Time for a 2nd Alliance Locked Camp?

Goldie · January 2023

Gray Host is nearly always population locked in the afternoons and evenings for me. 50+ queues with sometimes over an hour wait to get in and play. Usually about 15 minutes before the first crash sends me back to the desktop and I have to re-queue to get back in.

Is it time for a new Alliance Locked Campaign?

Goldie · January 2023

Seriously! The queue is way over 100 players, and the wait is nearly 2 hours to get in to Gray Host on NA

TechMaybeHic · January 2023

Was even bad getting into blackreach tonight. Think its time to either add one, or do something different with the no-proc that people are not playing. Or maybe mack the no-proc, no-CP the ideal place for sub-50 and get rid of the sub-50 for another fully equipped campaign or one that actually matches battle grounds

Or. Or...the crazy idea of just trying to balance one rule set everyone understands and has the information on what they can do, for all of PvP and have 3 of them and battlegrounds with symmetry.

ProudMary · January 2023

I think they should go the other way. They should remove some of the other campaigns, just leave CP and No CP campaigns, and focus on bringing back 24 man groups and raising the population caps for the campaigns.

Goldie · January 2023

Well, I queued up at 6:40pm yesterday to go to the Gray Host / Alliance Locked campaign. The queue at that time was 119. By 8:30, the queue was at 29. I finally got into the campaign at 9:05pm and was able to play.

SaffronCitrusflower · January 2023

Goldie wrote: »

Well, I queued up at 6:40pm yesterday to go to the Gray Host / Alliance Locked campaign. The queue at that time was 119. By 8:30, the queue was at 29. I finally got into the campaign at 9:05pm and was able to play.

The population cap was over 400 at one time just a few years ago. Now the pop cap is right about 80/faction. That's why the queue is so long.

React · January 2023

They should be removing the locks, if anything. It's such an unnecessary inconvenience.

They'll probably never do away with it though, as it helps sell alliance changes.

Amottica · January 2023

React wrote: »

They should be removing the locks, if anything. It's such an unnecessary inconvenience.

They'll probably never do away with it though, as it helps sell alliance changes.

This. And it seems that many were saying Cyrodiil PvP had been killed off.

And no changes should occur before the server work is completed. If it works the pop cap can be raised.

biminirwb17_ESO · January 2023

On PC NA the two cp enabled campaigns are the most populated, with Greyhost by far the preferred campaign.

The no cp seems to never have more than one population bar on all factions. The no proc rule is my guess as to why this is so.

Lebkuchen · January 2023

All this talk about queues gives me hope. Gray Host on Playstation EU has been empty since August 2022. Sometimes there is 1 bar red. Gray Host has been unplayable since the maintenance in the middle of the PvP event. They broke the main campaign and never told us what's going on. People moved to Blackreach or started to level up chars on Playstation NA. Or they just finally quit playing ESO. Blackreach is pretty empty too. Cyrodiil on Playstation EU is empty and boring. It would be nice if they could finally do something about the catastrophic performance and all the bugs in this game. I mean, instead of just announcing something all the time, maybe actually do something that helps. Yeah, that would be great. I am sick of waiting another year, every year, just to hear "please wait another year"...