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New Antiquity lead duration extensions and ESO+ expiration?
JeroenB
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It's nice that ESO+ now extends the durations for antiquity leads. I do not recall reading anywhere what happens to existing lead durations when ESO+ expires, however. My abysmal search skills have not turned up an answer either. Presumably others did pick up this information, or have experienced it first-hand in-game by now, so I hope someone can enlighten me.
Say a given lead normally has a duration of thirty days, and with ESO+ this is sixty days. If one lets the sixty-day timer run down to twenty days remaining and then ESO+ ends, what happens?
To phrase the question differently, is it possible for a lead with time remaining (say >1 week) under ESO+ to suddenly have no time remaining and be lost when ESO+ ends? Or will there always be a few days left, by whatever mechanism?
This is of interest to me as I use a payment method for ESO+ without automatic renewal, so ESO+ expires 'unexpectedly' each time.
Say a given lead normally has a duration of thirty days, and with ESO+ this is sixty days. If one lets the sixty-day timer run down to twenty days remaining and then ESO+ ends, what happens?
- Expired? (The extra ESO+ duration is a pool of additional duration that is consumed after the normal duration.)
- Twenty days remaining? (The extra ESO+ duration is a pool of additional duration that is consumed before the normal duration.)
- Ten days remaining? (ESO+ scales the duration, and the game tracks percentage consumed not absolute time consumed. (This is how the ESO+ research timer shortening works I believe.))
- Something else?
To phrase the question differently, is it possible for a lead with time remaining (say >1 week) under ESO+ to suddenly have no time remaining and be lost when ESO+ ends? Or will there always be a few days left, by whatever mechanism?
This is of interest to me as I use a payment method for ESO+ without automatic renewal, so ESO+ expires 'unexpectedly' each time.
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lillybit✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭It's nice that ESO+ now extends the durations for antiquity leads. I do not recall reading anywhere what happens to existing lead durations when ESO+ expires, however. My abysmal search skills have not turned up an answer either. Presumably others did pick up this information, or have experienced it first-hand in-game by now, so I hope someone can enlighten me.
Say a given lead normally has a duration of thirty days, and with ESO+ this is sixty days. If one lets the sixty-day timer run down to twenty days remaining and then ESO+ ends, what happens?- Expired? (The extra ESO+ duration is a pool of additional duration that is consumed after the normal duration.)
- Twenty days remaining? (The extra ESO+ duration is a pool of additional duration that is consumed before the normal duration.)
- Ten days remaining? (ESO+ scales the duration, and the game tracks percentage consumed not absolute time consumed. (This is how the ESO+ research timer shortening works I believe.))
- Something else?
To phrase the question differently, is it possible for a lead with time remaining (say >1 week) under ESO+ to suddenly have no time remaining and be lost when ESO+ ends? Or will there always be a few days left, by whatever mechanism?
This is of interest to me as I use a payment method for ESO+ without automatic renewal, so ESO+ expires 'unexpectedly' each time.
I wondered about that too. It would be really annoying to have a payment problem so it was delayed a couple of hours and leads with up to 6 months left disappeared.
Ideally they'd run at the same time - a day of each used every 2 days - but knowing ZoS the extra time will be tacked on at the end.PS4 EU0 -
Danikat✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I had a month of ESO+ which ended a few weeks ago. When it ended all the leads I had reverted back to their default time remaining. There was no gradual loss of the extra time or anything like that, it just cut the remaining time on each of them.
I'm not sure what happens if that would cause them to expire though. I didn't have any from before then and because even the normal timers were extended they were all over 30 days.Edited by Danikat on May 21, 2026 3:36PMPC EU player | She/her/hers | PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!
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JeroenB✭✭✭✭I had a month of ESO+ which ended a few weeks ago. When it ended all the leads I had reverted back to their default time remaining. There was no gradual loss of the extra time or anything like that, it just cut the remaining time on each of them.
I'm not sure what happens if that would cause them to expire though. I didn't have any from before then and because even the normal timers were extended they were all over 30 days.
Interesting, thanks. Hopefully we can get some more data points.
Personally I hope it uses scaling, that seems the most fair.0 -
Gabriel_H✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭GIven how other things that have varying values depending on ESO+, I'd presume that any existing lead keeps its current time remaining, and any new lead found is at the non-ESO+ time.
Would be good for ZOS to clarify.
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