AFK Leveling

[Eldaena]

People will probably continue to take advantage of free characters/accounts until they aren't free anymore. I don't think anything will be done about this issue because it's something that will either resolve itself when it's pay to play, or it is dependent on people like you that choose not to play with those characters that afk to rank up. People like to take short cuts in this game and right now SE made it possible for them to do that. =( As sad as that is to say, it is true. And they have larger fish to fry then taking care of this issue.

[Mini_M]

People don't seem to understand that AFK leveling is the same as botting. People report botting all the time but not AFK leeching because they think its ok or probably do it themselves. If SE was adamant enough to create a game thats based around their anti-botting policy they should also take care of AFK leeching.

[Eldaena]

People don't seem to understand that AFK leveling is the same as botting. People report botting all the time but not AFK leeching because they think its ok or probably do it themselves. If SE was adamant enough to create a game thats based around their anti-botting policy they should also take care of AFK leeching.

People pay botting companies or whatever to use their bots. That is again an act of someone gaining real money from SE's real product. That is why it's a problem. AFK ranking isn't anyone making any money, it's just their character getting sp. I'm not saying I support this and I think it is bad gaming morals. But there is a difference between them.

[Akumu]

People don't seem to understand that AFK leveling is the same as botting. People report botting all the time but not AFK leeching because they think its ok or probably do it themselves. If SE was adamant enough to create a game thats based around their anti-botting policy they should also take care of AFK leeching.

See now i'm confused as to what your talking about. Are you talking about the RMT, a bunch of random people afking, or one person with 7 computers and 7 different accounts multiboxing?

1)RMT will be dealt with when SE get's things back on track.
2)Kick the people that keep afking.
3)People will always multibox in an MMO and it doesn't affect you.


edit: Sounds like you are referring to bots though and that is a problem not someone going afk and you being the sucker allowing it for 8 leves.

[AuctionGirl]

If they took away the auto follow, this would definitely help stop some of the leeching.

Think of it this way... there are not enough mobs or quick enough spawns for every person to kill solo, and some of the mobs would die so quickly you are waiting for more spawns. Being in a party like this helps maximize the SP per person, while keeping the spawns so you are always killing something.

Another solution to this issue, is making the mobs harder. Requiring more members to be active to be able to kill the mobs. Seeing as mobs can be killed with 1 or 2 members easily, it makes this easy mode and half the time the other members don't get to attack it anyways, or would cause issues when they attack.

Also, just cause your following doesn't mean you are AFK

The game allows it, so don't hate on it. I would prefer if they got rid of the ability to do it, but until then... Do whatever is best for you and/or Your LS.

[Visch]

If they took away the auto follow, this would definitely help stop some of the leeching.

Think of it this way... there are not enough mobs or quick enough spawns for every person to kill solo, and some of the mobs would die so quickly you are waiting for more spawns. Being in a party like this helps maximize the SP per person, while keeping the spawns so you are always killing something.

Another solution to this issue, is making the mobs harder. Requiring more members to be active to be able to kill the mobs. Seeing as mobs can be killed with 1 or 2 members easily, it makes this easy mode and half the time the other members don't get to attack it anyways, or would cause issues when they attack.

Also, just cause your following doesn't mean you are AFK

The game allows it, so don't hate on it. I would prefer if they got rid of the ability to do it, but until then... Do whatever is best for you and/or Your LS.

I got a better idea:

Make partying like XI (not bad).

[viion]

They only ruin the game if you care enough to give a shit about other people you dont know.

[Shiyo]

I don't understand peoples "solutions" to this problem and the arguments going on. I opened this thread thinking I'd see someone complaining about how easy this game is, and how people are literally afk while leveling. I spent most of my time leveling reading forums and watching tv/anime/movies/msning on my 2nd monitor because of how boring and easy this games combat system is, and how mobs SP caps at +10, which are duoable mobs for a healer + DPS. Meaning we fight mobs people can duo with a slight challenge with 8 people, making every fight last like 5 seconds where mobs die in seconds with little to no teamwork, strategy, or trying.

The easiest solution to this problem is to make the game challenging(I can't believe only one person suggested this out of 3 pages of replies..people saying RMT and botters and stuff, really? lol?). In FFXI if one person wasn't pulling their weight in a 6 man party, it showed, it destroyed your exp, and 99% of the time it wiped your entire party. That person got kicked, and if kicked enough he'd stop getting invited to parties because the server would know about his leeching/afking.

That's all that needs to be done in this game, make every fight challenging where every player has to pull their weight and try their hardest, basically copy FF11's leveling system. It was very fun, challenging, and rewarding. ^-^ It is the main problem with this game, and it shows more and more everday.

"AFK leveling", botting, dual boxing(non-outside party higher level PL dual boxing), and leeching only happens when the game is easy. I don't blame people for afk leveling right now, I blame the game for being too easy.

[Akumu]

I opened this thread thinking I'd see someone complaining about how easy this game is, and how people are literally afk while leveling.

I thought the same when I opened this thread. It seems to be referring to something else and not just someone afking for 8 leves and some suckers allowing it. The game is still being balanced/overhauled so the challenges will come in time.

The few people allowing someone to afk(especially WHILE equipped with r1 gear) is just telling someone I get suckered every 36 hours.
If it's a multiboxer who cares?
If it's a bot/rmt then it will be dealt with once we this game is back on track.

[Ava]

I don't think this is a major issue, and I would assume the issue will be taken into consideration when they change the combat mechanics. The simple solution, as others have suggested, is simply remove the members that are AFKing.