killimandrosb16_ESO wrote: »Maybe you should worry a bit more about the real problem here - a consistently ill-balanced population during most of the day.
That depends of the situation. Is it TRUE dc caps all *** at night? If it is, they dont deserve anything at all, than being farmed at gates at day, and they certainly do not deserve any low pop bonus. PvD should at any point whatsoever never be rewarded. If they are superior at night, remove low pop bonus at day. Period.
Secondly; who are the dc playing at night? Most likely its players from another faction either at ad or ep toons at day because they dont like being pushed (forementioned PvD heros), or they play on another campaign at day (they probably go Vivec and join in Saras and bigboss' early morning zerg)
No matter the reason, the problem is NOT a consistently ill-balanced population during most of he day, the problem is a majority of dc platers doesnt wanna pvp, only pvd, leaving the handful who play dc primetime in the shambles. Problem is you can change faction whenever you bloody like, and the easygoers will always go for the superior faction.
You must be really bored OP. Lemme give you some advice:
1. close ESO
2. go outside
3. ? ? ?
4. profit
DC is always the faction with the fewest ppl, like the whole day (maybe) except for the 3-4 hours they nightcap. I dunno how many DC do it and how many enemies are online during this time. All I know is that at least some the DC who do it are from NA. When its like evening for them.
So what's the point OP?
DC lack players in prime time?
Australia DC guilds shouldn't play in their prime time?
Unsure of your point as it's straight to the word 'exploit' if they exploiting log a case, ZOS will sort.
If its deliberate then sure I would saw clever tactics. But how do you even know that it is. You think the no life brigade all suddenly decided to sleep in the day and play at night for this? I mean hell, if ur enemies are on that level you have zero chance regardless!
So what's the point OP?
DC lack players in prime time?
Australia DC guilds shouldn't play in their prime time?
Unsure of your point as it's straight to the word 'exploit' if they exploiting log a case, ZOS will sort.
If its deliberate then sure I would saw clever tactics. But how do you even know that it is. You think the no life brigade all suddenly decided to sleep in the day and play at night for this? I mean hell, if ur enemies are on that level you have zero chance regardless!
Well before summerset there wasn’t all this DC playing at night and many of them switched their playing hours for grab all scrolls at night and they did it for 3 campaigns a row. I don’t think austrialian guild would have fun pvDooring when they could play in their NA timezone server.
Anyway when school will restart in about 1 month i think many things will change here im quite sure this DC people is playing this way becouse of their school holidays.
I already work and study (for who is worried about it) and i can choose what to do of my time same as ppl who choose pvDoor and slander.
You must be really bored OP. Lemme give you some advice:
1. close ESO
2. go outside
3. ? ? ?
4. profit
DC is always the faction with the fewest ppl, like the whole day (maybe) except for the 3-4 hours they nightcap. I dunno how many DC do it and how many enemies are online during this time. All I know is that at least some the DC who do it are from NA. When its like evening for them.
What people forget to mention is that during that so called "nightcap" we get 5 out of 6 keep with proper defences (2 bars across the board at like 2am) and later one it becomes like 1-1-1 bar... Yesterday we were 4 DC plus only and we were fighting 12-15 EP at Chal (we died cause lvl 5 keep and eventually after 2 tries we got it at like 4am... But yeah, don't confuse the "nightcapping" as pvdoor. We fight outnumbered, especially when taking our scrolls back. Same goes for AD when we were taking Ash etc from them. The same 8-9-10 AD are online and we are maybe 6-7 at most...
it just happens that more competent players are online for DC that time and can take the heat of fighting outnumbered
killimandrosb16_ESO wrote: »You must be really bored OP. Lemme give you some advice:
1. close ESO
2. go outside
3. ? ? ?
4. profit
DC is always the faction with the fewest ppl, like the whole day (maybe) except for the 3-4 hours they nightcap. I dunno how many DC do it and how many enemies are online during this time. All I know is that at least some the DC who do it are from NA. When its like evening for them.
What people forget to mention is that during that so called "nightcap" we get 5 out of 6 keep with proper defences (2 bars across the board at like 2am) and later one it becomes like 1-1-1 bar... Yesterday we were 4 DC plus only and we were fighting 12-15 EP at Chal (we died cause lvl 5 keep and eventually after 2 tries we got it at like 4am... But yeah, don't confuse the "nightcapping" as pvdoor. We fight outnumbered, especially when taking our scrolls back. Same goes for AD when we were taking Ash etc from them. The same 8-9-10 AD are online and we are maybe 6-7 at most...
it just happens that more competent players are online for DC that time and can take the heat of fighting outnumbered
Oh this is just hillarious. But thanks for the joke, its been a good while since I read any of the "my faction is actually better than your faction" jokes. Ill leave it there, but do consider the implications of one tamriel...
The OP main point is still legit. Pop bar is a joke and has never given accurate enough info and low Pop bonus is being exploited I guarantee you that.
The Exploiters / Alliance hopping Guilds know exactly what they are doing and have almost perfected it to a fine art.
Here is the thing to consider - 'Purple' alliance or 'orange' or green' is not a consistent deliberate thing in Sotha. It's a 3 way war of course there will be 2 vs 1 on a regular basis. We must accept this and carry on, the coin soon flips again just wait for your alliances time to push.
It is Guilds that run things here in Cyrodiil not Colors.
The color blind thing is getting old because there is innocent players in each alliance that are not involved. However it is hard to swallow sometimes when the alliances are being manipulated.
Do you think the players fighting on blue, for example, will care when 2 hours later they are on red killing the very same players they were fighting alongside with ? You are just AP to them it's not personal just business for them. Another example would be say if....some Guild's want to set up some action against each other to have a private party or perhaps even flip the map/ scrolls around again or something along those lines.
I'm no big fan of any of those choices myself, but the Guilds or crews will decide what they want I gone long past caring.
End results of Campaign are in there control. We can let the puppet masters play with themselves.
I just keep floating around and finding some fun wherever it may be. Personally I don't care how many scrolls or keeps my alliances has got anymore or point's etc.. don't care how much of the map we control. I like to defend against larger numbers wherever I am, but it's got to be spontaneous / random and legit action for me or I lose interest. Sometimes win - sometimes lose. it can get tough but still fun though
@killimandrosb16_ESO
you said, that it is only fair to push DC to their gates, after they have nightcapped and stuff? so you push with shear mass to DCs gates and scrolls, because they deserved it?
I hope you realize, that those players present in the afternoon on sotha sil have nothing to do with what happened during the night? so basically you make innocent people pay and destroy their fun in the game, because others captured some keeps in the night, when you werent present too? this all doesnt make sense to me. if you really want to punish those people playing at night, then log in during the night and fight them instead of zerging the map every afternoon. because of people thinking like you, pvp is a bad experience for a lot of people (at least during that time where EP has 2 bars more than the other factions). there were loyal DC players playing every afternoon, but they stopped, because some EPs thought that DC deserves punishment for nightcapping. those people stopped playing during that time, because they get zerged and zerged again, not being able to accomplish anything against those masses at all, being pushed back to their gates and scrolls, not able to even hold anything for a few minutes. and its those people, who have nothing to do with nightcapping, they just are there feeling the wrath of people like you, thinking its fair to punish innocent people. you just blame a whole faction for something only a few have done. this is just sad, very sad.
killimandrosb16_ESO wrote: »
@killimandrosb16_ESO
you said, that it is only fair to push DC to their gates, after they have nightcapped and stuff? so you push with shear mass to DCs gates and scrolls, because they deserved it?
I hope you realize, that those players present in the afternoon on sotha sil have nothing to do with what happened during the night? so basically you make innocent people pay and destroy their fun in the game, because others captured some keeps in the night, when you werent present too? this all doesnt make sense to me. if you really want to punish those people playing at night, then log in during the night and fight them instead of zerging the map every afternoon. because of people thinking like you, pvp is a bad experience for a lot of people (at least during that time where EP has 2 bars more than the other factions). there were loyal DC players playing every afternoon, but they stopped, because some EPs thought that DC deserves punishment for nightcapping. those people stopped playing during that time, because they get zerged and zerged again, not being able to accomplish anything against those masses at all, being pushed back to their gates and scrolls, not able to even hold anything for a few minutes. and its those people, who have nothing to do with nightcapping, they just are there feeling the wrath of people like you, thinking its fair to punish innocent people. you just blame a whole faction for something only a few have done. this is just sad, very sad.
I agree. Its not fair for those whos being screwed at primetime, it totally sucks, and theyre not the ones to blame.
But as a class representative, and I guess fairly active pvp'er, how do you suggest we put an end to the early morning raids which only objective is to cap as much as possible as fast as possible to win the campaign, and who blatantly avoid any pvp? I mean, the same early morning raiders could easily have changed factions to get fights, but they prefer to pve raid the map to win. Unfortunately the only solution IS to push that faction back to gates when possible. Not to punish the poor handful who has a *** time during that period, but to stop those trying to win by capping early mornings. In effect doing so works. Thats how EP's reign was abruptly stopped some months ago, and thats how AD is being pushed off the throne at Vivec. If ultimately the pvd players realize their alarm clock raids early mornings wont help their faction to win, it is proven they will stop eventually, and THAT is healthy for the campaign. It will take a couple of campaign rotations, but eventually it gets better for all factions, also those being pushed back to gates primetime (some months ago ep experienced this every day, dont forget).
The absurdity in this is how zenimax has managed to screw up the whole point system. It is based on systems from games long dead, mainly DUE to the unfair system. It does not make any sense to reward the zerging faction at all, for zerging. The faction with the most keeps and emperor gets BUFFED. Its ridiculous, and it should be the other way around. Instead of getting a buff if you own all keeps, you should receive more damage. You wanna pvd? Fine, the handful opposition gets a huge damage increase OR you get a health/defence debuff. That would sort out the imbalance. You wanna pve empty keeps at 6 in the morning? Fine, give the pve'ers a big *** raidboss to fight if the keep doesnt have any defence. Keep them occupied with pve content if they wanna pve.WARhammer did that eventually, but too late, and it made pve'ing empty keeps much more of a hazzle.
Theres more than enough ways to reduce the will to alarm clock raid, but zenimax went the opposite way. Scrolls give same points as 10 keeps? Its ridiculous. Remove scroll points, and give individual rewards for capping scrolls. Bonuses to homekeeps would be fine too, if you own scrolls, but not points. If you get gold ap and loot boxes even the good pvp guilds would actually try to CAP scrolls instead of trolling with them to get a fight.
How is taking keeps/scrolls at night/morning with a few players and only a small advantage in numbers (if any at all) worse than doing it with 50+ zergs against heavily outnumbered players during the day? You can't punish or stop nightcapping by PvDooring the map at other times. That's like trying to fight fire with fire. It doesn't work. The underlying probem are the population disparities, not at what time those occur.
But yes, the scoring system is meaningless. Not something to be taken serious.
mattia.ciutib16_ESO wrote: »nice explanation!!!
He is complaining about how DC is getting the under pop bonus while AD is not. Even when DC has a higher population (3 bar) then AD (2 bar).
@Beardimus
The point is something like the low pop bonus shouldn’t even be in the game no matter if you abuse it or not, and least of all in the version that we have now where you can make sufficient ground just with holding 3 keeps and some scrolls.
@killimandrosb16_ESO
1. There are usually no early morning PvDoor raids on Sotha.
2. Do you expect a faction to not take back their scrolls, just because it is night?
3. During the day doesn't equal primetime. I'm talking about the time from morning to afternoon. DC isn't getting pushed back to the gates at primetime.
4. EP nightcapping didn't get stopped by pushing them to the gates during primetime. It got stopped because they got pushed to the gates at night.
5. Not many EP swapped to DC or AD (some did, but most of them did it when EP was still dominating). But Vivec is currently mostly red at nights. Coincidence?
I know about AD on Vivec, but that's not what this thread is about. And no, it is not true that DC is trying to take over that hegemony, but it's quite telling that you would only come to Sotha for gate pushes with superior numbers, but not to actually fight us evil nightcappers. Why am i not surprised?