent events an RP toggle like suggested might be the way to go. A way to flag that your character likes to RP and would like to be grouped with other RPers. I dont really know how the Mega Server works now, or how it hosts every single player through out NA/EU. It just seems too large to handle.... Imo. However I do think this lack of choice, needs to be addressed.

They have stated they will be, and understand how important their RP community is, just not right away or probably within the first month or 2

begothprincessb14_ESO · April 2014

Ah excellent! One can only hope that this idea doesn't get scrapped as well. Thank you Trouvo!

cromica81_ESO · April 2014

I hope the rp people get there own spot reading through chat with them around is annoying.

SeñorCinco · April 2014

begothprincessb14_ESO wrote: »

Perhaps, in light of recent events an RP toggle like suggested might be the way to go. A way to flag that your character likes to RP and would like to be grouped with other RPers.

I have a flag in play with every character I make. The flag is... walking.

I will generally, walk everywhere while in a city and more than half of the time I'm out in the gameworld or dungeon.

discosoc · April 2014

I really with Zeni did a better job at communicating things like this to the community. It's like they are making this stuff up as they go. Not very professional at all.