Now that we have to empty bank and inventory...

JamieAubrey · February 2019

RogueShark wrote: »

I'm not getting rid of anything. if it takes 2 hours or longer for my login screen so be it, I'll initiate login and go find something else to do.

This, I'll leave it running on the BG and watch Netflix or something

VDoom1 · February 2019

Wowowowow, what?? o.O They never said that we are going to loose items or anything like that. So why does it feel like we need to clear out on everything besides essentials. Do we really have to go into some emergency mode?

I will go through my stuff and sell stuff I don't want or need. But otherwise I'm good. I'm not certain about the lengths of any loading screen. It will take as long as it takes.

Though deleting addons may be a good idea. Since their gonna change code and the addon developers may need to update the addons for them to work after this update.

Raammzzaa · February 2019

Too much work - I’m just going to cross my fingers when I log in.

Juju_beans · February 2019

Where did you get the thought that you had to "empty" your bank and inventory ?
The official post on this never said that...it was clear out excess items and take all your mail attachments.

All I'm going to do is make sure my mail is clear on all toons and disable my addons when I log out Sunday night.

Cpt_Teemo · February 2019

JamieAubrey wrote: »

RogueShark wrote: »

I'm not getting rid of anything. if it takes 2 hours or longer for my login screen so be it, I'll initiate login and go find something else to do.

This, I'll leave it running on the BG and watch Netflix or something

Pathfinder Kingmaker

https://youtu.be/EVup5VqHKLY

zaria · February 2019

MaxJrFTW wrote: »

I'm not clearing anything, my bank is full of sets that have taken me months to collect. None of that is going anywhere.

Used this as motivator to do some spring cleaning, up to 100 free slots in bank.
Do it RL on monday

Veles · February 2019

- move to another country in a new apartment;
- disassemble and reassemble the computer back;
- reinstall the operating system;
- delete the game and reinstall.

coj901 · February 2019

This mane is preparing for the apocalypse ain't he. I'm just gonna login ando watch Netflix/troll forms.

coop500 · February 2019

LordGavus wrote: »

Eh, i dont think thats necessary. I'll clear out some usless junk but otherwise I'll just deal with the load screen. It's only a one time thing

This, people are really going batpoop insane over ONE loading screen jesus...

Trinity_Is_My_Name · February 2019

Haven't had to do this with any expansion or DLC in over four years. Sure as heck not going to do it now. It has never affected my login time and I don't expect to see any significant change with this DLC.

Sure as heck not giving up years of gathering and maxing out set pieces for Wrathstone.

starlizard70ub17_ESO · February 2019

I just cleaned out the extra junk I was hoarding in my bank and left it at that.

Linaleah · February 2019

Nairinhe wrote: »

I don't think that such.... drastic measures are necessary. I'm just going to leave bank and all inventories as is. It it means 2-3 hours of loading, well, so be it, I'm not giving up any of my stuff

this right here.

the only specific plan i have is to log in hours before I'll actualy be getting around to playing so that while I'm doing something else, the game has a chance to load without majorly inconveniencing me. stuff i have stored - is store for a reason. if i wanted to get rid of it, it would already be gone. IMO

Freakin_Hytte · February 2019

VDoom1 wrote: »

Wowowowow, what?? o.O They never said that we are going to loose items or anything like that. So why does it feel like we need to clear out on everything besides essentials. Do we really have to go into some emergency mode?

I will go through my stuff and sell stuff I don't want or need. But otherwise I'm good. I'm not certain about the lengths of any loading screen. It will take as long as it takes.

Though deleting addons may be a good idea. Since their gonna change code and the addon developers may need to update the addons for them to work after this update.

Nah we will not loose any items, the only reason people are complaining about this is because they have nothing else to do. Much easier to just do something else

randomkeyhits · February 2019

When this comes to console it could cause me a lot of problems.

Not because I'd be selling anything, rather I'd be trying to buy up any good stuff dumped by other players............

NoTimeToWait · February 2019

Freakin_Hytte wrote: »

VDoom1 wrote: »

Wowowowow, what?? o.O They never said that we are going to loose items or anything like that. So why does it feel like we need to clear out on everything besides essentials. Do we really have to go into some emergency mode?

I will go through my stuff and sell stuff I don't want or need. But otherwise I'm good. I'm not certain about the lengths of any loading screen. It will take as long as it takes.

Though deleting addons may be a good idea. Since their gonna change code and the addon developers may need to update the addons for them to work after this update.

No you will not loose any items, the only reason people are complaining about this is because they have nothing else to do. It's a one time thing and you'll not loose anything, it can take a long time for you to log in, but do as most people will do, do something else like watch a movie or go do some chores in real life.

We can only hope that nothing happens to our inventories, since we had a number of times before with items disappearing from the bank or storage. I don't want to cause any panic, but its only reasonable that people want to prepare in some way for that.

As for me, I think it was high time to clean up my inventories to prepare for the Anniversary event. Feels nice to have around 1000 empty inventory slots more across my chars. I was sorry to delete 50+ surveys, but I was never going to do them anyway

Saturnana · February 2019

I've been filling my crafting bag for the past two years now, and I have hundreds of items placed in my homes. So I assume I'm screwed either way, and minimizing the stuff in my bank/inventory probably won't make much of a difference. I'll just boot up the game and watch Netflix at the same time..

Tavore1138 · February 2019

Personally given the propensity of ZOS to make epic player impacting mistakes and then try to pretend they never happened I will be:

Assuming they will either forget to take a backup or not bother to validate any backup they do take and therefore:

Taking screenshots of anything I own that matters to me... material stacks, hard to get gear, anything I have bought with criwns, houses and their inventories etc.

That way when they mess up the changes and then discover they haven’t got a valid backup at least I will have some proof of what I had.

This game has made me deeply cynical....

Holycannoli · February 2019

Cpt_Teemo wrote: »

firedrgn wrote: »

Y2k anyone. The hype was way worse than the event.

You mean this Y2k

https://youtu.be/IQXGa6N10Nk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0bBYK-7ZiU

Just remembered I'm off tomorrow (Monday) so I'll wake up real early, patch, log in and go back to sleep

Linaleah · February 2019

don't even need to delete addons. just disable out of date ones.

RANKK7 · February 2019

Since we got no reply on the main thread about the risk of missing items, I took screenshot of EVERYTHING I have.

Took me a long ass time to screenshot all, thx a lot @ZOS for not answering some simple questions. Also, there is a lot people in game still unaware of the incoming load screen, I really hope you will put a decent warning in case someone just close the application thinking the game is not loading because... problems.

Ackwalan · February 2019

Linaleah wrote: »

don't even need to delete addons. just disable out of date ones.

Won't all of them be out of date since tomorrow is an update?

Itzmichi · February 2019

Patience is a virtue and as such I'll wait.

RaddlemanNumber7 · February 2019

This database update looks awfully heroic. I think I'm just going to hide under a rock until I'm sure that *** has stopped hitting the fan.

I sincerely wish all you early-adopters out there the very best of luck.

Danikat · February 2019

Trinity_Is_My_Name wrote: »

Haven't had to do this with any expansion or DLC in over four years. Sure as heck not going to do it now. It has never affected my login time and I don't expect to see any significant change with this DLC.

Sure as heck not giving up years of gathering and maxing out set pieces for Wrathstone.

It's not about the DLC, it's in relation to this announcement:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Next Monday with the PC launch of Update 21, we’ll be implementing some code related to ESO’s database that will allow us greater flexibility with updates and maintenance as it continues to grow over time. Due to this change, after downloading the patch on Monday, you are likely to encounter a very long load screen upon first logging into the game. This will only occur the first time you log in after character select, and it will not affect subsequent logins. That said, the length of the load screen could vary anywhere between 5-10 minutes to a couple hours. We understand this is far from ideal and is frustrating on launch day, but it’s a necessary evil just this one time.

Now, this loading is actually directly tied to the total number of bank items, inventory items, and mail attachments everyone has. This means if you’re able to clear out excess items in your inventory and attachments before maintenance begins Monday morning (or even just reduce them), this will greatly help the amount of loading the client will need to do! Additionally, once you’re at the load screen, please just wait until you’ve made it into the game; closing the client will not speed things up.

Thanks for your understanding, everyone, and we look forward to Wrathstone and Update 21 launch in just a few days!

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/460320/u21-launch-day-load-times-and-how-you-can-help

The OP is definitely exaggerating the situation and the precautions necessary, but as most DLC and in fact most patches don't come with changes to the database they're not comparable.

Wildberryjack · February 2019

Most of my bank inventory is furniture so I think I'll just put it all in my biggest house that I haven't decorated yet and bypass this issue with the bank and bag space. Up to ten minutes or so to log in that one time is fine, hours is not.

Tabbycat · February 2019

Pft, I am a packrat and no extra long load screen is going to make me part with my stuff.

Kiralyn2000 · February 2019

Eh, no major effort here. While doing today's writs, I just made sure to finally toss any random junk I was ignoring, consumed any clutter recipes/motifs lying around, and made sure to deposit all the random stackables that were on my characters in the bank so they made single stacks. ~170 items in bank, 20-40 on each of 7 characters. No biggie, maybe another couple minutes on each character beyond the normal writ time.