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Title: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Antheus on January 18, 2008, 05:57:50 PM Blizzard have already tried a couple of things to stop people simply staying in the starting caves in the AV battleground, including adding functionality to allow players to report AFKers, and most recently kicking offenders from the game.
However they still seem to be fighting a losing battle, so I'm interested in what the great and powerful minds of the LanCraft faithful can suggest... What should Blizzard do to stop people AFK leeching in AV? Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Zyn on January 18, 2008, 11:24:41 PM How about only awarding honour and tokens to players that have either caused some damage or healing?
Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Audiophil on January 19, 2008, 02:18:34 AM yeah and distinguish some bare minimum. else u just go out, hit a dude once and go back in
Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Antheus on January 19, 2008, 03:11:18 PM Nice idea - just to play devil's advocate... how would you set the minimum limit?
Put it too low and people could just heal a few people as they mount up at the start or stay in defence tohit a few people and then go back into the cave and AFK. Set it too high, people who enter later who ride out and do take part might not get the honor/mark(s) they deserve. Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Daal on January 19, 2008, 07:13:37 PM Guys I don't know if you've done AV since the shakedown, but we've had almost zero leechers this weekend.
I think they have hit it on the head. Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Wuwu on January 19, 2008, 07:14:25 PM I concur!*giggles* Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Elunespray on January 21, 2008, 09:23:00 AM I have been hitting AV hard this week end and looking at the Raid tab only saw 1 Inactive player all week end!
So the plans are working! Only Idea I had (Sitting up and 2:00am healing Kara) was a Minus Honour Points if you get kicked out!!! That would really stop people! Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Cesar Ford on January 24, 2008, 01:06:18 AM I think that after a certain amount of time inactive, you are booted from the bg and get the famous "deserter" buff. I think that would be a great idea and not only get a new player who wants to pvp in, but stop the afker from going into a bg for 15 min each time.
Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Wuwu on January 24, 2008, 01:22:43 PM Hear hear!Or! penalise them - 200 honour maybe?*cackles evilly* Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Soulwind on January 25, 2008, 09:57:36 AM I think blizzrad are in the same mind as us guys when it comes to AFK pvp. The reason I say that is that, I was listening to the WoW Podcast "The Instance" and they were talking about this very subject. A quote from the instance website
Quote from: The Instance.net Yesterday, CM Bornakk announced “Starting immediately, we will be issuing warnings and penalties, including suspensions and the removal of Honor points and recently acquired Honor rewards, for non-participation in Battleground games. We are taking action against thousands of accounts immediately, and will continue to monitor these situations and regularly take action against violators. If you encounter a player in a Battleground who is intentionally not participating in the battle for an extended period of time, please help us track the situation and report the player as AFK. All reports will be thoroughly investigated, and corrective action will only be taken if the violation is confirmed.” Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: ZagZ on February 14, 2008, 03:50:31 PM I think I get what you guys are talking about. There is only lmited space for players in the PVP grounds and if someone AFK's they are taking up a space someone else could be actually playing in?
My question is, why the hell would anyone AFK in the PVP grounds in the first place? Do they do it on purpose just to be d!cks? Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: Daal on February 14, 2008, 04:32:26 PM They do it because they get the same honour points that everyone else gets without doing any work which of course isn't fair. Power levelling companies are famous for it with their "Your new level70 will have xxx honour points for you to spend" type offers.
Title: Re: Stopping AFKers in AV Post by: ZagZ on February 14, 2008, 09:01:53 PM Ahhh, the cheeky bastards!
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