Option to Change Factions with the Faction Lock?

CarnoPK

Since the main Cyrodiil campaigns are being faction locked, are we going to get the option to move our current characters onto the one faction? If not, this change means that a lot of players including myself will only be able to play a few of our characters per campaign. This wouldn't be an issue if the 7 day campaigns were actually populated, but with how dead they are currently I seriously doubt that they will have enough players on them even after the faction lock goes live.

darkblue5

Short answer ZOS already said no because it isn't worth the time needed. They'll revert faction lock first, because apparently it'd be an ordeal to implement faction swapping per character due to how the legacy code was done.

CarnoPK

Oh, where did they say that?

darkblue5

I believe that they're ready and willing to reverse faction lock if it goes poorly was during one of their Twitch streams. Possible one of the convention ones? The difficulty of faction swapping was a more recent one I think.

CarnoPK

ahh ok I never seem to be on when they are streaming, thanks for the info!

Galarthor

If a lot of people feel like you and dislike faction lock they will move to the unlocked 7-days campaigns, thus, populating them and depopulate the 30-days campaigns. People will basically vote with their "feet" and we will see what is more popular.

Feanor

Galarthor wrote: »

If a lot of people feel like you and dislike faction lock they will move to the unlocked 7-days campaigns, thus, populating them and depopulate the 30-days campaigns. People will basically vote with their "feet" and we will see what is more popular.

The only issue is there is no unlocked 7 day noCP campaign outside IC.

CarnoPK

I mean i'm sure a lot of people like me will move to 7 day campaigns, but I still have my doubts about it being populated enough...

darkblue5

Faction lock is probably doomed but on the bright side there will be a lot less lag in Vivec :---)

SippingPotions

CarnoPK wrote: »

I mean i'm sure a lot of people like me will move to 7 day campaigns, but I still have my doubts about it being populated enough...

During non peak hours there's probably not much hope for healthy population outside of the 30 day CP campaign.
I really hope they add a race change if they decide to leave faction locks for good. It's going to suck not being able to play half my toons if I actually want to fight another player instead of just PVDoor in a dead campaign. It's going to suck even more not being able to play with my friends on other factions.

SippingPotions

@Galarthor ^

darkblue5

SippingPotions wrote: »

CarnoPK wrote: »

I mean i'm sure a lot of people like me will move to 7 day campaigns, but I still have my doubts about it being populated enough...

During non peak hours there's probably not much hope for healthy population outside of the 30 day CP campaign.
I really hope they add a race change if they decide to leave faction locks for good. It's going to suck not being able to play half my toons if I actually want to fight another player instead of just PVDoor in a dead campaign. It's going to suck even more not being able to play with my friends on other factions.

sounds like a l2p issue. you just need to not have friends
I'll eat my hat (full disclosure I don't own any hats) if faction lock survives.

Kidgangster101

I've always read that it would be a problem because of cadwell missions. So logically if one completes cadwell silver and gold then they should be allowed a 1 time faction change?

God so much regret going all daggerfall lol. My faction gets farmed so much because they fall for easy tricks and half the time in non CP campaigns you can't even form a group everyone will ignore each other and then wonder why we own 0 keeps except our 2 we spawn in SMH lol

White wabbit

Kidgangster101 wrote: »

I've always read that it would be a problem because of cadwell missions. So logically if one completes cadwell silver and gold then they should be allowed a 1 time faction change?

God so much regret going all daggerfall lol. My faction gets farmed so much because they fall for easy tricks and half the time in non CP campaigns you can't even form a group everyone will ignore each other and then wonder why we own 0 keeps except our 2 we spawn in SMH lol

And this is the reason why faction change would he bad ! Every DC would swap and then it would only be a two faction race