Imperial City was sold to us as some epic pvp zone. Its entirely underwhelming. I think about this often.

Make gold mats drop from the chests. Make Molag Bal harder and drop gold mats. Make an increase in AP for kills only. NOT for flag caps. Make rare weapon drops from dungeons drop in the sewers with a lowish drop rate from chests and banner bosses.

There are endless possibilities.

my favorite dailies are in IC...

I've done a bunch of battlegrounds - I still prefer the open nature and pace of IC...

was surprised to run into a couple of groups of 8 plus players in IC last night...so many places to hide there...

number one thing to increase a consistent pop...make it it's own map with direct access...

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IC and sewers are empty.... what will make ppl to keep coming back ?

I need more ppl in IC for reasons...

Jokes aside... something that will make the reward outweigh the crazy feeling that some one could just come and take 50% of your stones.

Ban AOEBarbeque from IC

Take Imperial City out of the main Cyrodiil Campaign for one thing. It only hurts your Alliance when a bunch of people are in IC instead of fighting topside. Imperial City needs it's own separated queue and then it would be a lot more populated when there's just one IC instead of one in every Campaign.

Divorce IC from Cyrodiil Campaigns, make IC it's own Campaign with it's own Population Caps.
Allow travel directly to the zone to your Alliance Base Camp like we have to travel to existing campaign's base camps.

That will would probably get more people in there as the hassle of getting there, along with making sure we are all in the same campaign if we are grouped, is what stops me from going there in the first place.

More sun/light. Do more Cyrodiil because there's more light and there's the sun

TL:DR, Yo Cavalry, I'll join you one of these days. Just let me know when you are headed down there next. Gotta farm for tel var

IC is divided into two different areas, the Districts and the Sewers.

To make the Districts more interesting to pvp'ers, I think you would have to:

Keep the districts as being capturable, but make them significantly harder to capture and change how they are captured

People want AP AP AP ... so the amount of AP for capturing a District would need to be equivalent to capturing a keep (only if the difficulty to capture a district is significantly increased);

People like to fight in areas where a large structures are involved, but only when the fight involves ownership of the structure, or when there is a large structure (such as a bridge) that provides a bottle-neck passage leading to a capturable structure. Therefore, ZOS would have to incorporate some of the large buildings in each district in re-designing how a district is captured. People like fighting from heights as well as fighting at ground level, so ZOS needs to keep that in mind.

Put swimmable water back in the districts, but make the water toxic so you could only stay in the water for a 3-4 seconds without becoming poisoned.

Allow players to erect destroyable barricades as part of the fight for ownership of the district. Only the alliance that controlled the district could set up barriers (<-- there would need to be a limit to the number of barricades that could be set up per district). Players would have to purchase barricade kits to erect a barricade (there should also be barricade repair kits). Perhaps ZOS could come up with a compact siege type of weapon that could be used by the opposing side to destroy the barricades.

In addition to the AP, people like to fight to gain control of a larger area (emperorship), while others like to subvert the winning side. So, there would need to be something put in place that gave some sort of perk if all districts were owned (similar to emperorship).

It would be nice if ZOS could incorporate some sort of daedric portal system that enemy alliances could use to 'port into' a district they didn't own. This would be a portable portal that an alliance member would have to erect it (you know, like how we erect forward camps in enemy territory). Once erected, members of your alliance could use the portal to 'port in' from your alliance IC base (it's only a 1-way portal) However, this daedric portal could be destroyed by the enemy ... but only if it is found.

When a player dies in a district, they have the option to respawn at a predefined safe zone in the district (like they can now), or respawn at their IC base (see the caveat below regarding IC base entrance to the districts), but ... if they respawn at their IC Base, they could re-enter the district they died in via the daedric portal .... if it is still up.

[/i]With regard to the sewers:

Make the sewers a PVE area BUT
--> slightly increase the number of mobs found immediately surrounding sewer entrance/exists to the districts AND mobs near the sewer entrance/exits to the districts would have 'true sight' (to make it more challenging to use the sewers to gain entry to the districts).

IC Alliance Base

Each IC Alliance Base would only have direct access to 1/3 of the districts (as opposed to direct access to all of them via those rope ladders). Alternatively, your IC Base would have rope ladders leading to all the districts, but the ladders would only work for those districts your alliance had ownership of.

Regardless of whether or not your alliance had ownership of a district, you could still get to a district via the sewers. Once you are in a district, you can use any 'district doorway' to gain access to the adjacent district (like you can now), or you can use the daedric portal system.

Obviously when you start to capture another district (which includes starting to destroy the barricade the owning alliance set up), it will show on the map.

Does anyone remember the days of epic pvp battles in memorial and aboretum districts? Anyone want to take a stab why it was so popular?

1. People want instant mid scale pvp battles without the hassle of pvp door. I'm also not talking about lame 4v4v4. I'm talking no restriction instant battles with no horse simulator online. IC was a real battleground.

2. Respawn was quick without hassle of loading screens or running through districts to get back to battle.

Make IC it's own access and Couple these 2 things with really good rewards and purpose and people will come back.

Remove Purple willpower / agility / endurance from the dungeon give aways (make them blue)

Male Gold versions of above, only available for tel var (BOP) or fragments (Alot)

Allow you to take the scrolls down from.cyrodiil lol