Introducing the Chronicles of Tamriel
Public Community Event Series
At launch, ESO had many walls that prevented us from hosting a massive public community event like the Battle for Badlands, Telara Saga or Great Tyrian Adventure. Personal instancing made grouping hard let alone get 50+ people adventuring together. Good news is since launch a lot of these walls have been removed.
I've been playing with the idea in my mind of how exactly would we run a PCE in ESO for a while now. How big would our target audience be? Well after a few months, and a lot of thought I feel it's worth a try. So we are scheduling the first chapter of a Public Community Event Series to kick off April 12th at 6PM PT. For this first experiment we are running a shortened series of 5-weeks from our traditional 10-week. If it goes well we will schedule the second chapter of another 5 weeks, and then a 3rd chapter and so on.
The First Chapter called "Hroldin's Legacy" will take place in Shadowfen, Deshaan, Stonefalls, The Rift, and Eastmarch. It will focus on Dolmans, World Bosses and the occasional skyshard. Each event will be 1 hour and 30 minutes of adventure and 30 minutes of raffle. People who attend or watch the stream can enter the raffle. Raffle Tiers include Silver (50-100k Value Items), Gold (100-500k Value Items) Platinum (500k-1m value items), and Epic (1m+ value items). Weekly raffles will reward silver and gold items. End of chapter will award gold and platinum with an opt in raffle using attendance tickets for the Epic Prizes.
In story we will be a band of adventurers that is searching for Hroldin's artifacts, 3 incredibly powerful relics that led to his unquestioned rule. After learning of a prophecy that spoke of a usurper general that would become king after saving the people of Skyrim from certain doom, Foghladha rallied the troops to find these artifacts. Foghladha believes this would cause Molag Bal's demise and remove his Anchors from Tamriel once and for all. They organize an expedition and set out on a new adventure.
My hope is if it succeeds we launch mini PCEs throughout the year. Each would last 5 weeks and focus on a new set of areas and objectives each laced with their own grey area story leading to the rise of Talos some 300 years later.
Now typically we spend 6+ months preparing for these events and we're looking at doing it in 3. The hardest part of pulling this off is we don't have a loot vault for the event yet. Over the next 3 months we have to gather as many desirable prizes as we can. I have added several available donations to the ESO chapter to allow people to earn contribution points. This will be a team effort if we are to pull it off. But if we do, it should be a boon to our membership and noticeability in ESO.
We will hold a Public Community Event Meeting before the Summit on February 3rd at 2PM PT. All are welcome to attend, especially if you’re an Elder Scrolls Lore junkie!
Learn more at: https://chroniclesoftamriel.com/
Returning the Gaiscioch Credo & Name in ESO
Greetings Everyone! As we move towards unifying our past and present chapters under the Gaiscioch name, we are migrating Elder Scrolls Online from the GSCH guild to the new Gaiscioch guild to share the name with the rest of the chapters.
We originally changed our Gaiscioch chapter to GSCH when it became evident that we could not survive and grow in ESO without public recruiting through posting messages in chat channels to recruit new members. As the Gaiscioch Credo prohibits us from spamming chat channels for guild recruitment purposes ("Recruit by Action, Not by Words") we migrated to the GSCH credo which allows such practices. This was instrumental in our survival as the game did not have name plates yet, and no way for people to notice our community. Every player was just a player. Guilds only mattered when they owned guild storefronts and we weren't big enough to maintain an active storefront financially.
The good news is now Nameplates are here, and Guilds have more of a face in the world than ever. The key however is that players purchase a Guild Tabard from the Guild Store and wear it so that our guild tag shows above their head. The more people we get to do this, the more noticable our community is.
The Great Migration
At the end of February we will be emptying out the old GSCH guild and migrating all people and vault items to Gaiscioch. We have already begun the migration for invites to the new guild and are more than half way to getting all our active players over to the new room. I am logging in daily to run my new parser I built which will automatically claim the last character you played on Gaiscioch.com. This also gives me a list of active players who have yet to accept or receive their invites to Gaiscioch. I then built a macro script that runs through the invites. I do this daily so if you have played in the past 45 days you should have an invite waiting for you in game. If you have 5 guilds already the invite will not go through. You will need to drop GSCH to accept the Gaiscioch invite. EVERYONE in Gaiscioch can invite. Please feel free to invite your friends, people who are coming over from GSCH, or new players you stumbled upon in your adventures that would like to join. All we ask is that you don't spam invites on random strangers. We don't want to be "That Guild".
Elder Scrolls Online Guild Improvements
Over the past few weeks I've built a mod for ESO that allows me to export guild roster data from the game. This data can then be imported into our website to automatically add, update, and correct your characters into our website. This also has allowed me to migrate the RIFT promotion system to ESO which will allow me to sync in game ranks with Gaiscioch.com roles. So if you’re a Veteran Member out of game you become a Veteran Member in game.
Once we have everyone over into "Gaiscioch" from "GSCH" this will help keep our characters updated so there will no longer be a need to add and maintain your character roster. Everything is automatically mapped via your @ESOID. I did notice one thing however. @ESOID's are case sensitive so if you want your characters to sync be sure your ID matches the same case in game.
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