just log out and log back in. takes like 10 seconds

The last time I did a serious survey run, I cleared something like 700 surveys out. I used the ping pong method sometimes as much as 12 times per survey location. Logging out and back in does not take merely 10 seconds, but even if it did, that’s nearly two hours just in load time to solve the above example.

I would welcome anything that took some of the hassle out of clearing multiple surveys at the same location. Some of the locations are lousy to reset, particularly in Wrothgar, where you are required to repeatedly climb up and jump down cliffs.

Am in the process of clearing several hundred surveys - would be nice if nodes would just increase by the number of surveys for that location held in quick slot so they all clear simultaneously.

I think I should turn off a lot of addons before collecting surveys for faster load times. 10 seconds?

Maggi12 wrote: »

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PS: I understand that survey system's (as well as treasure maps) intention is to give a player some exploration mini quests, the reason to TRAVEL and EXPLORE.

Are we calling visiting the same locations for the 100th time "exploration"?

While I would love to not have to do the run away-run back nonsense (esp when I have to do it again because I didn't go far enough the first time), I am just grateful surveys stack now.

Maggi12 wrote: »

This is a small QoL for those, who have a lot of survey maps.
Problem definiton:
Imagine you have several surveys in stack (lets say 5). You travel to survey location and farm them. Call you mount and run away from survey location. After reaching sertain distance you run back and farm next spawned survey nodes. And you have to do such "ping-pong" minigame 4 times! The more surveys you have, the more time you will spend in repetitive process.
How to solve:
There can be a few solutions. One of them is to make 'rich' nodes, wich could contain xN raw mats (where N is the amount of current investigating surveys in stack).


PS: I understand that survey system's (as well as treasure maps) intention is to give a player some exploration mini quests, the reason to TRAVEL and EXPLORE.

I just log out and in when that happens.

redspecter23 wrote: »

Log in/out works for the most part, but I have my doubts that anyone is doing it in 10 seconds total. You'll get a 10 second timer just to initiate the log out, not even counting your load screens.
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While reading your post i had got some thoughts.
A.) intruduce LARGE survey maps. And an npc or some sort of service in the game which is used to transform every 10 simple survey maps into 1 large survey map with x10 reward.
B.) Simplest solution is to change survey node respawn logic. After harvesting survey, system starts countdown timer (3 or 5 seconds) and then immediately respawns new survey nodes. I dont understand why developers did not implemented it that way.

Maggi12 wrote: »

Rungar wrote: »

just log out and log back in. takes like 10 seconds

Dude, imagine there is ppl who have tons of surveys. They collect them during some period of time and then go and farm.
10 seconds for relog? it is not funny. For me, it is about 1-2 minutes. Just waste of time. Imagine i would have spent 1 minute x 60 stacks = 1 hour of real time!!!

I agree. Having to go back to the character screen is a major delay in this process as well.

It is especially annoying since it is completely unnecessary. Material surveys are a reward for running the dailies, gathering them should not be so painful and time consuming.

Several reasonable solutions have been noted. I would prefer to just multiply the content of each node to the number of surveys we have, but I would like almost any solution that kept me from having to run away and back or logout and back in.

I just validated that the survey is used up even if you deposit it in your mobile banker after reaching the spot, so just multiplying the nodes and using up all the surveys should work the same way without significant additional coding.

(I was not trying to exploit that, I just wanted to know if the system handled it, as it should.)

My guildmate have offered another idea But i dont like it.
Here it is:
Add an NPC hireling who would fulfil certain boring tasks (like running for surveys).

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

increased server load? I say no.

What do you know about server loadings, and what affects (and how strong) to the server performance?
Why should generic player worry about server performance? do you have access to the game's server-side source code?
Or you want to look smarter?
Our job, as players (fans) is to bring ideas, suggestions. We shouldn't worry about performance (server-side), it is just not our task!

I was doing this with treasure maps last night. It is tedious when you have a stack of them.

I like the idea that the nodes (or even treasure chest) contents multiply by however many maps you have in your inventory. Only treasure maps don't stack.

It would be good

Maggi12 wrote: »

You travel to survey location and farm them. Call you mount and run away from survey location. After reaching certain distance you run back and farm next spawned survey nodes.

All this steps take seconds (console player here without add-ons)... I collect 10 surveys from the same location in less than 2 minutes...

Advise: Don't let the survey reports stack get higher than 10.

It is rather silly that you have to run away and back to the survey node, or login/logout to get it to respawn. So long as you have more that one of the same survey in your possession, the node should respawn immediately. Login/logout for each survey node will certainly put more strain on the servers than running off and back.

Personally, I don't mind too much, it gives me time to kill a few enemies or harvest a few other nodes here and there but it would be more efficient to just have the survey respawn immediately after you've harvested all the mats. Maybe 5 seconds would be enough time to let them respawn but maybe there's a reason ZOS made it work the way it does, possibly some server related limitations.

Would be really great. Good suggestion. The survey problem actually keeps me from doing crafting quests.

I was thinking it would be like

Blacksmithing - A huge mineral vein in a the cliff face (they seem to be placed under near cliff faces)
Jewelry - Also, a large mineral vein
Woodworking - A large fallen tree
Enchanting - A rune totem
Clothing - A large field and a boar (or whatever is native to area) nearby you need to hunt, one shot kill, doesn't run away.