Cyrodiil and The Imperial City population

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO · September 2015

Why are those two different zones counted as one their are maybe 15 EP in Cyrodiil right now but we a pop locked why, cause the City is full why can't you count them as two different places it's not like one needs the other anyone can travel to the gates and everyone can go in if you have the DLC so why do they share a population when actions in one doesn't effect the other

JamilaRaj · September 2015

Because design yielded to business and so you have queues to empty Cyrodiil where you can enjoy annoying cloakfights over nothing of value.

bethdynamic · September 2015

Including the Imperial City population with Cyrodiil's Alliance War is the most frustrating flaw with the game, for me, so far.

Since the DLC update, there has also been a significant amount of lag within Cyrodill as well as the rest of the game. Additionally, while trying to fight in the Alliance War I was fully kicked from the game three times in the middle of battle and lost siege weapons I was using at the time. However, the population lock certainly adds insult to injury because we don't have enough people to fight because so few are allowed through at a time.

Either increase the populations that can be in the Alliance War, or separate the two populations. The Alliance War is being unfairly effected by this and is nearly impossible to play.

fastolfv_ESO · September 2015

if you excluded IC pop from cyro then you would need to cap IC for each faction until a way to take control of IC is implemented. EP already has around 3x the number of every other faction in IC, can you imagine what it would be with no cap in cyro?

Brassmonkey · September 2015

It kind of make sense to me since you have to visit cyrodill to get to IC. If it's completely two separate instances thought I can see you're point. Wouldn't that kind of ruin the experience if it was a direct port to IC thought?

I think they should add a daily quests to cyrodill that gives 1000 tel var stones if your faction is crowned emperor. I could see that as a potential solution to even out the population between IC and Cyrodill.

CaptainObvious · September 2015

Tel Var should only be awarded in IC. Besides, that change would just encourage emperor trading more so than it already occurs now.

Brassmonkey · September 2015

Who's to say the quest giver wouldn't be in sewers and therefore technically rewarding tel var stones in IC. Didn't they add restrictions to playing on multiple factions this patch?

bethdynamic · September 2015

fastolfv_ESO wrote: »

if you excluded IC pop from cyro then you would need to cap IC for each faction until a way to take control of IC is implemented. EP already has around 3x the number of every other faction in IC, can you imagine what it would be with no cap in cyro?

I agree there should still be a cap for both IC and Cyro Alliance War, but I think each faction's overall population should be separated between IC and Cyro. Since players have to travel to Cyro and then to IC, I think once a player goes to IC from Cyro, they shouldn't count towards the Cyro population anymore.

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO · September 2015

The way they have in now made sense, when you had to have emp to gain access but with everyone just able to go whenever they want it makes no senses.