You likely logged into a different campaign on your Nord?

The scouting mission locations versus how much of the map your faction controls is a bit of luck. I always recommend choosing the campaign with the smallest population of players showing and use a max stamina rider. When you stay off the roads, even though it can be a long ride, you can usually get there all right. Do the report, then skip the long ride back by dying to the most convenient thing you can find. Revive at your starter gate and wayshrine outta Cyrodiil.

A related question: Will I start in the same place if I logout while in the campaign? I.E. can I position myself for the next day's quest when I know that the objective can be reached?

Though I guess I could just grab the objective and wait to turn it in until the next day, right?

I’ve found that you’ll normally be kicked out but sometimes stay in.

I think it depends on whether people are queued up to get in. There have been times where my faction said it was pop locked and full but was a ghost town, I’m guessing it counts you as being in the campaign if you log out inside but kicks you if someone else wants to get in and they take your spot.

If you log out in a Cyrodiil campaign & the population approaches the cap, you get kicked back to the last PVE location your character was in. If the pop does not reach the cap you will stay in Cyrodiil... errr... i think that's how it works

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

I just logged in with my main on EU PS4 and AD only had the 2 starting cities. For real? I have to run across the entire map for the scouting mission?

Yeah, this makes it even more fun to get the tickets!

====

Though then I went in on my Nord and yellow had most of the map. I thought it was the same zone, but it appears not. I just want to do the scouting mission....

Now I am jumping around so I can get to one where the scouting mission is not in the distant area of enemy controlled territory. I can handle some, but all the map?

Most of my scouting missions have always been like that-- all the way on the other side of Cyrodiil, as far from home base as you can go. Once in a blue moon I'll get one that's close to home base, but that's rare.

If you're lucky, your alliance will control a keep that's very close to your objective and-- this is the important part-- there's an unbroken string of connected keeps all the way to that keep which is very close to your objective, such that you can port to it via the transitus shrine.

More likely, you'll be able to port only halfway to your objective, or maybe even less than that, and have to ride, run, or sneak the rest of the way.

Getting back is easier, because you can either (1) deliberately let yourself get killed so you can rez back at home base, or (2) queue for a campaign in the Imperial City, which takes you to your home base in the sewers, then immediately queue for the campaign where you had your scouting mission in Cyrodiil, which takes you to your home base in Cyrodiil.

If you're just trying to grab your tickets in a hurry and then leave Cyrodiil, scouting missions can be a pain.

But if you have the time, it can actually be fun to do scouting missions, even if there are no friendly keeps anywhere and you have to travel all the way across Cyrodiil on your own. If you're playing at night-- that is, nighttime in Cyrodiil-- it can be very peaceful to go creeping across country listening to the owls.

For the OP, this is all fluid.

AD only controlling a few towns at that one time isn't indicative of them all the time and on every Cyrodiil map.

You can always see the map for own home compaign at any time. Only go in when it's all your colour if you like. Or queue for other campaigns and see if their maps are more to your liking.

Beardimus wrote: »

@FlopsyPrince scout quests are pretty ineffective when it comes to AP. Or rate of return when it comes to event boxes.

If you do the town quests you can get ten in the same area.

I would not recommend town quests over scouting ones.

If you're horse if fully trained, riding from one end of the map to the other only takes a few minutes. Press E to write scout report. Remove clothes. Run into the nearby group of enemy guards. Respawn at alliance base. Turn in quest.

REMEMBER TO RE-EQUIP CLOTHES. I keep forgetting. I swear I probably did about half of Cyrodiil's dungeons and town content completely naked with my necromancer.

Town quests are often camped by gankers. Cos everyone knows where town quests are.

No-one but you knows where your scouting missions are.

In terms of alliance skill xp and AP I think scouting missions work out better than town ones.

Yup, the town dailies give out tickets.

I was finding it very difficult to find any campaign where the AD wasn't being curb stomped last night. I finally managed to complete one town daily just before the reset for my day's tickets, but it was very frustrating.

At least I could join Imperial City and then back to a different Cyrodil campaign without having to wayshrine out.

The town dailies are the easiest, if you can get to them with the Transitus Port (and they are controlled by your alliance).