Should the Imperial Race get its own questing area?

AngryNord · December 2014

Face it, as it is right now, playing as an Imperial doesn't really 'fit in' with any of the three alliances (in both DC and AD, you spend pretty much the whole fourth questing area fighting Imperials/Cyrodiils, and in the EP it doesn't really work well with the whole setting of the alliance...
So, would it be an idea to give the Imperial race their own, separate questing area? Perhaps a PvE version of Cyrodiil, with a custom starting area (for example the Gold Coast area with Anvil, Kvatch and Skingrad) and then the three alliance areas in properly leveled PvE-versions, where you play from the viewpoint of the (former) Imperial Legion?

Keiffo · December 2014

My Jamaican Khajiit doesn't fit in anywhere either. They should make a reggae reggae sauce dungeon too.

Faulgor · December 2014

I hope they will eventually add the rest of Cyrodiil as PvE areas, either solo or new adventure zones.

Gyudan · December 2014

Imperials, also known as Cyrodiilics, are a race of men and women from the Cyrodiil, the province in the center of Tamriel. Members of the Imperial race are some of the most well-educated, wealthy, and well-spoken people in Tamriel. They have ruled the Empire of Tamriel for more than 2,000 years. Cyrodiil is the cosmopolitan heartland of Tamriel. It has been the capital province of the Empire since the Reman Dynasty. It is home to the Imperial City where the Emperor and his Elder Council live and rule.

Check the center of your map, you'll see the large Imperial questing zone.

Ganacampo · December 2014

I would like that, Colovia would be a good region where this could take place.

But that would mean that the Imperials would become a race for everyone to play, not only those with the Imperial Edition.
And they still would have to be part of one of the other factions since they are not a faction on their own.

MornaBaine · December 2014

I keep forgetting that you only get to play an Imperial if you have the Imperial Edition. So I don't think this would work unless they made them available to everybody...which would probably tick off those of us who paid extra for the Imperial Edition. Plus, Imperial lands are indeed already on the map...in Cyrodil. Now it would be pretty cool if they'd create a cross faction PvE area in Cyrodil, I'd absolutely love that.

AshySamurai · December 2014

MornaBaine wrote: »

I keep forgetting that you only get to play an Imperial if you have the Imperial Edition. So I don't think this would work unless they made them available to everybody...which would probably tick off those of us who paid extra for the Imperial Edition. Plus, Imperial lands are indeed already on the map...in Cyrodil. Now it would be pretty cool if they'd create a cross faction PvE area in Cyrodil, I'd absolutely love that.

Absolutely agree. Give Imperials separate zone is bad idea because ZOS's main idea is to have access to all content regardless what class/race you are.

Lynx7386 · December 2014

It wouldnt really matter, because everyone ends up getting forced to do all 3 alliance quest zones no matter what faction they start on. That said, I have one character in each faction, and I'd like to have a 4th so I can play all four classes, but I dont want to level with repeat quests again. A fourth area might be nice - maybe an instanced version of cyrodiil that has a different main story line, with the events leading up to the soulburst rather than afterwards.

Slurg · December 2014

I thought the premise was, you're of the Imperial race but Instead of being loyal to the empire you joined up with one of the factions? None of the factions are locked by race anyway if you have the explorer pack.

AlexDougherty · December 2014

AngryNord wrote: »

Face it, as it is right now, playing as an Imperial doesn't really 'fit in' with any of the three alliances (in both DC and AD, you spend pretty much the whole fourth questing area fighting Imperials/Cyrodiils, and in the EP it doesn't really work well with the whole setting of the alliance...

None of my characters fit in, I don't do fitting in, I do what I do, others can take it or leave it.

Asking for a fourth area to play your Imperials in is pointless, the imperials live in Cyrodil, which is your PVP zones, so they would have to be displaced, which means they won't fit in with the background anyhow.

eventide03b14a_ESO · December 2014

AngryNord wrote: »

Face it, as it is right now, playing as an Imperial doesn't really 'fit in' with any of the three alliances (in both DC and AD, you spend pretty much the whole fourth questing area fighting Imperials/Cyrodiils, and in the EP it doesn't really work well with the whole setting of the alliance...
So, would it be an idea to give the Imperial race their own, separate questing area? Perhaps a PvE version of Cyrodiil, with a custom starting area (for example the Gold Coast area with Anvil, Kvatch and Skingrad) and then the three alliance areas in properly leveled PvE-versions, where you play from the viewpoint of the (former) Imperial Legion?

Why? Their land is in the middle of a war. It's quite common in fact for regions affected by war to have it's population migrate to other areas. There is actually a word for this: refugee. We don't need our own custom starting zone. The entire premise of this thread is silly.

LonePirate · December 2014

Gyudan wrote: »

Imperials, also known as Cyrodiilics, are a race of men and women from the Cyrodiil, the province in the center of Tamriel. Members of the Imperial race are some of the most well-educated, wealthy, and well-spoken people in Tamriel. They have ruled the Empire of Tamriel for more than 2,000 years. Cyrodiil is the cosmopolitan heartland of Tamriel. It has been the capital province of the Empire since the Reman Dynasty. It is home to the Imperial City where the Emperor and his Elder Council live and rule.

Check the center of your map, you'll see the large Imperial questing zone.

Except every Imperial NPC in Cyrodiil is hostile towards you and the quests in Cheydinhal require you to kill Imperials. This is in direct contrast to the other questing zones where you help the native populations instead of killing them.

AngryNord · December 2014

Glad I at least was able to amuse the three persons who LoL'ed this

Lynx7386 · December 2014

I Just think it would be interesting to play a loyal imperial, separate from the other alliances.

eventide03b14a_ESO · December 2014

Lynx7386 wrote: »

I Just think it would be interesting to play a loyal imperial, separate from the other alliances.

I understand. I don't disagree that it wouldn't be fun in a different game. This game is not set up for that though. I suggest you try Oblivion it's set in Cyrodiil and you can be very loyal once you get out of prison.

RDMyers65b14_ESO · December 2014

*facepalms* OK, let me explain why this is amusing. There are two sides to the Imperials. One side is that of the current Empress - Regent Clivia Tharn who has aligned with Manimarco and Molag Bal. The other side of the Imperials are those who fled Cyrodil as they could not abide the Daedra. That is what most people play. Of the three factions, a lot have found their temporary home in the Covenant lands due to the fact that the Covenant wants to restore the rightful heir of St Alessia to the Ruby Throne. Mind you, we don't know in game that he won't be born for another 300 or so years in the form of Talos. (The AD wants to put an elf on the throne and the EP just wants to be free to choose their own fate)

There was one player who made a Tharn loyalist and they were pretty much laughed off the game. Those of us who hold true to St Alessia's word to Akatosh will fight against the Daedra. The ones in the game that you have to fight are Tharn loyalist. My Imps hate having to kill their own countrymen but if you are stupid enough to align with the Daedra, you get what you deserve.

With that said, we are already getting the Imperial City sometime in the next year.

adriant1978 · December 2014

Slurg wrote: »

I thought the premise was, you're of the Imperial race but Instead of being loyal to the empire you joined up with one of the factions?

This. Although it would be nice to see it acknowledged in dialogue once or twice. Not one Imperial has ever trash-talked mine and called him a traitor, and some prisoners I rescued towards the end of the DC quest chain actually said "you're no Imperial" to my Imperial guy while he was wearing an Imperial Legion disguise even.

TheShadowScout · December 2014

Yeah, also, questing regions are not per race but per alliance. You just have each races "homeland" in the matching alliance, more or less... as mentioned, any imperial players are refugees from the current pro-daedric regime and war-torn cyrodil is their "homeland".

And as time goes by, there may be more expansions to cyrodil then the upcoming imperial city... from "oblivion" we know cyrodil proper has two more parts ESO doesn't include (yet), the west-south-west to the gold coast between hammerfell and valenwood, and the south-south-east down the river to copal bay between elsweyr and black marsh. Might be that those will someday become available as regions in this game too, for PvP/PvE regions... (Maybe even a mixed PvP and PvE thing... do your region questing while dodging the enemy fraction, etc... like the towns in cyrodil, just moreso... possibly even with an active NPC "roaming fraction" to mix things up... I could see the maromer trying to gain a foothold on the mainland and such... but that's far in the future at this point anyhow)

Lovelyn · December 2014

I can't be an Imperial, not can I be a kitty cat in DC. *stomps off*

Pollux_Geminorum · November 2021

Definitely! Something I don't understand is why Imperials have to choose a faction when they should actually be 'factionless' as their main interest is to get Cyrodiil and the Imperial City back from Molag Bal's grasp not the Three Banners War to choose a non-Imperial as Emperor/Empress.

Furthermore, I've always thought that despite the alliances system, all characters should start their main quest in their homelands as a better way to get immersed in their own storyline. I've got over 10 characters. One of them is a Redguard DK tank and he's been exploring the Alik'r Desert to learn about his Yokuda ancestry. Another character is a Khajit NB dd and she's from Pellitine aka Southern Elsweyr (she's a bandit, but with family ties to Queen Khamira from Anequina aka Northern Elsweyr). Finally, my Dunmer NM dd who's evil as she's terribly disfigured and embittered. She follows Mephala, likes Molag Bal, and wants to overthrow The Tribunal.