Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20180724002617

"A good day's work is as sweet as sugar, but laziness is like the Trama Root."

- Draren Vedralu

Hi all, Atvelonis here with another weekly update. How is everyone? Busy editing, I'm sure, but hopefully not too busy to read some news. Once again, to anyone confused about getting pinged, these announcements will only be sent out once per week, so you shouldn't worry about being spammed by notifications every day.

TES news

 * ZeniMax held another episode of ESO Live on July 20th at 6:00 PM EDT, which you can read about here. In this episode, they primarily spoke about changes coming with Update 19.
 * The company also gave a preview of the March of Sacrifices dungeon in the upcoming expansion to . You can read the full preview here.
 * Additionally, ZeniMax announced the return of the Midyear Mayhem event for The Elder Scrolls Online. As part of the event, players are encouraged to "Celebrate the legendary warrior Pelinal Whitestrake and earn double XP, Alliance Points, and bonus rewards by taking part in ESO's PvP game modes!" For more information, see the original blog post.
 * As for news, the developers announced Patch 72.4, which would focus on various balance changes for the game.
 * Todd Howard made a few interesting statements in an interview with The Guardian on the 18th. The guy does a lot of interviews, but I'm not sure he's spoken about these topics directly in the past:
 * The first of these was tackling some questions about the thematic purpose of : "People look at Skyrim and say, 'That's a dragon-killing power fantasy,' but the actual underlying theme was: do you take a nationalistic view of your own country, or look at the whole world? I think that's still pretty topical today. The thing that helps with [genre fiction], whether that's science fiction or fantasy or post-apocalyptic, is that it lets you handle themes like racial stereotypes in ways that you don't notice at first, and then become very obvious."
 * He also stated in the interview that the company would probably not be remastering anytime soon: "I'm happy that you can play Morrowind now on an Xbox One, as it's backwards compatible. I'm really happy that Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and others are making it easier for people to play [older games] as they were played at the time. I actually prefer that over remasters. I'd rather you play Morrowind the way it was ... I think the age is part of its identity."
 * A bit off-topic, but rumor has it that Nvidia will release some new graphics cards (1100 series), starting in August 2018. It's about time! Maybe now we'll be able to run Skyrim at 144hz―oh, nevermind, the framerate cap is still hard-coded into the game. :P

Wiki news

 * Just a reminder that the wiki's next moot is coming up in two weeks. It will take place on Saturday, August 4th at 4:00 PM EDT in the Chat. If you have something you'd like to present, please sign up on the project page beforehand.
 * We've been getting a good amount of new content this week. Below are a few folks who have been doing a great job in this department. Keep it up people!
 * FrisyN – quest content
 * Rozty – and  dialogue
 * Rupuzioks – items
 * Thifike – book images
 * TinyClayMan – content and several Loremaster's Archives
 * Random mention that the userbox template User-Time exists, and would be formatted like on your profile. It's a nice way to show off how much time you've wasted spent on this website, especially if the join date next to your edit count is inaccurate (mainly a problem for Discussions users).

Wikia news

 * Wikia hasn't made any major announcements this week, but there are two new technical updates since the last thread, as follows (a lot of bug fixes):
 * July 18, 2018: Announcing Announcements!
 * July 23, 2018: Announcements & Discussions Bug Fixes

That's about all I have for this week, folks. I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend, and as always, happy editing! ―Atvelonis (talk) 00:26, July 24, 2018 (UTC) 