Please make the Imperial City relevant again.

ArcVelarian

Maybe have those Transmutation Crystals available for Tel Var Stones. That ought to make people interested again.

Shardan4968

EttinTheBreton wrote: »

ZOS LISTENS! Thank youuu

The Imperial City Anniversary Event starts this Thursday, September 7 at 10:00am EDT and finishes on Monday, September 18 at 10:00am EDT.

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26175?Liberate-Cyrodiil-During-the-Imperial-City-Anniversary-Event-and-Earn-Bonus-Rewards!

So what? Event will end and Imperial City will be empty again. I don't want to have few days every year to actually enjoy IC with other people. Please Zenimax, make Imperial CIty great again. Before I bought ESO, this DLC sounded so good, There must be some way to interest both PvE and PvP players more.

Osteos

I honestly have no idea how to fix IC. Its a ghost town now. This event has nothing to entice me back into IC. Quite the opposite actually, to me it will just bring back pve players who run 40 man deep and just zerg all the fun away.

I enjoyed the free for all feeling in the Memorial district when IC first launched. Dropping down to fight AD and EP while trying to avoid the Atronach boss or kiting it to the enemy if their numbers got to big. Good times!

So what could you add to IC that would entice the average PvP player to come in there? And by average I mean not gankers, 1vXers or organized guild groups.

Jade1986

Every time I hear something like this all I can do is think of cheeto von corn husk. Anything with " make so and so so again " is ruined for me now.

zyk

Osteos wrote: »

I honestly have no idea how to fix IC. Its a ghost town now. This event has nothing to entice me back into IC. Quite the opposite actually, to me it will just bring back pve players who run 40 man deep and just zerg all the fun away.

I enjoyed the free for all feeling in the Memorial district when IC first launched. Dropping down to fight AD and EP while trying to avoid the Atronach boss or kiting it to the enemy if their numbers got to big. Good times!

So what could you add to IC that would entice the average PvP player to come in there? And by average I mean not gankers, 1vXers or organized guild groups.

IC would be awesome with modern capture and hold, and respawn mechanics seen in other popular online games. The current implementations are primitive, IMO -- really, mechanics from the 90s.

Sovi3tKitsch

Is it just me or did IC, specifically the arena in the Arena District get nerfed super hard sometime between the original release and now? I remember it used to have a gate like the one in Kvatch and factions would fight for control over the arena in order to farm. Used to be a good time and now I hardly ever see anyone in there.

pcar944

disintegr8 wrote: »

We'd also need reasons to go back to Hews Bane, Gold Coast and Wrothgar - they are all DLC's as well. I only go back to Wrothgar to hand in my daily writs and now that I have all 3 IC crafting sets in my manor, have no reason to ever go back to IC.

ZOS is too busy bringing out new content (DLC's, 'Expansion') that you have not yet bought to worry about something you've already paid for.

true but, IC is unique in a sense that its a PVP/PVE and its in PVP zone

adding gold mats for Tel Var is one of ideas that has been around for a long time now

Osteos

Sovi3tKitsch wrote: »

Is it just me or did IC, specifically the arena in the Arena District get nerfed super hard sometime between the original release and now? I remember it used to have a gate like the one in Kvatch and factions would fight for control over the arena in order to farm. Used to be a good time and now I hardly ever see anyone in there.

Yes they completely nerfed it. It used to have several boss waves in that fight and now its just 2 and they are easy to kill.

Shardan4968

Is there any way to get into IC from PvE zone? If not, then what about one portal in each alliance capital city to get straight into Imperial sewers? Maybe more people would go inside to have some fun when they are bored, instead of playing horse simulator in Cyrodiil? It's just one suggestion. Currently IC is place for lone wolfs who can defeat whole Daedric army.

altemriel

chaserstorm16909 wrote: »

Please give us a reason to go back to the Imperial City. I miss the epic battles we used to have there.

long time since this one was in Imperial City, usually khajiit she does dungeons or dolmens in last months.
but it was fun, khajiit she will return there this weekend.

With grin for telvar stones and player kills (bomber-blade dream)
Maoimii

Morbash

Yes, please! PvP in general needs more attention. Interest in PvP seems to have hit an all-time low.

Taonnor

One of the greatest problems is that IC is connected with Cyrodiil and on the other side not connected with Cyrodiil. The design is unfinished.

Some facts:
- To get to IC you must go through Cyrodiil
- IC and Cyrodiil share the same campaign population
- IC is an own instance, not influencing Cyrodiil
- Cyrodiil is an own instance, not influencing IC

So on the one site both are connected and on the other side both are not connected. All who knows the original concept of IC, it was not unfinished. They cutted of the influencing ic/cyrodiil from each other, because of IC is going DLC instead of Base Game Patch.


In my eyes @ZOS_BrianWheeler should redo the concept/design and change something on the first 4 facts i said. It is not nessasary in which direction, but a clear direction should make IC interesting again.

My favorite direction is to make IC non DLC and free for all. Integrate the original gated access again and the buffs that you can capture in IC to get bonus in Cyrodiil.

Lucky28

Imperial City is one of the best PvP zones. it has everything for good PvP. it's a shame it's underutilized.

zyk

I don't really enjoy fighting without context in PVE or PVP. For example, I love team based PVP games with objectives, but I get bored of deathmatching very quickly.

The context in IC used to be the valuable loot. When it was introduced, Willpower and Agility were coveted and crafted armor was BIS in many cases. The grind in the game was for materials -- which IC was the only source of. That made IC very interesting.

While IC can still be profitable, it isn't enough to be exciting. I played solo today, made my way down to Molag Bal, and could have easily have bombed a PVE group but didn't because.. meh. The bomb and the payout would have been boring. So I let them be and transited out of IC and went back to Cyrodiil.

To make IC relevant again, restore the difficulty of the mobs and increase the value of its loot.