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Thanks folks.

Perhaps the medium is still too new - it turned 30 this year in its commercial form - to make sense. And what boggles my mind may well make perfect sense to others.

It's kind of a terrible idea. There would be a mass exodus from whichever faction is perceived as weakest/outnumbered, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you could just click a button or pay gold or whatever to switch factions, red would lose everybody overnight and it would be AvA instead AvAvA, haha.

No, Daggerfall Covenant is the most noble of factions. Admittedly easy feat, as others are just pathetic.

I am not sure if option to betray should be included. After all, who would want defectors joining his faction? Once a traitor...

manny254 wrote: »

JamilaRaj wrote: »

No, Daggerfall Covenant is the most noble of factions. Admittedly easy feat, as others are just pathetic.

I am not sure if option to betray should be included. After all, who would want defectors joining his faction? Once a traitor...

This may just be me, but I thought that DC was thought of as the faction with a higher population of exploiters. At least from an AD perspective.

And we all know the AD think the sun shines out of their derrier

So if you read the fine print on the quest stuff, technically the quests you do for the other factions are occurring through some kind of dream-memory-mumbo-jumbo that Meridia facilitates after you beat Molag Bal. So from a story perspective, you aren't supposedly actually running quests for the other factions, you are just reliving the other sides of the story or some such. Whatever it was, it was some In-Character sleight of hand to justify you getting to do the quests in the other faction zones.

And yeah, what others have said, allowing open faction system would create chaos in the PvP world.

That said, I really think ZOS ought to consider opening a controlled, numbers limited, vet only, first-come-first-served faction switch for the population group that currently dominates PvP (*cough*AD) to see if they can balance the faction population. It seems clear that AD has an overall population advantage, at least in the pvp campaigns, and thats a big part of what's driving difficulties with the PvP system.

So if they opened a very limited faction switch that allowed a specific quota of AD vet players to switch to EP or DC, that could help even the PvP board, if players actually took it up (and, naturally, it would have to be VERY tightly managed).

But open faction switching? that would be a disaster.

bellanca6561n wrote: »

Thanks folks.

Perhaps the medium is still too new - it turned 30 this year in its commercial form - to make sense. And what boggles my mind may well make perfect sense to others.

I get it I is smarts. He played in all three factions on 1 character and was trying to make a funny.

Guess what smart guy the play through of the other 2 factions is a vision granted by a Daedric prince.

Brandeospeedwagon wrote: »

I would like to ask why the alliance indicators only disappear over AD. I've seen it at least 5 separate times, and never to EP.

I've had it happen over both opposite factions. So it isn't only AD. Haven't even seen a good reason for it.

Once was open field, and only a few player around; Another was a larger resource battle which could have had an impact. Been a few other random times as well (open field, keep battles, etc...), but nothing that is consistent.

I'm guessing that at times certain things aren't getting sent (i.e. faction/etc.), or it's getting lost in transit, so the client can't display them. The client may just continue to ignore it even if an update with that info comes in if the player info is cached.

-M