I usually stop caring when this happens.
The other team or my team can zerg the map like this all they want. It's dumb and boring.
I jump in later when the population is more balanced and find some fun fights.

Rarely have the teams been balanced throughout the entire campaign but when it happens it's the best and most exciting part of ESO in my opinion.

Winning sucks lot less than losing, so on that note, I think most players prefer their side to win.

However... Campaigns are won and lost during night and morning caps - the side that has the most stable and reliable pool of cappers is going to win. Period. Nothing that takes place during the so called "prime time" is going to make a lick of difference. One hour of dedicated PVDooring in the wee hours is going to have larger impact on the campaign score than 5 hours of back and forth between fully locked factions.

Some years ago, there were still those that did try to marshal their faction during prime time to recoup the gains made by night cappers, but it was always to no avail. The faction with the cappers always won. These days only new players play the map during prime time. Veterans know that such actions have no bearing on the results and just go wherever the most entertaining fights are at that moment and the map be damned.

Most players are ultimately not interested in doing the sort of things it takes to actually win one of these things. I.e. painting the map monocolor while the other factions sleep. That's why there has been constant calls over the years for some sort of dynamic scoring system to be implemented. Because we do care about winning, but also would like our actions to have an impact on which side carries the day, and not have the thing decided by killing NPCs in otherwise empty keeps.

PVDooring to the win is the inevitable result of the way ESO scores campaigns. I can't blame players, who do genuinely want to win, for playing the game in the way that makes most sense. And heck, I'm not even sure if the cappers are all that motivated by winning as such - morning caps give lot of AP for very little effort. It's an easy way to grind some extra skill points via alliance war ranks for an alt.

I'm also pretty sure that some cappers do it to ensure that they have all the buffs on their side when prime time begins. And that is the one bit that does kinda annoy me, and the reason why I've argued for years now, that we should get rid of all such buffs. They just tend to promote unhealthy play.

At this point, Cyro needs a major overhaul, a total work over. The scoring should be more dynamic, and not just a snapshot of one second out of every 3600. And there should be some way to factor in populations and keep them balanced. Not only for scoring but for the general number of players each side has available. It's no fun to be steamrolled by three bar faction while trying to defend your home keeps with just one bar of troops. It also doesn't really help that 90% of Cyro is dead and devoid of any action 90% of the time. Even when the factions are poplocked, there is just way too much space for the number of players involved in the "war." The problem is that Cyro is designed in a way that requires full faction population for all sides 24/7 and that just does not reflect reality. And it was originally designed for lot larger populations than what the game allows these days.

I honestly don't see how Cyro could be salvaged at this point. It would take way too much work to be worth it financially, and the end result would be too far removed from what we have now to be sensible approach to take. ZOS should just declare the three banner war over and come up with a completely new system that serves the actual reality of ESO's PVP community. But that too would take way too much money to implement for ZOS to ever bother thinking about it.

So the Cyro we have is the Cyro we will have to put up with, and that means that campaigns are won by capping. If you care about the campaign score, then you need to start PVDooring. That's just how the thing is designed.

I made some suggestions in another thread I started. Which would go some way to make the campaigns more intersting:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/discussion/574023/campaign-system-revision#1

Until they give good rewards again, there's not really a point in trying other than pride. And pride only gets you so far with all the systemic issues inherent in how the score is generated.

I mean for 20k and some gold rings from forgotten sets, 30 days of work?
It is not motivating
Nothing changes when you win or lose
Ps. Also you can get golden rings without winning the campaign which are still not Rewards for the "Worthy"

Sad truth is every campaign is decided by which alliance has the best off hours players.

If red has a group of 6 badasses from 3 am to noon, guess who's winning?

I just wish EP was more organized in Ravenwatch. I tried my best to help last few campaigns and get people interested, but we have a very solo play style mindset. There are a couple doing a solid job, but it relies on the average and mediocre casuals trying to pull folks together. All the good guilds left for AD and DC.

If anyone is interested in running there with me, my tag is the same as here. My son and I play regularly.

@Sindrik8x
PC NA EST

My son's tag is @ThorinIIx

If one is on, the other usually is as well. We're going to be reworking our builds for this new non-proc playstyle in coming weeks, but we will definitely be aiming to at least get tier three rewards on our main pvp'ers this upcoming campaign (Sunday). We each have 2 - 3 alts we play. He has a magblade bomber, stam dk and stamplar. I have a stam dk and a stamblade ganker.