I found the list of old Provisioning recipes.

I didn't get to try out provisioning during my time in the beta, but reading up on it it sounds like something I'd like far more than the current system. Well, aside from the inventory nightmare all those ingredients would cause.

Anyways, a neat little reference for the type of foods eaten around Tamriel, considering the food was faction-locked. On the other hand it seems like a few of those recipes had their faction mixed up. A great start either way.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Jan 30 2017, 05:15 AM

That seems to pretty well describe how the Provisioning has worked since One Tamriel on the regular servers. On the PTS and doing the Master Writs - they always seemed to give you a Writ for a recipe you weren't given in your packages (when they were supposed to have given you every recipe in them). I had to abandon one Master Provisioning Writ because I couldn't find the recipe at any vendor (and there is no access to Guild Stores on the PTS). Of all the Master Writs, the Provisioning was the most frustrating and glitchy.

"Today in Tamriel" almost didn't happen for me this Sunday; thanks to Steam. I normally stay in "Offline" mode on Steam just to keep them from constantly running their BS in the background while I'm gaming (whether I'm on their games or not) - and I also have them set to not update unless I'm online, that way I can avoid any patching until I hear if it is bug-free.

Well, I went online with Steam yesterday to do something, and while on there they updated. I let them finish, then put them back offline and went to play some ESO - and they had deleted Zenimax's launcher connection and stuck one of their own launchers on my desktop! I found the script text where they did it! So then it wanted to re-install my whole game (a full day's process) for some reason.

Well, I was terrified of losing my game if I let them continue; not just losing Misa after 2+ years of building her to veteran levels; but the million plus in gold I had stored up for a house! And they were showing none of my DLC that I had bought as owned in their update - some I've owned a year or more!

So I had no way to access my game anymore till I let them do this "Update;" they had effectively cut me from my game till I did it through them; and I had no guarantee or knowledge my game as I know it would be there when I accessed it through them.

Luckily enough, just two weeks ago I made a back-up of my game files. It was another 100 gig of used space on my PC, but well worth it after this incident!

I hid their script in a new file I named something with a derogatory reference to Steam; (didn't want to delete it just in case it had done some other or permanent damage to my game, I wanted proof to confront Steam if I lost anything).

I reblocked Steam from downloading anything more; then pulled out my back up copy of my game. So I only lost at the most two weeks of my game - quite a lot of gold lost, but at least the bulk of it was still there.

I don't see what right Steam had to delete the official launcher from Zenimax and force me to go through them; that seems to be overstepping their authority in my opinion. I bought the game through them, so they have their money; and I've been dealing directly with Zenimax since for playing and buying DLC, etc - why is Steam suddenly trying to hijack my game? They wouldn't gain anything by my DLC purchases anyway because I buy them through the Crown Store! Grrrrrrr.

Anyway, thank goodness my game was saved; I was able to undo all their damage and at a minimal loss of only gold - so WHEW !!!!

The moral of this situation is - if you have enough room on your hard drive or have an external drive you can use = back up your game files! And don't forget the settings in the Documents folders too!

Or just buy your game direct from the source, as I did.

From reading stuff on this forum and listening to my ESO buddies who have accounts purchased both ways (direct and via Steam), it seems to me that I have ducked a whole bunch of headaches this time around not going through Steam for my ESO game . . .

Aren't your characters tied to your account? This one is thinking you could log into a game at a friends house and it would load your characters, right?

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Jan 30 2017, 06:00 PM

No, even if your friend has ESO downloaded onto their PC.

In theory you should be able to do that; but it is verified to be you and not a hijacker by your IP address. So if you log in from a different one, then they want you to verify it is you and send you a verification email. You can (of course) log into your email at your friend's house, verify it, but then they say, "Okay, we will set this IP address permanently as yours."

So then you think you can just do that again when you get back home, switch it back? No, you can't. If it puts your friend's IP address as yours; and just like XBox Live, you can only change a certain number of times (like once) in a year.

If you try to go back and forth: you might end up only being able to play at your friend's computer instead of your home.

My son's game was in the next room, and I tried to bring his up on my computer rather than go into his room to play - it gave me a huge hard time, and that was right in the next room!






You sure have!





This post has been edited by mALX: Jan 31 2017, 03:29 PM

Wow. This one guesses it's a good thing their security is so tight but that could be annoying too.

Elke spends a lot of time at the crafting stations in Vulkhel Guard with frequent battle breaks when the local Dark Anchor drops. Yesterday a dark-haired Nord (probably, he was large) caught her eye. Instant crush. She was too shy to talk to him. Today when she heard the siren song of daedric activity on the hill, she charged in with one eye on the crowd looking for her guy. He was not there, but another dark-haired guy was. Still could not work up the nerve to talk to anyone, but she did whip out her lute between battles. Ended up in a dance party with a very fun Bosmer fellow. Now she plans to head up to the dolmen whenever she has a spare moment to see who might be there. Fun to see her sort of blossoming. I wouldn’t have guessed that she would be shy.

How fun for Elke!

Buffy tries to squeeze closing one of the Shadowfen dolmens into her evenings (more players) to serve dual purposes. First she is 'farming' purple 'Robes of the Hist' jewelry and, secondly, dolmens are superb training for her healing skills - lots of players doing unpredictable things at a fast pace and getting injured. Often she'll linger at the same dolmen for three cycles and call it a day. In between she often plays the lute - as if trying to 'summon' open the anchor.

She actually got a 'ty for da healz' from an adorable L6 fellow that she had to burst from a sliver of life to full health several times during an anchor closing.

Aww! That's sweet!

Pog got to go to a wedding! It was neat. I have never seen one before.

I was surprised how well everyone behaved, since the celebrants invited the entire zone. Shortly after the ceremony and well-wishing someone noted all the tasty AD in the crowd (they were in Vulkhel Guard) and suggested moving the reception to Cyrodiil. Then a bunch of dueling flags went up and at the same time an orgy commenced. Pog removed himself to the nearest delve. Yikes.

Bahahaha! People really do that sort of thing?!

Oh my god, you were there, too?

Well, I was just in the zone gathering materials, but still. It spilled into Zone Chat.

BWAAHAA! They didn't expect to see AD in Vulkhel Guard, !!!!!!


Hope the union doesn't produce any offspring, BWAAHAA!!!!

If you "Marry" another player, every time you play with them your XP is doubled or something. But once you marry them, you are stuck - can't marry anyone else. So if they get mad at you and refuse to play with you - you lose that XP boost.

I still have my "Pledge of Mara," haven't used it.

Khajiit didn't know any of that. Doesn't sound like something he'd ever do though.

Well, for two years now I have played every day for at least a few hours online with this friend of mine from another site. Neither of us wanted to do the "marry" thing just to get the XP; so we didn't = but if we had done it, I'd say it would have made a huge difference in how high level our characters are now - especially since they were raised up during the days of Veteran levels instead of the Champion Point System.

So it is very reasonable from a logical standpoint why people would do it; but from what I've read on the forums about those who have - kind of doesn't work in practice, because the majority that are writing about it have ceased to play with their partners of choice for whatever reason and are now seeking a way for Zenimax to give them a divorce so they can find another XP partner, lol.

I think it is amazing that Buffy can watch what is going on when a Dolman is being closed! Everything is moving so fast in them now, and always smoke rising from the spells (not to mention the blinding trails of lights the spells make).

Since One Tamriel I haven't been able to solo a Dolman anymore, and they have gotten almost impossible to fight with a crowd. I've taken to parking my character (whichever) just to the right of the steps and having her spin to win till it closes. They can always hits something in that spot, and it is where the big bosses spawn, so they catch the achievements that way.

Calia actually trained on the Dolman that Grits is talking about right behind Vulkhel Guard, that one always had a crowd at it, lol.




This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 2 2017, 07:55 PM

Lol that sounds ridiculous! "Zenimax, give uz a divorz!"


Khajiit just did a FG extra quest in which Mira was asked to go close three Dolman in Stonefalls. Now, Mira Had helped close those before and enjoyed it! So chaotic!

This went on in Skyrim too; there were people wanting to divorce in the first day after the ability to marry was discovered - most especially those that married Lydia, for some reason,

In Skyrim thougn, you could kill your spouse! Er... I mean ... uh ... nothing.