All Faction Drop as an option (Mercenary Faction)

Zenartista

I'm perfectly ok with the faction lock. I'm actually interested in seeing what it does after the change.

However I would like it if something was added that allowed players to drop factions all together.

I would like the ability to be a target to everything with the exception of your own group.
Also the means to travel around the map. Maybe disable the ability to take keeps but outposts and towns is alright.

Just an Idea since I do not subscribe to any faction and I would rather have an easier time finding fights for myself and my group

xxthir13enxx

Hmm...an Outlaw alliance...I kinda like this concept

FrancisCrawford

But why are you proposing their color be red?

White wabbit

And you cant see this being trolled even more

xxthir13enxx

Soo...this would benefit the dedicated AP Farmer groups...as they would have more players to farm...
Would benefit the Alliances as the population cap would have fewer Farming groups n thus more people focused on objectives
Would have to limit number of Outlaws...maybe just 1 bar for pop cap?

Interesting...

Zenartista

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

But why are you proposing their color be red?

I don’t think I said that.
Personally I would prefer black

White wabbit wrote: »

And you cant see this being trolled even more

Everything can be trolled, people need better ways of coping other than complaining.
Complaining about trolling It’s the reason why the pvp was removed from the justice system and we missed out on a awesome pvp update

xxthir13enxx wrote: »

Soo...this would benefit the dedicated AP Farmer groups...as they would have more players to farm...
Would benefit the Alliances as the population cap would have fewer Farming groups n thus more people focused on objectives
Would have to limit number of Outlaws...maybe just 1 bar for pop cap?

Interesting...

Yea for sure.
I have so much ap I don’t know what to do with it. I just want more targets lol

I don’t know about 1 bar but yea maybe a limit pop at first. Also limit the group size to 6 or 8 ? Make it a little interesting and higher risk for if you Zerg lol

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

@Zenartista it's because of the Rouge in the title.

Zenartista

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »

@Zenartista it's because of the Rouge in the title.

Huh? Not sure what you mean

xxthir13enxx

Zenartista wrote: »

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »

@Zenartista it's because of the Rouge in the title.

Huh? Not sure what you mean

Heh...Rouge= French for Red
Rogue=Outlaw
Extremely common mistake that became a common joke in WoW

Zenartista

xxthir13enxx wrote: »

Zenartista wrote: »

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »

@Zenartista it's because of the Rouge in the title.

Huh? Not sure what you mean

Heh...Rouge= French for Red
Rogue=Outlaw

Ooh ok. Didn’t mean it that, as you can see I don’t speak French.

Alomar

It's been called many names and described in various ways, but a fourth "mercenary" faction has been asked for and recommended to ZOS for years. In particular it was referenced in feedback from the first ever pvp beta test weekend 9 months before launch. 5 years of post-launch development history should show you IC, which was done horribly, is the only significant post-launch content pvp will ever receive from ZOS.

Even more importantly, IC was predominantly developed by the original dev team, not the measly one we now have whose failed to handle such issues as lag fixing in 5 years. Aim your sights a lot lower and ask them to fix the dozens of unfixed bugs that have plagued Cyrodiil for years.

Zenartista

Alomar wrote: »

It's been called many names and described in various ways, but a fourth "mercenary" faction has been asked for and recommended to ZOS for years. In particular it was referenced in feedback from the first ever pvp beta test weekend 9 months before launch. 5 years of post-launch development history should show you IC, which was done horribly, is the only significant post-launch content pvp will ever receive from ZOS.

Even more importantly, IC was predominantly developed by the original dev team, not the measly one we now have whose failed to handle such issues as lag fixing in 5 years. Aim your sights a lot lower and ask them to fix the dozens of unfixed bugs that have plagued Cyrodiil for years.

I see. That’s interesting
I would love to see IC reworked. I miss the infinite spawns

But I think Zos is more focused on selling us things than fixing the current ones so I don’t hold my breath for that.
If zos wants to paywall my exit into a merc factions, I’d buy that

ganzaeso

Zenartista wrote: »

I'm perfectly ok with the faction lock. I'm actually interested in seeing what it does after the change.

However I would like it if something was added that allowed players to drop factions all together.

I would like the ability to be a target to everything with the exception of your own group.
Also the means to travel around the map. Maybe disable the ability to take keeps but outposts and towns is alright.

Just an Idea since I do not subscribe to any faction and I would rather have an easier time finding fights for myself and my group

A 4th faction certainly has some interesting applications. I don't know how feasible a free-for-all group only style would be, but that could be interesting too.

They could be given their own leader board and kept out of the scoring for the campaign.

Any keeps and objectives they control would not count towards any points.

They could generally be a disruption to the other alliances and each other.

White wabbit

Yep let's put an option in the game that everyone can drop out of there faction and by everyone I mean everyone and people cant see an issue there

Zenartista

ganzaeso wrote: »

A 4th faction certainly has some interesting applications. I don't know how feasible a free-for-all group only style would be, but that could be interesting too.

They could be given their own leader board and kept out of the scoring for the campaign.

Any keeps and objectives they control would not count towards any points.

They could generally be a disruption to the other alliances and each other.

I like those ideas.

I would much rather see the free for all group more than just a fourth faction if ever possible.

White wabbit wrote: »

Yep let's put an option in the game that everyone can drop out of there faction and by everyone I mean everyone and people cant see an issue there

Well you can make leaving the faction a hard change to revert. Maybe something like 50,000,000 ap or some rediculous amount to revert to your faction.
Also we spoke above about of a severe pop lock to limit the amount of Mercs active

Also I don’t think 6-8 player capped groups would not be an attractive incentive to those player that prefer larger groups or faction alliance play. Idk if I’m wrong but my observation is that most people perfer running in those large “safe” herds or ranking up in the leaderboards and winning the campaign for their faction
I don’t care about campaign rewards, well maybe just the gold lol

Haashhtaag

A boy has no faction.

gabriebe

Just call it the 'I'm special' faction, should satisfy all the people asking for one

Zenartista

Haashhtaag wrote: »

A boy has no faction.

A man needs no faction...

?

<insert arbitrary thought here>

valeriiya

This has been brought up before and I think it would be really awesome

MipMip

Zenartista wrote: »

I'm perfectly ok with the faction lock. I'm actually interested in seeing what it does after the change.

However I would like it if something was added that allowed players to drop factions all together.

I would like the ability to be a target to everything with the exception of your own group.
Also the means to travel around the map. Maybe disable the ability to take keeps but outposts and towns is alright.

Just an Idea since I do not subscribe to any faction and I would rather have an easier time finding fights for myself and my group

If a factionless option would really be offered or were planned I wouldn't mind about faction lock for the factions. But this is not the case now and so faction lock, if it really goes live, will just restrict the ways we can play.

And yes, a factionless option would be awesome!

Elong

Thing is, it would be too popular.

White wabbit

Elong wrote: »

Thing is, it would be too popular.

This person gets it

Edirt_seliv

Elong wrote: »

Thing is, it would be too popular.

^ this.

It's a great idea that I'd love to see. But realistically (unless you seriously handicapped the pop limit) this faction would just devistate the rest of the
Game. For one, it would consist of all the best players in the game. The good thing is, they're still able to fight each other. But overall, you'd be diminishing the strength of the factions and massivley pissing them off at the same time.

It'd be super cool though. I'd love to see mercenary groups getting contracted out by factions to secure scroll or whatever. All the qq that would entail would be payment enough.

DisgracefulMind

xxthir13enxx wrote: »

Soo...this would benefit the dedicated AP Farmer groups...as they would have more players to farm...
Would benefit the Alliances as the population cap would have fewer Farming groups n thus more people focused on objectives
Would have to limit number of Outlaws...maybe just 1 bar for pop cap?

Interesting...

yOu cAn'T kIlL pLaYeRs iN pVp oR eLsE uR aN aP fArmEr

TBois

Elong wrote: »

Thing is, it would be too popular.

That's why I think (if we are asking for pie in the sky stuff) they should make cyrodiil guild based. You can pick a guild you want to fight for and everyone that doesn't have that guild selected can fight you. They could even add ways for guilds to make alliances. Let's end the three banner war and make our own wars.

Elong

TBois wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

Thing is, it would be too popular.

That's why I think (if we are asking for pie in the sky stuff) they should make cyrodiil guild based. You can pick a guild you want to fight for and everyone that doesn't have that guild selected can fight you. They could even add ways for guilds to make alliances. Let's end the three banner war and make our own wars.

I would like that very much. All guilds vs AOTP?

TBois

Elong wrote: »

TBois wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

Thing is, it would be too popular.

That's why I think (if we are asking for pie in the sky stuff) they should make cyrodiil guild based. You can pick a guild you want to fight for and everyone that doesn't have that guild selected can fight you. They could even add ways for guilds to make alliances. Let's end the three banner war and make our own wars.

I would like that very much. All guilds vs AOTP?

Haha, you're a man/woman after my own heart.

zyk

I would love to see all the AE spam lords play in a game with friendly fire.

TBois

zyk wrote: »

I would love to see all the AE spam lords play in a game with friendly fire.

and enemy healing!

Edirt_seliv

zyk wrote: »

I would love to see all the AE spam lords play in a game with friendly fire.

They'd still find a way to win.

Edirt_seliv

TBois wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

Thing is, it would be too popular.

That's why I think (if we are asking for pie in the sky stuff) they should make cyrodiil guild based. You can pick a guild you want to fight for and everyone that doesn't have that guild selected can fight you. They could even add ways for guilds to make alliances. Let's end the three banner war and make our own wars.

I've always wanted this to. The politics alone would be so fun. I always wanted it so you could claim keeps for you guild and others guilds had to try to take them from you. Then, the reward for owning keeps would be gold and resorces into the guild bank every x period based on your keep levels and which resources you control. This way it would be appealing for players to join guilds as both large and smallscale players to work together and secure their incomes.

But alas, we have cyrodil...a soon to be locked tri faction meaningless, rewardless laghole.