Should the Imperials get their own Alliance faction?

Lordtalon90 · February 2021

So I thought a fun way to shake up Cyrodiil could be to have a fourth faction enter the fray. An imperial general could gather the scattered forces from across Cyrodiil and be fighting to take back their home. They could start near the original IC sewer entrances and that way they could strike out at any alliance equally. They could be a kind of rebel alliance fighting off invaders. Just a thought.

Crown · February 2021

Some of us proposed that a long time ago. Give us an Imperial faction that can fight any of the three!

Vizirith · February 2021

I agree, people have always been asking for a 4th rogue faction. I think it would be cool, maybe add like a tunnel/portal system allowing for faster movement but allowing for all of them to be destroyed. It would make smaller groups more powerful for objective based gameplay. They could get stat bonuses for each keep they hold, and for how long they hold it for. Like if they hold a keep for 30 mins they get 1 hour worth of 5% additional wep and sp dmg or something. Maybe have siege do more damage for them and only allowing 1/2 the faction max pop that the other factions do, meaning they'd be better at hit and run tactics coupled with the speed of maneuvering via tunnels.

VaranisArano · February 2021

I have several qualms.

1. Are you going to make them an equal faction with home keeps and scrolls? Otherwise, that's creating a troll faction who exists to spoil what the other three are doing, not combatants with an equal stake in the fights.

2. Are you going to increase the population cap to account for a fourth faction and that Cyrodiil is now A v A+A+A from the perspective of each alliance? Or is the existing population for each alliance going to shrink to make way for a fourth faction?

3. Are you going to make the Imperial race or Any Race/Any Alliance free and available to base game players? For players who don't buy the Imperial edition/upgrade or Any Race/Any Alliance, their alliance is still determined by their racial choice for their character. So unless you make it freely available from character creation, the Imperial faction is not going to be anywhere near as populated.

alterfenixeb17_ESO · February 2021

Tbh for current Cyri that would unlikely work. But the idea of imperials fighting the rest of Tamriel could work nicely if ZOS ever decides to create PvE Cyrodiil variant with zone events similar to zone and world events as they are in Rift. But then still this would have to be well thought through.

kapachia · February 2021

Assign Imperials to guard. Imperial City.