Dear AFK dude in Castrum

It was actually pretty easy to put your name in the lodestone, find your free company, and pass a message along to your Free Company that you earn your tomestones by putting people on follow and going afk in Castrum.

I thought about just putting a screen shot and a link to your Free Company's roster in General, and maybe next time I will. :)

Dat smug sense of self satisfaction.

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Originally Posted by Resheph

It was actually pretty easy to put your name in the lodestone, find your free company, and pass a message along to your Free Company that you earn your tomestones by putting people on follow and going afk in Castrum.

I thought about just putting a screen shot and a link to your Free Company's roster in General, and maybe next time I will. :)

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it is also easy to report him/her as harrasement too

I've seen this AFK non-sense in other MMORPGs with the same frustrated customers sharing their AFK stories in the forums. IMHO the only way to solve this is to have game auto-kick the AFKer if they aren't receiving damage, dishing out damage or healing in a consistent manner compared to the rest of the party. I like the ability to boot or vote-to-boot but I can see how that can be abused.

What's frustrating for me is that afk leeching isn't even that rare anymore, nor does it seem to be particularly isolated. At one point I even had a tank doing it. I've had terrible luck with CM on DF, about 1/3 of my parties have someone afk for the stones. I wish the best to you guys, for my luck has certainly been horrible.

yeah ppl are doing it because , there is nothing u can do to stop them

why farm castrum for 10000th time when u can go afk and let others do the work?

the fun begins when there are 2 AFK ~~ , hell even if 1 is afk , tanks usually bail dont want to tank a instance for some1 that is afk.....and back to queue

i avoid DF castrum like the plague now , no point in using DF anymore for it .

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Originally Posted by Shneibel

it is also easy to report him/her as harrasement too

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They do nothing about it.

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Originally Posted by Talespinlol

not to mention having to grind castrum for tombstones being a ridiculous endgame anyways.

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isn't this to ensure that no 'new' player would be stuck on the final quests?

Just walk them into monsters and kill them. then the person they were following returns to the start and you go on your way.

My FC would pat me on the back for a job well done.

Does gear change still break autofollow like it did in 11? Because, just run them into the most massive group of agro you can find.

Between the afkers and the tanks that take one look at the party, decide they suck by the looks of them, and force DC themselves, and having to run the stupid instance 100+ times, I've learned to hate castrum.

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Originally Posted by Avraym

Dat smug sense of self satisfaction.

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hmm. Yes! Indubitably!

The sad thing was that this guy was on Scholar so we couldn't even complete the dungeon because the other healer couldn't keep up without pulling too much hate. (We had two warrior tanks.) After two wipes on the 2nd boss, we all decided to leave. I'm kind of glad because even if we had kept at it and pushed through, dude would have been able to come back and just walk through to the exit.

I thought this thread would become a "Real Eorzean Heroes" spoof.

/disappointed

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Originally Posted by nasomi

Just walk them into monsters and kill them. then the person they were following returns to the start and you go on your way.

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This ^ is the 1st thing that came to mind when I read the OP too.

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Originally Posted by Flionheart

My FC would pat me on the back for a job well done.

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I would be fine with public posting of that player+ FC, because honestly Public shaming of this behavior is probably the only thing that would get people to stop doing it. My only concern is that the thread would be so long it wouldn't matter anyhow.

Most FC's would just laugh. Some might even give the guy props.

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Originally Posted by nasomi

Just walk them into monsters and kill them. then the person they were following returns to the start and you go on your way.

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MPK is reportable as harassment btw~

Two AFKers in CM yesterday, a healer and a Bard the rest of us just decided to quit and re-queue. We didn't want to give them the satisfaction or the free tomes.

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Originally Posted by Talespinlol

u should redirect your anger towards square enix and their lack of a real report/kick function. not to mention having to grind castrum for tombstones being a ridiculous endgame anyways.

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SquareEnix is here only the second party to blaim. If the player in question did not AFK in an instance, nothing would be wrong at all, it is his choice to do so.
Only after that SquareEnix come into play as they could've made a function that a player gets kicked if they do not contribute in a dungeon.

I applaud you, OP. Though SE may not be actively working to punish these people (right now, anyway), there should be some tangible punishment for these people's behavior.

I will also do this if someone is being a really, really caustic jerk in party chat. Racial slurs, etc. People seem to shape up pretty fast if you make it clear to them that they're not as anonymous as they think they are.

You cant report someone for taking it easy in a Dungeon or following and doing a few spells here and now they can play the way they want which SE has said about these issues. Quit with this report them crap quit wearing your emotions on your dam sleeves and maybe you wont go crying to mommy (se) every time someone makes you mad : ( so sad.

FYI quit being so dam lazy and start you own group instead of clicking spam on df.

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Originally Posted by DiceMan

You cant report someone for taking it easy in a Dungeon or following and doing a few spells here and now they can play the way they want which SE has said about these issues. Quit with this report them crap quit wearing your emotions on your dam sleeves and maybe you wont go crying to mommy (se) every time someone makes you mad : ( so sad.

FYI quit being so dam lazy and start you own group instead of clicking spam on df.

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This guy obviously AFKs castrum.

I did the same thing to someone on my Server who was AFK'ing in castrum groups all afternoon. Took a screenshot of his "thx for carry" message at the end of the run and posted it on his FC forum. Also told his FC leader about it.

He is no longer in that FC.

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Originally Posted by Resheph

hmm. Yes! Indubitably!

The sad thing was that this guy was on Scholar so we couldn't even complete the dungeon because the other healer couldn't keep up without pulling too much hate. (We had two warrior tanks.) After two wipes on the 2nd boss, we all decided to leave. I'm kind of glad because even if we had kept at it and pushed through, dude would have been able to come back and just walk through to the exit.

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I've solo healed CM at least three times now as a WHM. I've had WAR/PLD, PLD/PLD and WAR/WAR as tanks and each time it was just fine. The first time it happened my group wanted to quit after waiting 25 minutes for a replacement and I had to talk them into at least trying since our only options were, obviously, to try or leave. I guess that's not all totally relevant but solo healing CM can definitely be done and easily at that.

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Originally Posted by Lady

Between the afkers and the tanks that take one look at the party, decide they suck by the looks of them, and force DC themselves, and having to run the stupid instance 100+ times, I've learned to hate castrum.

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Who doesn't like running the same Dungeon over and over??? I know I do. I especially love waiting in the DF for over an hour each time for anything as a DPS.. its awesome! I especially enjoy not being able to PM people in a dungeon.. EVEN better.

I get tons of people afking CM runs. I'd say 1/3 of the time. I even had 2 guys from the same fc letting their other "bro" afk in the run like it was fine. I'm getting a lot of afkers coming up with clever excuses now too. Like "sorry guys family emergency" or "my kid" then they conveniently always come back RIGHT when the dungeon is over. I can't post here on the forums the kind of language I want to use for these scumbags. Where is the vote kick feature.

I really wished the dungeon finder wasn't present. Nothing of this would have ever happened to begin with. Sorry for being harsh.

You don't have to be accountable for your actions when you'll likely never meet these people again. And what if you meet them again? Just shrug it off and afk. You can be a terrible person all you like as long as you don't have to deal with a reputation.