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Are you claiming you cleared five VR zones with a group in 6 hours? If so that is pretty impressive.

Whether you are doing it intentionally or not, you are resorting to a strawman argument. Nowhere did I assert that VR content was tuned to challenge a 4 man group. You are changing the argument there. What I said was that VR content was designed for grouping. Duoing is grouping by the way.

My source? I read it on the PTS forums a couple months back. Additonally, you and Vitality have confirmed it in your replies. You just said the TTK for PVE mobs is a lot longer and you have to dodge/block to avoid dying. That is completely opposite of the 1-50 game where mobs die in a few...

You may be able to solo in VR+ content, but it's not by design as evidenced by the fact the mobs are on steroids like Bondurant alluded to, they take a lot longer to kill, and you have less room for screwups. You also alluded to it by pointing out how duoing makes it much simpler, which was my...

Remember back about 2-3 months ago when there was a lot of complaining in the forum from weekend beta testers (limited to the newbie zones) that the PVE content did not seem like a MMO because it focused on soloing and did not promote grouping? I told everyone back then that this was "The...

In that case it sounds like standard SDLC procedures (if the guy is legit). Every software project I have worked on cut staff once we transitioned from the development and test phase into operations and maintenance phase. When I worked as a consultant, that always meant I was one of the ones...

I guess some people think it makes them look cool and gives them street cred on the forum, especially when they call people who like the game faggots. There are also some people who will hate on a MMO if it fails to completely immerse them and compel them to play every waking moment of the...

Its been 15 years since I took my Oracle classes but database logging is pretty much a fundamental core feature of the database and simple to enable. I really find it hard to believe that any MMO developer doesn't have it enabled. BTW why would ZOS lay off the senior developers responsible...

Condensed version: Utnayan wants to overdose on the Blue pill.

I'm guessing ZOS has a pretty good idea what realistic amounts of gold and crafting materials a player can legitimately acquire over the course of leveling up. I'm level 35 and just now accumulated 42k gold to buy a horse. If another level 35 is sitting on 1 million gold, that is a huge red...

Why does everyone assume a developer will devote developer resources to prevent exploits like this? Should they even try to prevent it? Some clever cheater figured out a way to exploit the hireling email system. That is obviously something that needs to be stopped so what is the best way to...

When a US developer/publisher like Trion adapts an Asian MMO for English speaking players, what exactly do they do (high level perspective)? Do they 1) take the original developers design doc, specs, algorithms, requirements, etc and recode the game from scratch in English following the...

We live in an era where the large majority of gamers want to have everything handed to them on a silver platter. Finding all the skyshards and lorebooks on your own is a challenge ZOS gave the players. Of course there are already addons and websites that show you where all of those are...

I had no problems with loading screens over the weekend. However, when I played I wasn't playing in US prime time. Does your problem get noticeably worse during US primetime or does it affect you all the time?

Is there an estimated release date yet?

Thanks for the detailed writeup. I personally enjoyed WoW up thru WotLK so the themepark PVE design, with tab targetting and skills on cooldowns don't bother me at all. My playtime is significantly a lot less than it was when I started playing EQ1 back when it came out. Avoiding getting a...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds to me like the PVE leveling in this game is essentially the same as what countless people on this forum have been complaining about for years (WoW clone themepark) and on the same level of bad as Neverwinter or Tera quests. However, this is tolerable for...

I remember when ShowEQ packet sniffer came out and people were able to reverse engineer some of the major design algorithms of EQ1. It was then that we were able to confirm much of EQ1 was spaghetti code that somehow worked despite all the design flaws. IMO EQ1 was successful primarily...

Yesterday for the first time ever I watched a streamer on Twitch. IMO watching someone else playing a game versus actually playing one yourself has always seemed like a collosal waste of time but in this case since AAge is in closed testing, it seemed like a good way to see some of the basics...

Schilling also made the mistake of trusting the state government of Rhode Island. When the new governor got elected, the financial deal 38 Studios had with the state of RI was doomed.

Thanks for the link. I assume some people will do whatever it takes to become a pirate as quickly as possible. The deterrent of not being able to use any skills while you have the prison debuff will probably have zero impact on them. I would hope if the game allows PKers to gank and steal...

Ok if a player becomes a pirate in that manner, does that mean anyone can kill them and take their stuff without acquiring criminal points? Also, if someone gets put into prison, in functional gameplay terms what is the actual penalty? Does that mean they can't login and play their character...

If I understood Kedwyn correctly, you can gank and steal from anyone at anytime. If you gank/steal from someone in your own faction you get criminal points. What happens to the griefers who focus on ganking players from their own faction and who rack up massive amounts of criminal points? I...

When you say there are two main factions, do you mean something hard coded into the game like Horde vs Alliance, Republic vs Empire, etc or something else? If there are two main hardcoded factions like Horde vs Alliance, I'm confused with what you mean when you say that guilds can form their...

This is correct. We were told right before launch PTS would be brought back online a couple of weeks after launch for Craglorn testing. What ZOS should do IMO is open up PTS to everyone and start them off with VR10 characters. There weren't many VR10s in my PTS guild (invited in January)...

I didn't play any of those three games. What comparisons to UO, EQ1, WoW, DAOC, TESO etc can you make? A sandbox game with open world PVP where other players can steal/destroy your property sounds a lot like UO to me.

The two things I agree with the most in that list is Time to Kill needs to be long and PVP needs to be meaningful. GW1 had the best Time To Kill of any MMO I've played. IIRC GW1 PVP matches were 8 on 8 and two well designed teams (in terms of their team build ) could have some long, epic...

Something had to be done because the torch dungeons and public group dungeons have become jokes. Last night I went thru a torch dungeon, got the skyshard, and got to the final bosses spawn point. There had to be at least 15 players waiting for the boss to spawn. The boss finally spawned and...

Aiming your heals is already in the game with Blessing of Protection and Steadfast Ward. If you aren't aiming at the person who needs healing when you use those two abilities, they won't get healed.

Just curious, but have you actually tried healing with a resto staff in a private dungeon? Whack-a-mole healing is significantly a lot easier than TESO healing IMO.

On really? How so? I haven't seen any MMOs with private dungeons more challenging and as fun as TESO's since vanilla WoW.

Do you prefer MMOs that are challenging and allow skilled players to stand out from the crowd or do you prefer MMOs where the difficulty has been dumbed down and everyone can complete end game content and get decked out in epic gear?

The level 1-50 PVE content by design is supposed to replicate the TES single player experience. The group content while leveling is pretty much limited to the private group dungeons. The PVE content starting with VR1 and beyond is designed for groups. Doing the VR1+ PVE quests is best done...

Were you trying to dispute what I said?

You doing that in VR private dungeons or Cyrodil public torch dungeons in a grind group? Big difference between the two in terms of mob difficulty. There is also no AOE taunt in the game so the only way it will work for you is when you are outDPSing everyone else in your group. Once again...

That was a bug that hit everyone this weekend. Hopefully got fixed.

I actually hope the players who aren't smart enough to figure out this game's group dungeon mechanics quit. That is preferable to them whining and complaining the PVE dungeon content is too hard because there is no AOE tanking, the healer keeps dying, the group keeps wiping, etc and getting it...

Not even close. The few people who have said they won't subscribe are primarily the same people who said up front they would likely only play the first 30 days to get their money's worth from the box purchase. My bet is at least 3 years before it goes FTP.

I've seen that complaint voiced several times. I think a lot of what you are experiencing is you are getting hit with a stun but the crappy UI does not do anything obvious to inform you that you got stunned so you keep pressing buttons but nothing is happening. The reason it may be happening...

I don't think there are a "bunch" of VR10s out there yet. I think most of the people who have been playing every day for a few hours at a time are all around VR6. I don't think we even have a VR10 in guild yet.