1 account, 1 faction

MountainHound

TheBull wrote: »

First add dueling.

I'm fine with 1 account 1 faction. I like it even. Except one thing it's great being able to fight against friends. I rolled an EP toon 2 weeks ago. It started as an accident, but I went through with it. It's turned out to be a great move. I get to battle/duel with all the people I've been playing with for the past year +.

I dunno why we can't have an interaction dualing system, you challenge someone, a 10 seconds countdown starts and neither player can be damaged or buffed from outside players.

This could be done ally vs ally in a keeps gound's, enemy vs enemy away from the keep's grounds.

Cadbury

firstdecan wrote: »

FortheloveofKrist wrote: »

C'mon ladies and gents...take it easy. Let's all participate with a suggestion of our own.

I'll start.

Will they ever make the game only accessible to players who really really have to pee? Like badly?

I always seem to start a dungeon, or something I can't get out of, and end up playing the last half while having to pee so bad I can barely concentrate. I think it's unfair that other people are allowed to play with a comfortably empty bladder.

Serious gamers have a catheter. Just saying....

I think that's more of a stereotype, sort of like how the "best" gamers still live at home; possibly in a basement. Some food for thought there...

MountainHound

Hope499 wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

I think you should do it Zos. Think of the money you can make making people pay 2,500 crowns to transfer factions. OMGZ you will be rolling in it. Make it happen.

wtf.....are you trying to support this game, or generate ideas that would make it fail almost instantly?

It'd fail in your opinion.

lolo_01b16_ESO

In general don't mind being restricted to just one alliance, but there are two issues that need to be solved first:

1. You can't duel within an alliance, so if you want to see if you are better than your friend, one of you needs to have a character in a different alliance.
2. For testing how skills work it is often required to have a friend with a character in a different alliance since there are no target dummies and you can't always trust skill discriptions.

willymchilybily

BabeestorGor wrote: »

Issues raised are entirely PvP issues so any solution should only affect PvP, eg whilst your AD character is in a PvP campaign your DC and EP characters can't be in campaigns.

already exists? if im thornblade on my EP character i cant be thorn blade on my Dc character. so say the loading screens.

FortheloveofKrist

firstdecan wrote: »

FortheloveofKrist wrote: »

C'mon ladies and gents...take it easy. Let's all participate with a suggestion of our own.

I'll start.

Will they ever make the game only accessible to players who really really have to pee? Like badly?

I always seem to start a dungeon, or something I can't get out of, and end up playing the last half while having to pee so bad I can barely concentrate. I think it's unfair that other people are allowed to play with a comfortably empty bladder.

Serious gamers have a catheter. Just saying....

BRILLIANT!

Ace_of_Destiny

MountainHound wrote: »

So, will there ever be a faction lock on user accounts?

Personally I think it should be 1 faction per account. The game has been out long enough now to create any race in any faction although again, it offers some uniqueness if certain races can only play for certain factions. It'd provide a sense of something to fight for. Personally I am DC only.

- It is lame when people play on all 3 and log onto whichever toon controls the map to grind easy xp/ap/sewers.
- It is also lame when people sit in zones with a level 10 character relaying chat to their guild.
- It is also lame when you have a level 10 out of stealth following you healing and highlighting your whole group to the enemy.

It is too late.
It would have had to be done at launch.

Egonieser

All this was already discussed to death when PC Imperial Edition pre-orders were first available. No need to create yet another thread, the damage has already been done and there is no turning back, the train is long gone.

Gidorick

I don't think accounts should be faction locked... but I have always questioned the decision to not have guilds faction locked.

AzraelKrieg

Gidorick wrote: »

I don't think characters should be faction locked... but I have always questioned the decision to not have guilds faction locked.

I've questioned the decision to not allow factionless guilds.

Ysne58

1. This is from elder scrolls.
2. It really would interfere with many people how have characters in more than one alliance.
3. Cyrodiil and IC are not 'end game'
4. Craglorn has nothing to do with the cyrodiil warfare.
5. Coldharbour could very easily be cross faction, since it's fighters guild and mages guild related and not alliance war related.

Ilsabet

No thanks. Not everyone is wedded to pvp, and I'd rather not be limited to only three races or have to pay extra for the privilege of not being limited to three races.

Personally I made my characters based on race and class, and faction didn't matter at all to me since when I started playing I had no reason to be loyal to any particular faction (aside from some lingering anti-Aldmeri Dominion bias from Skyrim, which I know has no bearing on this game's time period). I know most of you are experienced with the game and have reasons for backing various factions, and I too may develop loyalties as I play, but asking a new player to pick a side once and forever based on some general alliance descriptions on a wiki is kind of silly.

TalonShina

I tested the other factions before deciding I preferred the AD storyline and areas so if we were faction locked I wouldn't have been able to experiment. I think when you are starting a game you need the options to experiment a faction lock would prevent that.

Sithisvoid

I agree with AngryNord. Not everyone who plays more than one faction cheats. I happen to have friends on both DC and AD i couldn't get either side to agree to a single alliance. So I mainly pvp with a Character in DC and 4 in AD. I play loyal to both factions meaning i won't let a friend from AD mess with DC while I'm DC. In fact I'll straight up gank them then message "lolololol" it's just the hand i was dealt so i'm playing it. Also i'm on console and I can make as many accounts as i like so it really doesn't matter. I used to spy in GTA online against other motorcycle clubs like that. Used to pull assassinations too and post them on youtube for lols. Some people take it serious but for me it was fun

Alucardo

As someone who plays one faction and PvP only, it wouldn't affect me in the slightest.
I imagine it would massively hurt the PvErs who also have equal rights to enjoy this game, so I'd say this is a bad idea. It's not a stupid idea by any means. In fact I've played MMOs that lock your faction to your account, but they are purely PvP orientated games.
As for ESO, I feel this would hurt the game more than anything.

MountainHound

My next question then is, why have cadwell silver and cadwell gold? You can play all faction content once you coomplete your main story quest.

kupacmac

ESO wasn't built to have any semblance of faction pride, so this change wouldn't make sense now.

AlnilamE

MountainHound wrote: »

So, will there ever be a faction lock on user accounts?

Personally I think it should be 1 faction per account. The game has been out long enough now to create any race in any faction although again, it offers some uniqueness if certain races can only play for certain factions. It'd provide a sense of something to fight for. Personally I am DC only.

- It is lame when people play on all 3 and log onto whichever toon controls the map to grind easy xp/ap/sewers.
- It is also lame when people sit in zones with a level 10 character relaying chat to their guild.
- It is also lame when you have a level 10 out of stealth following you healing and highlighting your whole group to the enemy.

The game being B2P, people could easily just get a second and third account and still do the stuff you are complaining about, so this wouldn't solve your problem.

And what would happen to "out-of-alliance" toons that people alredy have? I have 3 alts that are in AD or DC, while my main faction is EP (and the only one I'll ever PvP in, barring random encounters with players when I'm trying to complete Cyro PvE with them).

Solid_Metal

this idea will kill the game population permanently

AlnilamE

Gidorick wrote: »

I don't think accounts should be faction locked... but I have always questioned the decision to not have guilds faction locked.

How would you faction lock a guild without faction locking characters, though? My guild is officially EP, and that's where all our main toons are, but most of us have alts in the other alliances as well.

MountainHound wrote: »

My next question then is, why have cadwell silver and cadwell gold? You can play all faction content once you coomplete your main story quest.

Well, honestly, I see gold/silver as different from playing the same zones as "bronze", but that's a personal opinion.

I'm actually looking forward to getting one of my AD toons to their Silver to see what the EP story feels like at vet levels.

MountainHound

AlnilamE wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

So, will there ever be a faction lock on user accounts?

Personally I think it should be 1 faction per account. The game has been out long enough now to create any race in any faction although again, it offers some uniqueness if certain races can only play for certain factions. It'd provide a sense of something to fight for. Personally I am DC only.

- It is lame when people play on all 3 and log onto whichever toon controls the map to grind easy xp/ap/sewers.
- It is also lame when people sit in zones with a level 10 character relaying chat to their guild.
- It is also lame when you have a level 10 out of stealth following you healing and highlighting your whole group to the enemy.

The game being B2P, people could easily just get a second and third account and still do the stuff you are complaining about, so this wouldn't solve your problem.

And what would happen to "out-of-alliance" toons that people alredy have? I have 3 alts that are in AD or DC, while my main faction is EP (and the only one I'll ever PvP in, barring random encounters with players when I'm trying to complete Cyro PvE with them).

Such a dirty wh0re.

vamp_emily

[ Points my finger to my head and pretends to shoot ]

Malmai

MountainHound wrote: »

O, those EP will be back next campaign to DC, Don't you worry.

Winter is coming.

*Edit* On a serious note about this point, what you said is true... players will get steamrolled and instead of fighting on, just remake on the winning faction. At least if they had to restart/pay/delete their DC toons they might think twice about doing so

Easy way is for the weak and noobs...

JaJaLuka

It may have been a good idea when the game was released but unfortunately it's probably not viable now. People have not only made multiple characters (which you're right, could be transferred), but they have made friends with many people cross faction too and not all of their friends would be willing to play the same faction. It would mean the death of the game because people could no longer play with the people they like (which is what an MMO is about right?).

JaJaLuka

Gidorick wrote: »

I don't think accounts should be faction locked... but I have always questioned the decision to not have guilds faction locked.

I think you should have one character per guild, but not necessarily faction locked (duelling guilds and trade guilds for example would fail it this happened), that way you're still able to be in multiple guilds, but on separate characters.

KronicDecay

I personally only play on AD but I disagree on the fact that each account should be locked to a certain faction. Why should I be locked into AD if I eventually want to make a new char just to see the other zones and the worlds that I cannot see outside of Cadwells silver and gold? So no thx on that. Not everyone is a PvPer

Cadbury

JaJaLuka wrote: »

It may have been a good idea when the game was released but unfortunately it's probably not viable now. People have not only made multiple characters (which you're right, could be transferred), but they have made friends with many people cross faction too and not all of their friends would be willing to play the same faction. It would mean the death of the game because people could no longer play with the people they like (which is what an MMO is about right?).

Agree. While I personally wouldn't mind being locked into one faction, they chose to allow the game to be more open from the beginning. I just don't see how they could revert that now without alienating a portion of the player base and not coming off as a desperate cash-grab on those affected.

RatedChaotic

MountainHound wrote: »

TheBull wrote: »

First add dueling.

I'm fine with 1 account 1 faction. I like it even. Except one thing it's great being able to fight against friends. I rolled an EP toon 2 weeks ago. It started as an accident, but I went through with it. It's turned out to be a great move. I get to battle/duel with all the people I've been playing with for the past year +.

I dunno why we can't have an interaction dualing system, you challenge someone, a 10 seconds countdown starts and neither player can be damaged or buffed from outside players.

This could be done ally vs ally in a keeps gound's, enemy vs enemy away from the keep's grounds.

Duelers should not be allowed in the pvp areas. Its a war. I hate getting into pvp to take over stuff or just to fight the other factions with a group. Just to see everyone standing around dueling. Ruins the game for me.
Go play Mortal Kombat if you wanna duel.

Alucardo

vamp_emily wrote: »

[ Points my finger to my head and pretends to shoot ]

/cry

Xendyn

.