Today In Tamriel, ESO Character Updates and Stories Options

[Sakiri]

I seriously took my dw and 2h skills from the teens to 50 in about an hour and a half at spellscar with an xp scroll.

But if the pub dungeons are working, go for it.

[Acadian]

Spellscar is fun and good xp. I usually go there for kill frost or storm atronach endeavors.

[Renee]

Yesterday was 4/4/2024, which was ESO's anniversary release date. I know this because it was also the day I bought my gaming computer at Micro Center; 10 years later the beast still zips along! 🖥

But it was funny, that day in Micro Center. I'd researched which desktop tower I wanted to buy, knew they had it in stock, and made the 40 minute journey out of town. Since it was 4/4/2014, the salesman thought I was buying it for ESO, which he was ecstatic about!

Then the store manager came out from nowhere. He left his office/cozy lair because this crazy lady just walked in off the street, and dropped a bunch of money on one of their prebuilt desktops. The manager wanted to shake my hand!

"What sort of games do you like?"

Mainly RPGs I said, especially open-world ones. And also Sims games!

"Cool, so maybe I'll see you tonight in Tamriel!" he said. But naw, I didn't jump into ESO right away. Anyway, here's for ESO's anniversary...

[Acadian]

They are making a pretty big deal of the anniversary. A big party in Amsterdam I think and a big event ongoing in the game. I think you were wise to pass on the early days of ESO as it had a rough start. I watched the reviews and it turned around by 2016 so that's when Buffy went there. Still calling it home.

[Sakiri]

They're doing more. Germany, then Sweden, then a bunch of others and finally, NA.

Excuse me, Sweden, then Germany, etc.

NA is next year.

https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/s/kWsTicJH1K

[mALX]

Yesterday was 4/4/2024, which was ESO's anniversary release date. I know this because it was also the day I bought my gaming computer at Micro Center; 10 years later the beast still zips along! 🖥

But it was funny, that day in Micro Center. I'd researched which desktop tower I wanted to buy, knew they had it in stock, and made the 40 minute journey out of town. Since it was 4/4/2014, the salesman thought I was buying it for ESO, which he was ecstatic about!

Then the store manager came out from nowhere. He left his office/cozy lair because this crazy lady just walked in off the street, and dropped a bunch of money on one of their prebuilt desktops. The manager wanted to shake my hand!

"What sort of games do you like?"

Mainly RPGs I said, especially open-world ones. And also Sims games!

"Cool, so maybe I'll see you tonight in Tamriel!" he said. But naw, I didn't jump into ESO right away. Anyway, here's for ESO's anniversary...

Oh, what a wonderful story! I loved reading this, what a great memory that is to celebrate!

They are making a pretty big deal of the anniversary. A big party in Amsterdam I think and a big event ongoing in the game. I think you were wise to pass on the early days of ESO as it had a rough start. I watched the reviews and it turned around by 2016 so that's when Buffy went there. Still calling it home.

I actually liked it much better in 2015 than now = Before "One Tamriel" (although I DO like being able to play with friends in other Alliances now; remember when Misa couldn't meet Buffy? Lol).

[Burnt Sierra]

Yeah, I find just too much drivel on zone chat. So I disable zone chat. I still monitor whisper, say, yell, guild chats though and that cuts down so much junk.

Ok, seriously need you to tell me how to do this. NA zone chat in Auridon today is absolutely unbearable. I'm guessing the schools must be off?

[Acadian]

Sure. Access your chat box (I do this by typing /). At the top of the box it probably says 'Zone'. Right click on this to access options. Click off all the zone boxes. Done. Alternatively, you can click on the gear icon over the chat box and do the same thing.

I actually make two options - one with zone chat and one without. On top of the chat box there is probably a + symbol. Hit the + symbol and that will allow you to create a new tab, offering you options to allow/disable what you want on that tab. I leave everything enabled except zone. Then I label that tab as 'No Zone'. Now I have two options on top of my chat box: Zone (with everything enabled) and No Zone (with everything but zone chat enabled).

Hope that helps.

[Sakiri]

I like zone chat. The trash talking edgelords amuse me.

[ghastley]

The Frost Atronach crates have finally returned, several months later than I expected. But that means that Diablita gets revealed with her riding skills complete, Undaunted leveled, max rapport with her companion etc. so she's ready to go. Only a few traits left to research, too.

No hooves or tail, of course, and she's still wearing more than she'd like. We're hoping to get the right style page for a pitchfork on her back bar, but she's currently hiding the one she has via Gloambound. Her main weapon is the two-handed sword, like she preferred in Skyrim.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Apr 11 2024, 04:48 PM

[Sakiri]

Today in Tamriel the PTS and PC NA server databases got mixed up and they had to take everything down with no notice, and they're probably going to roll everything back a day.

I'm a wee bit annoyed.

[ghastley]

A day is the worst case, if they just restore the database to when it was copied over.

If there's any journalling, they can roll forward from that, maybe to the point they brought up the PTS and started overwriting stuff. I doubt they could roll backward, as the updates would be on two journal files, and conflict.

[Sakiri]

From what I picked up, they do their backups every 20m on characters, based on the issues in cyrodiil they had.

Hopefully we only lose a few hours tops. PTS had been up for 20m when everything went offline.

[Burnt Sierra]

Hope nobody here is affected by the temporary account locks from yesterday's PTS/ NA server problems!

[ghastley]

I was lucky. I attempted to log in to the PTS just as they shut it down, so did not actually connect. As a result, my NA account is back to normal, and I did not lose anything. EU was not expected to have any effect, but I confirmed that was good, out of paranoia.

I note that they are talking about “rolling back” affected accounts, so it appears that no global restore to an earlier backup was done. Only accounts that used PTS during the overlap would be affected, and it is possible the damage to NA could be reversed. Those players are being locked out until the work is done, and I assume the timescale stated is worst case, which is why any compensation will wait until the real losses are accounted.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Today, 01:25 PM