It disturbs me how many people do the cross factioning. All 9 of my maxed characters are EP. I'd never stray to the dirty yellow or filthy blue. Forever Pact!

As a DC player who frequents Haderus and Trueflame on NA, I can tell you that AD and EP often like to team up too. It's nothing new and you will see it even more after One Tamriel, when people make friends outside of their faction. Personally I don't think it's a bad thing, since it's a mechanic intended by the developers to overcome balance issues (i.e. overthrow the big tyrranious ruling faction through cross faction cooperation). Unfortunately there are times when two big groups team up against a small group, which I guess is what you experienced, but it's not abuse.

When team purple attacks, team green will try and hold while team orange sneaks up to grab our scrolls.

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sirrmattus wrote: »

It disturbs me how many people do the cross factioning. All 9 of my maxed characters are EP. I'd never stray to the dirty yellow or filthy blue. Forever Pact!

This gets an agree just for loyalty, I'm a DC man myself but the same goes for me, it's not in me to play both sides of a fight. The only proper way to do it in my opinion is pick a side and stick with it, win or lose.

Obviously some people have friends on both sides though, which complicates things, as few things in life are black and white. And while of course I don't have an issue with friends wanting to play together in principle, I have an issue with it when the result is people playing both sides of the same fight, but there really isn't a good fix for it. It's about the lesser of two evils, either you play both sides of a fight (which isn't right) or you are blocked from playing with friends (also not right), and which evil is the lesser is beyond me.

Ideally I'd like faction changes added and have all groups of friends just vote on an alliance and stick with it, but realistically that would never work because there would always be someone that won't be happy on any other alliance and wouldn't be interesting in switching regardless of the vote. People not having characters on opposing factions of the same campaign would help a lot to solve that problem, but in my opinion you're still being disloyal even if you're fighting on opposing sides in different campaigns.

Not everyone feels the same about their teams in a video game though, as can be understood easily enough, but I can't imagine playing this myself without picking a team and sticking with it, that's just what you do when you play a game. Playing both sides defeats the purpose of playing at all for me, you don't actually win anything if all you did is play on the side you knew had the advantage already, and even if the cost is losing sometimes it's still better to have a team you care about and fight for no matter what.

sirrmattus wrote: »

It disturbs me how many people do the cross factioning. All 9 of my maxed characters are EP. I'd never stray to the dirty yellow or filthy blue. Forever Pact!

Likewise, I don't really understand it either. 12/12 EP. For the Pact!

85flyingbrick_ESO wrote: »

I'd love to see us locked into our faction for a campaign. It would clean up things considerably.

Yeah why did they get rid of that?

I have been saying this for long time, ZOS said they changed so you could house your characters of different factions in the same campaign so you could play with your friends, worst idea ever, I play with my friends everyday we are all in the same faction, if we wanted to fight each other we would use the guest campaign.

I think this creates a more toxic environment, helps cause the population imbalances, no faction pride why bother just switch the faction of the month, no overall campaign pride, this also helps contribute to the purple faction the green faction what ever color combination you can come up with, collusion is huge because of this, there is nothing good I can come up with, it is unhealthy and kills the spirit of three faction warfare.

I play AD only no characters in any other faction, I watch the map a lot, from my perception, I see EP and DC always pushing AD, we are almost always fighting a two front war, even when we are not winning the campaign or have emp. I have ran into some coordinated attacks where EP would attack then DC would attack and not fighting each other, looking at @names I can see some of the DC are known EP players I see a lot, I am sure they are in team speak al together. I play mostly on TF/NA PC. I am sure there are times when it is AD and DC or AD EP or EP and DC, just depends on the time of day and whos on.

I think it should have always been one faction one campaign, not this bowl of poop we have now. But in the end it is what it is and when a better game comes along it makes it that much easier to leave this one, and move on.

DocFrost72 wrote: »

I've played DC since launch, never even set foot in Cyrodiil on a banana or strawberry. I don't feel like raising a new toon for the sole purpose of fighting for another alliance, and now that dueling is confirmed I likely never will.

Team orange is laughable; of course there will be times red and yellow work together to attack us. I've rarely ever seen a time when they do, and then don't immediately turn around and slaughter each other.

ZOS kinda fudged it by allowing the cross realm logins without a time restriction in between them, and by also making AvA bonuses only apply to Cyrodiil. In DAoC, the game who's PvP that ESO has based PvP after, made it so that even PvE players cared about losing keeps or scrolls because it affected them. But, then they made a PvE only server and all those people left, lol. I wish that ZOS had servers that were only PvE or PvP.