Rylana wrote: »

The last time I heard anything was during the wabbajack population restriction when some dev said somewhere each bar represented 50 people, with 200 being the maximum per alliance, 600 max campaign-wide

Whether that is the case or not now (and mind this was like 5-6 months ago) is anyones speculation because they havent said anything regarding it.

The server has to hold far more than 600. With all of the travel to friend bs and zerg balls at night i dont see how 600 can be the cap anymore.

I think its really tough to tell, just because there are always people sitting at entry points, out in the wilderness fapping (oops I mean ganking), and even some people running around collecting skyshards.

It can seem like you are outnumbered when the real issue is your faction is just spread out doing various things. Having said that, a firm count would be more convincing than vague bars.

Princess_Asgari wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

The last time I heard anything was during the wabbajack population restriction when some dev said somewhere each bar represented 50 people, with 200 being the maximum per alliance, 600 max campaign-wide

Whether that is the case or not now (and mind this was like 5-6 months ago) is anyones speculation because they havent said anything regarding it.

The server has to hold far more than 600. With all of the travel to friend bs and zerg balls at night i dont see how 600 can be the cap anymore.

Well the travel to player thing still hasn't been confirmed or backed up with any evidence, just peoples "hunch" at seeing more than the caps worth.

However stop and think how may players 200 actually is, that's eight full raids. I don't think I have ever seen more than three or four full raids in one location at once (from one faction).
On EU Thornblade when Wabbajack, HoS and Renegades had an entire TS server packed out we had three full raids, then we were in contact with two other full raids after that just leaving the randoms and maybe unknown PUG raids. So we have accounted for 120 players, there are still 80 slots.

Would be interesting to see Developer comment on this one though.

"We will have two megaservers – one for North American players, and one for European players, although you will be able to create characters on both if you wish. The game's PvP area (Cyrodiil) has a population limit of about 1800 players per campaign, but we'll have many campaigns running simultaneously."

http://www.examiner.com/article/elder-scrolls-online-pvp-player-limit-checks-at-1800-for-cryodiil-campaign

That would mean ~600 players per alliance or ~200 per population bar, presuming campaign is locked when 3rd bar is filled. Last number also represent possible difference in numbers that may occur at battlefield even if factions have same population bar lighten up. For example two factions have 2 population bars on, but one may have ~201 players and other ~399 players at same time. That difference is rather big when zerg/blob playstyle is dominant.

Anyway, these numbers looks a bit depressing seeing we only have 4 campaigns in total. Even if all 4 campaigns are over populated that would mean up to 8k players per megaserver or 16k for both megaservers at the time. We can stretch that number to 20-25k players when take into account people coming online/offline in different periods of day. Reality is rather grim seeing that only one campaign per server is full at prime time, one semi full at best, and other two pretty much empty leaving us with estimated ~5k active pvp players per megaserver. That is a bit low number for AAA mmo title and shed a bit of light why fixes for Cyrodiil comes so slow or not coming at all.