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serenenightmare

LonePirate wrote: »

I couldn't believe my eyes when AD on Thornblade NA was at 1 bar for several minutes around 6:00am Eastern his morning. I don't think I have ever seen the AD pop so low on this campaign.

What... You're not trolling are you? Never thought possible.

OrangeTheCat

It feels like it started a couple of months ago when there was a tremendous and admirable amount of coordination and cooperation among the AD guilds. It allowed us to dominate in PvP and it was glorious. Together we were able to coordinate the sacking of keeps and the setting up of diversions. It was a lot of fun and it was good to see people work together so well. EP/DC were just unable to field an as effective force to counter AD and so EP/DC got trounced, over and over for weeks at a time. That kind of success, over a significant period of time, attracted a lot of attention and it served in no small measure to fuel the influx of players to AD; people like success and admire successful people. Unfortunately, as is too often the case with PvP guilds, AD's success inflated some AD GM's and officer's egos and as a result bickering and in-fighting ensued. Many of the guilds split up, some started new guilds, further dividing what was a more unified player base, or flat out left the game.

So right now, despite its numbers, AD is very weak; we lack the coordination and cooperation we once had. I've read here on these forums how awesome the EP/DC player base is and how more skilled it is, at least compared to AD; how AD has to cheat and exploit and even deliberately crash the server just to win. So it seems to me that now would be an excellent time for EP/DC to do what it takes to solve its own problems and start winning more. Exploit our weakness and lack of coordination. The more you win, the more players will take notice and join your faction. Then you can pat yourselves on the back and flaunt your well-deserved dominance and superiority.

Or you can wait for ZOS to fix your problems for you. Personally, with ZOS' track record with adding new functionality, I'm a little worried about letting ZOS deal with it for you; I'd rather see them fix the glaring technical issues with the game that have plagued us since release. But that's just me.

thelordoffelines

Rawr!

OrangeTheCat

For sure!

Rylana

OrangeTheCat wrote: »

Nice trolling.

Agrippa is actually correct, just shut up and stop speaking for AD

Signed, a better AD player than you.

Rylana

OrangeTheCat wrote: »

Bramir wrote: »

OrangeTheCat wrote: »

Bramir wrote: »

OrangeTheCat wrote: »

Another "solution" is instead of taking the easy way out and trying to convince AD players to defect to your losing faction, you dry up your tears, little one, and take some responsibility; get out there and recruit for your team. Or better yet, start playing better and smarter and start winning. Nothing attracts followers like success; it's worked for AD. Or is that just too inconvenient for you and just easier to play the part of the victim and blame AD for being too good?

Nice troll! 8/10!

Too bad it is nothing but nonsense...

I sincerely hope you aren't stupid enough to actually believe : "Nothing attracts followers like success; it's worked for AD."

Pretty sure you must be one of the people that makes sure they play for the team slated to win...

Back then there was no PvP track record to base a decision on.

Since there was no track record, how did AD use it to attract followers?

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It has since developed that reputation, over time, in a self-reinforcing manner. I'd wager at the start of release the three factions PvP track records were about the same. But for whatever reason AD got the upper hand, maybe attracted more and/or better PvP guilds, who knows, doesn't matter really, until here we are at the present situation. All speculative of course. Oh, but you already realize that. You were just baiting me with a red herring.

Wrong.

Zenimax at one time released numbers indicated factional percentage (I believe it was the first week of live), AD outnumbered DC/EP combined, and always did in beta.

Get your facts straight, and if you want to check my claim, go look it up, I am not holding your hand but youll discover I am right and you are wrong.

AD has always had numbers, always.

OrangeTheCat

Thank you. Someone who actually uses facts and does not rely on insults and intimidation to make a case. Took long enough.