Alliance Change Token

labambao

Do we need it?
UPD: in crown store, like race change.

Madhattr64

Is there one coming out?

TheShadowScout

I said it before:

TheShadowScout wrote: »

As I always say when this one comes up : I am all for alliance change - If Done RIGHT!

And by that I don't mean some token that pops your character to a new alliance, I mean a whole DLC sized questline with an cloak and dagger (Or since this is ESO, "hood and dagger", perhaps?) spycraft flavor and a "faction loyalty called in question" plot, where you get to make a big choice in the middle - stay loyal to your alliance, or defect to greener pastures elsewhere... with the rest of the questline being different depending on your choice; either your character works to prove their innocence, find out who framed them and stop the -real- plot, or they quest to prepate their defection, dodge the agents sent to bring them in and grab a few juicy secrets on their way out...
Such a DLC would take paople all over tamriel, possibly reusing some old "once" regions with new mobs, as well as centered around a neutral region where spies and agents from all alliances can meet to spy hard (think cold war era vienna for example), some city-state or small region that never joined any of the alliances, perhaps in western skyrim, or a former imperial territory, or even a diplomatic location like a post-mainstroy idle of stirk... and it could revisit some old friends who work in the shadows, like raz and naryu...
And naturally there could be nifty titles depending on which way your character goes, like "[original faction] loyalist" or "[original faction] defector"...

There might even be a chance to introduce -new- factions this way, factions that cannot be picked from the start, but can only be defected to through this. Minor factions that do not start in a major stronghold in cyrodil, but only get a ill-secured (and thus raidable and even enemy-campable) outpost somewhere on the border... which also would not have any "base" locations for elder scrolls, only what they could conquer on their own... like "Imperial Rebels", empire legionaires turned renegarde, or "outlaws" that fight for themselves only, or whatever...

And there could plausibly be PvP drawbacks to defecting. Like, defectors having to re-earn their alliance rank, or gaining AP at half the usual rate for the first six months in their new alliance (as people won't trust a traitor right away). And of course they should give a bonus to AP rewards when taken down by their former comrades, because...

Turelus

Other.

Make alliance a choice when you home/guest a campaign, lock all characters on your account to that faction for that campaign.

This way our characters are unbound to start with and more like mercenaries. Which also helps the PvE story zones make more sense.

Down side is no alliance locked races, so we have to deal with the backlash of people who purchased the unlock.

ArchMikem

We need faction locked campaigns and more loyalty.

Loralai_907

I don't think it should be a free for all, no being able to change a characters faction 16 times a day or anything that extreme. I would be ok with it if they had decent cool downs and even limits based on the account not the character. I have 11 characters on my main account. If for some reason I needed to be able to go PvP on another faction, I would rather move someone over instead of leveling some new character all over again (plus the wasted mount trainings, trait research, etc if I have to delete a character and start over)

rumple9

Yes AD wins every campaign on pc EU and I want the campaign rewards on all my toons

VaranisArano

I'm an EP loyalist. Blood for the Pact all the way.

I have an DC and an AD character created before One Tamriel because I didnt want to wade through the vet rank grind to experience those storylines.

I would totally love the chance to turn those characters EP like my other 9 characters (I do own Any Race, Any Alliance).

simeion

Random alliance assign at the beginning of each campaign. That is the only change i would consider, and i still dont like it.

rexagamemnon

Only during a once a year event. If you have it available at anytime, then people will switch allisnces left and right to make emperor

NirnChaos

ArchMikem wrote: »

We need faction locked campaigns and more loyalty.

I totally approve

White wabbit

Think this would only make things worse

labambao

Oh guys, i mean just add it to store like for 3k crowns etc

EvilAutoTech

rexagamemnon wrote: »

Only during a once a year event.

I like this idea.

labambao wrote: »

Oh guys, i mean just add it to store like for 3k crowns etc

I would be fine with this if it didn't take effect until the next campaign. Otherwise people could swap at the end to get the rewards from winning the campaign.

I really don't see the point of resetting PVP ranks either since BGs can increase your rank.

EllieBlue

I would love a One Time Only alliance change token. I have 12 characters of which 2 are EP and another 2 are AD, all fully levelled, that I would love to take to PvP. They were created long before 1Tamriel when cross-alliance PvE wasn't possible yet and I wasn't interested in PvP. The rest of my characters are DC, all created after I discovered that PvP is a massive fun to play and developed loyalty to DC. I would like to move those early 4 to DC so I can use them all in PvP. I am not interested in PvPing for AD nor EP. Please consider a One Time Only token. I will pay for them via Crown Store. I know many others like me that would like to move all their chars to only 1 alliance. I think a One Time Only token is fair and it involves no alliance flip-flopping.

regime211

Eh there is way too many people whorvel up toons on diffrent alliances, I think this would be a flop now.

Ertosi

More options are always better, but this one would need to be set up right.

It should be crown only and balanced in cost to the class change tokens. I think the most appropriate name for them would be "Defection Papers".

Upon defecting from one alliance to another, any and all progress towards one's home campaign is lost. To avoid players changing alliances just to get on the winning team before a campaign ends, they would also need to be locked out of any and all currently open campaigns (ie after using "Defection Papers" they would have to wait until a campaign has reset to be able to join it).

This could easily be set up to include the faction-locked campaign idea that many are fond of.


There are quite a few players who start getting into PVP only to find their friends are on the other factions, so this would be a very welcome option to them. It can easily be set up to avoid exploitation, and having it cost in crowns avoids the issues of people switching teams any time the winds change direction.

sekou_trayvond

Yeah, whatever allows me to stick all my toons in DC for the war I'm all for. Just easier that way.

phairdon

Turelus wrote: »

Other.

Make alliance a choice when you home/guest a campaign, lock all characters on your account to that faction for that campaign.

This ^

Jameliel

Once per toon only.