sums up faction lock.

Loralai_907

Pauls wrote: »

mommadani907 wrote: »

I don't blame this on faction lock, but it is pretty lame. Last night DC had almost every keep, had EMP, had all the scrolls and somehow the hammer spawned behind their gates. It was not a good time lol. I finally logged off when trying to defend the last AD keep against 20 DC, I was the only person trying to not lose the keep. Not 3 minutes before that I had 6-10 other AD there helping retake resources and then they just vanished. So that was fun. But, I'm super tired and very complany about all this because it just bums me out so much. Its not even about like, hey DC let me win like I'm a 5 year old. Its just I want to have better fights, and for there to be some degree of a chance at not losing the entire gdam map twice a day. To me, the fact that we are spending so much of the day with DC having twice as many people on as the other two factions do, is kind of saying something about the state of things. The fact that so many people left no CP to play on CP and the numbers are still this garbage is saying something. And I don't think that gating the other two factions for as much of the day as they can is necessarily going to make things nay better. I'm concerned that it will make things worse, more people will just stop trying to login and go out there.

Dont worry, AD morning cap works like clock, so you can call this situation balanced.

I don't know what time that is happening at. The earliest I can get on is around 10am East coast time and we are at 1 bar (and we do not have all of our keeps let alone the entire map). The latest I am on is 10p-2a east coast time (not in a solid run from the morning obviously) and for the most part its all 1-2 bar for AD and pretty much all of that time DC is 3 bar to locked. If AD is doing so great early in the morning than why can't we get our scrolls back and have all the keeps we should before the time I get on in the morning? If we were doing so well in the early morning, why are we 20k behind first place?

nafensoriel

DeathPK wrote: »

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Yeah... as others have pointed out that has nothing to do with faction locks.

It's an unfixable situation which anyone whos actually been serious about PVP understands...

"(S)He who night caps the most wins AvA."

Will be true in any persistent battlefield game that doesn't do wonky crap(that is also exploited to all heck).

WuffyCerulei

It’s 100% about Knights of Ni going back to DC after playing AD for a long while. And people who were in it and did not want to go DC went EP.

geonsocal

DeathPK wrote: »

FARRAGUT MUST FALL!!!

johnjetau

Suddenly DC is dominating the map and everyone playing as AD & EP, is losing it calling for the scrapping of the faction lock.

Yeah...



Never saw that type of outcry, when they were dominating and alternating each campaigns win between themselves.

Cirantille

Yeah but it is like a tradition by now

DC works at night while we (AD) sleeping, we wake up in the morning and take it back while DC sleeping lol

Idk what is EP doing but they are doing something

FierceSam

Maybe in addition to having 30 day and 7 day campaigns, where you spend the whole time essentially fighting the same battle over and over again, you could have a series of short ones, say 2 hours, which players have to be in the whole time.

You start with nothing, just your own Homebase and see where things are at the end.

You could run them every 4 or 6 hours to accommodate various time zones yet ensure you had a certain critical mass of players.

But with day long campaigns you are going to run into the issue of people logging off, getting on with life or sleeping.

Faction Lock my arse

BloodSkull_ESO

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KaiSchober @ZOS_BillE @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_AntonioP can you close the threads @DeathPK keeps creating they are just trash threads with no point or value to the forums

Alienoutlaw

this has nothing to do with faction lock, just another night/day capping, anyone could take a screen shot at any given time of day to suit their argument for X Y or Z, just another lame cry about faction lock and the fact you cant jump to an alt to flip, read the patch notes and stop filling the forum with a now useless argument for something that will return in U24 where you can hop factions all you like, and leave the real PvP to the rest of us

MirkoZ

@ZOS_GinaBruno Just add this : when a faction has more than 10 keeps it gains a -50% health to all players of that faction or viceversa when a faction has 2 or less keeps it gains a +50% health to all player of that faction, but this can be exploited by not attacking any other keeps in order to keep the buff.

JumpmanLane

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

It’s 100% about Knights of Ni going back to DC after playing AD for a long while. And people who were in it and did not want to go DC went EP.

Or they quit the game. Pal of mine ran with Ni and quit because they went DC.

Faction locks exasperated the issue. When nightcappers grab the lead. They keep it now because no one winning can switch to the losing side. When nightcappers are Zerging the opposition logs etc.

Ysbriel

DeathPK wrote: »

Well that's mostly due to the time, if its somewhere from 6am to 10 am EST all our Asian friends either take over or battle it out. GAO on chat for group!! blood for the pact!!

zaria

EmEm_Oh wrote: »

DeathPK wrote: »

Does not sum up faction lock. That kind of map happened BEFORE FL was even official.

Maybe take a screenshot once every hour...for 2 weeks and THEN come here and complain.

Night capping is an thing, during low population times map tend to switch to one color.
If you want all the Cyrodil skyshards check during the morning, decent chance map is in your color.

Obviously once you have turned the entire map and stolen the scrolls you can no longer do PvP.
Now its another factions turn.
In short if population is very low its an good chance one faction is larger or more organized and dominates the map taking everything.