AD has had low population for a while now

A lot of AD's best guilds / players stopped playing over a year ago. Even more of them stopped playing over 2 years ago.

Also it's only natural that players take the path of least resistance. If DC keep dieing repeatedly at bleakers, they will give up and PvDoor brindle instead for moral, and get easy kills against AD at nikel etc. Same goes for EP. To prevent the 'double-team' phenomenon a faction must demoralize the opponents on both fronts. The more free kills / easy keeps you give the enemy, the more they are going to pick on you. Basically you need to put up a better defence against DC than EP does against DC, and a better defence against EP than DC does against EP, and then they'll end up fighting each other. To do that though you need the best guilds on your side, something which AD took for granted in the past.

Thank you everyone for the interesting answers and varying viewpoints on Vivec PC NA.

I'd like to point out that there seems to be an EP guild dedicated to camping Cropsford (and often Vlastarus) 24/7 to raid AD resources and farm players, they do this regardless of which faction is winning the campaign and basically do nothing else. This has been my observation as its always the same group of people everyday over there for awhile now. Some would call it griefing, some may call it keeping pressure on the enemy, farming AP or even part of an overall strategy to win the campaign.

Regardless, its not the factions that are at fault (it could happen to any faction), but it comes down to the players and their sense of sportsmanship (cannot expect much of this here to be honest) when playing within a competitive environment.

So IMHO what I've gathered from the responses are :
(a) AD is easy AP to farm over and over again due to lack of organized/skilled groups and larger population of casual players.
(b) Cropsford and Vlastarus when taken, makes it easier to harass AD territory (hence that guild camping there daily).
(c) Always attack AD because if left unchecked, they may take over everything.
(d) Everyone wants a piece of Kate Beckinsale (voice actress of Queen Ayrenn) - kidding !

Thank you again for the varying viewpoints, it is appreciated and helps us understand why the yellow faction experiences what it does for many months now.

I'd like to provide some input if I may, for those of us who see ourselves as truly skilled / elite / organized groups ... keep the map balanced and move your guild to a faction that (in my opinion) has been so severely beaten down and demoralized for many months on end. Test your mettle there and see if you truly are as skilled as you believe. The potentially nonstop AP due to being pressured daily is a bonus too. And you get to be on the receiving end of many YouTube streamer's wrath (you'll be famous!)

I truly am concerned for the longer term because entire PVP guilds have gone and what players left are so demoralized that they've resorted to blaming each other in zone out of frustration. At the end of the day, behind the computer screens we are all people who have come together in this wonderful game to have fun, so let's keep it civil, respect each other and work together on what would be good for the game in the long run. Peace, continue to have fun and bless you all !

LeagueTroll wrote: »

IxSTALKERxI wrote: »

A lot of AD's best guilds / players stopped playing over a year ago. Even more of them stopped playing over 2 years ago.

Also it's only natural that players take the path of least resistance. If DC keep dieing repeatedly at bleakers, they will give up and PvDoor brindle instead for moral, and get easy kills against AD at nikel etc. Same goes for EP. To prevent the 'double-team' phenomenon a faction must demoralize the opponents on both fronts. The more free kills / easy keeps you give the enemy, the more they are going to pick on you. Basically you need to put up a better defence against DC than EP does against DC, and a better defence against EP than DC does against EP, and then they'll end up fighting each other. To do that though you need the best guilds on your side, something which AD took for granted in the past.

Not really, ppl will chill at bridge no matter what.

If you own Sej, and make it a long ride to get to the bridge, and constantly kill them everytime they ride to the bridge, they will stop spending so much of their time trying to go to the bridge, only to die again. People never used to chill at the bridge as much as what they do now, a few years ago you might get a nightblade in stealth ganking near the bridge, but even he would only last 10 minutes before being found and killed by AD. If you want to stop someone from coming back you just need to kill them repeatedly, something which AD isn't very good at in recent times.

Minalan wrote: »

Once upon a time, a DC guild who shall remain nameless journeyed to Vivec. They single handedly made DC zone chat so toxic that it’s unbearable, and they regularly run their mouths in /say.

Some DC re-rolled and joined AD, because they got tired of listening to the ugliness of the unnamed types night after night. Few could blame them, and it made the campaign fun and competitive again.

This upset the unnamed guild, who are angry about the traitors who dared to not want to listen to their garbage any longer. “OMG. They’re taking our home tri-keeps again!” became the regular cry in dc zone.

Thus AD tends to get focused by the unnamed in retaliation, and its extremely personal and nasty (at least for the unnamed, I don’t think the former DC who joined AD really care).

I'm sorry to hear this actually happened, it saddens me somewhat ... at first I thought it was a rumor. Again, we should respect one another regardless of faction or preferences. Gaming is supposed to be fun for everyone.