twitch_zero wrote: »As an example of AD focussing DC, take today as an example, Friday night NA prime time. EP has emp, they are down to 1-2 emp keeps. DC tries to push them but every time we do AD pushes DC's back keeps. It gets worse, EP then gets the hammer, so they have hammer and EMP. Hammer comes DC DC defends but do AD take the chance to dethrone the EMP? No, they again push DC back keeps. All this blather about Feng and Homicide is just making excuses.
twitch_zero wrote: »As an example of AD focussing DC, take today as an example, Friday night NA prime time. EP has emp, they are down to 1-2 emp keeps. DC tries to push them but every time we do AD pushes DC's back keeps. It gets worse, EP then gets the hammer, so they have hammer and EMP. Hammer comes DC DC defends but do AD take the chance to dethrone the EMP? No, they again push DC back keeps. All this blather about Feng and Homicide is just making excuses.
Was this before or after dc tried taking roe instead of going chal?
killimandrosb16_ESO wrote: »twitch_zero wrote: »As an example of AD focussing DC, take today as an example, Friday night NA prime time. EP has emp, they are down to 1-2 emp keeps. DC tries to push them but every time we do AD pushes DC's back keeps. It gets worse, EP then gets the hammer, so they have hammer and EMP. Hammer comes DC DC defends but do AD take the chance to dethrone the EMP? No, they again push DC back keeps. All this blather about Feng and Homicide is just making excuses.
Was this before or after dc tried taking roe instead of going chal?
EP had one keep left for their emp. Brk. All the dc tried pushing brk. AD had keeps up to and including ash. Brk is tagged, emp is in danger. Theres a stalemate between ep with emp and dc at brk. What does ad do? They hit glademist and warden/rayles. Dc withdraws to defend their scrolls. They try to push Ep again, who now are trying to take chal. Dc stops ep at chal and push again for Brk. What happens? Ad hits Glademist again. This went on for a good 2 hours, then dc realized if they were to secure scrolls, ash must be secured. Ep takes chal and sej, and push alessia. GG. Then the momentum was gone.
Edit; I ask a friend on AD what tf is happening? He replies, ad is hitting glademist because they have an agreement with ep they will secure second place if ad help ep stop dc, because of fengrush. I just want to inform all ad; second place is first loser in a line. Third place is second. in same line. Both are still losers.
killimandrosb16_ESO wrote: »twitch_zero wrote: »As an example of AD focussing DC, take today as an example, Friday night NA prime time. EP has emp, they are down to 1-2 emp keeps. DC tries to push them but every time we do AD pushes DC's back keeps. It gets worse, EP then gets the hammer, so they have hammer and EMP. Hammer comes DC DC defends but do AD take the chance to dethrone the EMP? No, they again push DC back keeps. All this blather about Feng and Homicide is just making excuses.
Was this before or after dc tried taking roe instead of going chal?
EP had one keep left for their emp. Brk. All the dc tried pushing brk. AD had keeps up to and including ash. Brk is tagged, emp is in danger. Theres a stalemate between ep with emp and dc at brk. What does ad do? They hit glademist and warden/rayles. Dc withdraws to defend their scrolls. They try to push Ep again, who now are trying to take chal. Dc stops ep at chal and push again for Brk. What happens? Ad hits Glademist again. This went on for a good 2 hours, then dc realized if they were to secure scrolls, ash must be secured. Ep takes chal and sej, and push alessia. GG. Then the momentum was gone.
Edit; I ask a friend on AD what tf is happening? He replies, ad is hitting glademist because they have an agreement with ep they will secure second place if ad help ep stop dc, because of fengrush. I just want to inform all ad; second place is first loser in a line. Third place is second. in same line. Both are still losers.
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Carespanker wrote: »That agreement (if you can call it that because as afkinos said, barely anyone agree'd to it lol) ended 2 months ago (As stated in post #81) and both myself and ep/ad are not responsible for kaal player's current actions. Hell, I personally haven't even been in Kaal for the past month (other than to make campaign reports) since it literally hasn't changed since It was turned red. I asked around AD recently after reading these posts and the current majority opinion is that AD really doesn't really care about winning because they really don't have a chance when they are being gated for being the smallest faction. So sorry dc but ya made it personal and I don't see that changing till you end this vendetta. As for EP, they haven't changed their strategy since- well, whenever the gm's and I collectively came up with it and started winning...
Regardless, what did you expect to happen when you base your strategy around overextending one way in a streamer stack? Its not rocket science on how to counter that...
If DC players, guild masters, or raid leaders want to learn how to play to win again then ya know where to find me and you'll get the same support as any other faction regardless of what the streamer sheep will tell ya.
Carespanker wrote: »
I wish I could pin the problems in kaal to one thing but I can't. Its all a mish-mash of events that lead up to what you see today. To explain, lets go back to last year when ep was in a 6+ month loss streak in almost all campaigns. I fixed it with the official EP discord by winning every campaign from 7 day, to non cp and finally kaal in an event I called "the grand tour" where I gave away almost 30 million gold in faction wide events.But ep winning wasn't expected to last forever.
I don't have any input for any other campaign but Kaal and its predecessors which I will call the "main campaign". On the main campaign I don't recall EP ever having lost 6+ consecutive campaigns since I have been playing which was 2016. In all that time maybe 3 tops. DC has won 1 maybe 2 per year when certain guilds that don't normally play DC during non peak hours decide to switch to DC for a campaign.
I was expecting factions to retort with equal force (and they did for a short time) then use their war-momentum to fill the other factions official discords over time, however, there were bigger problems. Around this time a guild was bullied off AD for reasons that would get this post removed if I spoke of them and decided to get revenge by going DC and partnering with DC's biggest sheepherder/streamer to "Gate AD till they quit". At the time DC was the same highest populated faction (and now that's ep due to filthy faction hoppers) and ad was and still is the smallest causing great concern for the entirety of Kaal.
I took it upon myself (because 99% of EP was against this) to take this opportunity to help them because DC owning 2/3 of the map all day did not sound very swell or healthy for ALL the factions. So the AD discord went up 2 months ahead of schedule, every GM in Kaal was made aware of the coming storm and inadvertently to the knowledge of few, the map strategy (That I personally drew in MS paint) was known as the "Alessia bridge amnesty" went into action immediately. (which ended after the first month so ya can't even use it as an excuse now)
EP has almost always had the biggest presence during NA Prime Time and around the clock since 2016. There may be small windows of time when DC has greater numbers, but they are short lived, and on average EP has a substantially higher population throughout the entirety of the day.
The time of which you speak must have been the 2nd maybe 3rd campaign of KAAL when a couple of non NA prime time guilds flipped to DC. Or you're not talking of KAAL
(The "Alessia Bridge Amnesty" was when AD is being gated or pushed back to their tri keeps, the bridge would be broken preventing AD and EP AP farmers from sitting at sej all day farming ticks and instead force them to play the map and focus DC. It wasn't collusion because both sides never knew about it or intentionally worked together. All it was was both factions forced into ignoring eachother till DC was dealt with. )
Apparently the training worked as no longer does the bridge need to be blown up, nor AD need to be gate camped for this to happen Mr. Shepherd. Enough people knew about it, the people who mattered. As you stated somewhere, an agreement about this was made.
Then after that EP was ignored for 2 months straight because DC refused to change their vendetta against AD and because of that DC remained in last place... This wasn't supposed to happen forever. Fast forward those two months to now where both factions players who want to win have all transferred to EP because they are tired of their faction losing because the formally biggest faction continues to gate the smallest population faction until they quit instead of playing to win.
Now EP is the very thing they fought against (Aka the biggest faction), ad is in a bad spot (but still better than what it was when it had the guild in question on it), Dc still refuses my help because a couple of sheepherder's fanboys told all the other gms im a bad guy, and the only thing I can do about it is hope and wait that when the new campaigns come out that this will clean slate everyone once and for all.
That is everything that has happened thus far in Kaal. To summerise EP made a winning strategy 5 months ago and didn't change it because AD and DC left it unopposed till everyone outside of the drama loop (or people who just didnt care) left to the winning side and now EP is just assumed to be too big to stop (it isnt, please attack the reds). Even the GM's in the official EP discord are concerned and bored of winning without competition. ... but in the end there's nothing Zos, myself, or anyone for that matter can do to fix this it seems... We just got to wait and see if the sheep and the faction hoppers split themselves evenly enough to end these vendettas and make cyrodiil even again when the campaigns change.
lol, an agreement? If there really is a deal between ad and ep it's not with any of the better guilds like Vanguard, Tyr or Drac that actually make a difference on EP. It's gonna be the guilds that run 24 people and still wipe to smaller groups or stand under oils and wipe. If there is an some kind of actual agreement against him with his attitude and how he treats people on stream...well i can't say I'm suprised.
Carespanker wrote: »That agreement (if you can call it that because as afkinos said, barely anyone agree'd to it lol) ended 2 months ago (As stated in post #81) and both myself and ep/ad are not responsible for kaal player's current actions. Hell, I personally haven't even been in Kaal for the past month (other than to make campaign reports) since it literally hasn't changed since It was turned red. I asked around AD recently after reading these posts and the current majority opinion is that AD really doesn't really care about winning because they really don't have a chance when they are being gated for being the smallest faction. So sorry dc but ya made it personal and I don't see that changing till you end this vendetta. As for EP, they haven't changed their strategy since- well, whenever the gm's and I collectively came up with it and started winning...
killimandrosb16_ESO wrote: »twitch_zero wrote: »As an example of AD focussing DC, take today as an example, Friday night NA prime time. EP has emp, they are down to 1-2 emp keeps. DC tries to push them but every time we do AD pushes DC's back keeps. It gets worse, EP then gets the hammer, so they have hammer and EMP. Hammer comes DC DC defends but do AD take the chance to dethrone the EMP? No, they again push DC back keeps. All this blather about Feng and Homicide is just making excuses.
Was this before or after dc tried taking roe instead of going chal?
EP had one keep left for their emp. Brk. All the dc tried pushing brk. AD had keeps up to and including ash. Brk is tagged, emp is in danger. Theres a stalemate between ep with emp and dc at brk. What does ad do? They hit glademist and warden/rayles. Dc withdraws to defend their scrolls. They try to push Ep again, who now are trying to take chal. Dc stops ep at chal and push again for Brk. What happens? Ad hits Glademist again. This went on for a good 2 hours, then dc realized if they were to secure scrolls, ash must be secured. Ep takes chal and sej, and push alessia. GG. Then the momentum was gone.
Edit; I ask a friend on AD what tf is happening? He replies, ad is hitting glademist because they have an agreement with ep they will secure second place if ad help ep stop dc, because of fengrush. I just want to inform all ad; second place is first loser in a line. Third place is second. in same line. Both are still losers.
killimandrosb16_ESO wrote: »twitch_zero wrote: »As an example of AD focussing DC, take today as an example, Friday night NA prime time. EP has emp, they are down to 1-2 emp keeps. DC tries to push them but every time we do AD pushes DC's back keeps. It gets worse, EP then gets the hammer, so they have hammer and EMP. Hammer comes DC DC defends but do AD take the chance to dethrone the EMP? No, they again push DC back keeps. All this blather about Feng and Homicide is just making excuses.
Was this before or after dc tried taking roe instead of going chal?
EP had one keep left for their emp. Brk. All the dc tried pushing brk. AD had keeps up to and including ash. Brk is tagged, emp is in danger. Theres a stalemate between ep with emp and dc at brk. What does ad do? They hit glademist and warden/rayles. Dc withdraws to defend their scrolls. They try to push Ep again, who now are trying to take chal. Dc stops ep at chal and push again for Brk. What happens? Ad hits Glademist again. This went on for a good 2 hours, then dc realized if they were to secure scrolls, ash must be secured. Ep takes chal and sej, and push alessia. GG. Then the momentum was gone.
Edit; I ask a friend on AD what tf is happening? He replies, ad is hitting glademist because they have an agreement with ep they will secure second place if ad help ep stop dc, because of fengrush. I just want to inform all ad; second place is first loser in a line. Third place is second. in same line. Both are still losers.
Our group with Emp and Hammer were pretty confused. DC pushes Arrius instead of pushing for BRK. AD gave up after pushing BRK 2x. What can ya do.
killimandrosb16_ESO wrote: »Here we have poplocked ep vs 2 bar ad/dc. Ep has both ad scrolls, ad has hammer and hits dc keeps. Makes sense. Btw, nice zerg ep
https://imgur.com/a/yhr2dXQ
https://imgur.com/a/7ZxPMkY
Minnesinger wrote: »killimandrosb16_ESO wrote: »Here we have poplocked ep vs 2 bar ad/dc. Ep has both ad scrolls, ad has hammer and hits dc keeps. Makes sense. Btw, nice zerg ep
https://imgur.com/a/yhr2dXQ
https://imgur.com/a/7ZxPMkY
The hammer is at Roe, shich is an AD home keep.
twitch_zero wrote: »lol, an agreement? If there really is a deal between ad and ep it's not with any of the better guilds like Vanguard, Tyr or Drac that actually make a difference on EP. It's gonna be the guilds that run 24 people and still wipe to smaller groups or stand under oils and wipe. If there is an some kind of actual agreement against him with his attitude and how he treats people on stream...well i can't say I'm suprised.
Trying to remember the last time Tyr hit AD and I can't, not saying they haven't it just seems rare. As for an agreement it seems there was one but just because there may not be anything official now doesn't stop AD playing as if there still is.
twitch_zero wrote: »lol, an agreement? If there really is a deal between ad and ep it's not with any of the better guilds like Vanguard, Tyr or Drac that actually make a difference on EP. It's gonna be the guilds that run 24 people and still wipe to smaller groups or stand under oils and wipe. If there is an some kind of actual agreement against him with his attitude and how he treats people on stream...well i can't say I'm suprised.
Trying to remember the last time Tyr hit AD and I can't, not saying they haven't it just seems rare. As for an agreement it seems there was one but just because there may not be anything official now doesn't stop AD playing as if there still is.
Wait what?
Tyr spends 90% of their time farming AD pugs, mostly by taking fare, roe or nikel and just fighting repeatedly over the flags and top of the keep.
I don't think they ever farm DC keeps except occasionally ash when they get pushed to it from nikel.
Or was this sarcasm?
Most of the major AP farming guilds focus AD as a faction, whether it be cobra kai (that literally only farms fare), dracarys, tyr, now VE. And then you have the whole fengrush horde.
AD is just the least organized faction overall outside of primetime. You can take AD resources and only get 1-2 people come to take it back at a time. You don't see a mass response like you do EP and DC.
twitch_zero wrote: »lol, an agreement? If there really is a deal between ad and ep it's not with any of the better guilds like Vanguard, Tyr or Drac that actually make a difference on EP. It's gonna be the guilds that run 24 people and still wipe to smaller groups or stand under oils and wipe. If there is an some kind of actual agreement against him with his attitude and how he treats people on stream...well i can't say I'm suprised.
Trying to remember the last time Tyr hit AD and I can't, not saying they haven't it just seems rare. As for an agreement it seems there was one but just because there may not be anything official now doesn't stop AD playing as if there still is.
Wait what?
Tyr spends 90% of their time farming AD pugs, mostly by taking fare, roe or nikel and just fighting repeatedly over the flags and top of the keep.
I don't think they ever farm DC keeps except occasionally ash when they get pushed to it from nikel.
Or was this sarcasm?
Most of the major AP farming guilds focus AD as a faction, whether it be cobra kai (that literally only farms fare), dracarys, tyr, now VE. And then you have the whole fengrush horde.
AD is just the least organized faction overall outside of primetime. You can take AD resources and only get 1-2 people come to take it back at a time. You don't see a mass response like you do EP and DC.
Hmm, is this true? Because whenever I'm on, there is always drac or tyr farming rayles, nikel or glade when they are farming a keep/outpost