Elder Scrolls: Online

[Epona]

I have news about the EU server.

The EU server is currently in the US.



And it will be during launch as well. Once launch is over, they will migrate it to the European datacentre. So... yeah. That's a whole bunch of... yeah.

Oh for fucking fucks sake. Excuse my language. The whole point, surely the only point, is so we have better ping. If it's actually going to be located in the US... I can't even be bothered to finish the sentence tbh

I did manage to log in, and immediately sent /feedback (about the duplicate install issue) possibly with a few too many words in shouty upper case to be taken seriously

 

[Vintage Paw]

lol, good for you Epona. I plan to use /feedback a fair bit this weekend.

They do plan on migrating it to the German datacentre, but not until after launch... they say it's so they can better monitor things. idk. I guess we don't understand the technical ins and outs, but it's going to annoy a lot of people. I'm one of them, since I wanted to be able to test early on what latency in Cyrodiil was like on both servers.

I'm also grumpy because it means I probably wouldn't have migrated to the EU folder today either. I know they want us to test it, but sometimes when things start getting frustratingly opaque to work out you're not sure if you're helping test or just frustrating things.

I wanted to play my DC character with someone I know, who is in the US but was thinking of switching to the EU server to play with me this weekend. I told him not to bother switching yet because it's a pain in the arse and his internet is ridiculously slow should he need to download anything again.

Blargle!

 

[Vintage Paw]

Now there's a report that using /reloadui breaks the escape key. So, I guess, don't do that!

 

[Vintage Paw]

Well, I've opened the launcher. I thought I'd see what happens - since I've only got the EU folder - if I changed the region to North America. My thought was that if it started a 30GB download I'd exit, and simply rename my EU folder - getting rid of the NA one it had just created - and reopen the launcher again, hoping it would work how it did for Epona way back when this whole thing started a few weeks ago.

However, while it did start downloading something, it's only about 5GB. So I don't know whether I should just let it run or not. It claimed to have straight away been at 50% (53%). I don't know if this means it's going to download a bunch more after, or if that's all that's needed, or what.

I don't know whether all of this is part of their testing - to see how we deal with the switching and so on - and therefore it might be open to change and finessing as launch approaches, or if wysiwyg and it'll be this goddamn awkward for the rest of time. It'd be useful if they would just tell us what is actually going on under the hood when we switch servers, rather than making us guess and fuck things up along the way.

 

[Epona]

Ok, here's my glitch for the day - started an Imperial, got halfway through Coldharbour, thought 'fuck, I didn't choose an alliance' and yep, I was not in the alliance I wanted. Deleted that character, started a new one. New character now stuck in Coldharbour, cannot get through the doors after picking up a sword.

I guess for every bug that closes, another one opens Naturally, I have reported the bug - but it's kind of a biggie, I won't be the only person ever who gets halfway through Coldharbour then thinks - "hold on, I buggered that up" and deletes.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Oh dear! Did you choose the same name? Maybe it hadn't had time to 'delete' the character fully from the server. idk. The mysteries of this game.

My 5GB downloaded, and it started applying a 5GB patch. I'm at 98% now. Who knows what will happen then. I'm playing Heroes of Dragon Age on my phone while I wait XD

 

[Vintage Paw]

"Unable to unzip manifest, please click repair."

Gawd.

 

[Vintage Paw]

After checking the files, now it wants to download the whole game.

THIS is why they need to get this stuff in place before the moment they open the beta servers. How can you test stuff for them if you're spending your entire weekend downloading the bleeding game.

 

[Epona]

lol, good for you Epona. I plan to use /feedback a fair bit this weekend.

Somewhere in the midst of my shouty outrage, I managed to insert the phrase "for the love of Akatosh".

Sometimes mild, sometimes angry. Always mindful of lore

 

[Epona]

Oh dear! Did you choose the same name? Maybe it hadn't had time to 'delete' the character fully from the server. idk. The mysteries of this game.

My 5GB downloaded, and it started applying a 5GB patch. I'm at 98% now. Who knows what will happen then. I'm playing Heroes of Dragon Age on my phone while I wait XD

Oh that bug disappeared on relog. I did report it though, no-one wants any game to fuck up like that within 10 minutes of start.

How have you ended up with it wanting to download the whole thing again? If it's cos of the whole NA/EU server thing, just duplicate the folder, make sure there are 2 folders, and make sure they are named appropriately (one should be The Elder Scrolls Online, the other should be The Elder Scrolls Online EU). I'm sure you've checked that already though, I'm just going through my 'beta forum' helpful poster routine :/

 

[Vintage Paw]

I might do that. At first it looked like it was only going to download 5GB, and the folder structure looked in tact, so I thought I'd let it do it, since it didn't take too long. But it was after that it said to repair, so I did, and then it started the full download.

I'm just wary of messing things up even more. Maybe I'll pause this one then, rename it to something the game won't recognise (in case anything goes wrong), and copy over as you suggest. I'm assuming having 2 folders is a necessity then, rather than just renaming them when we want to switch?

I just wish they'd tell us!

Edit: actually, screw that. While it's downloading the whole thing it still says 'repairing' - it's at 25% now, so I'm just going to let it run. I have more work I can be getting on with. It'll be finished soon enough. At least I know once it's done if it fucks up it'll have absolutely nothing to do with user error!

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Mine just isn't working at all. If I don't get any joy from either Reddit or ESO this evening, I'm going to nuke the lot and try a clean reinstall overnight.

 

[Epona]

Everything is up and running at my end, but my evening is being well and truly buggered by a 4kg bundle of black and white fluff who thinks he should get his dinner early and I have spent a good part of this evening so far trying to gently scrape him off my arm. The edge of my arm is all wet cos he keeps bloody biting me (not hard, but enough to be annoying) the little sod.

This is why voice chat scares me, no-one needs to hear me suddenly start screeching in pain/surprise with the words 'get off you little bugger, it's not tea time for half an hour yet' interjecting into the game.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

This is why voice chat scares me, no-one needs to hear me suddenly start screeching in pain with the words 'get off you little bugger, it's not tea time for half an hour yet' interjecting into the game.

I greatly amused a WoW raiding party once when they heard me yelling at the kids to GET BACK INTO BED AND GO TO SLEEP!!!!!!

 

[Vintage Paw]

That's why we need to collectively work out what this push-to-talk malarkey is. I, too, am wary of people listening to me swearing at the cat as he walks across my laptop keyboard to get to the cushion I rest my arm on... because obviously the rest of the sofa isn't comfortable enough for him.

Download has finished, it's 'applying patch' now... and is at 65%.

One day I'll get on there!

I'm most likely going to be on the US server though. Because I won't put my American person through the ordeal of having to potentially download a bunch of stuff and get frustrated... he's probably not even going to buy the game so he really doesn't need the hassle! And now we know the EU server is in the US...

 

[Vintage Paw]

It seems that issues with switching around and so on - renaming folders and the like - can be solved by deleting the folder named 'game' under your Elder Scrolls Online [EU] folder. It's only about 100mb, and will be patched when you run the launcher again.

But adkjnfskjdgnkfsjgn I just wish they'd put out some official guidance on this. They could solve a hell of a lot of problems.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

21404 MB remaining. I calculate it's about 8.5 hours of download.

 

[Epona]

Radar has now had his tea, so I can go back to gaming without a cat in horrid bitey mode attached to me. My other cats aren't like this, he's just a little sod. Love him dearly mind you, but he's not the easiest pet bless him!

 

[Epona]

21404 MB remaining. I calculate it's about 8.5 hours of download.

Ouch. :/

 

[Vintage Paw]

Mine's done, I think. Let's see if I can log in.

I really sympathise with you, Buddy. I expect they'll be getting a LOT of feedback about this this weekend.

 

[Epona]

How are you all set for tomorrow or Sunday (you should be downloaded by tomorrow Buddy Bradley ?) for getting together a little group for some fun in Cyrodil? If we all have characters in the same alliance on the same server mind you.

I have a DC character who is level 12, and I can put some work in tonight to level up one of the others to lvl 10. I've stuck with the NA server (I think), anything else just seemed like too much hard work.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I'm not doing much over the weekend, so I'd be up for that. Planning to start a new Argonian to test the tutorial, and my highest level char isn't 10 yet, so I'll need some time before I can get into Cyrodil.

 

[Epona]

Cool, if I try to get my 2 level 8 characters up to level 10 then I'll have a choice and can fit in with you.
Vintage Paw - you up for it? Just an hour or two at some point over the weekend.

 

[Vintage Paw]

It sounds great to me. Yeah, I've stuck with the NA server.

I'm just starting a breton templar in DC now. She might make it to 10 by then. Otherwise, I have a dunmer dragonknight (lvl13) in EP, and a bosmer nightblade (lvl 11) archer in AD (I haven't played her for a couple of weekends so I am not sure I can remember how!).

I warn you - I just bought a new mouse and it's taking a while to get used to. So I will likely suck a lot

 

[Vintage Paw]

Oh, I knew there was a reason I tabbed out.

Loot. So much loot in Coldharbour now. Lots of things to loot before you even get to Lyris. Okay, so most of it is damned fishing bait, but still XD

 

[Epona]

I warn you - I just bought a new mouse and it's taking a while to get used to. So I will likely suck a lot

I promise you, if there's a league table of 'sucking bad' I may beat you to the top rank and I cannot blame it on a new mouse.

 

[Radar]

I have news about the EU server.

The EU server is currently in the US.



And it will be during launch as well. Once launch is over, they will migrate it to the European datacentre. So... yeah. That's a whole bunch of... yeah.

Utter arseholes

 

[Vintage Paw]

I can tell you, that bank slot upgrade makes the world of difference. I looted the becheeses out of Coldharbour and managed to get my inventory down to 7

Now I've just got to work out how the hell to get out of Glenumbra and back to Stros M'Kai. I do not like that decision.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Hmm, it doesn't do a good job of letting you know you might want to go and see these 2 entire other areas. I figured it would be at the docks, but a new player is just going to look around the city and never know to go back. I worry.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Hmm, it doesn't do a good job of letting you know you might want to go and see these 2 entire other areas. I figured it would be at the docks, but a new player is just going to look around the city and never know to go back. I worry.

Is there really any reason to strongly encourage players to go back and do them? If they don't do anything to specifically introduce particular aspects of gameplay, or fill in necessary parts of the main quest, then skipping it won't really matter, will it?