Would you like to see Cyrodiil PvP Campaigns Alliance locked?

BoraxFlux

Currently players can change alliance during a campaign.
There are players players assume treachery and spying for all those that alliance hop, for other players it can be just change of flavor: they carry the AD colors and act accordingly, or change to EP colors and act accordingly.
What are your views on this?

Vapirko

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

Yes, I think so. It would be great if ZOS could do a test month in Sotha or something.

Chilly-McFreeze

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

I think it would even help if there's a cooldown. Like a few hours or days.

leeux

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

Maybe not totally alliance locked, but perhaps with a fixed cooldown of ~2hs or so before you can queue up on same campaign with a different alliance.

VaranisArano

Maybe if we had the population to fill all three alliances more or less equally across multiple campaigns.

Until ZOS fixes the performance issues and the PVP population rebounds, this woukd cause more problems than it solves.

Dalsinthus

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

Yes please. There’s some egregious boosting shenanigans going on in Xbox NA that involves heavy coordination between alliances and swapping back and forth. ZOS needs to take action against cheaters and this would be a step in the right direction.

Raudgrani

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

I want it like this:

Join Vivec on an AD/DC/EP toon, and you will only be able to join that campaign on another toon belonging to the same faction - during the duration of that 30 day campaign. Next campaign, you can join on whatever alliance you might like. You would however be able to join other campaigns on toons from another faction.

I don't buy this "the population is too small, can't be done" - people still play, don't they? And they can't play on multiple characters at the same time on one account, so that doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

When you have guild leaders from other factions in area chat, spending hours upon hours talking *** to provoke, saying they are naked and carrying no weapons, and openly stating that they are there to spy and troll - we have a problem.
Also, there's this good old chaining people into keeps, running scrolls the wrong way, pointing out people to "enemies" (their actual allies) and so on, turning siege 180 degrees etc. - which is of course a problem.
I can live with "allies" that teabag you when you die, and resurrecting you just so their friends can kill you again, or DON'T resurrect you when they should. It's not game breaking, just rude and annoying.

However, this whole alliance swap cheating issue seems to have decreased slightly, I need to add... *knock wood*

Haashhtaag

No, I don't want an alliance lock on campaigns

Faction lock isn’t the problem, faction loyalist are. Nothing kills campaigns faster than 1 faction zerging the map and keeping other factions gated.

eliisra

No, I don't want an alliance lock on campaigns

I don't change faction myself, but can't say I care much if others wanna see the fight from another perspective.

Load of people have friends and guildmates on multiple faction, so they want that freedom. Others are opportunistic shmucks lol. Either way, it's doesn't make or break PvP. The fear of spies is blown of out proportion, like you would have lost or wiped regardless of "traitors".

I'm not against adding an x hour cooldown on faction jumping though. That would prevent some unsportsmanlike behavior like scroll trolling and similar griefing, while still allowing honest people to play with friends on all factions. Not many would lock themselves to opposing faction for an entire evening, just to do some sabotage.

HidesFromSun

Other...

I wouldn't mind a campaign lock as much, as long as there was a way for someone with characters in all 3 alliances to still be able to get the transmute crystals from the tier 1 rewards on all characters. Maybe they could add a 3rd 30 day campaign?

Idk, but as long as it didn't prevent that, then I'd be all for a campaign lock

technohic

Other...

I'm not sure the results people hope for would happen while it would instill limitations.

I'd still go the opposite in a pipe dream and allow people to swap factions on their character at will while also having dynamic pop lock. You want in, ok; but you are not joining the highest pop faction. Would have to iron out swapping to be emp on different factions but probably could be a timer.

Rikumaru

No, I don't want an alliance lock on campaigns

I want to be able to play with guildies / friends whenever I want.

888and888

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

I can't see any advantage in having people jumping from faction to faction.

DeadlyRecluse

No, I don't want an alliance lock on campaigns

We had it. It didn't make a difference. I don't know why people think it will magically work if re-implemented.

CatchMeTrolling

No, I don't want an alliance lock on campaigns

I would never go to open world if they locked everything.

Beardimus

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

Yep lock it up tight please.

And if you cant do that across the board as people might whine, then lock all bar Vivec and leave the boosters with the zergs at least.

Haashhtaag

No, I don't want an alliance lock on campaigns

Beardimus wrote: »

Yep lock it up tight please.

And if you cant do that across the board as people might whine, then lock all bar Vivec and leave the boosters with the zergs at least.

What is your average group size? I assume you play nothing but EP?

Na0cho

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

If you ever que into any cyrodil campaign as anything but DC, I don't want you back.

stay in your potato alliances, don't dilute the warrior stock that is the Covenant!

Ormtunge

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

A faction lock would bring a lot of pvpers back. Especially if combined with some kind of population regulatiion. In my oppinion PVP without fighting for a faction and a campaign of some sorts is no PVP at all, but just farming.

Na0cho

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

Ormtunge wrote: »

A faction lock would bring a lot of pvpers back. Especially if combined with some kind of population regulatiion. In my oppinion PVP without fighting for a faction and a campaign of some sorts is no PVP at all, but just farming.

This guy gets it. The way pvp is now in cyro half the time is just glorified pve for alliance points.

Mintaka5

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

TheBonesXXX

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

Yes. I don't care about people's friends, only to crush my enemies and hear the lamentations of their women.

If someone decided that they wanted to be on all three factions, they can deal with it. They did that, not me.

If people can't deal with being gated, go pick flowers and make potions.

CatchMeTrolling

No, I don't want an alliance lock on campaigns

Ormtunge wrote: »

A faction lock would bring a lot of pvpers back. Especially if combined with some kind of population regulatiion. In my oppinion PVP without fighting for a faction and a campaign of some sorts is no PVP at all, but just farming.

That’s how it’s always been , only difference is you’ll have people not helping the alliance but just farming and topping the leaderboard every week or month.

JadonSky

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

Agree, there should be some type of locking or time period before you can switch again. When I played Planetside which was a 3 faction PVP MMO. If you switched factions on the same server you could not switch again for 7 days I think it was. This would prevent players from switching when the current faction they were on was not doing so hot.

TheBonesXXX

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

CatchMeTrolling wrote: »

Ormtunge wrote: »

A faction lock would bring a lot of pvpers back. Especially if combined with some kind of population regulatiion. In my oppinion PVP without fighting for a faction and a campaign of some sorts is no PVP at all, but just farming.

That’s how it’s always been , only difference is you’ll have people not helping the alliance but just farming and topping the leaderboard every week or month.

Get rid of the wayshrines and make suckers hoof it.

WitchyWarrior

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

Ormtunge wrote: »

A faction lock would bring a lot of pvpers back. Especially if combined with some kind of population regulatiion. In my oppinion PVP without fighting for a faction and a campaign of some sorts is no PVP at all, but just farming.

Yup! Exactly this!
I'm sure there are people who play all three factions that fight for the faction they are playing on in that moment. I know a few. But it's the ones that faction hop & do not care about the campaign, or faction they are playing on only whatever their "main" is & will flood zone chat/mock other players NON-STOP, cause constant distraction(quoting full songs in zone like an idiot is an example) or give out false info, those are the ones that are causing all the problems.
So to the ones that don't want faction lock because they want to play with their friends anywhere, start speaking out about the ones that are making others ask for faction lock.
THey are just out to farm, grief & be the center of attention every single night.
I feel bad for their home life.

Qwazzy

The campaigns should be wiped and reset. These current ones were released with Morrowind.
BRING BACK AZURA STAR!

Haashhtaag

No, I don't want an alliance lock on campaigns

Ormtunge wrote: »

A faction lock would bring a lot of pvpers back. Especially if combined with some kind of population regulatiion. In my oppinion PVP without fighting for a faction and a campaign of some sorts is no PVP at all, but just farming.

You know what would bring people back? Better server performance and devs actually giving a crap about pvp.

TheBonesXXX

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

Haashhtaag wrote: »

Ormtunge wrote: »

A faction lock would bring a lot of pvpers back. Especially if combined with some kind of population regulatiion. In my oppinion PVP without fighting for a faction and a campaign of some sorts is no PVP at all, but just farming.

You know what would bring people back? Better server performance and devs actually giving a crap about pvp.

Seeing how Brians in charge and he's fixing problems, I think PvP will get better.

Bam_Bam

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

TheBonesXXX wrote: »

Haashhtaag wrote: »

Ormtunge wrote: »

A faction lock would bring a lot of pvpers back. Especially if combined with some kind of population regulatiion. In my oppinion PVP without fighting for a faction and a campaign of some sorts is no PVP at all, but just farming.

You know what would bring people back? Better server performance and devs actually giving a crap about pvp.

Seeing how Brians in charge and he's fixing problems, I think PvP will get better.

Yep, I'm at least hopeful. Given the state PvP has been allowed to fall too, I think installing Brian in his new role is a brilliant idea. He's supposedly a big PvPer himself. Plus, I read that he's ex-military and those guys usually are pretty damn good at having a gameplan and getting things done properly.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

TheBonesXXX

Yes, I like to see campaigns alliance locked.

Bam_Bam wrote: »

TheBonesXXX wrote: »

Haashhtaag wrote: »

Ormtunge wrote: »

A faction lock would bring a lot of pvpers back. Especially if combined with some kind of population regulatiion. In my oppinion PVP without fighting for a faction and a campaign of some sorts is no PVP at all, but just farming.

You know what would bring people back? Better server performance and devs actually giving a crap about pvp.

Seeing how Brians in charge and he's fixing problems, I think PvP will get better.

Yep, I'm at least hopeful. Given the state PvP has been allowed to fall too, I think installing Brian in his new role is a brilliant idea. He's supposedly a big PvPer himself. Plus, I read that he's ex-military and those guys usually are pretty damn good at having a gameplan and getting things done properly.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Now that they got numbers guys on the team and staff that understand the actual mechanics and the numbers. I think we'll see necessary changes.

Lots of butthurt though, because I think state inflation is going away.