katanagirl1 wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Nope. Gold Sellers would jump on them in a heartbeat.

I could see it now. Uncountable free accounts churning out daily writs for surveys.

This right here.

Would it be that, or bots collecting the surveys themselves with no competition from other players?

I was going to select the option to let them be sellable but either of these is a good reason not to.

Actually, probably both if they became unbound/sellable.

I'm fine for them to be account bound.
I'd really like that when you have multiple for one location that you can do them all in one go, and not have it be a grind of collecting - riding away - riding back - collecting.

Everything earnable in game should be sellable in game.

Thysbe wrote: »

DenverRalphy wrote: »

As a sidenote... you don't even need to log out and back in. Just preview or fast travel a house that you don't own, exit immediately, and voila, spawn reset.

Used to ride a bit away and then come back to have them respawn. The size of their cells is about what you would see with an anitquity lead on the Map. Some are small and some are bigger. Most of the time its just around the corner.

Have to try your method next time.

I will warn that I was using the "teleport to preview version of home" for farming surveys, but last few times I tried it in the past two weeks, the server would kick me out to the main login screen after a few times. Guess ZOS didn't like people using houses no one's paid for in that way.

So now, I do this when a survey's respawn is too inconvenient to activate by running away and back: I teleport to a housing preview no more than three times. On the fourth, I go into Imperial City instead. When you leave Imperial City via the Exit door, it'll put you right back where you were before you started your illicit housing tour. Rinse and repeat as many times as needed. Sometimes I'll deliberately tab out and do something else for a few moments so I don't look like I'm botting doing this sequence over and over. I trust ZOS's bot detection tactics about as much as I trust Cookie Monster in a Girl Scout cookie bakery.

(There's one jewelrycrafting survey that is SO annoying, I did this cycle for six straight hours to use up my 67 surveys. I could've knocked it out in probably well under one hour if I could've just run away and back to it, but you have to go to the moon and back to make that stupid survey respawn. And there's deep water, un-jumpable rock walls, and crocodiles everywhere interfering with a quick and easy respawn. I wanna meet whoever designed this survey. Just to talk, I swear. )

I don't have strong feelings about sellable surveys, other than concerns about bots being bots. But as someone who loves picking up treasure maps and surveys and leads, I wish we could sell our services via an in-game store the way we sell items through traders. Someone could make a listing where they put up their surveys/maps/etc. and whatever gold they're willing to pay, and if the amount offered was to my liking, I could take the job and harvest the items for them within a specific amount of time (or the listing and its items go back on the market). Upon doing that, the harvested items would automatically go to them, and the gold to me. But that sounds like something that would be waaaaaaay too complicated for ZOS to even try to implement—not to mention how some people would immediately try to grief or exploit the system—so it remains a fun dream.

RealLoveBVB wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

Everything earnable in game should be sellable in game.

Perfected trial gear too?

Yeah. Everything.