Imperial City District Capture

Ajax_22

Will the districts be a single or multiple point capture? Also is something going to be done to make death in the districts more meaningful? For example a respawn timer, or removing the home base ladders and forcing you to respawn in your factions base.

@ZOS_BrianWheeler @ZOS_GinaBruno

Solariken

I really hope all respawns occur at the faction home base.

I think it would be cool if the only entrances to the city streets were the ladders out in the sewers (but I also think there should be a few more of them).

Sallington

There should definitely be a rework of the current district respawn system. The current system would only be acceptable for a TDM-type situation, and the last thing I want is this to become ESO: COD w/ swords and magic

KenaPKK

Solariken wrote: »

I really hope all respawns occur at the faction home base.

I think it would be cool if the only entrances to the city streets were the ladders out in the sewers (but I also think there should be a few more of them).

Same.

danno8

They will definitely have to tune the respawn options yes.

Also hope the district capture is tied in to the overall scoring system to make both overland and the IC places that people can go to help out with the campaign.

Right now the IC is seen as a "wasted" spot in the queue.

PainfulFAFA

I really hope i dont have to go thru 2-3 loading screens just to capture a district and then go thru the same loading screens to get back to the top.

frozywozy

Looking forward into this!!! Players spread into two different pvp instances will greatly improve PvP performances. In the long term, we may even look forward to increasing the population caps again!

As people said :

1- Change the respawn system
2- Make the districts under your faction's control gain points overtime on the scoreboard.

Telel

Everyone keeps leaving out the most important hurdle.

Preventing spawn and entry point camping by packs of no skill scrubs.

frozywozy

Telel wrote: »

Everyone keeps leaving out the most important hurdle.

Preventing spawn and entry point camping by packs of no skill scrubs.

Should I remind you of the group of players led by some guy who live in Egypt who used to camp the Noble's entrance ladder with 40 friends ? He's probably the main reason of the introduction of safe zones next to ladders.. lol

With zones separated by loading screens, it will be hard to not see groups of people camping the area right on the other side of the loading screen without putting neutral zones or areas accessible only by your own faction. Resurrection sickness or timers for resurrection that increase the more you die in a short period of time could potentially be a good idea to consider.

Publius_Scipio

This is good news. But I think somehow, someway, the NPC deadric army should be included in district capture. This will keep the whole story and premise true to what it was meant to be.

You first walk into a district, it is controlled by deadra. Right, they are sieging all of Imperial City. You kill them, capture the flag/flags (whatever it may be) and the district becomes controlled by whatever alliance you are. And this is repeated for each district.

Now to make it interesting, I think that there should be some element or timer for each district where if the current controlling alliance moves out completely and is not in within a certain proximity of the flag (again, whatever it may be) deadra begin repopulating the district. To keep with the theme that the entire city is still under siege by these bicepsless creatures. The COVENANT vs elves and cats vs drunks, elves, and lizards vs deadra.

So if your alliance controls District A and you are off fighting in District C, there is a timer that is triggered in District A that if you don't go back there to "keep control" eventually the district will flip back to deadra. I think this will eliminate the whole situation that plays out in Cyrodiil where the map can be painted all one color, and that alliance can simply sit around and not do anything to maintain their control. This should force those that want to control Imperial City to constantly keep moving and fighting.

Also I would like to say that Telel is a good guy.

Minno

Where is this info posted?

Ajax_22

Minno wrote: »

Where is this info posted?

http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/2016/04/19/dark-brotherhood-first-look

Minno

Ajax_22 wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Where is this info posted?

http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/2016/04/19/dark-brotherhood-first-look

Thanks! Won't hold my breath till patch notes/pts though.

forzajuve212

frozywozy wrote: »

Telel wrote: »

Everyone keeps leaving out the most important hurdle.

Preventing spawn and entry point camping by packs of no skill scrubs.

Should I remind you of the group of players led by some guy who live in Egypt who used to camp the Noble's entrance ladder with 40 friends ? He's probably the main reason of the introduction of safe zones next to ladders.. lol

With zones separated by loading screens, it will be hard to not see groups of people camping the area right on the other side of the loading screen without putting neutral zones or areas accessible only by your own faction. Resurrection sickness or timers for resurrection that increase the more you die in a short period of time could potentially be a good idea to consider.

Hahaha this is true, always good fun to fight the Egyptian horde in the DC base

But yes, this is a much needed addition to the game that I am super excited for.

Emma_Overload

Ajax_22 wrote: »

Will the districts be a single or multiple point capture? Also is something going to be done to make death in the districts more meaningful? For example a respawn timer, or removing the home base ladders and forcing you to respawn in your factions base.

@ZOS_BrianWheeler @ZOS_GinaBruno

What you're describing would RUIN the fast and fun experience of fighting in the Districts! Why do you need to bring the Cyrodiil Horse Simulator to the IC?

Minno

Emma_Eunjung wrote: »

Ajax_22 wrote: »

Will the districts be a single or multiple point capture? Also is something going to be done to make death in the districts more meaningful? For example a respawn timer, or removing the home base ladders and forcing you to respawn in your factions base.

@ZOS_BrianWheeler @ZOS_GinaBruno

What you're describing would RUIN the fast and fun experience of fighting in the Districts! Why do you need to bring the Cyrodiil Horse Simulator to the IC?

Current instant respawn system negates the purpose of having capturable objectives. Players won't think and it becomes a "meat pile" strategy win everytime. At least in upper cyro you can skip a keep and hit a new target to start a new front. In IC space is too limited for the instant respawn.

RadioheadSh0t

This is great news. It's great to see them listen to the community and implement something that the PvP community has been asking for. Finally some PvP love, hopefully they do it well.

Karamis_Vimardon

RadioheadSh0t wrote: »

This is great news. It's great to see them listen to the community and implement something that the PvP community has been asking for. Finally some PvP love, hopefully they do it well.

It was meant to be in there from the start, IC was a half-arsed DLC release. Think Windows Vista...

Xsorus

Mmmm more targets for my nb

RadioheadSh0t

Karamis_Vimardon wrote: »

RadioheadSh0t wrote: »

This is great news. It's great to see them listen to the community and implement something that the PvP community has been asking for. Finally some PvP love, hopefully they do it well.

It was meant to be in there from the start, IC was a half-arsed DLC release. Think Windows Vista...

I agree, but better late than never.

They took it out, people let their disappointment be known, and they're now going to add it. I'm excited, for the first time in a while.

Ajax_22

Emma_Eunjung wrote: »

Ajax_22 wrote: »

Will the districts be a single or multiple point capture? Also is something going to be done to make death in the districts more meaningful? For example a respawn timer, or removing the home base ladders and forcing you to respawn in your factions base.

@ZOS_BrianWheeler @ZOS_GinaBruno

What you're describing would RUIN the fast and fun experience of fighting in the Districts! Why do you need to bring the Cyrodiil Horse Simulator to the IC?

Having a single point of capture with no respawn changes would ruin the entire point of making the districts capturable. If ZOS leaves the respawns as is the districts will be exactly like they are now, except instead of fighting under one factions spawn we would be fighting over a flag. Death has to be meaningful to make district capture work. If players don't like running back from base or waiting for a respawn timer then they will need to play more tactically, and not run at their enemies one by one.

RinaldoGandolphi

Here is the problem with this idea of capture sewers

Those zergs in Cyrodiil will go where the AP and Zerg the districts just like they are zerging Cyrodiil

The zergs will go where the AP is if that in the IPC or out in Cyrodiil this whole idea of small scale combat is a pipe dream as long as zergs can enter

Our only real chance for the small scale skirmidh pvp we all wanted was the Justice system and they canned that because role players wouldn't be able to steal without consequence

Cinbri

When small group will fight zerg in IC, any death penalty will be huge penalty for small group, not zergs, so don't promote zerging.

VincentBlanquin

why do you care? after it will be finished (if) they will tel us. until then no eta

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

I'd rather see a district capture system which is time based rather than dynamic. For example: tol barad

Every hour the match opens you queue up for it.

Once in you spawn in your starting district you then have to fight to capture the other districts. You can only resurrected in a district you own which isn't under attack. Otherwise you have to run through sewers.

Capture mechanics could vary. For example flags, completion of district event, mobs killed (whoever gets the killing blow) so you might have to kill 150 mobs to capture the district alliances could be competing to kill these mobs and also killing each other would count you could steal kills from other factions. (You kill the mob and pick up its token. You then have to deposit this token. If you are killed you drop all your mob tokens and the player who killed you can pick them up. (Similar mechanic to tel var)

Once all districts are owned the dungeons unlock to your faction and the map goes back into normal mode until the next hour. Players are rewarded with participation rewards based on their factions outcome if they participated in the event.

kevlarto_ESO

Sound like fun, I have some concerns and will have to see how it plays out with the faction imbalances, will most likely suck the fun right out of it for me, but I will wait and see, I just hope Cryodiil proper will not become a ghost town again after it releases like it did when IC first launched for the first few weeks, time will tell.

danno8

kevlarto_ESO wrote: »

Sound like fun, I have some concerns and will have to see how it plays out with the faction imbalances, will most likely suck the fun right out of it for me, but I will wait and see, I just hope Cryodiil proper will not become a ghost town again after it releases like it did when IC first launched for the first few weeks, time will tell.

Upper Cyro was a ghost town mostly because AP lost nearly all value when TV stones came with the expansion. Once everyone had all the TV they could handle, and the gear that they wanted, overland became the place to be again.

No doubt it will take some extra people out of upper for the first few weeks, but it shouldn't be nearly as bad as when IC released.

Jaronking

Hopefully they will add a limit to how many of each faction can be in the district at one time for example on 50 players from each faction can be their and they add a population bar and a pop up to show how many players in your faction are already in the district.