DNF Rant Before Patch

[Click]

There's been several posts on the fact that choc racers who don't actually race (DNF racers) get MGP for not racing. This really bothers me, but what bothers me even more is the fact that they greatly delay a race. They do the cut scene and then the race has a long delay before the game decides the DNFer is not going to finish. There's a character on my server that's ALWAYS there doing DNF. (I don't know if he has a program to do this automatically.) I find it impossible to do the race he is doing because of the horrible delay. PLEASE fix this mistake in the upcoming patch.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

How "greatly" does someone who purposely not race delay you? I had a few DNFers and the most I ever had to wait was an extra 10 seconds or so.

[Alexiell]

in the worst case it takes up to 30 seconds before the race, cause they are mostly afk doing something else and not always checking when race opens, another 10-15 seconds at the start of the race cause of cutscene and the extra time it takes for the race to end, which is probably another 10-15 seconds

[Click]

That is true if they do not watch the cut scene and actually do sign in to the race when it opens.. Unfortunately some do watch the cut scene and sign in very late.

[Chek]

Is this really that big of a problem? I have yet to see an afk racer.

[Click]

Probably depends on the server. On my server I race more against DNFers than other player racers. This is on 160 to 200 races. (I'm ped level 8 at this time.) In any case I think almost everyone would agree it's a flaw to reward MPG for entering a race and NOT racing whatsoever for hours on end.

[Rufalus]

I've experienced the same thing on Ragnarok. People seem to be botting it, where their character constantly enters races all day, but does nothing in the race, consumes no stamina, just farms last place and doesn't finish races.

[Gallus]

I too afk race but always do it on tranquil paths where I'm always matched with 7 NPCs (and if I'm not I just leave L1 pressed until race ends). Honestly if there's someone afking in say R160 sagolii, you can go to:

R160 Costa del Sol, R160 Tranquil Paths, R180 Sagolii, R180 Costa del Sol, R180 Tranquil Paths...

If it bothers you soooooooooo much, you have 5 other circuits, unless you are choosing "random"...which from my experience, always matches you in the circuit with real players, but if that's the case, it's your own fault.

As for this "reward" you speak of, there's really no reward. They give you what? Marginal MGP and chocobo exp? What do you even want that for xD? For a fenrir mount after afking in a million chocobo races? You can get the same amount of MGP in one day farming indolent imperial than in 1 month afking in chocobo races, complaining about how people are rewarded in afk racing is ridiculous.

[Gallus]

I've experienced the same thing on Ragnarok. People seem to be botting it, where their character constantly enters races all day, but does nothing in the race, consumes no stamina, just farms last place and doesn't finish races.

Don't put both in the same sack though, botting/using illegal programs and manually afking in a chocobo race against 7 AIs are two very different things. I've never used a bot or a hack in any game I've ever played yet I can't pretend I'm having lots of fun in my 4000th race, and before you even mention it, I'm there because SE decided that getting the "P9 ultimate chocobo with perfect stars, foul preferred weather and 2 skills that aren't absolute trash" had to be harder than getting a shiny legendary pokemon with perfect IVs.

[rowrow]

pls stop enforcing your elitist speedrun strats on me