It use to happen when each alliance unofficially had their buff campaigns. At times they would have a fully locked population while the other 2 alliances couldnt even muster 1 bar combined.

Naturally they would paint the map 1 color and even go to their gates and kill anybody the second they would drop down.

It is holding/defending the "gate keeps" after the scrolls are long gone.

Doesn't really have much to do with score(see below).

IMO it is OK to do this only in the last few days of the campaign IF the outcome is still contested and those few points might make a difference.

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »

Gate camping isn't the act of taking the keeps - its the act of fighting the faction at their gates / home base and not letting them leave to siege anything back.

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Joy_Division wrote: »

Beaverton wrote: »

It is holding/defending the "gate keeps" after the scrolls are long gone.

Doesn't really have much to do with score(see below).

IMO it is OK to do this only in the last few days of the campaign IF the outcome is still contested and those few points might make a difference.

I was unware that campaign points earned in the first 25 days were counted differently than the last 5.

They are counted the same but they have different value. The value of any commodity or currency is situational and also individual.

The effect is also different. Usually gate camping discourages players from staying logged in (on both sides of it). However, at the end of the last Greyhost campaign, blue and red tried to gate camp AD but since AD and DC were battling for third, AD stayed logged on to battle it out against both factions and it was epic. I don't think we/they would have done that in the middle of the campaign.

I have been on a faction that gate camped and IMO the added points were not worth the negative effect, i.e. discouraging players from staying logged on which results in fewer good fights. So I guess for me, fights>points. You may value things differently.