Will Imperial City Campaigns be open during the Cyrodiil Champions LIVE Test?

Savina · March 15

Will we still be able to enter and play in Imperial City during the week of the Champions Live test? Are all PvP campaigns being turned off except for Vengeance or will only the Cyrodiil campaigns be turned off?

Turtle_Bot · March 17

Here is what they said in the recent Q&A regarding the tests.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/672867/cyrodiil-champions-live-test-community-q-a/p1

Q. For non-Cyrodiil PVP such as duels, Battlegrounds, and Imperial City, is the intention to carry any changes that result from the Cyrodiil Champions test into any other PVP game types? – decairn
A. This test is isolated to only Cyrodiil, and only this specific campaign. Once the Vengeance campaign is turned off, everything goes back to normal.

All future plans for Cyrodiil depend on the results of the test.

Seems like everything else will stay as per live and only Cyrodiil is going to be changed for the test.

Savina · March 18

Turtle_Bot wrote: »

Here is what they said in the recent Q&A regarding the tests.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/672867/cyrodiil-champions-live-test-community-q-a/p1

Q. For non-Cyrodiil PVP such as duels, Battlegrounds, and Imperial City, is the intention to carry any changes that result from the Cyrodiil Champions test into any other PVP game types? – decairn
A. This test is isolated to only Cyrodiil, and only this specific campaign. Once the Vengeance campaign is turned off, everything goes back to normal.

All future plans for Cyrodiil depend on the results of the test.

Seems like everything else will stay as per live and only Cyrodiil is going to be changed for the test.

That question is asking about "Intention to carry any changes that "result from" the test into other areas.

My question is will the other forms of PvP be open during the Cyrodiil Champion Test week? They want as many people to play in Cyrodiil as possible. They are shutting down the other campaigns to force everyone into Vengeance for the week. I would like to know if they will also shut down BG and IC to try and force all PvP activity for the week into Vengeance? Can we all just say "I'm not doing Cyrodiil this week...I'm going to IC until the test is over. (Honestly, it almost makes sense for them to shut them down)

I'm just trying to determine which of our guilds events will and will not be affect my the Champion Testing. @ZOS_Kevin do you know if all PvP activities and campaigns will be shut down for the test or will IC an BG remain open during the Champion testing?

Turtle_Bot · March 18

@Savina Ahh, OK, my bad, I misunderstood your question.

@ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_MattFiror if we could get an answer here for OP, that would be awesome.

Savina · March 21

Seems no answer still. Guess I'll find out on Monday when the test goes live.

kiwi_tea · March 21

Savina wrote: »

Seems no answer still. Guess I'll find out on Monday when the test goes live.

Right now it seems very likely that both IC and BGs will be available. I'd be surprised if they would close those down for a test in Cyrodiil and not make it very clear to those communities that they would lose access. There's also no reason to close those down other than forcing the population into Cyrodiil. I would assume you'll have access.