@Ahtu "Winning", truly winning, means your opponent had a fighting chance. Because hockey is the only sport worth following imo, when hoisting the Cup above your head - is it more gratifying when you breeze through the playoffs or is it more special when you know you worked your tail off for it? I'm gonna go with the latter.
PvP on Vivec well it's like going to Globetrotters game (basketball is lame, but it's the example I'm going with). You know the biggest zerg is gonna win every time because they outnumber their opponents throughout most of the day. At which point, chatting with your friends is the fun half-time show because you know the outcome of the game. If it's the same outcome over and over, are you gonna want season tickets? Probably not, but it's cool for a weekend.
@Ahtu "Winning", truly winning, means your opponent had a fighting chance. Because hockey is the only sport worth following imo, when hoisting the Cup above your head - is it more gratifying when you breeze through the playoffs or is it more special when you know you worked your tail off for it? I'm gonna go with the latter.
PvP on Vivec well it's like going to Globetrotters game (basketball is lame, but it's the example I'm going with). You know the biggest zerg is gonna win every time because they outnumber their opponents throughout most of the day. At which point, chatting with your friends is the fun half-time show because you know the outcome of the game. If it's the same outcome over and over, are you gonna want season tickets? Probably not, but it's cool for a weekend.
In the early days of ESO, the first months AD was so dominant they owned mostly all servers, this was a time when we had faction locks, do you know what happened ?... the player base corected the problem by them self, MOst of the succesfull guilds in dc and ep, are old AD guilds that migrated to create some balance...
There was even drama over one guild that left AD, went to EP, and some wanted to go back to AD, and the guild split in half...
But my point is still, you can be friends with people on your side, and people yo fight, some of my best friends in ESO, and people i chat with the most are people that are my enemies, that i for some reason "yelled" at and in some mysterious way we got friends... but factions need to be kept to each side, as it is now, people bandwagon, couse no one want to be on the loosing side, its to easy to do... The balance will corect itself to a certain degree, wich i can point to, is what exactly happened... but creating new accounts and switching accounts, is alot more of a issue, then just swtich character, espechially on weekends when ques can be rather long...
This promotes people to stick to their own side...
@Ahtu "Winning", truly winning, means your opponent had a fighting chance. Because hockey is the only sport worth following imo, when hoisting the Cup above your head - is it more gratifying when you breeze through the playoffs or is it more special when you know you worked your tail off for it? I'm gonna go with the latter.
PvP on Vivec well it's like going to Globetrotters game (basketball is lame, but it's the example I'm going with). You know the biggest zerg is gonna win every time because they outnumber their opponents throughout most of the day. At which point, chatting with your friends is the fun half-time show because you know the outcome of the game. If it's the same outcome over and over, are you gonna want season tickets? Probably not, but it's cool for a weekend.
In the early days of ESO, the first months AD was so dominant they owned mostly all servers, this was a time when we had faction locks, do you know what happened ?... the player base corected the problem by them self, MOst of the succesfull guilds in dc and ep, are old AD guilds that migrated to create some balance...
There was even drama over one guild that left AD, went to EP, and some wanted to go back to AD, and the guild split in half...
But my point is still, you can be friends with people on your side, and people yo fight, some of my best friends in ESO, and people i chat with the most are people that are my enemies, that i for some reason "yelled" at and in some mysterious way we got friends... but factions need to be kept to each side, as it is now, people bandwagon, couse no one want to be on the loosing side, its to easy to do... The balance will corect itself to a certain degree, wich i can point to, is what exactly happened... but creating new accounts and switching accounts, is alot more of a issue, then just swtich character, espechially on weekends when ques can be rather long...
This promotes people to stick to their own side...
@Alomar @ks888
If that was the case, its good that some do as you say, you want to balance the campaign, the problem is, you seem to be a very very tiny portion that want to fix it... the majority dosent do what you say you want to do... People bandwagon to the winning side, couse its to simple to do, that dosent fix the problem, it makes it worse...
sorry but the change is needed couse people cant play nice, if people dident bandwagon to the winning side, then faction locks wouldent be needed... you ofcourse isnt the issue, but as said, your not fixing the issue as is...
@Alomar @ks888
If that was the case, its good that some do as you say, you want to balance the campaign, the problem is, you seem to be a very very tiny portion that want to fix it... the majority dosent do what you say you want to do... People bandwagon to the winning side, couse its to simple to do, that dosent fix the problem, it makes it worse...
sorry but the change is needed couse people cant play nice, if people dident bandwagon to the winning side, then faction locks wouldent be needed... you ofcourse isnt the issue, but as said, your not fixing the issue as is...
Where is your proof that people who play multiple factions don't play nice, and how does this stop being who don't faction swap from not playing nice?
@Alomar @ks888
If that was the case, its good that some do as you say, you want to balance the campaign, the problem is, you seem to be a very very tiny portion that want to fix it... the majority dosent do what you say you want to do... People bandwagon to the winning side, couse its to simple to do, that dosent fix the problem, it makes it worse...
sorry but the change is needed couse people cant play nice, if people dident bandwagon to the winning side, then faction locks wouldent be needed... you ofcourse isnt the issue, but as said, your not fixing the issue as is...
Where is your proof that people who play multiple factions don't play nice, and how does this stop being who don't faction swap from not playing nice?
Its my opinion that it is, there seems to be alot that share this opinion with me... but if you want proof, is probably the change comming...
Elong, what proof do you have that it isnt like this, and people dosent change factions to instantly bandwagon to the winning side, couse there is a very akward correspondance, that people just happen to leave, or a loosing side loose numbers... except people saying they want to "help"...
I mean if what you say is true, why is for example DC staking two raids during certain hours, when AD for example barely have a handfull defending back keeps, IF people wanted to even the balance they would change factions, right, i never ever see it happen... all i see is winning side being stronger
So during the years these people could have balanced the factions, from huge pop inbalance, they dident...
No we have the mental flexibility to understand that there are no sides when everyone plays for all of them.
LOL, no. That's not what it means, it means my reds can play for red, my blues can play for blue, without cheating/trolling/sabotaging. My characters have sides (and fight furiously for them).
Maybe it would help if I said it's kind of like how I can play a female character despite not being in possession of any female body parts myself.
No, people who swap factions don't fight for any sides they fight for themselves, its all about them and they don't care who wins because they always win on one character or another, regardless of their anatomical make up. When you fight furiously for a faction, and 5 minutes later fight furiously against them, your not really fighting for them at all, its just for you and your close knit group of other furiously fighting faction swappers.
Listen there are some good responses about why faction hopping needs to be an option (which it is with the current plan by ZOS) but this is just some weird out of place ad hominem response.
Clearly no one cares about the factions where they don't matter. Though i will say One Tamriel was handled pretty poorly as one minute im fighting off the Covenant the next minute they running all around town and no one cares. At least Cadwells Silver / Gold had some weird caveat to explain it.
Anyway this is totally off track, the point is about PvP Clearly
Listen there are some good responses about why faction hopping needs to be an option (which it is with the current plan by ZOS) but this is just some weird out of place ad hominem response.
Clearly no one cares about the factions where they don't matter. Though i will say One Tamriel was handled pretty poorly as one minute im fighting off the Covenant the next minute they running all around town and no one cares. At least Cadwells Silver / Gold had some weird caveat to explain it.
Anyway this is totally off track, the point is about PvP Clearly
No what I mean is people don't want faction locks for PVE content, only PVP, and I don't understand why.
Listen there are some good responses about why faction hopping needs to be an option (which it is with the current plan by ZOS) but this is just some weird out of place ad hominem response.
Clearly no one cares about the factions where they don't matter. Though i will say One Tamriel was handled pretty poorly as one minute im fighting off the Covenant the next minute they running all around town and no one cares. At least Cadwells Silver / Gold had some weird caveat to explain it.
Anyway this is totally off track, the point is about PvP Clearly
No what I mean is people don't want faction locks for PVE content, only PVP, and I don't understand why.
Those damn bad apples... always spoiling everything for the rest of us. Aren’t we all playing the same game and witnessing the same shenanigans day in and day out? I suspect you know exactly why.
I agree that a system needs a fresh idea to stop any hopping or scroll trolling but a faction lock is simply another attempt at a bandaid fix on Zeni's behalf and it just won't work.Such nonsense about faction hopping to balance things out. ESO PvP design favors zerging, hoarding scrolls, emperorship, and grants increasingly powerful bonuses to the already most powerful and dominating faction. The system is designed and built to disfavor and eliminate balance, and rapidly escalate and exacerbate power disparities.
There will never be balance until the devs forsake that extremely flawed design philosophy and take steps to bring about a better system. First there would need to be a paradigm shift... (is the current dev team even capable of that, and if so do they really even give a F about PvP tho?) Hey @ZOS_BrianWheeler , what do u think buddy?
Listen there are some good responses about why faction hopping needs to be an option (which it is with the current plan by ZOS) but this is just some weird out of place ad hominem response.
Clearly no one cares about the factions where they don't matter. Though i will say One Tamriel was handled pretty poorly as one minute im fighting off the Covenant the next minute they running all around town and no one cares. At least Cadwells Silver / Gold had some weird caveat to explain it.
Anyway this is totally off track, the point is about PvP Clearly
No what I mean is people don't want faction locks for PVE content, only PVP, and I don't understand why.
Listen there are some good responses about why faction hopping needs to be an option (which it is with the current plan by ZOS) but this is just some weird out of place ad hominem response.
Clearly no one cares about the factions where they don't matter. Though i will say One Tamriel was handled pretty poorly as one minute im fighting off the Covenant the next minute they running all around town and no one cares. At least Cadwells Silver / Gold had some weird caveat to explain it.
Anyway this is totally off track, the point is about PvP Clearly
No what I mean is people don't want faction locks for PVE content, only PVP, and I don't understand why.
Those damn bad apples... always spoiling everything for the rest of us. Aren’t we all playing the same game and witnessing the same shenanigans day in and day out? I suspect you know exactly why.
There's bad apples everywhere, PVE, PVP, RP...yet only PVP is stripped of the 1T idea.
Listen there are some good responses about why faction hopping needs to be an option (which it is with the current plan by ZOS) but this is just some weird out of place ad hominem response.
Clearly no one cares about the factions where they don't matter. Though i will say One Tamriel was handled pretty poorly as one minute im fighting off the Covenant the next minute they running all around town and no one cares. At least Cadwells Silver / Gold had some weird caveat to explain it.
Anyway this is totally off track, the point is about PvP Clearly
No what I mean is people don't want faction locks for PVE content, only PVP, and I don't understand why.
Those damn bad apples... always spoiling everything for the rest of us. Aren’t we all playing the same game and witnessing the same shenanigans day in and day out? I suspect you know exactly why.
There's bad apples everywhere, PVE, PVP, RP...yet only PVP is stripped of the 1T idea.
[snip] is the 1T idea? U coining a new phrase?
PvP has always been the neglected stepchild in ESO... many of us hoped way back in 2013ish that ESO would become the big dominant and preeminent PvP game... However, ESO’s dev’s have squandered and *** that up royally several times over...
@Alomar @ks888
If that was the case, its good that some do as you say, you want to balance the campaign, the problem is, you seem to be a very very tiny portion that want to fix it... the majority dosent do what you say you want to do... People bandwagon to the winning side, couse its to simple to do, that dosent fix the problem, it makes it worse...
sorry but the change is needed couse people cant play nice, if people dident bandwagon to the winning side, then faction locks wouldent be needed... you ofcourse isnt the issue, but as said, your not fixing the issue as is...
Where is your proof that people who play multiple factions don't play nice, and how does this stop being who don't faction swap from not playing nice?
Its my opinion that it is, there seems to be alot that share this opinion with me... but if you want proof, is probably the change comming...
Elong, what proof do you have that it isnt like this, and people dosent change factions to instantly bandwagon to the winning side, couse there is a very akward correspondance, that people just happen to leave, or a loosing side loose numbers... except people saying they want to "help"...
I mean if what you say is true, why is for example DC staking two raids during certain hours, when AD for example barely have a handfull defending back keeps, IF people wanted to even the balance they would change factions, right, i never ever see it happen... all i see is winning side being stronger
So during the years these people could have balanced the factions, from huge pop inbalance, they dident...
Firstly the burden of proof isn't on me, I haven't asked for a change , and you've accused people of not playing nice, not me : )
Secondly, the more logical explanation would be that the factions are populated on the whole by people who play at certain times. AD have 3 guilds that regularly play late at night until a certain time, and then 2 DC guilds start up an hour after them. EP has one mass guild that raids during the prime time and will stay on longer if there is more things to PVDoor or else they log for the night, and I don't see them on other factions.
Of course a few people swap around, not enough to change the course of the map. No guilds do this for map play.
Thirdly, people swapping to other sides, isn't playing badly, it has been a part of ESO for years now. If they want to change it, we're powerless to stop them, but to say it is because people don't play nice is ludicrous. There's people I don't want to Emp on my faction, I'm gonna put 20 oils down. If I want to be a ***, I'll throw my scroll into the slaughterfish. These types of scenarios occur within the faction, not from faction swappers.
Listen there are some good responses about why faction hopping needs to be an option (which it is with the current plan by ZOS) but this is just some weird out of place ad hominem response.
Clearly no one cares about the factions where they don't matter. Though i will say One Tamriel was handled pretty poorly as one minute im fighting off the Covenant the next minute they running all around town and no one cares. At least Cadwells Silver / Gold had some weird caveat to explain it.
Anyway this is totally off track, the point is about PvP Clearly
No what I mean is people don't want faction locks for PVE content, only PVP, and I don't understand why.
Those damn bad apples... always spoiling everything for the rest of us. Aren’t we all playing the same game and witnessing the same shenanigans day in and day out? I suspect you know exactly why.
There's bad apples everywhere, PVE, PVP, RP...yet only PVP is stripped of the 1T idea.
[snip] is the 1T idea? U coining a new phrase?
PvP has always been the neglected stepchild in ESO... many of us hoped way back in 2013ish that ESO would become the big dominant and preeminent PvP game... However, ESO’s dev’s have squandered and *** that up royally several times over...
1 Tamriel was play how you want with who you want.