Idea for simple overall Cyrodiil FIX, dev team could at least test

jjjozo · March 11

Copy and paste second alliance-locked campaign.
Make it Gray Host 1 and Gray Host 2 for testing.
Gray Host 1 will be with group option enabled.
Gray Host 2 will be with group option disabled.

Make it run like that for a month and collect statistics.

After that,
leave the campaign with higher average population running with higher server HW resource allocation.
leave the campaign with smaller average population running with smaller server HW resource allocation.

Anybody who wants to play grouped will have own Cyrodiil.
Anybody who wants to play without annoying and game-breaking groups will have own Cyrodiil too.

Splitting grouped and non-grouped Cyrodiil would also greatly help with overall performance and latency.

The same way like we have CP and no-CP, players should have option for grouped and non-grouped Cyro.

You normal players trying to play Cyrodiil and have fun, you make of 95% population. Ball groups are about 5%.
You are allowed to have fun too and you don't need to be group food for hours every single day.
It would just mean no PUG's, because you wouldn't like to play PUG in a ball-group Cyrodiil.
You have /z and /y and /s anyway, no need for groups.

aetherix8 · March 13

Cyrodiil was designed with group play in mind and this is how most ppl play from what I saw during my time in Cyro.

I think the no group campaign would be quite abandoned, how would the PvDoor part of it work? I mean, all keeps and scrolls are soloable but it takes forever and it’s deadly boring. The only way to coordinate those solos would be thru zone chat which happens to be spied on from time to time so it’s not really reliable way of communicating if playing the score.

I play solo most of the time. I also often play offline, sometimes I need to group up with ppl I want to talk with without switching online. So that wouldn’t be an option anymore.

This idea doesn’t solve the ballgrp problem, it only splits the population further imho.

jjjozo wrote: »

You are allowed to have fun too and you don't need to be group food for hours every single day.

This. You don’t have to stay around in a keep trolled by a ballgroup. The map is huge, go somewhere else, do something more interesting than being farmed by trolls, which is mostly what these groups do, with some notable exceptions from time to time.

WaywardArgonian · March 13

There are many guilds and groups out there who play in groups but aren't ballgroups. If you want to split Cyrodiil between ballgroups only and the rest of the PVP population, this is not going to achieve it.