huntgod_ESO wrote: »How do you go offline and play? Is this a console thing? There is no offline mode for PC and wasn't aware of one for console.
huntgod_ESO wrote: »How do you go offline and play? Is this a console thing? There is no offline mode for PC and wasn't aware of one for console.
"I don’t want to see you logging through 10 crafting alts and I don’t want you to see me doing the same.
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This will suppress all those Friend Messages and all the other Annoying Messages the game throws at you
https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info865-Nothankyou.html
Much better account based than character based
Coming from LOTRO and SWTOR, having guilds tied to my account instead of each character separately was very, very awkward at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly. It makes more sense for ESO. The only thing I wish they'd change is let us set our social status on the character screen so I can 'appear offline' before I log in, not after.
Kiralyn2000 wrote: »I wish.
When I started the game I was severely disappointed that everything was account based.
I wish my healer/crafter was in 5 guilds and my sneaky thief was in none. Some characters I create to be alone. I know I can set myself as “do not disturb” in guild but that just opens up hard feelings. I don’t want to set myself to “offline” because then I can receive whispers when I’m out in the world.
I’ve gotten used to it now but I wish it was different. As a mitigation method I keep my friends list empty. I
You know, it's interesting. I don't mind having an Inspect Player option in a game (which, in threads this past month, apparently triggers OMG MY PRIVACY! in a lot of players)... but I utterly avoid having anyone on "friends" lists. Because the whole "Big Brother is watching you" aspect of them seeing when you log in/log out/etc just creeps me out.
That's why it's nice to have things not have account-wide guilds/friends/etc. Because even if one of your characters ends up in a guild or on someones list, you can just log in to one of your other characters when you're feeling anti-social (i.e, most of the time.)
edit: and yeah, I don't guild either. Partially because of the not wanting to be tracked thing, and partially because - I want my playtime to be my own. If I'm going to commit to a group of companions, I'll be beholden to them - helping them if they need it, spending my effort to support the group, etc. My playime wouldn't be mine. (and that's why I can't understand this whole "5 guilds of 500 people" thing... how can you possibly know all the members of even one of your guilds, let alone all of them? It's just too many - it's not a tight-knit organization of friends, but rather a giant crowd of random people. Like trying to say you're "friends" with everyone in your highschool, or all those dozens of "followers" on Facebook or Twitter. You can barely even be passing acquaintances with many of them. Seems wrong.)
Kiralyn2000 wrote: »
huntgod_ESO wrote: »How do you go offline and play? Is this a console thing? There is no offline mode for PC and wasn't aware of one for console.
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OneForSorrow wrote: »I don't have much of an issue with the guild system in this game, I just wish that the game showed my character name and only my character name. The account name thing makes me uncomfortable. It just doesn't seem very secure.
So being in big guilds of strangers who get to see half my account info each day angers the internet junkie in me.