Should once-per-character alliance change be introduced?

Mettaricana · October 2016

I found more friends in other factions than ny choice I pvped on alts but wish my main could switch to join em maybe add a yearly one switch per character to let faction shift it up once in a while

Wolfshead · October 2016

I would say Yes 1 time change for only 1 char as i basically only play PvE i would like to get 1 of my char back to her really factions i made her way back when we still factions in play for game but now i would like her back to her real factions just for it would feel more right then anything really.

Dasovaruilos · October 2016

I think a lot of people didn't notice that the OP mentioned "once per character". This would eliminate all those changing at will just to win the campaign. It should be something costly, irreversible.

I truly think this would INCREASE faction loyalty, not the other way around.

I think that the most common scenario, considering a one-time irreversible costly decision, would be people putting all toons in a single alliance.

That's why I was against it, but now I completely agree that this should be possible, considering the restrictions already mentioned.

mr_wazzabi · October 2016

Traitor!!!!!!!

Daemons_Bane · October 2016

dsalter wrote: »

DeclaredJester wrote: »

I think Alliance should be account wide and not character wide. The whole concept where people can log in their jumping spy that will let their buddies know where you are "hidden" is stupid.

You should commit to an alliance and only that alliance.

as this guy said, alliance should be decided once and only once, but paying to change total alliance would be good but defo make it taxing as well as having a 45day CD so it cant be abused to switch to the winning 30day every so often.

tho account should only lock your account once you'v finished one PvP camp, or finished the main story for a one off choice of which faction are you going to side with, with PvP being insta locked due to the fact you already fight for them.

That would ruin a lot of gameplay for those people who have friends in other factions..

akredon_ESO wrote: »

i think they need to put into the game Faction per server. So people who have AD,DC and EP toons cant just come into a Server and play favorites. It needs to be specific to that character. So example. If you have DC on TF then only characters that are DC can be on that specific server.

So you solution would be to divide the playerbase in 3??? That would make most of the PvE areas very deserted

mr_wazzabi · October 2016

Daemons_Bane wrote: »

dsalter wrote: »

DeclaredJester wrote: »

I think Alliance should be account wide and not character wide. The whole concept where people can log in their jumping spy that will let their buddies know where you are "hidden" is stupid.

You should commit to an alliance and only that alliance.

as this guy said, alliance should be decided once and only once, but paying to change total alliance would be good but defo make it taxing as well as having a 45day CD so it cant be abused to switch to the winning 30day every so often.

tho account should only lock your account once you'v finished one PvP camp, or finished the main story for a one off choice of which faction are you going to side with, with PvP being insta locked due to the fact you already fight for them.

That would ruin a lot of gameplay for those people who have friends in other factions..

akredon_ESO wrote: »

i think they need to put into the game Faction per server. So people who have AD,DC and EP toons cant just come into a Server and play favorites. It needs to be specific to that character. So example. If you have DC on TF then only characters that are DC can be on that specific server.

So you solution would be to divide the playerbase in 3??? That would make most of the PvE areas very deserted

Good. Less lag and people diluting my material farming.

Daemons_Bane · October 2016

mr_wazzabi wrote: »

Daemons_Bane wrote: »

dsalter wrote: »

DeclaredJester wrote: »

I think Alliance should be account wide and not character wide. The whole concept where people can log in their jumping spy that will let their buddies know where you are "hidden" is stupid.

You should commit to an alliance and only that alliance.

as this guy said, alliance should be decided once and only once, but paying to change total alliance would be good but defo make it taxing as well as having a 45day CD so it cant be abused to switch to the winning 30day every so often.

tho account should only lock your account once you'v finished one PvP camp, or finished the main story for a one off choice of which faction are you going to side with, with PvP being insta locked due to the fact you already fight for them.

That would ruin a lot of gameplay for those people who have friends in other factions..

akredon_ESO wrote: »

i think they need to put into the game Faction per server. So people who have AD,DC and EP toons cant just come into a Server and play favorites. It needs to be specific to that character. So example. If you have DC on TF then only characters that are DC can be on that specific server.

So you solution would be to divide the playerbase in 3??? That would make most of the PvE areas very deserted

Good. Less lag and people diluting my material farming.

Single player calls to you

Actually_Goku · October 2016

76-57 in favour of alliance change

First to 100 wins

mlstevens42_ESO · October 2016

no

RAGUNAnoOne · October 2016

My main concern in the past was your alliance affecting the quest phases you get and the possibility of ZOS messing up the coding and breaking things. now that this isn't the case why not?

Sweetpea704 · October 2016

This was my very first MMO. I was the Sorc wearing heavy armor because I died a lot. I didn't know about researching horses and set gear till I was like level 40. I played this DC toon for about 9 months but never found "my people" till I made an AD toon so that I could play with my son over his college break. He wanted to be an elf, so Cazzy Sharpclaws was born. I ran into some folks that had the heart of teachers. They taught me the ropes. I basically abandoned my DC toon, but kept her as a crafter because of all the research I had completed on her. I would love to change her to AD, so that I can complete all the PVP achievements on her.

Sinolai · October 2016

I think once per character would be a bit too strict as situation can change. You might have originally played in ebonheart pact, but your best frined went to AD. So you switch to AD to play with your friend but after 4 months your friend stop playing. Now you would be stuck in AD even though it wasn't your first pick.

I think something like once or twice a year/character would be better.

Actually_Goku · May 2018

Bumping this as I still want this! I’m actually currently in a long hiatus of ESO (log on to get my mats a couple times a week and that’s it)

If this were to be implemented, however...

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KaiSchober @ZOS_BrianWheeler

Yzalirk · May 2018

Actually_Goku wrote: »

If you don't play PVP I'd ask you refrain from voting.

Why? Is my input less valuable even though I understand why people want this?

Derra · May 2018

I´d allow for the change every 6 to 12 months - making chosen faction + factionlock (should be introduced with this) for campaigns relevant but not without ability to adjust for imbalances later.

Destyran · May 2018

Yes but you have to finish Caldwell’s gold

Gothlander · May 2018

Actually_Goku wrote: »

If you don't play PVP I'd ask you refrain from voting.

Basically, the question is in the title.

Should alliance change be implemented in this game?

I personally believe that it should be, after initially being against it.

From talking with other ESO players, I feel like a once-per-character alliance change keeps everyone happy, because:

1 - This way, you can't change factions willy-nilly, based on whichever faction is dominating whatever campaign you play, ergo keeping credit-card warriors from jumping factions constantly.

2 - this will also allow people who have for whatever reason chose to change alliance one opportunity to do that; it could be something as complicated as having a feud with guildmates from that alliance, to something as simple as that you don't like the colors

I'm personally voting yes, and here is why: at console launch, I didn't know that Cadwell's silver & gold existed, and I was under the impression you only got to experience the storyline of whichever alliance you chose. My first character was an AD character, but I've came to be a DC player at heart, due to social relationships struck up with blue players. My main, however is still a yellow. I would very much like to have him change to being a DC character.

I also realise that I could just re-roll, and that it is not hard to grind EXP if you know what you are doing - however, I work 50+ hours a week and have many sporting commitments as well. For me to get a new toon to max would take months. Skill points, guilds, undaunted, research, mount speed etc etc are all ridiculously time consuming and I know for a fact that this game does lose people over this.

What say you?

[Edit to remove insulting content]

I say remove choosing your faction at character creation. And let us choose our faction in game at lvl 10.

lihentian · May 2018

once is not enough.. as time goes some faction might die or bring back to life.. we should have unlimited chance to change faction... just make it expensive.. like 10k crown each time.. and imo it should be ok..

Spacemonkey · May 2018

Alliance should be linked to campaign choice for the duration of that campaign. period.
Alliance has nothing to do with character creation and has not since 1T.

When you join a new campaign, for the duration of that campaign (1 week or 1 month w/e) you pick your alliance and cannot play in that campaign as another alliance. So if I pick AD for Vivec, I cannot play as EP or DC on vivec until the campaign ends. I could however pick a different alliance for a different campaign. All characters can join the campaign as AD on vivec. Or i.e. EP on Sotha.

Mureel · May 2018

Because I have some chars in different alliances - but I think that PVP in the long run will be better if there is more alliance pride/unity.

It's ok to kill your friends - and you don HAVE to play with all your friends all the time - but especially with ability to only queue for deathmatch coming: Cyrodiil is gonna be lulsy.

I feel like I wanna move my relevant chars to AD (my original campaign from the start) for campaign PVP - and that's it.

I can fight with opposing alliance friends in BG

oMrRust · May 2018

Yes, alliance change. But once? No.

TrapLord · May 2018

I don’t agree with the 1 time restriction of changing alliance only once per character.

So in order to prevent people from exploiting this system, restrict them from gaining PVP rewards from any campaign if they alliance change that month.
That way it wouldn’t be incentivised to Alliance change for the wrong reason.

MerlinPendragon · May 2018

The most interesting part of the poll is how many people can't be bothered to explain.