Be the zerg or get zerged. Before IC my vote would have been the other way but as it stands now... I hate being in IC and getting steamrolled by a group of 24 people who don´t even know half of them doesn´t get any loot....

If my faction has the numbers I can roam solo in peace and will only face small enemy groups trying to avoid the zerg. Finding small battles without getting rolled works much better when your own faction is poplocked.

its why I stayed in hopesfire and haderus for 3 months and 2 months respectively.

There is also the issue that you wanted to play certain characters in a certain faction, and you don't really feel like hustling to grind something up to max and earn all the skill points to play on an alt faction immediately. The title assumes a little too much I think. I have alts in the other factions, and I intend to pvp with them but lets be realistic that people grow attached to certain servers and factions. I don't think its as simplistic as looking at population lock and thinking 'Gee, I want to go where I have no one to team with'. Many people have built relationships on certain servers, and want to continue teaming with those people. Most of us could comfortably jump with friends into other servers, but its a little more difficult now. I personally think if one server is currently pop locked, we should be able to jump onto a server where our faction is weak, just to give those other faction-mates a hand. Other than this I don't really see a good solution to the problem. Other MMO's I've played actually did things differently with pvp than here. ON ESO if your faction has controlled the most territory all the players on that faction are stronger than they would be normally. This actually helps people keep their power. I've been on MMO's where the losing side gets a mechanic where they can call in extra npc resources to help them. Maybe this game could use something like that, just to keep things interesting.

I only go during off hours to get skyshards or to run PvE quests. I'm not going there to fight anyone, so I want the best odds.

so many in this thread are so full of crap

Being mostly a PvE carebear but liking Imperial City, I'd pick the campaign with low bars all around so I could get to the sewers. Then once there, I'd hope it changes to all three pop-locked 'cause that would be more fun.

PvP in IC just has a different better, not so serious feel to it.

I am part of the solution of all problems, but a there is one problem tho. The solution.

I am neither. I main on the campaign that is poplocked for all factions, because I signed on for three-way pvp and not for being roflstomped by 10 times as many opponents or roflstomping opponents that have a 10th of my side's numbers.

Because of the entailed queues, I guest on a campaign where my faction is never locked, but with open IC access because I can then use the magnificent waiting times to farm stones & mats. As expected by ZOS, I have done my duty and embraced the new grind statutes.

I started on Haderus with all my chars way back in the begining and haven't left. I don't even have a guest campaign. I've seen the ups and downs, highs and lows of population changes and found most things run in cycles. Right now on Haderus, AD (my faction) and DC is either pop locked or at 3 bars nearly all the time, while EP sits around 1 bar more of the time. And yet I can grind most of the dungeons and quests area with little fear of seeing any other player. The population bars are misleading because most people are grinding in IC.

Option 3, this is a useless pointless thread.

Not sure?

All three factions are pop locked on my home and my guest camp they are pretty close most of the time.

I have lately been going on late at night to get my achievements for PvE stuff. Have ran into maybe two enemies in four nights.

Earendal wrote: »

Since no one from Haxus had chimed in, we have, and always will, home whatever campaign we feel is the most competitive. This was the case before Havoc and Nexus merged, it was the case prior to DiE rerolling EP and going through its changes (ending with the formation of Havoc and others returning to AD as DiE), and it was true of IR prior to reforming as Nexus. On off nights, when competition is light on our home campaign, we go to whichever campaign has the most people to kill.

Slight correction here, Havoc is still its own guild. Most of our core members are simply playing other games. A few Havoc members, who still play ESO, created a new guild with Nexus members. Havoc, as a guild, did NOT merge with Nexus.

I would argue a 3rd option is possible. That option would be "A campaign I am more familiar with" or something along those lines.

For example, I am AD and, when I do vet pvp, I play on Haderus. Haderus currently has a population skew toward AD. However, the pop numbers have no impact on my descision to play there as all my vets have been homed there for a long time. The original decision that led me to selecting Haderus as my campaign of choice was it's short campaign cycle. At that time, Haderus worked out better than the other vet campaigns because it allowed me to split my play time more easily between vet pvp and non-vet pvp.

Are players who chose their campaign based on something other than population part of the solution or the problem? Probably a little of both, but if the intention of this poll is to draw ZOS's attention to population imbalance then having some idea of how many players are in the gray area might be of some value.