Alliance change? Please, zos? :(

Rygonix

Considering how people tend to love anything that is FOTM, I can see it applying to factions as well. While the profit possibility is there, the big question is..how would PvP be affected?

Vanthras79

In before a picture of a person in a banana costume.

Rygonix

Vanthras79 wrote: »

In before a picture of a person in a banana costume.

Destyran

RogueShark wrote: »

I don't think it's necessary. You can already play any race in any alliance with the upgrade, and if you really want to play with a certain group, you can re-roll whatever race you want in that particular alliance.
Is it a pain in the butt to have to relevel and earn achievements, skyshards, and lorebooks over again? Yes, it is. But there's your natural consequence to deciding to uproot and change sides. This coming from someone who is redoing everything because I swapped from AD to EP because all my friends and my PvP guild are EP side.

I have 360 skill points and 24k achievement points. Every skill line maxed and i found out 99.99 of the Australian community is on blue and yellow. Guess what i am red?? Its not as simple as re rolling. I would love a alliance change

DeathHouseInc

Sometimes you join the wrong crowd. I hate forced faction system games. I love how this game plays but the limitation forced factions and trinity puts on games is..frustrating. What do I know though just 18 years of mmo experience. I would call it a personal opinion if I did not have direct and extensive experience in both forms...

There should at least be a way to opt out to another faction.

Skinzz

Switch alliance and your character's PvP rank should get erased.

Ruse

xskinzcity wrote: »

Switch alliance and your character's PvP rank should get erased.

Why?

I'd much rather see more achievements be account-based than character-based, and PvP rank is mostly a measure of dedication/time. Makes no sense to punish someone for wanting to play with friends.

If you simply want to discourage faction-surfing, allow only once per campaign cycle or something.

Skinzz

Ruse wrote: »

xskinzcity wrote: »

Switch alliance and your character's PvP rank should get erased.

Why?

I'd much rather see more achievements be account-based than character-based, and PvP rank is mostly a measure of dedication/time. Makes no sense to punish someone for wanting to play with friends.

If you simply want to discourage faction-surfing, allow only once per campaign cycle or something.

Because there has to be a penalty to switching alliances. You don't instantly become a general of an enemy alliance

Ruse

xskinzcity wrote: »

Ruse wrote: »

xskinzcity wrote: »

Switch alliance and your character's PvP rank should get erased.

Why?

I'd much rather see more achievements be account-based than character-based, and PvP rank is mostly a measure of dedication/time. Makes no sense to punish someone for wanting to play with friends.

If you simply want to discourage faction-surfing, allow only once per campaign cycle or something.

Because there has to be a penalty to switching alliances. You don't instantly become a general of an enemy alliance

Please let's not put "lore" or roleplay or whatever ahead of accessibility and fun.

DisgracefulMind

While this option would be interesting, it would need to come with a severely long timer.

Though I'd probably just be really salty about it seeing as I deleted 4 maxed (mage's guild, FG, UD, everything) DC characters back when I rerolled to EP fully xD

Unfadingsilence

Roovin wrote: »

Bad idea.

It would serious mess up the lore aspect of it if you have even started the alliance storylines.

Lore and all that does not matter after they made one tamriel and made it to where you are free to go where you want as you please. Before when certain zones were locked because of your rank in that completing quest lines is very understandable but that was then and this is now an all out open map to enjoy before even finishing the main story or even cadwell's gold and silver.

Lylith

ArchMikem wrote: »

Put a timer on it, people can do it once in a blue moon.

limit it to a one time thing, if need be.

RANKK7

Yes, I have two characters who never entered AvA location and they are stuck in pve since I won't pvp an AD ever.

When started playing I was unaware such option wasn't available, I thought the "any alliance any race" was a token and would have been able to change later on.

That sucks, not willing to delete them and there is only pve for them.
I'm even bothered by that color next to their names.

A one time token would be needed.

SydneyGrey

AlMcFly wrote: »

Roovin wrote: »

Bad idea.
It would serious mess up the lore aspect of it if you have even started the alliance storylines.

Heh, you can already make any race in any faction. That feature has been here for a long time. It's far more unrealistic to believe nobody ever changed sides during a war.

This is how I feel. It's realistic to allow people to change factions, however, I agree with the people who said an alliance change should be limited to maybe once per character.

xskinzcity wrote: »

Switch alliance and your character's PvP rank should get erased.

That would actually be realistic, too. LOL.

Nelson_Rebel

RogueShark wrote: »

I don't think it's necessary. You can already play any race in any alliance with the upgrade, and if you really want to play with a certain group, you can re-roll whatever race you want in that particular alliance.
Is it a pain in the butt to have to relevel and earn achievements, skyshards, and lorebooks over again? Yes, it is. But there's your natural consequence to deciding to uproot and change sides. This coming from someone who is redoing everything because I swapped from AD to EP because all my friends and my PvP guild are EP side.

But yet we can change races at a whim in our alliance? And yet the the only thing that makes sense lore wise (defecting to a different alliance) Instead of changing your entire being on a cellular level is okay? But not *Gasp* changing alliances. Oh no, that's too much

So much Logic

Much wow, much Smart.

Nelson_Rebel

I seriously can't understand the logic behind wanting to Gate people behind an alliance. lmao


Hypocritical and illogical

jcaceresw

Having the option to change all my DC characters to EP may revitalize PVP for me. I was spending some time on Cyrodiil because of the mid year event but yeah, I prefer to PVP with my EP friends instead of being all by myself on a DC toon.

mandricus

I would happily pay crowns for a "Change alliance Token", similar to the Aspect Change / Race change tokens that we already have, in order to be able to change the Faction of my toon to be able to play with my guildmates, without having to reroll a new one.
To avoid any abuse of this functionality, all Zos has to do it is just to implement a "grace period" for every character, after changing your alliance (say 30 days, 60 days, whatever). After switching alliance, you have to wait the end of the grace period in order to be able to change it again for the same toon. Problem solved, everyone is happy, Zos is gaining crowns from tokens, people are happy because now they can play with their guildmates.
I really don't understand why they haven't implemented it yet, just guessing: impact on solo playing / main story quests if you are in the middle of the story of your faction and have not completed it yet?

White wabbit

Yeah everyone gets to be on the same faction , not sure how PvP would play then just make the population unbalance even worse