I voted no for all of them. The reason? Unscrupulous players will find ways round this all to grief and gank unsuspecting players. I saw it in WoW and countless other games that allowed open world PvP and human nature dictates that in every walk of life there are the trolls and [censored] who get a kick out of someone else's discomfort. Let's not, eh? We play this game for fun and if a player can only get their kicks by watching someone else suffer then I think they need to see a shrink...

And no to duels. I've lost count of the number of times in other games I have been challenged by some bouncing spastic ten levels above me who only wants an easy kill. I would only accept a duelling system if there was an auto-decline option built into the settings interface.

lol... i think you might have your numbers wrong... remember, one person votes for ALL of the topics. The highest would be the second question at 114. not that it matters.... as we agreed, it is pretty significant.

1. No. Flagging system or not, I don't want to see a bunch of bored lvl 50s camp-killing quest NPCs for the LOLz. There's also the whole "tricking people into flagging" issue that's already been brought up. Please stop making threads about this.

2. No. There's no reason for higher levels of the opposing faction to be running around the lower level areas.

3. Would prefer none, or ideally restricted to a certain area, but if it does get implemented, give me a "block duel invites" option to keep those duel spamming idiots from following me all over town.

4. I'm not sure I understand the benefits of this one but... go for it, I guess?

I apologize if I sounds cranky, but... well, I kinda am. I've seen the world pvp thing brought up one too many times. I invested money in this game because it was advertised as a PvE game with some solid PvP elements. I'd be quite upset if the developers played bait and switch on us and turned it into just into PvP griefing-fest.

I like separate servers for PvP. Just completely separate the entire thing and let people make alts on that server. Allowing people from other factions to be running around your faction will hurt RP for me. We're at WAR!! What are they doing here!?!? That seems weird to me... But if people like that, I'm cool with the option. Just not forced on everyone.

well for rping, why would you goto pvp part?

and you would not flag your selves ether

Only issue I'd have with flagged PvP are the assjacks who like to kill quest-givers and camp there, killing them as they respawn ... for no other reason than they svck and have no friends.

I don't think you know what flagged PvP is. No one mentioned quest-givers being vulnerable. Flagged PvP is not WPvP.

To clarify, you manually flag yourself so that anyone else who is flagged can engage you in combat and you can do the same to anyone who has manually flagged themselves. It makes it up to the player if they want to fight random people in the world. It's like SWG not WoW.

So long as they couldn't kill off NPCs with whom PvE players had to deal, I'd have no issue with it.

Yes that has nothing to do with flagged PvP.

Is that why so many are voting against this purely optional thing? They think it automatically means NPCs become vulnerable?

Lovely, so instead of harassing the quest-givers, bored LvL 50s will be harassing the players directly instead: running around, taunting them, killing all their quest mobs. The PvPer seeking a fair fight and a good challenge will be the Cyrodil. The people engaging in these "flagged battles" are the griefers. for the most part (yes, there are exceptions). I feel as though this game already offers plenty of PvP options. If you wish to hunt down people trying to PvE, you can already do that in Cyrodil. There are quests and even public dungeons. Why spill PvP into the PvE areas?

Can't speak for others, but I'd actually voted in favor of it, prior to remembering the crap I'd seen in WoW. (insert appropriate emoticon of choice here)

Because you always have some idiot constantly spamming duel requests. If ignore would silence the requests then I would be ok with it.

It's not that simple though. I want to play TES online. I also want world PVP. You say it divides the community in every mmo yet the biggest mmo by a country mile includes most of these things.

The only one that I think has a fair argument against, is dueling. I have heard people say it breaks immersion for them with people dueling in odd places around them. Simple solution, dueling area's. Anyway, I only replied because of the wallet comment. I will be using my wallet to play eso, but my vote goes in favore of PVP and every word of this poll. Flogging it or not. So long as you have a 'choice' anyone who votes against, is just a 'naysayer' in my opinion.

"choices" can sometimes affect others, regardless of what they individually selected. For example, lets reverse the roles here for a moment. Let's say that the PvE'ers want the option to PvE in Cyrodil without being bothered by PvPers. Imagine they were to request a flagging system, similar to what is being requested here, but for Cyrodil. The end result would be a bunch of un-flagged people questing and venturing through the public dungeons of the PvP zone unhindered, destroying the whole purpose of even having a PvP area to begin with. It's only a choice, you can still choose to be flagged for PvP if you want, yet it would still affect the community as a whole and redefine parts of the game's mechanics.

Choices aren't always a good thing.

People are voting for or against "this purely optional thing" based on FUD. After the flipflops ZOS has made, many don't have trust in what they say. So they vote in knee-jerk fashion.

I think it would be fun if everyone and all npcs were flagged. You could raid enemy faction cities, plunder loot, etc. But this is an Elder Scrolls game. Pvp should be a lower priority than pve or so you would expect.

If you put 1500 people into a normal PvE instance, then there would be a queue of 30 of us waiting for a mudcrab to spawn o_O.

The devs will have numbers setup for the PvE instances, and there's all kinds of problems involved in increasing that population of an instance. (PvE instances are built to be 'scenic' with phasing etc, PvP instances are more 'functional/optimized').

I tend to agree. I like the idea of the mass server but it is probably best to separate them. I see no reason why you couldn't choose which you want to go into as and when though. No need to use alts for that purpose then. And you could still play with friends with a different mindset.

I don't understand the flagged PvP concept. Won't most people just turn this off when PvEing anyway? I know I would, as I'd most likely be traited/geared for PvE content. If I want some PvP action, I'll just jump in Cyrodiil. Just seems like a useless option IMO.

Now dueling arenas, that's something I can get behind.

No, you don't understand it, in which case you have no reason to be against it. For some PVP is about the thrill of the moment. Something that can't be experienced in a battlezone. The danger of cheekily going deep into enemy territory knowing that at any time you could be attacked but against all odds achieve what you intended, such as sack and pillage a village. Or defending a randomly attacked town. You and many others fighting off waves of attacks. It's great fun.

You would be surprised at the numbers who want open world pvp. In games with pvp and pve servers, why do you think pvp server are so popular. After all you can go in battlegrounds no matter.