I think its pretty fair to say its impossible to actually dream of defending an emperor with current server stability =D

squshy7 wrote: »

Was it because your Emperor was too busy Jesus Beaming from behind everyone, sniping AP?

That might actually be a valid argument if radiant oppression or channeled skills in general worked in a lagfest like that. No one was dying on either side. Go take your sour grapes elsewhere.

https://youtu.be/T5zBbaYGpOw
https://youtu.be/Lv-w6JQnydk
https://youtu.be/aZ2LbrcEsrU

Here are the videos, not sure of the order but it's what I have. Credit to Legits and their cell phone for the videos.

I know Agrippa said he's exprienced enough of that to last a lifetime but I've never seen something like that before, not even that one time when we had all three poplocked factions at the last emp keep on Haderus. I strongly attribute that to rampant meteor spam and the fact that everyone and their literal mom in DC is using it. I saw it go off so many times the interior was literally lit up eye-blinding white. It was funny and surreal and silly.

I mentioned the incident to a friend of mine and he says one way another high-population pvp-based game, EVE online, handles the lag is their 'time-dialation' technology where they slow down action to distribute the strain across all players. That's how you see crazy battles such as the Battle of Asakai.

I wonder if ESO could accomplish something similar by terming it a "Dragon-Break" where the stress of so many people basically warps time and space, putting incredible stress on Akatosh. However many people are in the area are basically pulled through time and space into a pocket realm, similar to what happens to Alduin in the ancient Dragon War.

As much as I love pvp and ESO for being a superior game to any other MMO I've played, they're trying to do alot of stuff ahead of their time. They themselves said the tech doesn't exist to have the big battles they invisioned, at least not yet, so for now they'll have to make do with what they can get. Either better server equipment or ways to distribute the strain.

And DC for *** sake was it THAT necessary for you to bring THAT many people into CHalman at the same time on the same spot no less?

As DC, on the other-side of AZ Chall lag-feast.
I have to say...

1. 1/2 our members where locked / knocked out of server (and couldn't relog)
2. when we could relog, after 3x. We where sent back to way shrine (personally 4x)
3. when we finally got back to the keep, ...it would crash again.

only about 6 members (from our guild), actually participated in the battle.
And they have the same view as EP, ...it was a mess.

Battles shouldn't be decided on lag.
Emperors should get their chance to defend..
and we (all), should get PvP, we enjoy.


Kill Well
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Kybotica wrote: »

As you should be able to tell, none of us who were in that fight are particularly accusatory- this is a problem that clearly affects every faction. It can be (and is) caused by all factions at some point, and there needs to be some sort of solution found for it. In the current state, an emperor cannot properly defend against superior numbers due to the lag, even if their group is capable of surviving. Once the lag gets to a certain point, the fight becomes irrelevant. This shouldn't happen to anybody.

I'm no expert on programming, so I can't give insight into WHY this happens, or what I would change to fix it. Even so, Something's gotta give. @ZOS_BrianWheeler got any input for us?

Well I definitely know it has to do with Meteor Spam. Even with the nerf to Valkyn Skoria, its still extremely commonplace and the mechanics of the ultimate mean that it will show up as coming down repeatedly because, again due to the lag, it does not go off instantly, so people will often reflectively spam it to make sure it does.

WarrioroftheWind_ESO wrote: »

And DC for *** sake was it THAT necessary for you to bring THAT many people into CHalman at the same time on the same spot no less?

Quoted for rarity

Rylana wrote: »

Guild of Shadows crowned Picard emp at about 10pm eastern time. Eventually the blue ball of doom pushed us to Chalman for the last stand.

At least 80 DC vs about 40 EP, was a really good fight until inner breached. Then things got quite hilarious.

GoS + Emperor on the back flag of the keep, 20 strong, alive for 20+ minutes, through emp deposition via force flip, and 50+ DC on top of us raining AOE everywhere.

Literally, this has to stop ZOS. This is the second time in two weeks flags have flipped with the active reigning emperor present, not dead, a whole group to support him, damage not registering, and the group being deposed being alive inside of an enemy keep for almost 20 minutes after the fact.

Video incoming shortly from someone in the guild.

Welcome how to how the major campaigns have felt for months. Almost every emp deposition on thorn had lag and flag stacking involved and at leas 75% of the time the flags flipped w/ emps still on them. Its nothing new and its just the way the game works. You have to play around the lag and find the most effective skills to use during it in order to survive.

Psilent wrote: »

vortexman11 wrote: »

And....I got stuck under the porch and missed out on all the fun



Notice Im targeted on the DC named Worstluck, that pretty much describes me...

Sigh... Waking up at 4:30am causes me to miss all the fun.

Vortex, why are you always stuck in the ground?

Amazing. Last time it was the "lake" at KC. I don't know how one player can find every single crack in the game structure and manage to fall through it. Guess he's right about "Worstluck". Vort has plenty of it.

this is basically how it's been done for like 5 months. they know.

WarrioroftheWind_ESO wrote: »

I strongly attribute that to rampant meteor spam and the fact that everyone and their literal mom in DC is using it. I saw it go off so many times the interior was literally lit up eye-blinding white. It was funny and surreal and silly.

I'm not certain about this, but it seemed like I was one of the only people spamming meteor during that lagfest. I can't help it that the game started to lag and let me cast meteor over and over. I was amazed at the lighting effects so I kept doing it. We were all stacked on two flags for like 10 minutes, me not spamming meteor wouldn't have stopped that lag.

This happened to us in Aleswell, the lag was so bad, they deposed our emp with this lag fest. ZOS need to do something with this. I have the videos of chalman, I am going to upload the videos.

Rylana wrote: »

Guild of Shadows crowned Picard emp at about 10pm eastern time. Eventually the blue ball of doom pushed us to Chalman for the last stand.

At least 80 DC vs about 40 EP, was a really good fight until inner breached. Then things got quite hilarious.

GoS + Emperor on the back flag of the keep, 20 strong, alive for 20+ minutes, through emp deposition via force flip, and 50+ DC on top of us raining AOE everywhere.

Literally, this has to stop ZOS. This is the second time in two weeks flags have flipped with the active reigning emperor present, not dead, a whole group to support him, damage not registering, and the group being deposed being alive inside of an enemy keep for almost 20 minutes after the fact.

Video incoming shortly from someone in the guild.

Sounds like you needed a better emperor

Dekkameron wrote: »

I don't know why but this thread made me think of this...

I wonder if Luke Skywalker would fly for a name in the game