I wrote off the entire emperor aspect as soon as I found out they're copying vanilla WoW's awful and stupid PVP system where the biggest poopsocker wins. I'm all about working hard as part of a team to earn victory for the team. Competing against people in my team for my own personal achievement does nothing for me.
That's not necessarily true. In the Pact this last session, somebody had 118k AP on the emperor board (reset every campaign) in 2 to 3 hours of the server opening.
There are three possibilities.
1. The developers buffed someone's AP to keep testers from getting emperor (unlikely).
2. Some kind of exploit is involved (likely).
3. Quest sharing (possible, more below).
The mission boards provide quests to scout or take different real estate, but only one can be assigned to one player directly from the board. Different targets are assigned to different players though, and if you're doing PvP you're certainly going *somewhere*. So, have the guild all grab quests and share them *all*. The goal is to end up with a quest scouting and targeting every location on the map while repeatedly taking the "Kill 20 Enemy Players" quest and keeping the scout/take quests fresh. If a guild determines they will contribute toward a specific person becoming emperor, then one person never turns in their scout/take quests. They keep them to share the location's quest again when their chosen emperor turns it in (and others if the leaderboard is to be dominated).
Example: You get a Blue Road Keep quest shared to you by me, we take Blue Road Keep, you turn it in. I don't. I share it to you again. Twenty minutes later, the Pact has retaken BRK and we have taken it back again. Repeat the same process.
The only reason that I think that number 3 is less likely than an exploit is that those scout/take quests only award 200 to 300 AP a pop while the "Kill 20 Enemy Players" awards 1000. So, that person with 118k AP would have had to get 2,360 player kills in 2 to 3 hours
or scout/take 393 to 590 locations. It's possible, but not very likely when the servers were just warming up. To get that many kills, someone would have to be a beast on the field, totally undefeatable, and they would be noticed. *Nobody* was noticed kicking that much butt. To scout that many, they'd have to be so fast they'd be a blur. Nobody moves that fast. To take that many... Well, that didn't happen.
If my suspicion is right and it's an exploit, then I hope like hell that ZOS zeroes in on it. The session before this last one, others were mentioning how someone at the top of the emp board shot up 40k AP in five minutes. Something's fucky.
edit: fixed my maths; just woke up