1 account, 1 faction

Alucardo · October 2015

RatedChaotic wrote: »

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.

I'm sorry we're bored of getting zerged and like to duel for a more balanced fight. Terribly sorry if our enjoyment inconveniences you.

UrQuan · October 2015

Faction-locked accounts would be a fine idea in a game that was purely PVP. In a game that's mostly made up of purely PVE zones it's one of the stupidest ideas ever. I'd estimate that of the people I know in-game through guilds, etc. at least 90% of them have characters in all 3 alliances. If they changed the game to lock your account to a single alliance I'd quit, pure and simple.

F7sus4 · October 2015

MountainHound wrote: »

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

You know you can't overlap campaigns on your characters in different factions? This pretty much solves everything you wanted to propose with "faction lock", just in a smoother way.

RatedChaotic · October 2015

Alucardo wrote: »

RatedChaotic wrote: »

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.

I'm sorry we're bored of getting zerged and like to duel for a more balanced fight. Terribly sorry if our enjoyment inconveniences you.

Oh we are getting zerged too much so we duel. lol funny grow some balls and zerg back cowards

hedna123b14_ESO · October 2015

Snowgoons wrote: »

Axorn wrote: »

AngryNord wrote: »

When you thought you had seen all the stupid suggestions on these forums...

+1

I've pre ordered this game only for any race and alliance feautre. Prolly its because everyone switching to EP DC players are crying

They should have never had this "feature"

no...just no it doesnt even makes sense...If I was betreayed by my own, why cant I join the opposing side who have treated me kindly? Rracism in ESO imho...

Kymee · October 2015

I like the idea of once you choose a toon to take to pvp that is your faction...Done deal. Also, only let so many of each faction in until the other factions fill. Take out the connection between numbers in Imperial City and those out in PVP. Add more achievements for silly, funny stuff. Happy developing and hoping for a bright future.

Scamandros · October 2015

Too late to implement something like this now without killing the community. Additionally no ones mentioned the times that whole guilds have rerolled factions to try even the populations, something that would not be possible without being able to play other factions.

Majority of duels occur in out of the way fields, usually if you manage to stumble across them you weren't headed in the direction of 'real pvp' anyway

UrQuan · October 2015

Kymee wrote: »

I like the idea of once you choose a toon to take to pvp that is your faction...Done deal. Also, only let so many of each faction in until the other factions fill.

Restricting your choices: it's the Elder Scrolls way!

Wait a minute...

MountainHound · October 2015

F7sus4 wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

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

You know you can't overlap campaigns on your characters in different factions? This pretty much solves everything you wanted to propose with "faction lock", just in a smoother way.

You can home with 1 main, guest in another with another faction whilst an ally faction can use you as a spy?

Another simple fix would be 1 campaign per account, not one per character.

MountainHound · October 2015

You earned the 100 Comments badge.
Getting this far requires gumption, something you have in spades. +10 points

UrQuan · October 2015

MountainHound wrote: »

F7sus4 wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

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

You know you can't overlap campaigns on your characters in different factions? This pretty much solves everything you wanted to propose with "faction lock", just in a smoother way.

You can home with 1 main, guest in another with another faction whilst an ally faction can use you as a spy?

Another simple fix would be 1 campaign per account, not one per character.

Yeah, let's make it so that it's impossible for PVE players to ever get Alliance War skills that are also very useful for PVE on some of their characters! Oh, you want to get caltrops on your DC tank? Too bad, because you're only allowed 1 campaign per account, and you're already in a campaign on your AD character!

MountainHound · October 2015

Is there not a preview signature option?

MountainHound · October 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

F7sus4 wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

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

You know you can't overlap campaigns on your characters in different factions? This pretty much solves everything you wanted to propose with "faction lock", just in a smoother way.

You can home with 1 main, guest in another with another faction whilst an ally faction can use you as a spy?

Another simple fix would be 1 campaign per account, not one per character.

Yeah, let's make it so that it's impossible for PVE players to ever get Alliance War skills that are also very useful for PVE on some of their characters! Oh, you want to get caltrops on your DC tank? Too bad, because you're only allowed 1 campaign per account, and you're already in a campaign on your AD character!

Ok ok. Remove guest and actually truely fix travel to player.

1 campaign per character with NO guest options available.

Banroc · October 2015

I agree with this
Simply make players lock to a faction for 30 days wont effect pve in any way

ralonasan · October 2015

AngryNord wrote: »

When you thought you had seen all the stupid suggestions on these forums...

RIP

UrQuan · October 2015

MountainHound wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

F7sus4 wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

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

You know you can't overlap campaigns on your characters in different factions? This pretty much solves everything you wanted to propose with "faction lock", just in a smoother way.

You can home with 1 main, guest in another with another faction whilst an ally faction can use you as a spy?

Another simple fix would be 1 campaign per account, not one per character.

Yeah, let's make it so that it's impossible for PVE players to ever get Alliance War skills that are also very useful for PVE on some of their characters! Oh, you want to get caltrops on your DC tank? Too bad, because you're only allowed 1 campaign per account, and you're already in a campaign on your AD character!

Ok ok. Remove guest and actually truely fix travel to player.

1 campaign per character with NO guest options available.

Yeah, make it so that when you join a new guild you can't go and play with them in Cyrodiil because you picked the wrong campaign and can't change it!

ralonasan · October 2015

Be careful, I hear it's contagious.

MountainHound · October 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

F7sus4 wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

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

You know you can't overlap campaigns on your characters in different factions? This pretty much solves everything you wanted to propose with "faction lock", just in a smoother way.

You can home with 1 main, guest in another with another faction whilst an ally faction can use you as a spy?

Another simple fix would be 1 campaign per account, not one per character.

Yeah, let's make it so that it's impossible for PVE players to ever get Alliance War skills that are also very useful for PVE on some of their characters! Oh, you want to get caltrops on your DC tank? Too bad, because you're only allowed 1 campaign per account, and you're already in a campaign on your AD character!

Ok ok. Remove guest and actually truely fix travel to player.

1 campaign per character with NO guest options available.

Yeah, make it so that when you join a new guild you can't go and play with them in Cyrodiil because you picked the wrong campaign and can't change it!

How can you see what you're typing with all these tears?

Ixtyr · October 2015

I get where OP is coming from, this was something I personally think could have some advantages. That said, the negatives outweigh the positives, especially in today's MMO market.

When I interviewed Brian Wheeler back in March, one of the questions we asked was in regards to players swapping Home or Guest campaigns, traveling to player, and otherwise messing with the system to get more spies or to mess around with maps (I think immediately of a few times when a "DC" player went into a DC-owned keep, picked up the Elder Scroll, and ran it outside to a waiting EP or AD zerg group, who killed him, took the scroll and left. Clearly a problem).

His response basically boiled down to this: yes, ideally, we would be playing in a game where people cared about the faction they played for, developed a serious loyalty and wanted to only play characters for Daggerfall, or Aldmeri, or Ebonheart. But the market isn't like it was 15 years ago - people don't care about factions the way they used to, they care about playing with their friends and guilds and having fun. Restricting them from being able to do so would be detrimental to the entire game and its community, making something like a forced faction lock more a negative than a positive.

Sad, but true.

However - I will say that I really hope ZOS doesn't add paid faction transfers. That would just introduce a whole world of problems with guilds flipping factions, and population imbalance could very well get much worse than it already is on certain platforms/servers.

UrQuan · October 2015

MountainHound wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

F7sus4 wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

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

You know you can't overlap campaigns on your characters in different factions? This pretty much solves everything you wanted to propose with "faction lock", just in a smoother way.

You can home with 1 main, guest in another with another faction whilst an ally faction can use you as a spy?

Another simple fix would be 1 campaign per account, not one per character.

Yeah, let's make it so that it's impossible for PVE players to ever get Alliance War skills that are also very useful for PVE on some of their characters! Oh, you want to get caltrops on your DC tank? Too bad, because you're only allowed 1 campaign per account, and you're already in a campaign on your AD character!

Ok ok. Remove guest and actually truely fix travel to player.

1 campaign per character with NO guest options available.

Yeah, make it so that when you join a new guild you can't go and play with them in Cyrodiil because you picked the wrong campaign and can't change it!

How can you see what you're typing with all these tears?

So because I'm pointing out that your "solutions" are worse than the problem you're trying to solve you somehow think I'm crying? Well OK then.

Belidos · October 2015

Snowgoons wrote: »

Dark Age of Camelot was 1 account 1faction and was great so all the haters above, u seem quite foolish, taking pride and supporting ur side was amazing even an underpopulated side would get respect for coming out and they werent zerged, but what was the OP thinking suggesting this in a game where the community will see a 1v1 and 8 more people jump in and then teabag the dude. Right?

No it wasn't

You could only play one realm on each server, there were multiple servers, and even then when they started to merge the servers (it's all one huge server now) they changed it so you could play on all three realms on one server, you just had to wait an hour before switching realms, today it's run that way except you can have all three realms on one server and only wait 15 minutes to switch.

MountainHound · October 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

F7sus4 wrote: »

MountainHound wrote: »

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

You know you can't overlap campaigns on your characters in different factions? This pretty much solves everything you wanted to propose with "faction lock", just in a smoother way.

You can home with 1 main, guest in another with another faction whilst an ally faction can use you as a spy?

Another simple fix would be 1 campaign per account, not one per character.

Yeah, let's make it so that it's impossible for PVE players to ever get Alliance War skills that are also very useful for PVE on some of their characters! Oh, you want to get caltrops on your DC tank? Too bad, because you're only allowed 1 campaign per account, and you're already in a campaign on your AD character!

Ok ok. Remove guest and actually truely fix travel to player.

1 campaign per character with NO guest options available.

Yeah, make it so that when you join a new guild you can't go and play with them in Cyrodiil because you picked the wrong campaign and can't change it!

How can you see what you're typing with all these tears?

So because I'm pointing out that your "solutions" are worse than the problem you're trying to solve you somehow think I'm crying? Well OK then.

2 tears don't make a smile

Forestd16b14_ESO · October 2015

Ehh.... kinda a bad idea but side note I do think any race any alliance was a terrible idea that kinda killed it for the game.

Twilix01 · October 2015

If you're suggesting this to keep people from being pricks in PvP and spying, let me tell you that they could easily buy a second account (I myself have three, altoholic) and use that to grief. Sure it costs them more but people are cheaters and will empty their pockets for the ability to cheat.

UrQuan · October 2015

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Ehh.... kinda a bad idea but side note I do think any race any alliance was a terrible idea that kinda killed it for the game.

So you think it makes more sense that, on escaping from Coldharbour everyone just happened to wash up in the alliance where the majority of the members of their race live? And nobody ended up somewhere else? Despite the fact that members of every race live in every alliance?

Frankly, the terrible idea was restricting anyone's race/alliance choices. Everyone should have had any race any alliance without having to pay for it. It makes much more sense, and is much more true to the Elder Scrolls experience.

Gidorick · October 2015

AlnilamE wrote: »

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.

OH! lol. sorry @AlnilamE. I didn't realize I didn't go far enough into the explanation. I think each character should have their own guild list. Guilds should be character specific, not account specific.

MountainHound · October 2015

I think you should also be able to pay for a personality change (with game gold, like at shrines). I mean, if I am a sorc, I should be able to train as a Healer?

AlnilamE · October 2015

MountainHound wrote: »

I think you should also be able to pay for a personality change (with game gold, like at shrines). I mean, if I am a sorc, I should be able to train as a Healer?

OK. Definitely trolling.

MountainHound · October 2015

BUT I WANT TO BE A NORD. I should at least be alloweda sex change.

Shadesofkin · October 2015

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.

What?

Why should my style of play be limited by what you consider lame?