I VOTE YES PLEASE

Trying to cut off a keep and turn it before help arrives is a viable strategy in taking the map. A smaller zone would take away from all that.

Indigogo wrote: »

No. The distance is crucial to strategy.

If they did make it smaller, they should just delete the map and have it Ales - blks - chal and we can just run between the 3

Maybe keep Arrius mine on it's own so AD have something to do

Big agree here. If they make it 'smaller', they may as well delete it at that point because it's not going to fix anything.

I do not see how making the Cyrodiil map smaller would do anything for latency. It seems tied more to how many players are in an area and possibly what they are doing/skills being used. If the map was smaller more players would be in the same location which would then make the lag worse.

I also agree with @Indigogo that distance is important. Much would seem trivial if it took us only a few moments to traverse the map. Eventually, it becomes another BG match.

nryerson1025 wrote: »

a viable strategy on one, maybe two campaigns. the majority of the time, cyrodiil is grossly underpopulated on b-reach and raven, and could be much smaller. it could also help even out the pop

They can't make one campaign smaller and leave others alone.

Other solutions would bring players back to help fill those campaigns.

Outside of MYM, it feels pretty dead.

hrm.. OK ;p Maybe move to a more populated campaign?

I love Cyrodiil just as it is. I'm not talking about performance, simply about the zone itself. Outside of AvA and PvP, there is a good deal of PvE opportunities-- delves, daily quests, dolmens, farming resource nodes, etc. It's actually quite peaceful to ride around your mount to reach some distant delve, especially at night when the ambient night sounds are playing. The zone is large enough to avoid enemy players without much trouble if that's what you want to do, and the need to navigate the terrain and dividing walls or river makes things more interesting. IMHO, of course.

I like the way that the maps flow. It provides a opportunity to plan a campaign and it provides a valuable window for the defenders to be able to react to a situation. If the map was smaller the denial of siege warfare will be too easy.

80-90% of the map have litterally nothing there. The map could easily be resuced in size and redesigned to have a better flow but also have less empty space wasted.

No they need to just make IC relevant in some way. I prefer IC to running around Cyrodiil 90% of the time and fighting 10%. But it’s always so dead other than mid year mayhem. I feel like if they made strong holds with different bonuses or something to capture within the city instead of just flags then maybe people would play there more. I play BGs more than Cyro cause I just wanna fight not run around. Sieging is fun too but it’s all the running around man.

On the one hand, it needs more players - and the population cap is currently too low to allow that.

On the other hand, most of the time it doesn't even have enough players to meet the lower population cap.

Apart from server performance issues, I think the month-long campaigns are a mistake. It usually becomes obvious who is going to win a campaign within the first week or so, after which there's little point playing it for the actual alliance v alliance war, just a three week wait for the campaign to end and the next one to begin.

Cut the length of all campaigns to a week.

Also: Give more people a chance to actually become Emperor by imposing the following restrictions:

(1) When all six of the ring keeps are captured, the title of Emperor may ONLY go to someone who was actively present for the capture of the sixth ring keep (i.e. acquired alliance points at the moment of capture from being present within the castle grounds.) Not to someone in the same faction who had a higher score who was offline, or who was not in Cyrodiil, or who was somewhere else in Cyrodiil at the time.

(2) Also, no Former Emperor may regain the title of Emperor unless *all* the capturing players within the castle grounds are Former Emperors. Otherwise the title passes down to the highest-scoring character involved in the capture who is NOT a Former Emperor.

Spread the title a little more widely to give people the motivation to have a shot at it - make it so that it can be gained by a small dedicated group in the off hours, and doesn't have to go to someone who's been fed millions of bogus APs by having his friends feed him tons of smaller multi accounts to kill, and then is unshiftable for the rest of the campaign because no matter how hard you try, you're not going to get enough APs to pass the illegally boosted player, because whenever you manage to crown an emperor for your team there's no way it can be anybody but him even though he's already got it and lost it several times in this campaign.