Revision History: ESO Year One

ZoS is releasing Patch 2.0.4. They also released a new article, Reflecting on ESO’s First Year, and Bethesda highlighted a fan tribute from Elloa commemorating the anniversary.

We’re a little over a quarter of the way into 2015, and so far this year, over 1,000 new ESO articles and counting have been created. That doesn’t include redirects, but does include many pages still waiting to be fleshed out. All you lurkers out there: there’s nothing wrong with just dumping info, especially if you find a blank page about a topic you know something about. Don’t worry about grammar, links, etc., if you don’t have the time or knowledge. That’s what the rest of the internet is for. But if you know even the bare essentials on a topic, a single sentence is infinitely preferable to nothing at all.

As of the time I write this, somewhere between 25-35 new lore articles have been created this year, not including book pages. Over 80% of them were put together by Legoless. This Irish robot has made over 500 edits in less than a month.

While that’s a jaw-dropping rate of activity, Enodoc has been just as active, and Shuryard has had 500 edits in less than two weeks. Speaking of Shuryard, check out this heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Our actual Provisioning page is still woefully incomplete, but thanks to Shuryard, the arguably more important Provisioning Ingredients page is now up to date and beautifully arranged. It will tell you about not only the current arrangement established by Update 6, but illustrate how it differs from the old system.

Only about a dozen other contributors have exhibited activity roughly on the same level this year. I’m too lazy to list you all, but you’re all aces in my book. And that’s not to diminish the contributors out there who’ve helped on smaller scales; thank you all for taking the time to assist the project!

Skywind 0.9.6 Progress Update

Skywind is moving forward, but it will still be quite a while before it is completed. You can help keep it moving by becoming a patron.

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Trades Welcome!
Dominus Arbitrationis set up a place for ESO Item Requests! Now, you don’t have to leave the comfort of the UESP in order to make a trade.

I can’t read Dom’s name without thinking of this.

Hurricane Jeancey has hit!
Editors tend to go on editing sprees. They’re furiously active for a while, take a break, and then come back. As I prepare this, the UESP is being ruthlessly inspected by Jeancey, who’s a great example of this pattern. I think of him as a Quality Assurance expert, one of the folks who really sets the UESP apart. He brings unrelenting order to the madness, then disappears, only to return with a vengeance … actually, a bit like Jyggalag.

Jyggcey … no, Jeanalag!

Ogling the Mazken

In Daggerfall, the Dark Seducer was a beautiful topless winged demon. In Battlespire, she was still a winged demon, but kept her top on like a bloodthirsty prude. By the time of Oblivion, the Seducer had unfortunately lost her wings, and even worse, put on even more clothing, including a weird shell helmet of some kind. In ESO, she got a bit of cleavage back, which is a good step in the right direction (you got stuck with the mature rating, ZoS; you might as well embrace full frontal). Anyway, now, the helmets seem to be consuming the Seducers’ heads? Not sure what’s going on there. If there is a quest which requires the Seducers to wear virtual reality visors, then that makes perfect sense.

Answers and Questions
Since last time, as you probably already know, ZoS came out with this bit of awesome, a Crown Store Showcase, and also had another ESO Live.

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You can hear Loremaster Lawrence Schick role-play the scholar Phrastus of Elinhir here. I love the lore, but I haven’t listened to this yet. I’ve been cringing inwardly since I heard about it. The last time the devs tried to role-play in public, things got ugly.

This situation seems to be a whole lot different, in that it’s just Schick providing some background lore, using Phrastus as a mouthpiece. He’s not raping Daedric Princes or contriving an epilogue for ESO … as far as I know.

Forum Crawling
Currently, players don’t seem to be receiving XP for completing Dark Anchor Dolmens. They’re fixing it, but for the moment, you might want to find something else to kill time in ESO. Also, the Palomino horse is coming to the Crown Store.

Players reported that they developed super powers as a result of a bug. You know, like Spider-man. Players reported “super hearing”; they could hear audio cues from the activities of other players from much farther away than they were supposed to. I’m not sure if this has been addressed yet; there’s no mention of it I saw in the latest patch notes. But in the meantime, you all are honor-bound to use your powers only for good.

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