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Oh god, I know. I haven't been looking at zone chat so I don't know what it's like, but guild chat has a fair few people mentioning that everything is too high a level for them. I wish they'd have done it the other way around. I actually really rather like the opportunity to buy my horse and join the guilds as soon as I leave Coldharbour, but it's just far too easy for people to miss that they should go back - even though they moved the quest giver. I think they could have had it work quite well, but only if they'd had the time to do it properly. As it is, the shoe-horned in dialogue doesn't half put me off when it's done by a completely different voice actor than it should be :oops:

As for crafting, I'm realising I'm going to have to spread it about a bit. Looking at the amount of points you have to put into a craft in order to be able to continue crafting as you go up the levels it's just not going to be sustainable to do it for more than a couple.

So my bosmer is taking woodworking and clothing. My breton will take provisioning and smithing probably. Although my dunmer would be good with smithing, since she'll be using a 2h sword at some point (when not using a fire staff), whereas my breton will be using a bow and probably a resto staff. Maybe the breton can do provisioning and enchanting. But those take up a lot of space. My bosmer can make the staves for my dunmer and breton, and my breton's bows, and the armour for both. Wow, my bosmer is going to be busy!

I'll have finished researching my 3rd bow trait tomorrow when I log on, then I'll get started on some staff traits. I've taken the hireling perk for woodworking and clothing - I thought it was better to take them early to maximise the amount of stuff I'll get over time.

It's going to be hard juggling it all! Particularly as I'm having a really, really hard time trying to work out what class skills to take with my nightblade. I want to take all of them! I suppose I'll be sticking with a bow for the most part, so ranged skills and utility are my focus, but I was thinking of dual wield for a 2nd weapon, and that means I'd do well to have closer-range stuff for that. And I wanted to do more with the shadow line as well. The siphoning line is my main focus because it's just so goddamn amazing though. But gah. I want it all!
 
Vintage Paw - absolutely agree on all counts. I'm all in favour of people having freedom to go where they like (on the proviso that it is not level-scaled to the player and they may get their backside handed to them in certain areas), but all it needed was to start them in the original starting area and have a boat/skipper NPC that could take them back and forth from there if they wished (at least the first time, since wayshrines are an option after that), rather than dropping them in a later zone from the off - and it seems in a lot of cases people are not even realising that there are other islands with low level content to explore.

It's a bit of a pain juggling all the crafting at the start, I really like the crafting and want to do all of it and will probably split it over several characters. One of my characters is a level 18 provisioner now, and has put points into chef and brewer because it's a nice little earner creating more portions - a session at a cooking fire after questing and looting everything in sight and then selling all the cooked goods can net me a few hundred gold on a bad day, which is often more than the quest reward. I also took hireling perks for woodwork/clothier/smith, because as you say it's good to get started on that early, I'm already getting blue quality improvement items so it looks as though it will be worth it as they are otherwise hard to come by.
 
Oh also just as a thought - it feels more natural to people who like questing and story-heavy games to clear up quests area by area, so it's not in the slightest bit abnormal for people to think 'lets do all the quests in this location before getting on a boat to go somewhere else'. I would undoubtedly think that way if I didn't know any different.

Edit: Morrowind is one of the most "do what you want" games I have ever played, but it still set you down in a village which had some easy quests to get you started, a few rats and mudcrabs around, and an instruction to "deliver this package to Balmora" which started the main quest. You could either do that, or you could postpone/ignore it and wander off wherever you wanted. But you were still dropped in that one area with one start to the main quest. This is like if Morrowind started you at a position half way through the main quest (such as Urshilaku Camp) with a poorly-signposted method of going back to Seyda Neen and picking up the package to start the story at the beginning. Arse about face. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but they made a mistake and it's confusing to new players.
 
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I don't know - the "go back to the islands" questgiver was pretty much impossible to miss, and the instructions are pretty clear ("take this quest, go talk to this person down at the docks"), so it's an active choice not to take it. Plus your journal quests are clearly aimed at specific levels, so if you're L3 and you choose to try the L6 quests in your book first, it's your own fault.

I agree the writing could be improved to make it a stronger recommendation to take the quest. Personally, I'd advocate for having the questgiver be in the room with you when you wake up, to make it almost impossible to ignore/miss.
 
There are massive problems with the NA servers right now. They've been down for maintenance for 8 hours... and counting.

Apparently people were able to log into other people's accounts - without even trying. They'd log into their own, but suddenly be in someone else's, with access to everything that entails. Some people were losing everything from their bank (possibly related, possibly not) and there were big problems with the mail system.

Apparently the EU server doesn't have this problem.

That's a pretty serious problem (or series of problems). I hope they manage to get it sorted soon.

They are also planning on pushing out a new build to us all today.
 
God, I'm installing Mumble. I have no idea what I'm doing.

The reddit guild is having an event at 8pm - everyone's meeting up for a guild picture :D
 
But of course all guild functionality has just been disabled, moments before we were due to organise groups to meet up.

Best laid plans, and all that.
 
Some EU people are apparently starting to suffer the same problems the NA folks did yesterday: disappearing bank items etc.

Uh-oh.
 
EU server going down.

And we were just on the cusp of taking back a keep.

Well, I say on the cusp. I mean we'd got the wall down but there were about 20 of us, and lots of them.

Damned EP have taken every single keep on the map XD
 
Thanks for the birthday wishes :)

Ah well, at least for the EU server presumably since they already did the NA there will be less "ok, who the fuck broke what and how do we fix it?" (at least this is the way I imagine Zenimax HQ sounded most of the day) and hopefully it won't be down for so long.

NA server also got a patch, so if that hasn't rolled out on EU server yet, expect to have to patch when it comes back online. I haven't been keeping up with the EU server since the NA one came back up, my crafter there had research that needed doing, and I want my other NA character to make level 10 at some point so I can start to do some PvP with the guild.
 
Servers are back, but hold off on patching.

Lots of problems. It's deleting people's games, telling them to reinstall. Not for everyone, but for a lot of people.

Best wait for them to find out what's going on. ZOS know about it.
 
Mine went OK but yeah a lot of people are having to redownload from scratch.

ESO are giving an extra 2 'free' days to those with early access to make up for the server issues this week, meaning that the standard 30 days included now starts on the 6th instead of the 4th - I think that's pretty decent of them really, I didn't expect early access to be wrinkle-free anyway and that seems like a decent goodwill gesture.
 
Everyone in guild irc is having the problem, so I'm holding off on dealing with it until tomorrow. It's late now anyway, and I generally stop playing at around 1pm.
 
Oh on another note, I'm having CPU bottleneck issues - low fps, gpu not breaking into a sweat, but all 4 cpu cores maxed a lot of the time.
If you guys are getting decent framerates and are on PC would you mind posting your CPU spec so that I can determine whether it is within reasonable bounds for overclocking or whether I need to bite the bullet and upgrade!
Ta :)
 
I've been getting about 30fps in decently populated outdoor areas, sometimes higher - higher indoors. I haven't experienced a really frantic Cyrodiil yet, just maybe 40-50 players sieging a keep at most. I'd turned down draw distance a bit at that point, but usually everything is on max, inc. draw distance.

My cpu is i7-3630QM @ 2.4Ghz (not OC). I had the option of a better one when I was putting together my order for this laptop, but chose not to because at the time MMOs weren't really my focus, so my money went on the 7970M gpu instead. Still, I'm happy with the performance overall. Once true fullscreen is enabled it'll help a bit, I'd think.
 
In other news, in their store they only have 1 clothing item available for women, and everything else for men. And the men's styles are 1/4 off right now, whereas the lone women's t-shirt is not.

I have grumbled at them via twitter.
 
Vintage Paw said:
In other news, in their store they only have 1 clothing item available for women, and everything else for men. And the men's styles are 1/4 off right now, whereas the lone women's t-shirt is not.

I have grumbled at them via twitter.
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Bloody hell, that's a bit off! I tend to wear mens tops myself but it's the principle of the thing, I'll also have a grumble somewhere about it.

Thanks for the CPU info, not sure why mine is being difficult, I'll have to look into the differences between them to see what yours has that mine (AMD Phenom II 965x4 3.2GHz) doesn't. It's not unplayable or anything like that (yet!), just dropping down to below 30 in cities, so slightly noticeable. (It's definitely not my gpu - a GTX670 2Gb - it's barely being used)

I just had an absolute whale of a time with my NA Dunmer Nightblade, grouped up with someone to do pretty much the entire Balreth questline as a duo and we took him down and had fun doing it. Big step forward from a few months ago when shy unsociable old me was quaking in my boots at the thought of playing a game with other people :D :oops:
 
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I've read some people having a good 10fps drop since 1.01.

Also, the Palomino horse in the shop... is $14.99

Ouch.
 
Vintage Paw said:
I've read some people having a good 10fps drop since 1.01.

Also, the Palomino horse in the shop... is $14.99

Ouch.
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Blimey, that makes the oft-ridiculed Oblivion "Horse Armor" DLC look like a bargain. Meh, I used to ride a palomino horse for free (she was brain damaged after tetanus, kicked the shit out of me and killed 3 goats so not a great memory), not going to pay to get a particular colour of horse in game.

Anyone seen a dark fissure yet? I have done a dark anchor and when we had closed it my Khajiit started dancing, and then other Khajiit gathered around to play music, it was a great moment :D And I got some fairly decent loot from the multitude of daedra - not anything mindblowing but decent stuff with traits - 2 weapons, 2 pieces of armour, and other bits and pieces.

EDIT: If other people are having fps drops since the patch that may explain why I didn't notice anything wrong until recently!
 
CRAP, I just lost several recipes and a motif book in my bank, I put them in there with 1 char, logged out, logged back in with my crafter to pick them up to learn them and they weren't there. I double checked each character to make sure I hadn't accidentally stored them on a character instead of in the bank, but they are gone.
Those motif books are currently hot property in some parts, if I didn't actually want it myself I could have sold it for a fair wedge. I couldn't bear to look and see if anything else was missing :(
I submitted a slightly upset /bug report, I thought they had fixed this already. If it's not fixed for actual launch it's not going to be pretty.
 
That sucks. :(

I'm waiting for a response to my ongoing UserID issues - they changed it, but it doesn't seem to have actually been changed in-game for some reason. :confused:
 
I hear it takes a little while for it to filter through in game. Leave it a couple of hours or so then submit another ticket with them

That sucks, Epona. Did you have a rollback, or is it the infamous disappearing bank bug do you think? A few have been suffering from rollbacks.

And yes, I've done 2 dark fissures - both the same one actually. A nice little challenge, really. CC really helps in this game.
 
Vintage Paw said:
I hear it takes a little while for it to filter through in game. Leave it a couple of hours or so then submit another ticket with them

That sucks, Epona. Did you have a rollback, or is it the infamous disappearing bank bug do you think? A few have been suffering from rollbacks.

And yes, I've done 2 dark fissures - both the same one actually. A nice little challenge, really. CC really helps in this game.
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No it wasn't a rollback - my AD Khajiit picked up a load of recipes in the bank area in that first city you go to in Auridon (excellent area for finding recipes and motifs), put them in the bank, I logged out and logged back in with my crafter and none of the stuff my Khajiit put in the bank was there :( This all happened in the space of a few minutes. :(
 
I loot that place too, cabinets and dressers - best things in the game for loot ^^

Maybe you logged out too quickly after putting them in. It shouldn't work like that, but perhaps it does. Maybe it didn't get a chance to save it to the server?
 
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