EdmondDontes wrote: »
Oh I know it’s not supposed to be faction based. It just happens to only happen with large groups of EP. I’m in DC and I’ve never had this even when there is a full faction stack of AD. Only with EP. Just personal experience of course. And that of many others in zone chat. Maybe because they’re pop locked 23/7 and the server therefore gives them priority? idk. I’m not saying it’s being done on purpose but it is strange to me.
I'm AD and I've noticed the same thing with the EP horde. I'm fine around DC zergs, but when the red zerg comes, everything stutters.
I don't know if it's a skill or set that most of them use or what. I just know they always bring the lag with them to fights even when they're not poplocked, but DC doesn't even if DC is poplocked.
PCNA Blackreach
Fighting against always pop-locked enemies (with dark convergence on every other player) is so... much... fun...
EdmondDontes wrote: »
Oh I know it’s not supposed to be faction based. It just happens to only happen with large groups of EP. I’m in DC and I’ve never had this even when there is a full faction stack of AD. Only with EP. Just personal experience of course. And that of many others in zone chat. Maybe because they’re pop locked 23/7 and the server therefore gives them priority? idk. I’m not saying it’s being done on purpose but it is strange to me.
I'm AD and I've noticed the same thing with the EP horde. I'm fine around DC zergs, but when the red zerg comes, everything stutters.
I don't know if it's a skill or set that most of them use or what. I just know they always bring the lag with them to fights even when they're not poplocked, but DC doesn't even if DC is poplocked.
PCNA Blackreach
I usually have the same issue with DC ball groups, especially when they do the ring around the Rosie inside keeps. I have that issue with large AD groups, especially during Sej fights. I think it's easy to fall into blaming a faction for DC and increased lag, but I think there's an underlying issue. And both instances I usually see a lot of people afterwards in chat talking about crashing. Same with being double teamed. I always see people talk about team green. I think it's the nature of having three factions that everyone is going to feel double teamed a lot. Especially if we have been banging our heads against a particular keep for awhile it becomes an opportunity to take it when the faction becomes distracted defending somewhere else. Naturally that somewhere else would be from another faction. And if one faction is scroll pushing it kind of becomes the path of least resistance to push the second scroll of the attacked faction. It feels crappy when it happens, but I think it's just something that apparently each faction is going to notice more when it's happening to them. Just my two cents.
TLDR: EP gets lag from opposing factions and feels put upon by double teaming as well.
Edit: also last night was incredibly boring and I think many EP are hoping your players come back from the New place so there can be fights. I spent some time repairing walls for a sad trickle of AP and logged off.
EdmondDontes wrote: »
Oh I know it’s not supposed to be faction based. It just happens to only happen with large groups of EP. I’m in DC and I’ve never had this even when there is a full faction stack of AD. Only with EP. Just personal experience of course. And that of many others in zone chat. Maybe because they’re pop locked 23/7 and the server therefore gives them priority? idk. I’m not saying it’s being done on purpose but it is strange to me.
I'm AD and I've noticed the same thing with the EP horde. I'm fine around DC zergs, but when the red zerg comes, everything stutters.
I don't know if it's a skill or set that most of them use or what. I just know they always bring the lag with them to fights even when they're not poplocked, but DC doesn't even if DC is poplocked.
PCNA Blackreach
I usually have the same issue with DC ball groups, especially when they do the ring around the Rosie inside keeps. I have that issue with large AD groups, especially during Sej fights. I think it's easy to fall into blaming a faction for DC and increased lag, but I think there's an underlying issue. And both instances I usually see a lot of people afterwards in chat talking about crashing. Same with being double teamed. I always see people talk about team green. I think it's the nature of having three factions that everyone is going to feel double teamed a lot. Especially if we have been banging our heads against a particular keep for awhile it becomes an opportunity to take it when the faction becomes distracted defending somewhere else. Naturally that somewhere else would be from another faction. And if one faction is scroll pushing it kind of becomes the path of least resistance to push the second scroll of the attacked faction. It feels crappy when it happens, but I think it's just something that apparently each faction is going to notice more when it's happening to them. Just my two cents.
TLDR: EP gets lag from opposing factions and feels put upon by double teaming as well.
Edit: also last night was incredibly boring and I think many EP are hoping your players come back from the New place so there can be fights. I spent some time repairing walls for a sad trickle of AP and logged off.
I'm not blaming a faction. I think it might be caused by certain sets or skills simultaneously firing by many players, which coincides consistently with EP and not AD or DC.
As for team green, I don't know about any other playtime, but I guarantee you PCNA AD Blackreach during US primetime isn't teaming with DC to attack EP. We barely even team up with each other. Sometimes, there's a yellow guild running around, but they don't talk to or play/coordinate with the rest of AD. They're always off doing their own thing. Other than that, our coordination consists mainly of solo people randomly calling out in zone what's ua or where we should go, which gets crickets or criticism in reply. It 's clumsy, but we can sometimes agree long enough to make it work. You can verify all this yourself by logging into an AD alt bc Blackreach isn't alliance locked.
xylena_lazarow wrote: »Gray Host would probably be less dead without faction locks. A nonzero number of EP regulars mention they'd be happy to switch to the underdog just to get some action going.
You're insinuating that I missed the point of the post but fail to understand why I said what I said. Yes, people have left your factions to play another game. [snip] The fact remains that if both AD and DC hadn't operated the way they had prior to this that members of EP may have been willing to swap factions to deal with the imbalance. [snip], things could very well be balanced right now had certain actions not been taken by AD and DC. Meaning not as much zerging, and not as much lag as a result. [snip]Consider it payback for continuing to target EP after most of our coordinated groups left for DC. Now that your factions are weakest you want us to feel bad about taking over the map, after both factions targeted EP specifically because they knew we've been without many coordinated groups for months on end? Sorry, but we're not sorry. If you weren't adamant about continuously double teaming us we might be willing to swap factions. After these last few months I wouldn't count on that happening. You reap what you sow.
You missed the point of the thread entirely. EP are the only ones still playing, DC & AD have most all left the server apparently. If anyone is reaping anything here, it is ZOS for making Cyrodiil continually worst and never fixing anything, so people went elsewhere. It has nothing to do with EP, other than they didn't leave ESO PVP. So no... you aren't actually "winning" anything, except maybe an uncluttered map view. Nothing to feel proud about there and nope, it isn't "payback" of any sort. There is no pride in winning a game no one else showed up to play.
[edited for baiting/bashing]
Not many EP were switching factions after the previous campaign's last place finish, and faction locks made damn sure that this month's Gray Host died and stayed dead. This mess can only be blamed on ZOS, not the players.midgetfromtheshire wrote: »Nah you wouldn't have swapped factions, if you would've you could've.
xylena_lazarow wrote: »Not many EP were switching factions after the previous campaign's last place finish, and faction locks made damn sure that this month's Gray Host died and stayed dead. This mess can only be blamed on ZOS, not the players.midgetfromtheshire wrote: »Nah you wouldn't have swapped factions, if you would've you could've.
xylena_lazarow wrote: »Not many EP were switching factions after the previous campaign's last place finish, and faction locks made damn sure that this month's Gray Host died and stayed dead. This mess can only be blamed on ZOS, not the players.midgetfromtheshire wrote: »Nah you wouldn't have swapped factions, if you would've you could've.
xylena_lazarow wrote: »Not many EP were switching factions after the previous campaign's last place finish, and faction locks made damn sure that this month's Gray Host died and stayed dead. This mess can only be blamed on ZOS, not the players.midgetfromtheshire wrote: »Nah you wouldn't have swapped factions, if you would've you could've.
I'll keep the blame on the players when none of you EP complaining on the forums about AD/DC having lowpop bonus for 10+ hours a day due to EP having the entire map red and 6 scrolls actually follow through and switch to balance out the populations.
I sincerely hope you all enjoy the fruits of your labor; killing the same 4-5 players with 30-40 EP swarming you because it's the only PvP on the entire map. It's really fun, I bet.
Well not really, but they have been pop locked or 3 bars since NW launched and the other 2 factions barely muster 1 bars worth of players. Yesterday it was our group of 12 and what appeared to be 3 other random players in our faction. It was pretty much a 12v60+ fight at every turn with EP and while fun for testing and working on our group strategies, we obviously lost every battle due to no one being on. EP now owns the entire map and is still sitting at 3 bars, I suspect they are all just sitting in Arrius twiddling their thumbs as usual, waiting for someone to show up, which is highly unlikely to happen at this point so even they will get bored and leave eventually.
So unless everyone gets bored of NW really fast and comes back, ESO PVP is pretty much done at this point on our server, how are the other servers doing?
xylena_lazarow wrote: »Not many EP were switching factions after the previous campaign's last place finish, and faction locks made damn sure that this month's Gray Host died and stayed dead. This mess can only be blamed on ZOS, not the players.midgetfromtheshire wrote: »Nah you wouldn't have swapped factions, if you would've you could've.
I'll keep the blame on the players when none of you EP complaining on the forums about AD/DC having lowpop bonus for 10+ hours a day due to EP having the entire map red and 6 scrolls actually follow through and switch to balance out the populations.
I sincerely hope you all enjoy the fruits of your labor; killing the same 4-5 players with 30-40 EP swarming you because it's the only PvP on the entire map. It's really fun, I bet.
Well not really, but they have been pop locked or 3 bars since NW launched and the other 2 factions barely muster 1 bars worth of players. Yesterday it was our group of 12 and what appeared to be 3 other random players in our faction. It was pretty much a 12v60+ fight at every turn with EP and while fun for testing and working on our group strategies, we obviously lost every battle due to no one being on. EP now owns the entire map and is still sitting at 3 bars, I suspect they are all just sitting in Arrius twiddling their thumbs as usual, waiting for someone to show up, which is highly unlikely to happen at this point so even they will get bored and leave eventually.
So unless everyone gets bored of NW really fast and comes back, ESO PVP is pretty much done at this point on our server, how are the other servers doing?
Sounds like the ad nightcap. Are you also complaining about that?
Well not really, but they have been pop locked or 3 bars since NW launched and the other 2 factions barely muster 1 bars worth of players. Yesterday it was our group of 12 and what appeared to be 3 other random players in our faction. It was pretty much a 12v60+ fight at every turn with EP and while fun for testing and working on our group strategies, we obviously lost every battle due to no one being on. EP now owns the entire map and is still sitting at 3 bars, I suspect they are all just sitting in Arrius twiddling their thumbs as usual, waiting for someone to show up, which is highly unlikely to happen at this point so even they will get bored and leave eventually.
So unless everyone gets bored of NW really fast and comes back, ESO PVP is pretty much done at this point on our server, how are the other servers doing?
Sounds like the ad nightcap. Are you also complaining about that?
Since you apparently missed the entire point of the thread, I was "complaining" about there not being anyone PVPing. As previously mentioned, this wasn't about EP, or AD or DC... it was about NW taking all the players and leaving empty campaigns. That said, EP seems to be the only ones left and the running joke at this point is, they simply couldn't afford NW, so here they stayed.
Well not really, but they have been pop locked or 3 bars since NW launched and the other 2 factions barely muster 1 bars worth of players. Yesterday it was our group of 12 and what appeared to be 3 other random players in our faction. It was pretty much a 12v60+ fight at every turn with EP and while fun for testing and working on our group strategies, we obviously lost every battle due to no one being on. EP now owns the entire map and is still sitting at 3 bars, I suspect they are all just sitting in Arrius twiddling their thumbs as usual, waiting for someone to show up, which is highly unlikely to happen at this point so even they will get bored and leave eventually.
So unless everyone gets bored of NW really fast and comes back, ESO PVP is pretty much done at this point on our server, how are the other servers doing?
Sounds like the ad nightcap. Are you also complaining about that?
Since you apparently missed the entire point of the thread, I was "complaining" about there not being anyone PVPing. As previously mentioned, this wasn't about EP, or AD or DC... it was about NW taking all the players and leaving empty campaigns. That said, EP seems to be the only ones left and the running joke at this point is, they simply couldn't afford NW, so here they stayed.
Well not really, but they have been pop locked or 3 bars since NW launched and the other 2 factions barely muster 1 bars worth of players. Yesterday it was our group of 12 and what appeared to be 3 other random players in our faction. It was pretty much a 12v60+ fight at every turn with EP and while fun for testing and working on our group strategies, we obviously lost every battle due to no one being on. EP now owns the entire map and is still sitting at 3 bars, I suspect they are all just sitting in Arrius twiddling their thumbs as usual, waiting for someone to show up, which is highly unlikely to happen at this point so even they will get bored and leave eventually.
So unless everyone gets bored of NW really fast and comes back, ESO PVP is pretty much done at this point on our server, how are the other servers doing?
Sounds like the ad nightcap. Are you also complaining about that?
Since you apparently missed the entire point of the thread, I was "complaining" about there not being anyone PVPing. As previously mentioned, this wasn't about EP, or AD or DC... it was about NW taking all the players and leaving empty campaigns. That said, EP seems to be the only ones left and the running joke at this point is, they simply couldn't afford NW, so here they stayed.
Well right now there is 3 bars dc, 2 bars ep and 1 bar ad. So I guess everything solved itself.
Well not really, but they have been pop locked or 3 bars since NW launched and the other 2 factions barely muster 1 bars worth of players. Yesterday it was our group of 12 and what appeared to be 3 other random players in our faction. It was pretty much a 12v60+ fight at every turn with EP and while fun for testing and working on our group strategies, we obviously lost every battle due to no one being on. EP now owns the entire map and is still sitting at 3 bars, I suspect they are all just sitting in Arrius twiddling their thumbs as usual, waiting for someone to show up, which is highly unlikely to happen at this point so even they will get bored and leave eventually.
So unless everyone gets bored of NW really fast and comes back, ESO PVP is pretty much done at this point on our server, how are the other servers doing?
Sounds like the ad nightcap. Are you also complaining about that?
Since you apparently missed the entire point of the thread, I was "complaining" about there not being anyone PVPing. As previously mentioned, this wasn't about EP, or AD or DC... it was about NW taking all the players and leaving empty campaigns. That said, EP seems to be the only ones left and the running joke at this point is, they simply couldn't afford NW, so here they stayed.
Well right now there is 3 bars dc, 2 bars ep and 1 bar ad. So I guess everything solved itself.
If by solved you mean an empty map with 1-3 bars for each faction during prime time as well, then sure.
Yep. U/50 keeps being trounced by EP, too. I came to Grayhost for a break.... Big mistake. I also heard that EP doesn't get lag like we do. Anyone know if this is true?