I had the Joy of last night of watching someone call another an emperor farmer and felt that maybe people don't know what it is exactly.

I'll be using Celarus and other places as examples, I will not name names, though you know mine and you can go from there.

With the Campaigns ending a few days ago and the rush to crown as many emperors as possible started many have been put off by this and are seeking an outlet. Falsely accusing people of "Emperor Farming."

What it is not: Being part of a campaign that has been used as the emperor farming grounds (Celarus) and having a mountain of AP from 1.5 weeks of playing in that environment. This person is not farming, they just stuck out the crap and kept playing their way.

Level has nothing to do with anything in PVP, VR12 does not = Only emperors. If you stick out and contribute to PVP sure Emperor at level 30-ish on a two week campaign that the other top players have left, totally possible.

How can a Level 10 - VR11 help in PVP? Repair walls, Siege, Place forward Camps, Help heal resources, drop ults on flags, setup siege for others, bring rams... this list is long so I'll stop there. PVP is not about 1v1ing people, its about the whole event. Not if person A can kill person B, in the grand scheme that does not matter, what does is "do we have enough siege on this wall?" or "Do we have enough counter siege up?" or "Can someone repair the outer-wall while we are pushing them back inside the keep?"

We may see that at the end of the new 90's.

Most people that become emperor will leave after they have lost it, many want to hold the title till the campaign ends as we saw on Skullcrusher.

What it Could be: Person has been in Campaign for 3 days and has shot up to # 2-3 and you never see said person at defenses, siege's or anything else. (that's say 600K in 3 days, sure doable on say WabbaZerg. I don't generate that much AP a night, but I'm no pro.)

Either they are ganking a ton of people often enough to keep up a hefty AP/HR ratio or they are doing some things very untoward... and having "enemies" attack keeps and let them tick for defense; or they are always at the right place at the right time, its the internet who knows right? Very suspect.

What it is: When one faction takes the inner ring and Emperor is crowned, the following bit usually ends with them taking a scroll or something and setting up somewhere while the other faction begins to take keeps unopposed, well they may be opposed but by a smaller force and the "pro's" are out getting their AP grind on while they wait for the ring to flip.

Sometime after the 30-45 minute wait the former Emperor will leave (sometimes this happens before hand since you don't need to hold the title for more then a few seconds anyway). And return as a guest.

This process repeats till there is too much resistance or the other faction has decided its done for the day\night.

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What can be done?

well, a few things can be done by the Community.

1) Get names of the people doing this, report them if they are harassing you, preventing you from playing the game and/or preventing you from PVPing at all.

2) Find Other guilds, Other people to come help disrupt this. Having one faction prevent other from flipping keeps is a big turnoff. Yes they can call in friends and oil-pot cap keeps but its a big drain on their game time.

3) Let them pat each other on the back, cheer every time one of them is crowned emperor\empress and even if they "don't care" or "could care less what people think of them" let them know you were really hoping they'd be the one to stick it out and help your alliance win the war.

4) Hope that ZeniMax and the PVP Dev Team come to a conclusion and decide on a path of action vs inaction.

Thank you for your time,

Citidel