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Antheus
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« 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?
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« Reply #1 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?
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« Reply #2 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
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« Reply #3 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.
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« Reply #4 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.
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« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2008, 07:14:25 PM »

I concur!*giggles*
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« Reply #6 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!
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« Reply #7 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.
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« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2008, 01:22:43 PM »

Hear hear!Or! penalise them - 200 honour maybe?*cackles evilly*
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« Reply #9 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.”
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