District Control Concept and why Imperial City needs it

Osteos · September 2015

I would like to see some pvp objectives in the sewers as well.

The doors leading to different zones in the sewers could be capture points similar to resources.

Though if people are going to continue to run in large groups, and they will, they will just steam roll through any objectives and make them moot. Unless capturing a poi took the same amount of time regardless of the group size and once captured the first 8 people through make it and anyone after gets teleported to a random location by Molag Bal. That would be dastardly fun.

Though I honestly don't believe you can get rid of zergs.

Korah_Eaglecry · September 2015

Didnt they say in one of the ESO Lives prior to its launch that you could 'capture' districts? Why didnt they expand on that?

Oh wait....Now I remember. Because they wanted a gankfest region. For the Lulz.

s_jscorpiorwb17_ESO · September 2015

I thought when they first designed it that was the plan to have a means to control each different zone.

SirJesto · September 2015

This is what it should be. And add the 1v1 Arena to IC while you're at it.

SirDopey · September 2015

Geez, definitely thought it out, thumbs up simply for the effort....

Enodoc · October 2015

s_jscorpiorwb17_ESO wrote: »

I thought when they first designed it that was the plan to have a means to control each different zone.

That is correct. It was scrapped for an unknown reason, and I'm hoping, since much of it has already been developed, that they may bring it back.

Legedric · October 2015

As much as I'd love to see major additions to the IC (and there are some great ideas posted in this and other threads) I highly doubt this will happen at all.

ZOS is busy developing new DLCs they can charge money for, adding major machenics to the old ones would limit their resources for this high goal.

Just look at character re-customization, race balancing or just some minor balancing things they are now always holding back for major updates aka DLC... they aren't even able to push this kind of changes live when they are needed but months later with another DLC and so I am quite sceptical about any major additions to the IC or even "Vanilla PvP" aka Cyrodiil...

Uberkull · October 2015

Dymence wrote: »

Objectives are exactly what encourages zerg mentality.

Not if you have instanced games. Capture the Flag, Domination, etc. You queue as a team of 5, 10, 15...w/e. Then the districts become instanced for just those players. Look to WoW, Destiny for examples.

Pazz_ · October 2015

Fully support the OP in this!

Please ZOS, take this into consideration!

neueregel · October 2015

this sounds like fun for AD and EP... but as a DC player, it would shut out all of the districts for the smurfs...

Enodoc · October 2015

neueregel wrote: »

this sounds like fun for AD and EP... but as a DC player, it would shut out all of the districts for the smurfs...

Only for a few hours, until the Daedra reclaim the district. And you'd still be able to access all the districts from the sewers.

Enodoc · November 2015

paleobonesb14_ESO wrote: »

I would like to see some pvp objectives in the sewers as well. The doors leading to different zones in the sewers could be capture points similar to resources.

I missed this idea before. Having capture points in the sewers as well would be a great idea. Then you could use those capture points as respawn points for a limited number of respawns. Once all the respawns are used up, control is lost.

MissBizz · January 2016

Sooo @Enodoc not sure if you saw ESO Live... but this is going to be a thing!

JD2013 · January 2016

MissBizz wrote: »

Sooo @Enodoc not sure if you saw ESO Live... but this is going to be a thing!

I thought I imagined him saying this haha.

Glad I wasn't! District capture is a thing that is really needed.

MissBizz · January 2016

JD2013 wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

Sooo @Enodoc not sure if you saw ESO Live... but this is going to be a thing!

I thought I imagined him saying this haha.

Glad I wasn't! District capture is a thing that is really needed.

Haha. Don't worry, you're not crazy. He said it. Oh, and Towns in Cyrodiil too?

And apparently capturing a district may (because we all know things can change) change tel var multipliers AND spawning (maybe your enemies won't be able to spawn in your captured district?)

JD2013 · January 2016

MissBizz wrote: »

JD2013 wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

Sooo @Enodoc not sure if you saw ESO Live... but this is going to be a thing!

I thought I imagined him saying this haha.

Glad I wasn't! District capture is a thing that is really needed.

Haha. Don't worry, you're not crazy. He said it. Oh, and Towns in Cyrodiil too?

And apparently capturing a district may (because we all know things can change) change tel var multipliers AND spawning (maybe your enemies won't be able to spawn in your captured district?)

I heard they were discussing all of this. It would certainly add life to Cyrodiil.

Enodoc · January 2016

JD2013 wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

JD2013 wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

Sooo @Enodoc not sure if you saw ESO Live... but this is going to be a thing!

I thought I imagined him saying this haha.

Glad I wasn't! District capture is a thing that is really needed.

Haha. Don't worry, you're not crazy. He said it. Oh, and Towns in Cyrodiil too?

And apparently capturing a district may (because we all know things can change) change tel var multipliers AND spawning (maybe your enemies won't be able to spawn in your captured district?)

I heard they were discussing all of this. It would certainly add life to Cyrodiil.

Sounds like I need to watch this ESO Live. I'll get right on it

dodgehopper_ESO · January 2016

I'd like them to add this and add some form of 'district control' for the other cities in Cyrodiil as well: Cheyindhal, Bruma, etc.

petraeus1 · January 2016

dodgehopper_ESO wrote: »

I'd like them to add this and add some form of 'district control' for the other cities in Cyrodiil as well: Cheyindhal, Bruma, etc.

This is gonna be a thing as well, @ZOS_BrianWheeler is on top of things! PogChamp Don't forget Braviil xD

All of the closed houses in the IC districts, are those related to respawn points? I personally would love to see more than one capture point, no siege, with the capture points being not all walled up, as well as more opened up buildings: that should give it that city war feel, maneouvre options etc. Maybe Daedra could occasionally attack capture points too, if they're too long in the hands of one faction. But that's comparatively a lot of work compared to the 'UI work' Brian mentioned on ESO Live. Then again, we don't know what assets ZOS may or may not already have ready to implement from their original ideas for IC.

Enodoc · January 2016

I put together a mock UI design for the system. Shown here is the map of Imperial City with the towers on it. Tooltips on the tower icons show their status and the status of the adjoining districts. Below that is the UI screen for District Control, modelled on the Emperorship screen.

A bit of background to the situation:

DC's Northwest Tower is being attacked by AD. If AD win the assault, they gain control of Nobles District from DC, as they already control Southwest Tower.
DC's North Tower is being assaulted by the Daedra. If they lose this one as well as Northwest Tower, they lose control of Elven Gardens and it goes back to Neutral.
AD have recently lost control of South Tower, which was taken by the Daedra. The portal to recapture the tower has not yet opened, and a timer shows how long there is until it does. (That will change to "Portal Open" once the timer has run down.)