Going AFK in Castrum Meridianum

[Deedlit]

If they're new players running Prae or CM in DF and the group decides to speed run regardless, I AFK until we get players who have some patience.

[Reinheart]

Report them as harassment by not allowing normal play. If you don't do that, GMs won't even consider investigating, punishing them, as they said on another thread the players can play their role anyway they want. However if you report as harassment, where this player is causing the PT trouble by lack of that job, that should be there, then it becomes a legit reason for investigation. In my opinion, either way it should be dealt with heavily, but this is how it is now.

[Hechicera]

Report them as harassment by not allowing normal play. If you don't do that, GMs won't even consider investigating, punishing them, as they said on another thread the players can play their role anyway they want. However if you report as harassment, where this player is causing the PT trouble by lack of that job, that should be there, then it becomes a legit reason for investigation. In my opinion, either way it should be dealt with heavily, but this is how it is now.

I have. Same response as upthread. "We can not force a player to play their role." I didn't report the players who were there, but that clearly had no intention of playing their role (like one CNJ who wore only gathering gear, and would do nothing but emote ... or once at least two people queued as replacement rush the closest boss and cast Stone). No idea, but not worth a ticket.


I did report AFK players holding open a Duty Finder instance, and forcing all the people queuing as replacement members to constantly thrash in and out of their instance. This was on lower than AK runs. I did not ask they they "play their role", I did request the instance get closed so the Duty Finder queue for that dungeon would stop thrashing players. But my response was that it is .. not a problem? I know its bad for the match system. Oh, and magically all that day I spent queuing as a replacement member, when I would tell other replacements to go ahead and leave, and I'd stay and warn new pops and put in a ticket ...EVERY TIME .. the AKFer magically came back! Three different ones.

Once more know the tickets are ignored ....

I haven't queued as a replacement member again, I'll wait until after the subs start. And if I get another ticket response like that if it happens again after that, I'll need to start a thread in Tech Support to clarify if this really is perfectly acceptable. At least close the instance, perhaps the player was not greifing, and something really bad happened at their house. Fine, but at least fix the stuck instance, with only one AFK player left in it.