Idea to Prevent AFKers in PVP.

[Nighting]

What sucks is that they're learning how to get by the AFK timer. The out of combat timer would be great since what they do is alt-tab back to the game and move their character around.

[poffo]

Just like in wow, if you afk you get kicked auto.

[Korihu]

Just like in wow, if you afk you get kicked auto.

There is a system in place to kick people who AFK, but people circumvent this by just moving their character an inch every 2 minutes.

[Clethoria]

2. Auto-Kick players who are out of combat for more than 3-4 minutes.

Let me know your opinions guys.

Here's where I disagree. For Shatter, I often scout ahead and don't engage with other players until I have a 100% guarantee I have a crew at my back. So I'd be in danger of getting kicked while still contributing in my own way.

[Ransu]

The issue with this is you get throwers. people who run in, intentionally die constantly to end the match. they just need to nerf the EXP. keep pvp for pvp.

They dont need to nerf xp. There's nothing wrong with xp being a viable way to level up for those who enjoy pvping. They just need to actually start banning people who afk/troll.

[NorthernLadMSP]

They dont need to nerf xp. There's nothing wrong with xp being a viable way to level up for those who enjoy pvping. They just need to actually start banning people who afk/troll.

Agree completely. I absolutely love playing Frontlines, but the XP for my jobs is amazing and I don't want to lose it. The difference is I try my butt off to win every match. It makes me livid when I see what I saw over the weekend. Today, someone was using a macro to run in circles around a tree.

Yesterday, I discovered this and just had to take a screen shot. Is there a way to report this?

[NorthernLadMSP]

Sorry Photobucket seems to be a joke anymore. I will need to find a new site to use.

Pic was of someone who had all zeros on every Frontlines category because they had AFK'd the entire match by hiding in a fairly hidden spot.

[AzuMuzo]

These are good ideas, however, the inactive time for players would need to be reduced to like a minute... In Wolves Den / Feast, a match can roughly take 2 minutes & in Shatter / etc, someone could AFK, come back in 3 minutes to pop a DoT then go back to AFK. They seriously need to start taking AFK-ers seriously because it's making real PVP-ers hate playing PVP nowadays.

[Serilda]

A "not in combat" timer of 2 (or 1!) minutes would cripple Frontline the way it's played on JP servers, so no. I'm already frantic enough running around like a maniac trying to catch people in combat long enough to build lilies before each push. Reconnaissance to an empty base? Well you have to feed them and run in or face being kicked! A lot of the time, people would get kicked just coming back from base after respawning; it would be a total disaster for any ambitious pushing into enemy territory and kill the mode dead.

In Feast, sure. But please don't let botters destroy Frontline for entire server groups not affected by the problem that's being addressed.

[Nayout]

They have to find an optimal solution and the most feasible at the moment is

3. Give an additional amount of xp to 1st place teams and a smaller amount of xp to 3rd place teams.
because if you don't do something to remove the afkers, people will still just afk pvp. The XP rate doesn't have to be amazing to have people afk-ing it. It just has to have people willing and able to AFK it.

I am expelling people who are dedicated to being AFK since the beginning of the expansion and I am getting bored of this. The same thing happens to me with people who do not care to win, every day I read people who only come from experience and refuse to listen to the chat, people come with the intention of losing.