Thudunblundur wrote: »What gets me at the moment, especially since this mechanism is apparently working as intended, is that I was keeping a vague eye on the populations yesterday, when DC were generally the lowest population faction by a bar. (EU Thornblade campaign). DC never got a bonus. Then suddenly, AD were getting 500+ points. As far as I could see DC were STILL the lowest population.
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Now, this wasn't a scientific survey, I was only checking every 40 mins or so, and may have missed a lot. But at present the bonus does not seem to have much to do with population levels.
Thudunblundur wrote: »I'm just wondering...they've told us everything is working as intended. Does this mean issue closed as far as they're concerned and no-one is looking at this any more?
ZOS_LenaicR wrote: »Hey everyone,
Thank you for your patience while we've been looking into this report. At this time, we haven't found any bugs or behavior to indicate that something is not working as intended, but our team will continue to look into this issue. We'll update you as soon as we have more information.
Thank you again for your patience.
Thudunblundur wrote: »Oh right - I'd forgotten the bold bit. Thanks.
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Still very odd though - when I watched the populations the other day DC were consistently lower pop, yet AD got the bonus. There are (of course) rumours someone has learned to manipulate the bonus system, but whatever the reason it's ruining this campaign as a campaign, though of course individual battles are unaffected.
ZOS_LenaicR wrote: »Hey everyone,
Thank you for your patience while we've been looking into this report. At this time, we haven't found any bugs or behavior to indicate that something is not working as intended, but our team will continue to look into this issue. We'll update you as soon as we have more information.
Thank you again for your patience.
ZOS_TristanK wrote: »Thank you for staying patient, all. We have looked into the population bonus and everything seems to be working as designed. To give you a bit more insight into the mechanic, the population bonus is applied and dissolved over time and not immediately. Because of the gradual application, there isn't really a way for players to log in and out to raise or lower the bonus in a consistent way.
We can say after looking at the campaigns from the back end that the battles are often pretty close! That said, we will continue monitoring the campaigns to see if the population bonus needs to be tweaked.
ZOS_TristanK wrote: »Thank you for staying patient, all. We have looked into the population bonus and everything seems to be working as designed. To give you a bit more insight into the mechanic, the population bonus is applied and dissolved over time and not immediately. Because of the gradual application, there isn't really a way for players to log in and out to raise or lower the bonus in a consistent way.
We can say after looking at the campaigns from the back end that the battles are often pretty close! That said, we will continue monitoring the campaigns to see if the population bonus needs to be tweaked.