After returning to the game, I'm surprised to still not see the following QOL adjustments:

Cooperharley · December 21

- The option to have account-wide settings (i.e. camera settings, gameplay, social, combat) > having to set this up on every character is not a mountainous task, but still slightly irritating (especially keybinds)
- Mount training > still no option for a single (large) lump sum purchase as a gold sink or making it account wide after 90 days of mount training on a character
- Account wide unlocking of companions > surprised to see that there's not an option in your collections to just outright summon previously unlocked companions on a new character with the option to do the unlock quest if you'd like
- Decreased research time / account wide unlock of all traits (i.e. if you get 9/9 traits for daggers on your main, then all traits are unlocked on subsequent alts)
- Further options in group finders to speed up queues and reduce friction (option to select "open to any group composition" or option to "fill with NPCs/companions instead" similar to WoW's follower dungeons)

I would like to say that the addition of mount swimming is very nice

I'm probably missing some, but man, these have been harped on for quite a while and I've never seen the devs even talk about them. Curious why not... hope everyone is having a great holiday season

Tandor · December 21

They get occasional support from time to time, but I don't recall them being raised recently. ZOS messed up so badly with the way they introduced account-wide achievements that I hope they don't go down that route again with things like your suggestions for mount training, research/traits and companions.

A lot of people would certainly welcome account-wide UI settings but that needs to be an option so as to accommodate players that want different settings for different characters. A toggle would be fine.

valenwood_vegan · December 21

Part of it is they've suffered layoffs, probably budget cuts also... content has been reduced... they just don't seem to have the resources to tackle all the things that people want.

And we do know they're working on a couple of frequent requests that are bigger projects - like crossplay and overland difficulty; and other things like vengeance (not trying to argue about that one here folks, just saying it's something taking up dev time), and now the class rebalance.

I hope they can find the time and resources to get back to some of the smaller QoL projects that they've discussed but that seem to have fallen off the radar (another one that was talked about was updates / better tools for guilds and guild management).

Cooperharley · December 21

Tandor wrote: »

They get occasional support from time to time, but I don't recall them being raised recently. ZOS messed up so badly with the way they introduced account-wide achievements that I hope they don't go down that route again with things like your suggestions for mount training, research/traits and companions.

A lot of people would certainly welcome account-wide UI settings but that needs to be an option so as to accommodate players that want different settings for different characters. A toggle would be fine.

I think it goes without saying that "optional" is key and while you are so vehemently against account wide elements, there are many that are the opposite of you. So things being optional is what's important.

Cooperharley · December 21

valenwood_vegan wrote: »

Part of it is they've suffered layoffs, probably budget cuts also... content has been reduced... they just don't seem to have the resources to tackle all the things that people want.

And we do know they're working on a couple of frequent requests that are bigger projects - like crossplay and overland difficulty; and other things like vengeance (not trying to argue about that one here folks, just saying it's something taking up dev time), and now the class rebalance.

I hope they can find the time and resources to get back to some of the smaller QoL projects that they've discussed but that seem to have fallen off the radar (another one that was talked about was updates / better tools for guilds and guild management).

Yea i totally understand the big things like you've stated, but some of these smaller things are what surprises me, but i'm not a dev so what do i know?

Radiate77 · December 21

Our list of incomplete systems has really added up over the years.

Tandor · December 21

Cooperharley wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

They get occasional support from time to time, but I don't recall them being raised recently. ZOS messed up so badly with the way they introduced account-wide achievements that I hope they don't go down that route again with things like your suggestions for mount training, research/traits and companions.

A lot of people would certainly welcome account-wide UI settings but that needs to be an option so as to accommodate players that want different settings for different characters. A toggle would be fine.

I think it goes without saying that "optional" is key and while you are so vehemently against account wide elements, there are many that are the opposite of you. So things being optional is what's important.

I'm not vehemently against account-wide elements, I fully recognise different people have different views. However, I do feel that a balance between character-based and account-wide elements is important and things have moved too far in a direction that even those who wanted account-wide achievements didn't like so far as the implementation was concerned - and of course its biggest issue is that it wasn't optional, and we agree that is what's important.

Necrotech_Master · December 21

i would absolutely agree for sure on the mount training, companion unlocking, and game settings parts

the companion unlocking is especially irksome to me and ive straight up forgone bothering with companions (outside of unlocking at least 3, one tank, one healer, and one dps companion)

AcadianPaladin · December 21

Fix the diaperbutt bug on the Timbercrow Wanderer costume. If Almalexia can wear a loincloth flawlessly, why can't my elf? Given the cost (in blood or treasure) to get this costume, it is quite irresponsible/negligent to leave it in such a defective state since the costume's introduction way back in 2016.