All for it. When the new server comes up, all former emp buffs and achieves should go away. The people who were homed to the active PvP servers, and earned their emp, will eventually get it again especially with the shorter campaigns. The losers who farmed it on empty servers don't deserve to keep it.

Better than the guy pulling all your LAN lines, which he probably should do as well anyways.

I'd like to know what other ways he plans to prevent farming for former emp, because simply raising the AP requirement is easily gotten around.

BBSooner wrote: »

No, ZOS should review (if the data for it is stored - most likely not) the growth and circumstances of their road to emperorship to determine foul play. Otherwise they should just fix it and move on.

When I became emperor the first time my real goal was clear: I wanted those former emperor passives. I was the first emperor on a low populated server of my faction and the enemy certainly didnt make it easy for us. I knew the passives weren't actually that strong, they usually don't make a difference at all, but it was a way to at least strengthen my character.
And yet I had only a single day to enjoy the "real" emperorship until I lost all keeps and had to abdicate so the next one could be emperor once we got the keeps back... yes, that's right, for most of the people actively playing on my low populated server actually belonged to a guild trying to get the passives for all members. And I needed them to get them myself. So maybe you could say I was one of those emperor farmers. I don't mind.
With Celarus the emperor trading between the factions reached a new level and the ex-title became really laughable.

Now I really, really hope that emperor farming will end as quickly as possible. And it would be very nice if the players who didn't get it the "right" way (wether that implicates players like myself or not) would loose passives and title.
I wouldn't mind if all had to loose the passives so its not that desireable to farm emperor. And it would be totally okay if ZOS said I'd have to loose everything as well if that would make the title/skill line something special again.
However it is done, please get rid of emperor farming and get rid of ex-emperors who got their passives and title that way.

The fact that people are becoming emperor without knowing the very basic aspects of Cyrodiil and PvP is tragic.

I picked no. I PvP a lot and am not a former emperor but I think going after all former emperors is not something ZoS should ever do.

There have been many who have traded keeps and got emperor, but there have been many who have rightfully earned it.

ATM the Former Emperor tag means little to nothing. Before I would think twice about trying to solo one with such a tag. These days I find they are just as easy to kill as the next guy.

Armitas wrote: »

6) Former emperor buffs actually undermine Full emperor status. Emperors are expected to abdicate so that others can get the buff. If they don't they are made a pariah, disparaged, and excluded. So not only does it ruin the faction war, it actually ruins the role of Emperor altogether because one cannot enjoy Emperor without incurring the wrath of every Former emp farmer on the server.
.....How fair is it to reward a player at the top of the leader boards with a system that does nothing but make his own alliance hate him for enjoying?

I've seen this first hand and it's sickening. A player excels at the game and holds emperorship and is cursed at, ostracized and ridiculed because he won't abdicate the title to someone else.

Get rid of the perks. Make it have a really cool costume you can keep as a former emperor and leave it at that.

I would think that the majority of people who got the former emp title legitimately would not mind a reset. (Once you've "really" worked to get it once, getting it a second time is probably not that much of a feat.)

I think emperor buffs should go as well. but former emp buffs definitely need to go. im honestly surprised people are that desperate for what is, in all honestly, a crappy buff. I AM NOT scared to take on a former emp,(and I suck) because its the same as fighting a "regular" player.

Whole PvP needs a revamp. There is nothing to aim for except emperorship. No minigames no good gear. Just lags and fps problems... sieges change like underwear - we srsly need minigames!

But emperorswapping might go away when they change servers... it only seems to happen at low pop servers.

I think all former Emporer passives should be removed. People can run around with the Former Emporer title all they want - these days few are impressed as they assume (as I do) that it wasn't "properly" earned.

To me, "Former Emporer" = "Cheater" - unfortunately. And I know it doesn't always apply, but that's what I associate with the title

I nominate that the "Former Emperor" title be changed to "Emperor Farmer"

I don't really care about the bonuses, but I hate the emperorship trading. Anything to stop that from happening would be welcome. I would probably remove both the title and the bonuses so that there would be absolutely no benefit from being an emperor for 2 seconds.

michaelpatterson wrote: »

Although desirable it really doesn't give you much. Getting rid of it would rightfully *** a huge portion of the pvp community that has worked very hard to get it, even if they haven't "yet". Have some respect for other people and at least think for a second that maybe everyones circumstances are NOT what your having visions of. Also if you'd like it then go get it like other have!

There's an Emperor that sits near a resource where people suicide and just hits them once with crushing shock. Gains full AP. Multiply that by the ridiculous waves of people that go through that resource to get to a camp further up... Wow, that's a lot of folks. That one player has not contributed to his alliance in any manner however he holds the top Emperor ranking on the leaderboards for his faction. One can say that folks shouldn't run carelessly into an enemy resource to port up to a forward camp... And I would agree but that is not an excuse for a poorly thought out ranking system.

Farmer Emperor is not a merit of skill and either the leaderboard ranking system needs to be reworked or the buff needs to be removed for Farmer Emperors. I still can't believe that the PvP Lead thought this would pass as an intelligent ranking system.