New way to win your campaign. Completely unbeatable.

LinearParadox

Just don't log in. Ever.

The low pop bonus is literally more than either of the other two faction can achieve XD





Great job ZoS, really. Bravo.

Minnesinger

This must be NA. Totally wasted points in a situation where low pop is not even an issue. EP can add a zerg or 2 any time of the day.

Turelus

It's been this way for years sadly. They modified the numbers two or three years ago when we kicked off about it, but it's still possible to win with low population bonus.

It was a lot harder to abuse back when there were locks on factions though.

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

Turelus wrote: »

It's been this way for years sadly. They modified the numbers two or three years ago when we kicked off about it, but it's still possible to win with low population bonus.

It was a lot harder to abuse back when there were locks on factions though.

The changes were actually made very recently to evaluate it based on 3h windows. It's aim is to make up for the advantage of those who cap the whole map uncontested. Granted on EU this doesn't change things because of the total faction imbalances. But on NA the system is actually doing its job rather decently as you can see from the close score. It still won't help in the long run because people will still flip the entire map when they have no competition but it's at least a balancing tool and highlights the actual situation in pvp vs the perceived populations.

WaltherCarraway

Low pop bonus is ill impelemented i mean you should not get rewarded for not being here imo.

Heimpai

If they want to keep it then it should only be active when you actually have lop pop..not hours later when you’re pop locked

IxSTALKERxI

lol it's silly, like if ur have overwhelming pop compared to other factions you kinda wanna go easy on them and maybe go IC or something instead while you wait for it to pick up. But if the enemies are getting that much score / hour in encourages you to pvdoor all their stuff to reduce their score/hr.

Reverb

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

IxSTALKERxI wrote: »

lol it's silly, like if ur have overwhelming pop compared to other factions you kinda wanna go easy on them and maybe go IC or something instead while you wait for it to pick up. But if the enemies are getting that much score / hour in encourages you to pvdoor all their stuff to reduce their score/hr.

I mean when has any faction with overwhelming population ever gone easy on a low pop faction. Even amongst guilds there are only a few who actually care enough about the health of the campaign to do.

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

Heimpai wrote: »

If they want to keep it then it should only be active when you actually have lop pop..not hours later when you’re pop locked

Then it is easy to manipulate. The point of it is that the polling is taking over some hours and then it is retroactively applied because there was a low population in the player base for the previous x duration

Ranger209

frozywozy wrote: »

#weekdays

Did you mean this? It's not really new.

DisgracefulMind

There were actually barely any EP on for HOURS when we got that low pop bonus, I was there. Was like 2-3 am-ish CST. My group of like 6-7 back-capped Ash when it popped up, but I was on solo before that and I barely saw more than a handful of EP. Not gonna lie, the AP was good

Heimpai

AD was in the 230’s this morning idr the others but they were lower than 100 (this was in sotha)

tonemd

You may have had a point if not for the MASSIVE point gain that scrolls give. If EP isn't logged in they should not have their scrolls.

zyk

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »

IxSTALKERxI wrote: »

lol it's silly, like if ur have overwhelming pop compared to other factions you kinda wanna go easy on them and maybe go IC or something instead while you wait for it to pick up. But if the enemies are getting that much score / hour in encourages you to pvdoor all their stuff to reduce their score/hr.

I mean when has any faction with overwhelming population ever gone easy on a low pop faction. Even amongst guilds there are only a few who actually care enough about the health of the campaign to do.

Actually, back around 2.2 on AS (the main campaign at the time) many guilds respected inner keeps during low pop periods. VE, if I recall correctly, did a very good job of that.

The memory of what happened on PC/NA/TB during 1.5 was still fresh in memory so I think many made an effort to avoid ruining the campaign by demoralizing the competition.

I'm not judging anyone for recent events because restraint is required by all sides for something like that to work and that hasn't been the case for a long time. We're deep in *** for tat territory. But we know it's possible for players to work together for a better culture because we've done it before.

VaranisArano

tonemd wrote: »

You may have had a point if not for the MASSIVE point gain that scrolls give. If EP isn't logged in they should not have their scrolls.

Why not? AD and DC still have to put in the effort to take them, right?

If the few EP that are on can defend their scrolls, more power to them.

(That's goes for any faction, I should hope that goes without saying.)

rafaelcsmaia

The big problem is that the scoring is tied to how much of the day your alliance floods cyro with zergs. Basically who has the more teenagers who play all day wins

xeNNNNN

rafaelcsmaia wrote: »

The big problem is that the scoring is tied to how much of the day your alliance floods cyro with zergs. Basically who has the more teenagers who play all day wins

Careful now, you'll hurt some peoples feelings with so much truth haha

Lord-Stien

This has been going on for how many years now ??