Euro and NA playing on both servers is it Possible without doing a massive re patch everytime

Glithanes · April 2014

Can anyone answer this before I try it?
I would like to play on both but don't want to have to do massive patch every time that I switch servers?

Can anyone please, please answer this before I waste time trying it?
Look I just want to know if I fully download and patch both Euro and NA servers and keep them patched will I be to hop between playing on Euro and NA without doing massive re patch every time someone for the love of God if can answer me please?

Caran · April 2014

if you look into your Zenimax folder, there should be a "The Elder Scrolls Online" folder ... if you copy this folder to another place, rename it to "The Elder Scrolls Online EU" and copy it back into the Zenimax folder, you have both clients - there might be minimal patching.

mrinku · April 2014

So, just need to use 60GB of storage to get it to work? That sounds a bit odd.

Xionar · April 2014

Currently, I don't think there is a known workaround, besides reinstalling the EU client, once you do that, you can freely switch between the two I believe.

The reason for this is because they plan on doing maintenance at different times for both servers, because both areas have different prime times.

Basically if they allowed you to switch freely without having that other install, you'd be able to go into their server, with possibly a different version of the client, and that just doesn't really work...

KerinKor · April 2014

Trion's Rift client allows freely switching but if one region has been patched then you have to choose whether or not to do so as if you do you'll not have access to the other one and vice versa.

Given it's not practical for clients to be 'multi-versioned' then I think it's workable, at least you have the choice.

Seems to me Zenimax have designed the system to allow this kind of switching but botched the deployment of the launcher so that this patching nightmare exists .. and people reporting after doing the dual-installation losing the 'other' one next time.

KerinKor · April 2014

Just noticed Anet have announce GW2 is to get 'megaservers', be interesting to see if they overcome the horrible state we're in with ESO when it comes to layering and its' downsides:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-megaserver-system/

Crucually this comment:

This new system takes your party, guild, language, home world, and other factors into account to match you to a version of the map you’re entering. This will increase the odds that you’ll see the same people more often and play with people of similar interests.

I see no evidence Zenimax's system takes any of that into account, at all.

Hawke · April 2014

You could just download the game in a completely different folder.. so you have two launchers, one for EU and one for NA.

Falkko · April 2014

I reinstalled the game again, and it made a nice second folder called The Elder Scrolls Online EU. And it STILL launces me into the NA server.
Is there a way I can choose which server to launch? Something I need to configure?

Falkko · April 2014

And I still have only one launcher - it is in the directory outside both the ESO and the ESO EU directories. I have no idea where it points, as it is an application and I can't even view it.

Kemono · April 2014

@Falkko‌
Seriously?
Start launcher.
Click on a wheel icon in top right corner
Switch server. Press apply

You need only one launcherfor both version

Islyn · May 2014

^^ Wrong. Huge DL commences if you do that.

mutharex · May 2014

I have a folder called Launcher and 2 TESO folders, one for EU and one for NA. When I click the options and select NA, it will patch and run the NA version. When I select EU, it will patch and run the EU version. Not sure what you doing wrong

Rotherhans · May 2014

The main problem here is that the launcher sometimes behaves slightly wonky and that the data files of both servers may be exactly the same(after a patch on both) but some TXT etc, files differ.

So usually just renaming the directory leads to problems.
Unless a certain sequence has been kept, like

starting launcher
changing server
exiting launcher
deleting the directory with just started client download
renaming old client directory to new server
starting launcher
hoping repair function will work
remembering one is locked on this server until the other gets patched too

Now I briefly entertained the notion of using the windows symbolic link functionality to point to the .dat files only from the 2nd server directory.
So that one has to only have one actual copy of the client but the launcher sees two.

But I never tried this trick as quite frankly I´m having a hard enough time leveling on one server, let alone doing it all over again on another.