Dustyboy Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Starting to see multiple people afk in warzones. Seems like this issue should have been anticipated. What does bioware plan to do about it? With only 8 ppl in a match, 1 or 2 afkers is a game breaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knockerz Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Doesn't surprise me. If you can get xp by running bg, people will afk it for xp only. At max level people will afk themf or for points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anima Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 We had a guy on SotE server doing this all day yesterday. Very annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greensiberia Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Someone can help me to remember how long this game was in development? Six years? And they have not done something with AFKers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilphoenix Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 It boots you if you afk in the respawn zones, but if you afk in the battlefield then it doesn't. So I suppose if an enemy kills them they'll get the boot, but enemies usually wont do that if they realize their target is afk since leaving an afk-er alone if much more beneficial. But yeah it is annoying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KURLS Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Someone can help me to remember how long this game was in development? Six years? And they have not done something with AFKers? couldn't have said it better myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powercow Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 It boots you if you afk in the respawn zones, but if you afk in the battlefield then it doesn't. So I suppose if an enemy kills them they'll get the boot, but enemies usually wont do that if they realize their target is afk since leaving an afk-er alone if much more beneficial. But yeah it is annoying If they stealth off in an obscure corner of the map, they'll never be spotted. Plus, there are parts of the map in all 3 warzones where pretty much nobody ever goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oneclaw Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 bumping for great justice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTerrito Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 The developers have alot of work ahead of them, just hope they are actually reading and working on this stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabola- Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 so you can afk? cool /me installs remote desktop to get some free xp/money when i'm at work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludanyke Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 so you can afk? cool /me installs remote desktop to get some free xp/money when i'm at work /golfclap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobaBuck Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 ladygagas on bondar crystal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustyboy Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 It boots you if you afk in the respawn zones, but if you afk in the battlefield then it doesn't. So I suppose if an enemy kills them they'll get the boot, but enemies usually wont do that if they realize their target is afk since leaving an afk-er alone if much more beneficial. But yeah it is annoying Ya Ive been watching this afker, Carinne, we have on mask of nihilis, has some sort of bot program that makes them twitch. Just runs to a hidden area of warzone and twitches. The crappy thing is that usually there is only 1 game going on at a given time, and this pos is in there all the time, can't get a good game in because we constantly playing 7v8. They need a vote kick system, for players to agree to boot someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eroiqua Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 It boots you if you afk in the respawn zones, but if you afk in the battlefield then it doesn't. So I suppose if an enemy kills them they'll get the boot, but enemies usually wont do that if they realize their target is afk since leaving an afk-er alone if much more beneficial. But yeah it is annoying A couple of the ones I've been seeing (over and over) don't even afk...they're at their keyboards laughing at the rest of the team while they sit in a corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordris Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 For the time-being, maybe just report them via the ticket system. If BW gets enough, then perhaps they'll take more notice. Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kebabz Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Only 2? think of the time when people have actually done all the fun they could do in the warzones. Think when leveling alts, or just the tiresome grind for random loot. How many people do you think will start afking? There is no risc, only rewards. You get the exact same as everybody else. Except maybe a few commendations off qq. With the amount of people transfering from wow (remember alterac valley afk'ers?) it suprises everybody they never bothered implimenting anything to reduce the amount of abuse. Well not that they prioritize pvp anyway... no clue what they are prioritizing anyway -.- ui bugs? I mean.. the creation of more UI bugs. In any case, with people loosing the interest of the grinding of random warzones for random rewards, 4/8 people will start afking in every battleground. When battleground pops, you just wait till the 30 seconds mark and join. You won't be on the raidframes and then you just jump outside the map (possible in voidstar and civil war atm) and you can actually be out side the map. YOu cannot be seen on the raidframes, you cannot be seen on the map, you cannot be seen on any scoreboard: You are invisible! Time to afk your way to fame and fortune. F*** you bioware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mardox Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 lol i made a post WITH SS but bio likes to delete any post the slanders their name, Again with that last statement, Inb4lock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mardox Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 ladygagas on bondar crystal you mean THIS Ladygagas http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/851/screenshot2011122515395.jpg/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skarecrowseven Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Proving once again WoW killed mmorpg's for us old schoolers. I remember playing these games because I wanted to, not to get "max" level and show off my e-peen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falados Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Same silimiar expoilt from Rift Hello >.> pete sake FIX THIS already or quick fix NOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csward Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Starting to see multiple people afk in warzones. Seems like this issue should have been anticipated. What does bioware plan to do about it? With only 8 ppl in a match, 1 or 2 afkers is a game breaker. There will always be people who try to exploit the system. Afking for easy exp doesn't sound like any fun to me, so I can't understand why someone would do it because the leveling journey is what is fun for me. Unfortunately, this happened fairly often in League of Legends and in that game being down 1 is gg (against competent opponents). All I can say is write Bioware and maybe then can ban them for trying to exploit the game (like certain people have been). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobaBuck Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 medstudent bondar crystal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zynellan Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Ladygagas, Aneta, Sauron... All scum from bondar crystal. Republic is outnumbered on bondar crystal so you get these bastard leechers in almost every game. I have reported them multiple times but keep getting the same bs response "we forwarded it to the appropriate team" This is exploiting folks. No one should be able to gain levels and valor for not playing the game, not to mention screwing the rest of the team over in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaesebreze Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I go afk too if i have to many people < 20 in my BG versus a team in 40-50 level range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhakul Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 (edited) I can not think of an effective way to deal with these bots it is possible that an automated system is incapable of doing the trick. The only way to solve this is to have gms manually observe some games on occassion and come down hard on people who do this. It isn't a silly little infraction, these afkers are fully aware of how they are hurting the game for others so at best I think they deserve 1 warning in addition to losing their warzone commendations and valor(if valor even matters I don't even know what it does) and then temp bans. Edited December 26, 2011 by Zhakul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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