Blackwater Blade is something of a self-contained ecosystem, like a bio dome mimicking the conditions of the outside world without replicating them exactly. This problem, among others, are close to irrelevant on the other campaigns.

Well we had a guild-breaking issue a few months ago where guild chat was exploited and the EP reinforcement routes were "mysteriously" heavily ganked.

Whatever ZOS would do, some exploitations and some loopholes would exist. Eg. if you play for EP and your friend on TS would play for DC, then you could totally gank the pouring players with your supreme intelligence. There's no way to counter that and truth to be told, war is actually like that: the battlefields were always full of amoral, backstabbing ***, and those who only cared about to finish the war at the winning side. And guess what, they did right. Just think about the history of Romania.

kyle.wilson wrote: »

This allows certain types of people to use an alternate char, so that they can play on side that is winning. This has made an issue where there is no loyalty to a faction. I've seen many people in BWB swap to DC lately, now that they are winning.

In my view, this is even more damaging to the PVP experience than the fwd camps coming back.

Fun facts:

1. This was already possible before home/guesting restrictions were removed. You just had someone who was homed/guested there queue you in, or if they were homed, you could just queue yourself in.

2. No one cares about people playing on different factions when the game runs at 8 FPS and 999+ ping.

It helps me because my other Alliance characters are crafters, hunting alliance motif pages, and earning a little AP for style mats. That said, when I'm in there I'm either on the side that has the low score or pop to help keep things balanced.

Breaking news. People like to win and they also like to not lose constantly. TG changed little that would have mattered anyway. Players could still catch a ride into any campaign regardless of where there other faction toons were set. Being homed there allows you to "win" a campaign all the time if you have toons in all 3 factions homed there, but what does winning a campaign really accomplish? Top 10% and top 2% per faction are where the juicy rewards are at and to my knowledge it doesn't even matter if your faction wins for that prize. If anything, getting the necessary AP for a top percentage placement is often easier in an underpopulated campaign.

It's actually removed a headache, tbh. I play trifaction, and it was a royal pain to get into campaigns. Glad they removed the requirements.

Rylana: breaking the game since 2014, more news at 11.

Either you have campaign(faction) scoring and loyalty...... or you have a free for all and remove the campaign scoring and any other form/indicator of loyalty.

You are either a 3 faction game or a 0 faction game....make a choice ZOS.
I don't care which...but make a choice... stick to it and ensure the game can only be played that way and marketed that way.

Let me guess...you couldn't enforce/protect/encourage loyalty...so now treachery is a feature, like animation cancelling.
GJ
Like those with high end gear, 0 ping and programmable peripherals defend animation cancelling, so the AP farmers will defend and encourage easy treachery.
If this is how its going to be, if this is the road we are taking, make it crystal clear so I can move on.

If you do actually consider treachery wrong, and aren't competent to stop it. Then give us the tools to mark a player as a traitor and remove their faction status so that we can attack them outselves. As said above....like in real life

Thanks.

kyle.wilson wrote: »

This allows certain types of people to use an alternate char, so that they can play on side that is winning. This has made an issue where there is no loyalty to a faction. I've seen many people in BWB swap to DC lately, now that they are winning.

In my view, this is even more damaging to the PVP experience than the fwd camps coming back.

There is a thread about ideas to encourage Alliance and Campaign loyalty if those are things that you feel could benefit the game.

Haven't played BwB since Augustus hit VR1 I can't say that I miss it, BwB is not what it was pre 1.6 anyway...

FWD camps returning is a good thing it stopped the horse simulator...