Okay, so, we all know that a so called 'Mega-Server' is planned for TES: Online.

Looking at this idea, I can't find a single thing about it that strikes me as positive. Let's put my concerns into an example... Let's say you're a roleplayer. Not too unlikely, right? Okay. Now, let's say you'd like to play with people who happen to share this passion with you. Now what? How are, for the sake of this example, roleplayers going to find each other? They are rare enough as it is, at least in most modern MMORPG's, but a Mega-Server is just going to drown them in other players, whilst being unable to play the way they'd like to.

How do you think issues like this will be resolved? Do you think the developers even care about something like this?

Yes they do care, but it was a decision they made.

Do I think the developers care about something like this? Of course they do.

How do I think issues like this will be resolved? Well, similar to how you will be phased / grouped with friends, group members, and guild mates, there will probably be an option to toggle a role-playing flag on and off. Those with it on will likely be grouped with others who share that flag.

That's not helpful.


So, Roe, your explanation sounds pretty possible and also quite clever. Thinking about it, the system might even be more flexible than I first thought.

Theres filter for RP, and you miss the best point of it, because theres fitler, you can find RP-players very easily, we're ALL on same server, put them on friend list, hell make even a guild, also Ive suggested community tools, something bigger than guilds/friend-list, connected with facebook, google+, twitter etc.

Megaserver is best thing happened to this genre IMHO.

That's what a great deal of people aren't able to realize. There's loads of possibilities and useful little tools that can be implemented to benefit everyone, regardless of their playstyle.


Exactly. One server = larger population.

Well, way to get me interested in a system I thought to be absolutely flawed by it's very design. Thanks a bunch!

It's been stated that you will fill out a questionnaire, in which the "Roleplay" option will probably be there.

No offence, but you obviously haven't read much on the system if you need to ask that question/have concerns about something like that.

The Megaserver is a FAR better idea to old fashioned servers because upon joining the game you will be presented with a sort of questionnaire that will decide what type of players you play with. So if you so desire, you can select to play with other RPers so instead of like other games where maybe 75% of the population is RPers, you'll be playing with 100% RPers.

It is an incredibly intelligent system and is a fantastic step forward for the genre.

Come on OP at least read up on how the mega server works. What the hell is wrong with some gamers today, rather than look up info themselves they make silly threads.

It's rather annoying, and at times extremely tedious and time-consuming to sift through information that isn't readily available on the game's official site. Not everyone has the time to search numerous fansites to find an answer to a simple question, and seeing as how the developers don't take an active role on the forums here, searching threads for answers can potentially be pointless.

No need to be rude.

Sorry but you haven't got to sift through anything lol.

Let me tell ya how it works.

Go to google and type in The Elder Scrolls Online Mega server....it's that easy.

Go on give it a go.

That's not really rude considering there's a lot of information out there regarding the Megaserver. The developers themselves have talked about it in video's and interviews and as Sheek said you can pretty much google search it and get all the information you want.

Also if the OP had simply straight up said/asked" So I don't know that much about the Megaserver and don't have the time to research it, so I was wondering how it works and if RPer's will be able to play with other RPers" now asked like that, since he's admitting that he doesn't know much about it and sincerely asking for information, he deserves a 100% completely equally sincere and kind response. But the way he put it, making out like he knew enough about the megaserver to think "nothing about it is positive" while at the same time displaying his ignorance through his questions, earns him at least a touch of general rude/harshness.

Can anyone find something with info's on how megaservers work and or their possibilities ? I'd really like to know a bit more

Here's a quote from Tamriel Foundry's ESO FAQ on it:

• Unlike most MMOs which feature separate “shards” or game server, the entire player population of The Elder Scrolls Online will coexist within one single “megaserver”. This single server will remove barriers to grouping with friends, as well as eliminate issues related to server capacity like queues or mergers.
  
• The megaserver relies on intelligent placement of players into game spaces, where your assigned instance is contingent on the presence of friends, guildmates, and gameplay preferences which you specify prior to launch.

Also here these were the first two from a ESO mega server google search, I don't feeel the need to add more:

http://elderscrollsonline.info/mega-server
http://www.gamersbook.com/community/groups/elder-scrolls-online/blog/elder-scrolls-online-mega-server/

I suggest you do at least basic research before starting a criticism, its obvious you know nothing about the technology. Finding roleplayers among people isnt a flaw, its actually among best features of megaserver tech. That does make sound your post rather hilarious

It was the same thing in SWTOR the only place you could ever find a group of players that even approached 100 was on the Empire or Republic Fleet. The Fleet was the launching point for endgame raids and it had every kind of vendor and trainer, everything you needed, the central hub.

This really killed RP because any given place you were in the game there were only a handful of players there with you. At the top of the screen it listed the number of players in your instance, usually that number was below 20 and very often below 10. I hated it. It seemed like a singleplayer game that they had tacked on multiplayer to, not an MMO where hundreds of players could be in any given area. I remember the very first time I went to Iron Forge in WoW and saying "WOW! thats a lot of players!" I never said that once in SWTOR it was like a singleplayer game and I hope somehow Zenimax has been able to fix that issue with instanced servers.

Megaserver is a great idea that will allow infinite in their wisdom Altmeri, and other binded by servitude fellow races of the Dominion slay Dunmer simpletons, and so on, so on

Can't wait for this game... dont really mind what the server is like as long as i get to play.

Gotta love the internet. Something's already cleared, yet some people feel the strong conviction to try and belittle the person seeking advice from people who are obviously more knowledgable on a certain topic. To inform everyone, I did search around for information in these forums and through google, I did find out about the features that'll let you play with friends and your guild, yet I did not know about an interest-filter, which may or may not be the same feature all together.

Some posters on here clearly did not even read the first 5-6 posts in this thread before commenting and making themselves look like pretentious idiots.

It's mostly because you stated things as fact in your OP. It's one thing to ask for information, but it's different if you claim you know something that you clearly don't. Now I don't say that in a harsh way, I'm just saying it because you had the wrong idea of the Megaserver, which is understandable because they didn't go into great detail in the video. But now you know, so do you still have the same opinion as your OP? (trying to keep it on topic)

The main content of my OP where my questions. All of it was basically boiling down to 2 questions, which I can hardly state as facts. Because... Well... They're questions.

To answer your own question though, I should qoute myself: "Well, way to get me interested in a system I thought to be absolutely flawed by it's very design. Thanks a bunch!" That's literally my third post in this topic, which made the following complaints pretty redundant. I clearly still don't understand the system in all it's facettes, but I don't think any of us do. However, the information I got here was pretty amazing for me because it made some of my fears disappear, basically. (:

Don't feel like your being picked on here lol. People are quick to jump on posts that are negative, mostly when it comes from ill informed posters. When I read your first post up there it did come off as a negative, but you were just asking a question. There is alot of information out about the game, but still a whole lot we are still waiting to hear about.

Check out this site, it is pretty current on everything that is known so far and updated pretty quickly if anything new is announced:

http://tamrielfoundry.com/

I was not feeling like I'm being 'picked on'. I'm not new to the internet. I was just responding accordingly.

And yeah, my post was pretty negative because my knowledge up to that point made me think about this topic as something strikingly negative to me personally. Also thanks for the site, mate.