in the districts the doors offer a "safe zone" not sure about sewers i dont go in there much, leader boards would not only attract more players but could potentially increase the ganker population.
more telvar options would be nice though

Major_Lag wrote: »

Alienoutlaw wrote: »

in the districts the doors offer a "safe zone"

That's completely unrelated to what the OP described.

The issue is that you can get killed after you interact with a door to enter it.
There's a brief window of time where you are "interacting with the door" and can't cancel the animation, but you can still be targeted by enemies.

The same problem also affects skyshards (you are locked in the "grab skyshard" animation), but that's very rarely an issue since skyshards are a one-time deal.

ah i understand now ty for the clarification

Hm. IC is probably the closest to having small skirmishes between players than in the open world Cyrodiil. Players have terrain to navigate to stealth/hide their movements or setup an ambush against other players. It has objectives (flags) to represent their faction's hold over the city and several zone and minor bosses to defeat.

The dense population of enemies (sewers) also portrays other environmental risk factors for player vs. player engagements: mistakenly fleeing into a banner boss or having one walk into the conflict, dodge rolling too far only to aggro nearby enemies, etc. Although many players can handle these situations; however, snares/immobilization or stun effects can complicate the aggro management while fighting the given target(s).

Overall, Imperial City is in a good place for what it offers. A leader board for reward ranking is an exploitable feature and one contributor to the faction lock on the 30 day campaigns. Disagree or agree; Imperial City is a good location for something new and radically different: An official Guild activity.

This Guild activity would be faction locked (not imply faction lock to Imperial City) that contains the following high-level overview:

1. Each objective (flag) must be turned to the Guild's faction.
2. Each objective (flag) after capture must be held for another turn cycle to open a portal at the top of the stairs.
3. Multiple Raid/Trial Groups enter the portal.
4. All Raid/Trial Group members must enter within timeline proximity to each other (6 * 12 = 72 players)
5. Each Raid/Trail Group completes Part 1 of the Guild Raid/Trial against one of several Daedric Lords assets that's plotted against Tamriel. Once completed, the Raid/Trial opens the final boss portal.
6. Entering the portal from Part 1 starts Part 2, the Final Boss fight that uses all players (6 * 12 = 72 player) into one hard/difficult fight against one of the Daedric Lord's high ranking general.
7. Upon completion of the Final Boss then the Guild earns a ranking score similar to other score runs. BUT, it triggers the random spawn timer for a powerful artifact in Cyrodiil at the faction's camp (rewarding the PVP faction players) AND the rewards the participated players with a powerful/unique item/weapon/set reward unlike other Trials.

The success of the Guild Activity encompasses several aspects of the game including PVP/PVE activities; but more importantly, it provides a difficult activity to coordinate, organize and complete for Guilds. In closing, I'd would use IC as a platform for Guilds to earn ranking than individuals or players.

Since Imperial city is separated from Cyrodiil for all intents and purposes I would like to see it as more of an every group/player for themselves battleground campaign rather than an alliance based one.

Make it so you can either start a team, join an existing team, or enter solo. If you enter solo, then you can kill or be killed by anybody, but maybe give a higher tel-var multiplier. Teams can have a max of 6 players/minimum of 2 and once one is full players would have to join a different one. All bases would just function as safe starting places for making groups rather than Alliance HQs.

Obviously there would have to be more thought in the details, but I think this kind of arrangement would cut down on the "zergy" one alliance dominates the map stuff and make it a place for more interesting small scale PvP fights.

You could then have leaderboards for solo, group, and overall kills/tel-var acquisition, etc.

Add a Below 50 Campaign.
Make it a campaign so players can earn rewards again.
Fix the loading screen areas So you don't die while helpless and gap'closer suppressers work as intended.

I think that since we are technically at war with molag bal's invading forces in the imperial city, when a large group presents itself (more than 8 players of any faction within the same district quadrant) the armies of molag bal should show appropriate concern. There are some very powerful daedric titans that fly over the districts at all times. Maybe they would like to drop down and launch a powerful attack on such a dense concentration of enemies. Maybe if they were to witness a large force gathering (20+ players of any faction) they might drop out of the sky altogether and get all raid bossy.

Add more incentive to molag bal center, roaming patrol bosses in the sewers, and scamps. Examples, more stones per kill, higher drop chances and better materials, Style pages or polymorphs to match the outfits of the roaming bosses. Add back in regional bonuses (key fragments used to be from different parts of the sewers motivating you to take risks for better farm locales). Example, scaling stone drops and stone loss on death the deeper in to the sewers you go (tier 1 base- normal drops/no stone lossed on death; tier2 your factions outer section 25% bonus drops/ stone loss on death; tier3 Center 50% bonus/ stone loss on death; tier4 enemy outer section 75% bonus/ stone loss on death; tier 5 enemy base 100% bonus drops/ all stone lossed on death).

These changes would fix the farm zergs of the imperial city districts by adding extra npc pressure when they are being the most abusive while simultaneously allowing them stronger rewards in the sewer proper (an area where terrain can be used against large groups).
The medium sized base farm groups would draw more counter response as they would accumulate stone quickly for being so deep in enemy territory thus making them richer targets. Example "/zone that farm group has been outside our base for a while they probably have a lot of stone. Come help if u want to cash in."
The varied degrees of incentives and risk/reward would do its own work on randomizing the sewer encounters as you roamed through.