PvP - Servere Faction Population Imbalance - PS4 EU

LondonLad · October 2015

Hi all

Ok this isn't a whine or nerf thread but a "what can be done?"

Currently on PS4 EU there is a thing happening where every mother and brother are playing EP faction. That means in pvp there is so many of them in numbers it's just unstoppable to play against. Being a DC only player I've seen lots of people who started DC roll EP just cos "they had the numbers"

Looking at the campaigns right now EP own 3/4 of them. I know people all ways go FoTM and EP are currently that but it's making pvp very tedious. I love to pvp but even trying to get v16 and try pvp against it is beginning to drag me down, many people in my guild down and I don't want it to.

So what can I do ?

Can the devs do anything to maybe help address or sort this out ?

Molag_Crow · October 2015

Because 1 or 2 Campaigns make up the majority of balanced-ish battles.

1 Campaign is considered EP dominated, for farming etc

Another Campaign is DC AD dominated

Another is DC dominated.

Look for the one Campaign that has a padlock on all 3 factions, in the middle of the day, or something.

LondonLad · October 2015

There is no DC dominated one. It's either EP or AD.

I look at all campaigns. Now 3 (4 if you count azure but I didn't include this one in OP) red has full bar and others have 1 if you're lucky.

arcantonias · October 2015

EP also has 3 "buff servers" on ps4 na as well as full populations on popular pvp servers. They even flood over into the 1 dc server cause there just isnt enough room for them all.

Sausage · October 2015

Ive suggested tons of stuff to them.

1) First make Cyrodil F2P stand-alone game. Just overhaul everything. Fill Campaign by Campaign. Winner is who ever gets the 5 Scrolls and Campaign resets after that. F2P stand-alone game should mean we get tons of new campaigns.

2) New System - Let player choose between Mercenary, Loyalist, or Pacifist. Mercenaries are sent to low pop alliance, basically gold reward, can group with anybody they want. Loyalist can only play with their faction alliance and are rewarded for doing so, some cool exclusive Faction reward. Pacifist cant even enter to Cyrodil and can group up with everyone.

3) Offer free Crows for those who transfer from EP to low pop alliance.

4) Give some cool stuff like some Flying Monster for underdog faction to put things more even.

EP is gonna so win, we have best gank forces too!

MuddledMuppet · October 2015

CrowsDescend wrote: »

Because 1 or 2 Campaigns make up the majority of balanced-ish battles.

1 Campaign is considered EP dominated, for farming etc

Another Campaign is DC AD dominated

Another is DC dominated.

Look for the one Campaign that has a padlock on all 3 factions, in the middle of the day, or something.

It's already been said but I'll reiterate, DC has NO buff server on PS$ EU, never has had. Pretty much the only thing we can hope for is an equally full server that happens on Azure, but there has been a solid history of team orange there, I used to discredit it but seen too many occasions where red/yellow are side by side taking the same keep etc. (probably too big a discussion for this thread, I know there are plenty who discredit this)

@LondonLad probably the only way around this is for several guilds to get together and see if we can organise something, I have a smallish (about 100 members) guild, happy to collab with other guilds and see what we can do to change the picture

msg me on PS4 if you'd like to have a think about this

jbcrocks · October 2015

Guys, don't worry! In PC EU, EP was the majority before. Now, almost all campaigns are DC

21jws10 · October 2015

Funny because on BWB DC just got emp.

Asuryan11 · October 2015

Xbox one NA server it takes a dedicated PvP guild, co ordination, and a lot of commitment for DC due to the clear pop imbalance. I have gone from Thornblade to Chillrend to Azura to Scourge since I transferred to xbox one. we won the last campaign for scourge but now they even have the 24/7 pop to hold that one too. It sucks, but atleast we become better as an alliance being outnumbered and we definitely fight better for it. I will never choose a DC buff server. I have seen many players move over to EP/AD. I on the other hand, DC FOR LIFE. even if I am the last one standing. XD hold in there brother, eventually they can hopefully see there is no fun when there is not much of an enemy alliance left to fight, although they may actually like the PvDoor from what I have seen so far.

LondonLad · October 2015

It's either EP or AD. There is no DC dominated one.

21jws10 wrote: »

Funny because on BWB DC just got emp.

Non vet campaign. And getting emp when no one is on is easy.

I've just looked at 2 campaigns and reds far out more then rest.

Look this isn't about who's emperor etc it's so clear all the streamers play EP so all the fan bois play EP and when you have that many numbers then all the FoTM's play EP.

I'm just after a solution to it, don't want to be forced to just pve.