You think it would be better with one alliance per campaign? I main mostly DC toons but if it ever becomes one alliance per campaign, I'll just roll with my EP toons and abandon my DC's. It's too tiresome fighting the zerg all the time. If you can't beat em, join em. Sure many people will stick with their current main alliance but those that swap around now will certainly stick with whichever one suits their goals if this switch comes into play and I'd suspect that for many of the more casual pvp players that will be the most populated faction so they can keep from being run over by superior numbers constantly. Due to this, you take a massive population disparity and widen the gap while locking it into place. That doesn't sound overly healthy to me... unless you're on the overpopulated side and love 2+ hour queues.

That's my problem. For 2\3s the time my "only" faction is so horribly outnumbered I am almost forced to go pve, eww. When its like this I typically just get on my nb and gank. Finding that lonely 1 or 2 man group is really hard though. It used to be my suggestion, and yes some days if others in my faction were not on it was really outnumbered, but I knew why. Not just, oh its not said colors turn yet today to over populate.

The search function works, you know. We don’t need more threads about this.

I like to join another faction to fight with my buddies after a guild raid beside if they did go back I'd hop onto another account like I did when it was only one faction per campaign.

Anrose wrote: »

The search function works, you know. We don’t need more threads about this.

Until this is fixed new posts should be daily. The way it is now is completely broken. Just another huge exploit. Farm ap by outnumbering both of the other teams constantly. Thank god you can't buy\sell anything of gold value with ap. Oh wait, thousands of items are bought\sold like this.

Many of you guys are proposing strategies that would imbalance the servers, not balance them.

Locking accounts to particular realms would imbalance them, because the time needed to rebalance the server once they become unbalanced would be extremely long since people couldn’t switch.

Here’s how DAoC fixed it. And just FYI, ESO’s AvA system is a direct and intentional duplicate (and directed by the same guy) as DAoC’s RvR system. Combat is different, but the AvA system is the same, even down to each keep having three towers.

Step one: make it easy to switch a character’s alliance. Maybe once per week or something like that.
Step two: give an AP incentive to play on an underpopulated alliance. For example, +10% AP for a one bar deficit, +25% AP for a two bar deficit.
Step three: adjust AP incentive’s values until the alliances balance themselves.

It has worked before and it will work again.

Raudgrani wrote: »

imredneckson wrote: »

I like to join another faction to fight with my buddies after a guild raid beside if they did go back I'd hop onto another account like I did when it was only one faction per campaign.

Too bad. You can't have everything in this world. Youth of today is just "I want..." all the time. I mean, sure if people didn't exploit this thing so badly, it wouldn't matter. But as it is, it doesn't work. You would need to get another account to do that. Because this really messes up the entire game, and I see people leave PVP all the time because of this. Running against 3 yellow and at least 1 blue bar, with to red bars online. It's just crap.

Wow, someone doesn't agree with you and you immediately go to discrimination and insults. You are the one who started an I want thread not me. I see PvP pop locked every day on Vivec and have high pop on other campaigns. The ESO PvP population isn't dying and is still going pretty strong. I am sorry you have these problems on your campaign but there are more to pick from and if that still doesn't work join up with the NA PC server. Ill even make you gear, food, exp pots, etc. to get your character leveled up. There are also a large number of faction only PvP guilds here to pick from.

Raudgrani wrote: »

Yes. We really need this. Anything else is complete madness. Some people will yell and cry about "I want to be able to switch alliance, for GAME BALANCE!" and what not. Yes, they might be honest. Still, this is not how most people do it. On Xbox EU, we usually have this nasty "green pact" thing going on. I.e. AD and DC cooperating to keep EP down. Not maybe so much that actual faction loyal DC and AD people really cooperate that much, but more like when the yellow part of the server is full, you literally see usual yellow players on blue characters, just to be able of fighting the EP with as high numbers as possible.

I mean, there's no denying it. I've actually been dead, watching blues wait for yellow friends to arrive, to capture keeps etc. It's ridiculous. Snatching scrolls on red characters, and running it to their yellow friends. It's stupid. Just stupid.

huh it seems like the hatred for ep is on all platforms that happens on pc/na vivec as well

I would love the change back to one alliance per camp. I am AD supporter myself and only play ad toons in pvp.

Remove factions altogether, replace with accound locked servers, limit server population to have so form of competition. And all turn to weekly match ups. Nice and simple

To see it in action, google "wvw rankings gw2" and top links will show current live matchups.

Lock factions and award more ap for low population and increase food and potion durations also. increase the health and damage of low pop NPCs. and make them healable