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Congrats to DC for Winning Gray Host!

Bogaisha
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Well guys,we did it, great team work everyone! After taking all that the AD Nightcappers could throw at us, we have now won this campaign—again,good team work everyone. Official non-nightcapping results: DC 1st, EP 2nd, AD 3rd.

From the start,we had everything stacked against us! The lag affecting DC way more than the other factions,always outnumbered,and Wheeler keeping handhold sets in game to prevent us from destroying the huge red and yellow blobs while solo.
Unfortunately for DC, our dominance lessened with too many of our DC brethen getting locked out of the campaign due to the crashes and the bandwagon AD/EP players bringing their bad habits over. And in return, AD got a lot of EP swapping over to stack in their multi-guild nightcap zergs.

Alas, AD needs a pity win at this point. No amount of guild stacking in NA primetime or Oceanic primetime can help them. AD can stack their guilds in the same spot and outnumber the other factions' guilds 5 to 1 and purposely lag the server out all they want, but quality is better than quanity, AD: This campaign proved it; that mighty stack of zerglings pvdooring with a locked pop during NA morning couldn't maintain 1st for AD,against 1 bars daily. What an utter,shameful display of incompetence to be seen from AD's failure to parlay their mediocrity into a campaign win.
The points were so close early on with DC always being outnumbered, but we dug in and leaned back from the precipice: all our hopes and dreams were teetering at that edge, doomed to fall because of the shaking ground from the AD/EP hordes marching towards us daily. They approached so close that Official Team Orange's fetid breath could be smelt lingering in the air, just wafting while the bellow of the Ballista King shook the walls with his mighty wailing. However, we held on strongly! When our fps was nothing and the other factions barely seemed to be affected,we held on strongly! Worse yet was how the yellow cowards were night-capping each day and how WRX South Ga's children were abusing alts to run hammers to the nightcap zerg and bragging about it, but that was better than them afking on alts to clog queues. All of this just to make sure DC was hurt, but we held on strongly.

Finally,the AD/EP bandwagoners were dealt with,and DC was able to make a strong push with AD nightcappers not competing whatsoever. Of course, the EP and AD joined forces under the banner of the Ballista King to form an official orange alliance, almost never attacking each other and always coming after the DC. This didn't deter us. We kept fighting, always outnumbered. We held on strongly.

Yellow and Red had almost all their zergs running fotm subclass builds for subclass players,et cetera;they had all the OP Cheat Engine bonuses(just to barely get an advantage over us). Still,we held on strongly.

Then the darkest of days came, educing memories of antediluvian evils unbeknownst to most of this generation. AD resorted to using unprecedented zergs and lag switches to lag the server for everyone except themselves, constantly taking keeps by forcing the server to lag ... GG Blizzard. Those 90 man raids to take Dragonclaw were the crux of their map control strat, due to Dragon being worth 100 points. It was during these bleak times that the lag switchers took 1st, but DC persevered and overcame their night-capping and lag-switching. DC regained 1st triumphantly and meted out justice to the Official Team Orange upstarts,who returned to Dragon more often than they did to their mother's house to ask for money. No,you shall not have any sort of morale boost or easy currency, heathens!

Luckily for DC,the strength of the Oceanic DC team,consisting of 1 bar of unorganized pugs and no guilds,repeatedly stymied Official Team Orange's efforts to bleed points during Oceanic primetime with their stacks of AD Oceanic guilds. During the day, DC reclaimed all that yellow had stolen with their lag tactics, and they wore down the yellow tricksters,the counterfeit greek yogurt manufacturers, the false AP gainers, and the PED crew. Oceanic DC were a brutal unicorn dismantling the aspirations of the tricksters and helped DC reclaim the lead for the glorious peoples of the lion. Praise Lord Dee Tick! May he forever bless DC with a bloodline not prone to nightcapping. It's generational,genetic, and every AD is a nightcapping zergling regardless of what they do. They can't help it; it's in their blood.

So even with more eyes on DC's 1st place spot than Tupac ever had on him,we still did it guys: we won the last competitive Grey Host campaign. Blue has reigned supreme, the best alliance of all, even with the others always outnumbering us, officially working together, crashing the server,and using all sorts of tricks. In the end...

DC WINS!!!!!!

Edit: Checked again, yep, DC won. GG Blizzard. Smell you later, AD nightcappers. Enjoy 3rd, maybe ZoS will make a 5 piece set that gives extra campaign points when AD is locked pop nightcapping against 1 bars. Can't compete until others sleep smh

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Edited by ZOS_Icy on August 29, 2025 2:43PM
  • Avran_Sylt
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    I mean you say you're the underdog, but you won in a 1v2?
    Probably means DC just had the most egregious examples of powercrept small-scalers.
    Like seriously, Rallying cry giving upwards of 22.5% critical reduction is just an exmaple of stat padding over skill.
  • Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO
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    Well done DC, a victory achieved without any nightcapping with all the odds stacked against us!
    Always nice to see a return of this thread and the comments of the people who don't know about it
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  • xylena_lazarow
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    Is this satire?
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  • Heren
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    "The lag affecting DC way more than the other factions"

    Oh noes !

    Didn't read much else, this was quite enough.
  • Telel
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    Is this satire?

    Yes. It's also continuing a long long tradition of many similar post campaign posts.
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    Also: Gelel the Derp Knight, Altsel the streaker, and Filafel the temp temp.

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  • Sluggy
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    Is this satire?

    Yes. It's a... thing. From a long time ago. Just a meme, nothing more.
  • Bogaisha
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    Congrats to DC for winning the last competitive, Midyear Mayhem Gray Host campaign. With certain AD nightcapper leads RMTing EP leads for an official Team Orange, only to fall so short. Even with the propaganda from AD nightcappers trying to claim others are zerging and pvdooring, falling flat like their bodies when they have an even fight. DC persevered and 1v2d Team Orange when factions had equal pops. Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In Our Lane. Focused. Flourishing. Also, thank you AD for fielding the weakest Emp in the quantum history of ESO. We thank you, and to reciprocate, DC will only field the Junior Junior Varsity DC next campaign. We can't name names on forums, but it's the DC ball that got farmed at Bleaks last night by EP pugs; must be chalked up to being legends in their own mind. AD should be able to nightcap a win against the Junior Junior Varsity squad, don't worry. Enjoy the pity.

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  • Minnesinger
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    This game feels so old when this thread comes up. Unfortunately, the video that comes up with this thread is about AD winning so it can not be added. Strong recommendation to look for that video (Surfboard talks with some guildies). Some of the best smack talk ever in video game.
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  • SeaGtGruff
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    Is this satire?

    Which part?

    DC is definitely winning the Gray Host campaign this month, both on PCEU and PCNA-- I know, because I play on both servers and Gray Host is my home campaign on both.

    As for any comments about "night capping," that term depends on your time zone, since one player's middle of the night might be another player's middle of the day.
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  • L_Nici
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    Hmm, I guess the author is from NA, if he talks about Orange vs Blue. That blue still won is impressive though, as on PC EU AD can't win against purple at any time of the day, from 12:00 to 3:00 or something they are stuck on Fare (outside of MYM, and partially even during it), constantly getting bombarded by reds from lumber tower (Still hate that you can hit walls from towers, while towers can't be destroyed anymore, a dream for towerun builds with 50k+ Health) and blues on MG, sometimes they even stand next to each other shooting the same AD keep. To be fair AD just has the worst players too, I noticed that during Vengeance, where I mainly played EP, its so easy to farm AD compared to the other two, they just don't seem to learn anything from previous mistakes and if you tell AD their mistakes, you will get so much hate in zonechat its insane and no surprise the good players over time all left AD or PvP in general.
    Edited by L_Nici on July 30, 2025 12:43PM
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  • Elendir2am
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    SeaGtGruff wrote: »
    Is this satire?

    Which part?

    DC is definitely winning the Gray Host campaign this month, both on PCEU and PCNA-- I know, because I play on both servers and Gray Host is my home campaign on both.

    As for any comments about "night capping," that term depends on your time zone, since one player's middle of the night might be another player's middle of the day.

    DC are nightcaperes at PC EU during present days.
    Edited by Elendir2am on July 30, 2025 8:21PM
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  • duagloth
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    Ya team green. /s
  • Telel
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    Telel hopes the blue part of the red team remembers to congratulate all those twitch streamers who put in many long hours of effort in insuring a DC victory.

    Many a streamer worked very very hard on their red toon to insure that those dastardly AD with their massive five man groups would not bully those tiny twenty man DC groups. Especially not when those undersized blue groups were just innocently gate camping while AD was at 1 bar.

    After all, people who just 'want good fights' definitely need to remind us all what sportsmanship and honesty look like.

    Fortunately we're seeing more and more footage of such bravery on the part of certain streamers. So let us all remember to give their 'skill' the proper level of respect it deserves. Especially when they put in another fifty seven hours of running around inside of the lumber mill at fare...

    Bravely choosing not to 'bully' the small DC groups of thirty people. Especially as the blue small man groups endeavor to take every scroll on the map, get emp, and show all of us what true skill looks like.
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    Past times: Refusing to go full magika spec, hitting things with a big hammer, sniping, and speaking in khajiit
    Also: Gelel the Derp Knight, Altsel the streaker, and Filafel the temp temp.

    Khajiit has a twitch stream! https://twitch.tv/telel_khajiit feel free to come see how truly unskilled Telel is.
  • Bogaisha
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    This cycle can get called early for non-nightcapping results. DC 1st EP 2nd AD 3rd. Congrats to DC on yet another non-nightcap win, where nightcapped points aren't counted.

    Also, AD coordinating locked pop AD versus 1 bar EP/DC nightly and doing this poorly is wild lol. AD zone chat is funny too; the amount of AD 'small-scale' streamers zergsurfing a locked pop to pvdoor and hyping it in chat, 10/10. That and coordinating locked pop versus 1 bars pvdoor weeks in advance is a doozy. The Always (Pv)Dooring faction is an apt name.

    Good job DC, we did it again. Three-peat Non-Nightcap Cyro Champions. Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In Our Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

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  • Telel
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    If anyone wishes to get into a contest of 'who nightcaps/pvdoors/purples more' this one has about a decades worth of screen captures taken of the map. Including several years of Gray Host. Each one right before they begin a early afternoon run.

    Then there's the videos of 'EP streamers' showing up to help 'small DC groups' for hours on end.....

    Much to the detriment of the people on the red team.

    Truly they are inspirations to anyone who must struggle and put in an excessive amount of effort to acquire the much coveted participation trophy.

    Maybe someday if Telel tries very very very hard, and downloads the right 'add ons' they too will acquire the almighty skill of farming level 10s while Ghartok and CHim are on the West side of the map. Because apparently that's the peak some struggle so hard to stay atop of.

    Character: Telel
    Class: Night Blade-Werewolf-viking-ninja-catgirl-mallet wielder
    Past times: Refusing to go full magika spec, hitting things with a big hammer, sniping, and speaking in khajiit
    Also: Gelel the Derp Knight, Altsel the streaker, and Filafel the temp temp.

    Khajiit has a twitch stream! https://twitch.tv/telel_khajiit feel free to come see how truly unskilled Telel is.
  • xylena_lazarow
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    Everyone nightcaps and PvDoors except ME! /s
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  • Bogaisha
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    AD nightcappers mad and posting up a storm that they got caught while lying about others nightcapping,classic.
  • Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO
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    Bogaisha wrote: »
    AD nightcappers mad and posting up a storm that they got caught while lying about others nightcapping,classic.

    It's hard to have perspective on a situation when they've been awake for 48h straight trying to hold on to every resource and keep on the map, cut them some slack.
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  • Dojohoda
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    Grats DC. I'm glad to see some forum pvp going on.

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  • SeaGtGruff
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    Elendir2am wrote: »
    SeaGtGruff wrote: »
    Is this satire?

    Which part?

    DC is definitely winning the Gray Host campaign this month, both on PCEU and PCNA-- I know, because I play on both servers and Gray Host is my home campaign on both.

    As for any comments about "night capping," that term depends on your time zone, since one player's middle of the night might be another player's middle of the day.

    DC are nightcaperes at PC EU during present days.

    I play DC at night— that is, night in my time zone (USA ET)— usually between 7 PM and 11 PM, which corresponds to 2300 to 0300 UTC, or 0000 to 0400 UTC, depending on whether DST is in effect or not. And believe me, the DC population is usually pretty low at those hours, outnumbered and outclassed by AD and EP, with AD usually being strongest. This is in Gray Host. If I go to Cyrodiil during those hours, I’m usually lucky to be able to finish capturing a few resources before AD or EP kill me, then I log out because it’s too frustrating to go up against Team Orange. So I’m not seeing any nightcapping on PCEU by DC, much as I’d love to.
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  • Bogaisha
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    AD lock popped nightcapped last night and tried to nightcap on the forums. I survived both. gg no re AD nightcappers

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    Edited by Bogaisha on August 28, 2025 2:11PM
  • acastanza_ESO
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    Bogaisha wrote: »
    AD lock popped nightcapped last night and tried to nightcap on the forums. I survived both. gg no re AD nightcappers

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    9:45 AM PST on a Thursday

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  • SeaGtGruff
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    Yes, the population of each alliance in a given campaign can vary throughout the day. And it seems that certain areas of the world-- i.e., groups of adjacent time zones-- tend to have more players of a given alliance for whatever reason. As a result, it tends to be the case that there are specific times of the day when a given alliance is more numerous than the other two.

    And since one player's "day" can be another player's "night," there are always accusations of so-called "nightcapping" being made against each alliance by players of the other two alliances, even though the term itself is highly questionable and even a bit offensive since it hinges on the assumption that a particular group of adjacent time zones is more important than the rest of the world as far as determining when players of other alliances are "nightcapping" versus playing during the so-called "prime time hours."

    But, heck, I sometimes use the term, too, although I intend for it to be tongue-in-cheek.
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  • Bogaisha
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    Bogaisha wrote: »
    AD lock popped nightcapped last night and tried to nightcap on the forums. I survived both. gg no re AD nightcappers

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    9:45 AM PST on a Thursday

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    So you are showing a faction with equal pop to the other two factions combined in a 3 way fight with that 3 bar faction in first and getting hit by both? 3v3 is an equal fight. Locked pop versus 2 bars or 1 bars is not.
    SeaGtGruff wrote: »
    Yes, the population of each alliance in a given campaign can vary throughout the day. And it seems that certain areas of the world-- i.e., groups of adjacent time zones-- tend to have more players of a given alliance for whatever reason. As a result, it tends to be the case that there are specific times of the day when a given alliance is more numerous than the other two.

    And since one player's "day" can be another player's "night," there are always accusations of so-called "nightcapping" being made against each alliance by players of the other two alliances, even though the term itself is highly questionable and even a bit offensive since it hinges on the assumption that a particular group of adjacent time zones is more important than the rest of the world as far as determining when players of other alliances are "nightcapping" versus playing during the so-called "prime time hours."

    But, heck, I sometimes use the term, too, although I intend for it to be tongue-in-cheek.

    It's an NA East server. NA timezones are the only relevant timezones. It's not an ESO-specific term and it has been in use to describe this exact behavior for decades. A simple google search provided this result, with citations dating back to the late 90s:

    The term "nightcapping" in MMOs refers to the practice of players from one region launching attacks on another region's territories during the latter's nighttime hours, often when the defending players are asleep.
    This concept is most commonly discussed in region-specific MMOs, where a player's "night" corresponds to another player's "day," potentially leading to an imbalance in player presence during conflicts.



    Lastly, that 3 bars didn't last long and was equaled by EP 3 bars anyway. Current pops are:

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    Mid-day on work days fluctuate a lot in pop, but it's never been close to locked pop EP or DC versus 1 bar AD/other faction. And when AD is nightcapping at 1 AM EST to 5 AM EST daily, it's not guilds/players outside of NA timezones; it's NA players/guilds going out of their way to purposely play and stack a 70 man blob(that chases down solos trying to pvp on resources btw) during the dead hours to push map for undefended points, so the timezone argument is also irrelevant in this case.
    Edited by Bogaisha on August 28, 2025 8:21PM
  • sleepy_worm
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    This thread is so embarrassing.
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