How To Get The Emperor Title Forever (from Reddit)

arkansas_ESO

Reposting what I saw on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/6so3y0/the_emperor_title_is_one_of_the_rarest_titles_in

How it works: Whenever you're crowned as Emperor in a campaign, you're given the Emperor/Empress title. Whenever you lose emperorship, you lose the Emperor title and are given the Former Emperor title. However, if you're the active Emperor of a campaign whenever it's removed, you can keep the Emperor title forever. This works because, technically, the campaign you're Emperor of still exists, but since it's inaccessible nobody can get in there to dethrone you. This is commonly referred to as "permanent emperorship" or "perma emp" in the community.

Since campaigns aren't closed often, and not every campaign has an active Emperor whenever it's closed, this makes the Emperor title extremely rare, with less than 15 people on PC NA with the title. It's so coveted that on PC NA we've actually had people offer to pay hundreds of real-world dollars for it in the past.

How to get it: The campaigns Xarxes and Kastav were both introduced to handle population overflow from the other campaigns during the Midyear Mayhem event, and will be closed when the servers are taken down for maintenance for the Horns of the Reach DLC this early Monday morning (~4 A.M. EST) or Wednesday if you're on console.

What you need to know:

(These times are all for PC NA, and may be different for different megaservers)

Xarxes' leaderboards reset at 3:37 P.M EST Thursday (that's tomorrow)

Kastav's leaderboards reset at 12 P.M. EST Friday

You'll want to start playing as soon as you can after the leaderboards reset so that you've got the best chance of being #1 on your faction's leaderboard.

Remember, to get the Emperor title permanently, you need to be the active Emperor of that campaign whenever the servers go down for maintenance (usually around 4 A.M. EST Monday morning.)

Full disclosure: I had initially planned on going for perma emp myself this weekend, but unfortunately I wasn't able to get off work. I don't want to see this opportunity go to waste, though (remember, campaigns don't close often!) so I figured I'd post here.

Q&A:

Q. Is this exploiting?

A. No, it's not. The Emperor title has worked this way since the game was first released on PC back in 2014, and ZOS has been aware of perma emp ever since. Since it's a purely cosmetic bug--and one that encourages PVP--they don't have any interest in fixing it.

Q. If I get perma emp, will I get to keep the emperor buffs forever?

A. No, you only have the emperor buffs in the campaign where you're currently emperor. You do, however, get to wear the Emperor title in every campaign, and outside of Cyrodiil as well.

NightbladeMechanics

You just learning about this?

Also ZOS makes formal announcements when they are closing campaigns. Have they made one for these campaigns yet?

Rickter

@arkansas_ESO - why your trying to stir up mass hysteria?

Chakei

For the record this was removed from Reddit because it's exploiting a bug. Expect this to be closed.

Scyantific

I hope they never close those campaigns, just so people will constantly be hurting for that sweet sweet title.

That or they just ninja-fix the title stuff and remove all the perma-emp titles from everyone who has it, and not tell anyone, not even in patch notes.

arkansas_ESO

Rickter wrote: »

@arkansas_ESO - why your trying to stir up mass hysteria?

What do you mean? I just copy and pasted something I saw on Reddit since I thought it would be relevant here.

Scyantific wrote: »

I hope they never close those campaigns, just so people will constantly be hurting for that sweet sweet title.

That or they just ninja-fix the title stuff and remove all the perma-emp titles from everyone who has it, and not tell anyone, not even in patch notes.

LOL that'd be the ultimate troll move on ZOS' part.

Artis

Why is this not fixed yet? Their intern would do it for free between bringing a coffee for Gina and dusting the room

Stratforge

Artis wrote: »

Why is this not fixed yet? Their intern would do it for free between bringing a coffee for Gina and dusting the room

Because its cool. I would prefer ZoS dedicate resources to fixing literally anything else.

Zbigb4life

Rickter wrote: »

@arkansas_ESO - why your trying to stir up mass hysteria?

To get some players into these dying campaigns?

enzoisadog

I have a friend that dropped campaign when he was about to get crowned emp, he crashed and he had emp tittle and bonuses on the old Azura's star. So AD had a perma emp on Azura's back then

Turelus

I look forward to the day they do a quick fix for this and everyone rages about their precious perma-emps.

Morgul667

Turelus wrote: »

I look forward to the day they do a quick fix for this and everyone rages about their precious perma-emps.

That's gonna be fun ^^

Artis

Stratforge wrote: »

Artis wrote: »

Why is this not fixed yet? Their intern would do it for free between bringing a coffee for Gina and dusting the room

Because its cool. I would prefer ZoS dedicate resources to fixing literally anything else.

It's not. It's not official, that's not what ZOS wrote about emperorship before the game was released or at any point after. Some of us didn't know about it or still don't know and thus don't have a chance to get it, or missed their chance.

Players who did get that, on the other hand, exploited a bug. They aren't any better than any other emperor and don't deserve to keep the title,too.

Sandman929

This is all completely brand new information. Additionally, the perma-Emp title will be looked upon with favor and respect because of how important it is.

Minno

We should have a giant anti-emp/nerd killing party on those campaigns.

Stratforge

Artis wrote: »

Stratforge wrote: »

Artis wrote: »

Why is this not fixed yet? Their intern would do it for free between bringing a coffee for Gina and dusting the room

Because its cool. I would prefer ZoS dedicate resources to fixing literally anything else.

It's not. It's not official, that's not what ZOS wrote about emperorship before the game was released or at any point after. Some of us didn't know about it or still don't know and thus don't have a chance to get it, or missed their chance.

Players who did get that, on the other hand, exploited a bug. They aren't any better than any other emperor and don't deserve to keep the title,too.

You're a big nerd.

Stratforge

Artis wrote: »

Stratforge wrote: »

Artis wrote: »

Why is this not fixed yet? Their intern would do it for free between bringing a coffee for Gina and dusting the room

Because its cool. I would prefer ZoS dedicate resources to fixing literally anything else.

It's not. It's not official, that's not what ZOS wrote about emperorship before the game was released or at any point after. Some of us didn't know about it or still don't know and thus don't have a chance to get it, or missed their chance.

Players who did get that, on the other hand, exploited a bug. They aren't any better than any other emperor and don't deserve to keep the title,too.

You're a big nerd.