Did they lower the population cap in Cyrodiil?

Overamera · April 10

After Hardware update on PC EU it seems like they lowered the cap or is it just me?

fred4 · April 10

I think the cap has been low for some considerable time and so was demand. Now demand has gone up and the cap is probably still the same. I have no real evidence for this. I'm just guessing based on how quiet Cyro can be, even when it's ostensibly full. My further guess is that the cap on PC NA was raised some time after they got their new servers and that's when performance over there went back to crap. Again I have no evidence. I could be wrong. I'm just guessing based on what I read about PC NA.

ZOS are IMO still caught between a rock and hard place. If they raise the cap, performance will deteriorate again. If they make more campaigns, then you don't tend to get healthy competition. When there are 3 (or more) main CP campaigns, as there are during Whitestrake's, players tend to segregate so each campaign is dominated by a different faction.

ProudMary · April 10

yes, pop caps are 80-100 players/faction now. Caps are WAY lower than originally, which was 400-500 players/faction.

Hapexamendios · April 10

That is going to really suck come Mayhem season.

Reverb · April 11

After the same hardware refresh was done on NA it seemed to us that the pop caps were yet again reduced. So probably.

ZOS_Hadeostry · April 11

Greetings,

After further review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic.

Thank you for your understanding

Tarys · April 11

ZOS_Hadeostry wrote: »

Greetings,

After further review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic.

Thank you for your understanding

Somehow that decision makes no sense ... how are pvp-players able to determine if ZOS changed the cap? And i too have the feeling that at least on GH EU the cap was reduced by 1/3 or even 1/2 of pre new hardware. The map feels way emptier than before and the queue is thrice as high as before. Often resulting in one hour waiting time shortly before EU primetime.