The problem with factions in PVP in their current state...

Nyladreas

Whenever 1 side keeps winning people tell you (quote)"Mehh, just switch to a DC/EP/AD toon it's aight" before proceeding to do the same themselves. Depending on which side it is, same with Imperial City or Sewers, people just go and abandon those who really want to try and fight.

Let's say there's suddenly a zerg of AD, people just switch to AD and farm. Should and EP zerg appear, suddenly they all switch to EP...

Can we please lock campagins entirely to a single faction for the duration of the entire campaign, depending on which character entered it first, ZOS? Especially since you're trying to destroy solo play more and more with each patch? (Looking at you Soldier of Anguish).

This is just promoting bad PVP results and people not even trying to fight each other, and switch over for free and (quote) "EZ rewards". I feel forced to switch myself, because there simply is no fighting chance, when everyone just leaves you to fight the evergrowing zergs on your own.



Not to mention the Bulls**t that is Scroll trading and keep flipping. Like............. Really ZOS?

Can we at least get some actually good anti-zerg tools for both stamina and magicka this update before it rolls out of PTS? This is just not okay.

Sheezabeast

I would not like having alliance locked. On Vivec PC NA, there are days where the map is just dead from one faction dominating. It gets tiresome being an EP and having a dead map, seeing a resource under attack, going there for some action, and meeting a 15+ zerg there, doing the same thing. Being able to log in to my AD to help them when they're down in population is nice, sure every alliance has their zergs, but as a solo/small scaler PVPer, I need the flexibility to help out where I feel there is more need. Sure, people may hop for AP, but as someone who legit does not do that, and just does it to help faction imbalance, your idea would suck.

VaranisArano

I prefer to remain loyal to my EP faction.

Others prefer to switch factions, whether its to play with friends, find good fights, or follow the AP-making hordes.

It doesn't really bother me, though I admit to having a hard time taking cross-faction players seriously in EP zone chat when I know I fought them on their AD or DC toon the other day.

Kel

Sheezabeast wrote: »

I would not like having alliance locked. On Vivec PC NA, there are days where the map is just dead from one faction dominating. It gets tiresome being an EP and having a dead map, seeing a resource under attack, going there for some action, and meeting a 15+ zerg there, doing the same thing. Being able to log in to my AD to help them when they're down in population is nice, sure every alliance has their zergs, but as a solo/small scaler PVPer, I need the flexibility to help out where I feel there is more need. Sure, people may hop for AP, but as someone who legit does not do that, and just does it to help faction imbalance, your idea would suck.

That's the problem he's talking about though. EP is seeing a dead map, because when they start to lose, everyone Alliance swaps.
That's exactly why alliance lock should happen. It promotes a better balance instead of it being lopsided and makes for a better back and forth between factions.

Nyladreas

Sheezabeast wrote: »

I would not like having alliance locked. On Vivec PC NA, there are days where the map is just dead from one faction dominating. It gets tiresome being an EP and having a dead map, seeing a resource under attack, going there for some action, and meeting a 15+ zerg there, doing the same thing. Being able to log in to my AD to help them when they're down in population is nice, sure every alliance has their zergs, but as a solo/small scaler PVPer, I need the flexibility to help out where I feel there is more need. Sure, people may hop for AP, but as someone who legit does not do that, and just does it to help faction imbalance, your idea would suck.

I mean... I understand the frustration, but isn't your post basically proving my point?

Sheezabeast

jabrone77 wrote: »

Sheezabeast wrote: »

I would not like having alliance locked. On Vivec PC NA, there are days where the map is just dead from one faction dominating. It gets tiresome being an EP and having a dead map, seeing a resource under attack, going there for some action, and meeting a 15+ zerg there, doing the same thing. Being able to log in to my AD to help them when they're down in population is nice, sure every alliance has their zergs, but as a solo/small scaler PVPer, I need the flexibility to help out where I feel there is more need. Sure, people may hop for AP, but as someone who legit does not do that, and just does it to help faction imbalance, your idea would suck.

That's the problem he's talking about though. EP is seeing a dead map, because when they start to lose, everyone Alliance swaps.
That's exactly why alliance lock should happen. It promotes a better balance instead of it being lopsided and makes for a better back and forth between factions.

I think you misunderstood me, by a dead map, for EP, that means we own everything from Bleakers to Sej, not that we're losing and I want to jump ship. In the evening, people will either potato at Aleswell farm for hours or they will potato at Alessia FD and Bridge, it gets very stale, very boring, and more often than not, AD doesn't have the manpower to overtake the EP zerg if they try for Sej. They have to faction-stack to take anything from EP these days.

idk

Wow, another stretching of the truth to try to support faction lock on the campaigns.

Nyladreas wrote: »

Let's say there's suddenly a zerg of AD, people just switch to AD and farm. Should and EP zerg appear, suddenly they all switch to EP....

I like how someone states a hypothetical as those it is fact and extremely widespread. It clearly is not.

Lykanus

Dont lock anything, but make it desireable to not swap to the winning team. IE give those badly outnumbered an +100% AP boost for 2 hours. Might attracs then some players to join the losing side.
Sure that MIGHT end up switching a lot of people to the losing team- but yes at least then it breaks up again and everyone has an objective again.