PvP AFK

[Kae_Berry]

Change gear to to prevent it, then vote them off. I do it all the time and black list them. GM won't do anything.

What do you mean just change gear?

[Kae_Berry]

I haven't seen any that have done that, and when I go into PVP I actually try and win. And sometimes promptly see a 200 point lead go down the drain because people(actually playing because I'm right near them) don't pull back from engaging the enemy and not lose the teams points.

Yea I'm not talking about bad players or strategy, I'm not that good myself, but if you watch, recently a lot of people will be in big groups doing literally nothing but running in circles, or moving a few feet, or going to stand by big ice or running into the enemy and not fighting or fleeing over and over and over again

[OwlBlackX]

Never play Frontline. But, I heard they are much bots/afk for try fast level.
"Need remove exp"

I guessed afk/bots players want get Wolf Marks too?

[TankHunter678]

Its funny how this became a huge problem when the XP was changed so that you need to win to get 100% of the xp and everyone else gets only 70% (which is equal to a win 3 levels ago). Before the change there would be the occasional afk or bot. Moment the xp gets nerfed? Suddenly scores of bots/afks infesting entire teams.

Its like, since they know they are bad they wont get a win and unless their team does really well and manages to hold it then there is no reason for them to try. Understandable considering how terrible win rates are for most people. Before the change when you got equal xp to everyone win or lose you just played to have fun and get xp.

[RubenSnizzle]

Call their name out with a <se.1> and <pos> near them in alliance chat. Then tell them to participate, otherwise ask for party/alliance to kick them if they want a chance to win.

[Kae_Berry]

Call their name out with a <se.1> and <pos> near them in alliance chat. Then tell them to participate, otherwise ask for party/alliance to kick them if they want a chance to win.

Yea and people are on board if there are enough who can be on board. So like the game where 1/3 of the players were afk, we didn't have the numbers to vote people out without they themselves voting. And then we only get one kick for every four hours.. There are so many people going afk now that people actually playing can't kick

[Kae_Berry]

It's just upsetting for anyone who enjoys pvp to go in and have no chance to win with so many afk and pretty much be able to do nothing about it

[CapricaLangley]

I just want to say a couple things not stricly related to the point of the thread. My experience with PvP began with stormblood and ended with the exp nerf. I started really getting into it, trying classes, practising rotations, spending time at the wolves den dueling, doing the priest quest. I tried different strategies, spawn camping, far crystal hunting, grouping up, it was a lot of fun by the way. In the end, I started becoming a good PvP player. Extremes were out, and if I was not playing as my main DRK I used to run PvP all the time. Then they nerfed EXP, and I had to completely abandon it. Experience is important to me, since I have a lot of low level classes and i'm looking for one that's really appealing apart from DRK. The exp nerf was the worst thing to happen since i restarted playing, because it forced me to choose between fun->efficient. Since I play with other friends and we run a lot of PvE, I had to choose efficient and run braindead PotDs forever

[Ametrine]

I've started calling out players and kicking anyone clearly afk off my party. The ones actively playing loved me for it.

[Enla]

I've started calling out players and kicking anyone clearly afk off my party. The ones actively playing loved me for it.

I need to start doing this as well. I watched a party of six basically goof off for five minutes at base while we were trying to push for first place and then had the gal to go 'this team sucks' in chat after I caught them and we lost.