AFk'ers in Ranked

[August.5934]

idk what to say or do with this donkies on Arenas who AFK's in ranked and let the team get butchered.

I am there to win and climb rank and because of this donkies i can't climb up the ranks. It's just too frustrating.

 

This happens ALOT in ranked 5v5.

because of one person selfish deed everyone sufferes and makes the gaming too stressful.

 

What can be done to solve this issue?

[Khalgir.3862]

Well, once the matchmaking will start giving me teams where I do not end up doing 35% team damage while playing with my toes, then I will stop being afk. 

[August.5934]

2 minutes ago, Khalgir.3862 said:

Well, once the matchmaking will start giving me teams where I do not end up doing 35% team damage while playing with my toes, then I will stop being afk. 

You silly donkey, making other's gaming experiance bad just cause u can't enjoy. 😄

Edited March 2, 2023 by August.5934

[Khalgir.3862]

5 minutes ago, August.5934 said:

You silly donkey, making other's gaming experiance bad just cause u can't enjoy. 😄

I mean I can play however I want to.

[Shagie.7612]

I mean, the only solution is to actively punish them via suspensions/bans.

Like, letting the team vote is a horrible, horrible idea. You're just asking for it to be abused.
Punishing people for being bad and not getting kills isn't a good idea either. You don't deserve to be slapped just because you suck, even if it is frustrating for your team. Not to mention how exploitable that is for a team with the most minor of coordination.

Why not just y'know, actively put in the effort of monitoring reports? Trying to come up with some kind of game mechanic to do it for you is just asking for it to be avoided in the least effort way possible.

There's a certain degree of people being scumbags that's unavoidable, but attempts to solve it don't need to be that complex.

[Spellhunter.9675]

I have amazing idea! Anet should give a free rating to OP for every afker he met. Like 26 points per afker.

Oh, and they also should pay him money because he brings smart solutions.

[Ferus.3165]

nothing will change because anet does ot have the money/dev time to implement a new system (especially not for pvp). That opportunity sailed away 10 years ago.

[quaniesan.8497]

It's in anet's interest to keep more active players in the pool. Banning is directly against their interest.  Naughty players get wrist slaps only.  There's report feature but god knows if it's just for show. I doubt they even look at individual reports.

[Roman.6930]

Every time before the match starts, I'm telling my team that go AFK when it sucks and gets slaughtered like pigs. I'm here to win and climbing up the ladder. If my team sucks, this isn't possible. Then why should I even trying.

Edited March 3, 2023 by Roman.6930

[Marxx.5021]

When you see cata duos in the oppenent team with top 10 titles why would you even want to play such BS matchups?

[August.5934]

The fact is there is a reason PVP AFK'er are called Donkeys of the Arena... Cause they got no brain and they are usaully all depressed. Because they lack any goodness in heart, their donkiness  takes over and they chew grass the whole time during match thinking they are better. lmao i bet this donkeys can't even 1v1 and keeps dying cause they can't play thier class properly outside of PVE 😂.

 

I had carried my teams many time. Even when our enemy had 450 points and we had 311 points. we didn't gave up and kept trying and we actually flipped the table at the end and won. That's what ranked is all about. There is always hope and we can always win. (expect for donkies in your party cause they being in your team means you already lost, some donkies even try to keep dying to give enemies faster points)

[Infinity.2876]

I like the idea of kicking people who stand still for a long period of time. 

It wouldn't get rid of bots, but it would at least make afkers work harder.

[Cuks.8241]

No reward for losing, more reward for winning. Problem solved. 

Or the time spent at spawn counts as "out of arena time". You reach 20 sec out of arena you dont get any rewards. But this one is quite easily exploitable. 

[Gibson.4036]

33 minutes ago, Cuks.8241 said:

No reward for losing, more reward for winning. Problem solved. 

Or the time spent at spawn counts as "out of arena time". You reach 20 sec out of arena you dont get any rewards. But this one is quite easily exploitable. 

No reward for losing seems like it would further encourage the prophets that give up at the beginning because they think they can predict a loss.

Reward close losses more.

[Crab Fear.8623]

1 hour ago, Gibson.4036 said:

No reward for losing seems like it would further encourage the prophets that give up at the beginning because they think they can predict a loss.

Reward close losses more.

The game was actually better when you lost pips for losing.

They should go back to that for the rewards.

No rewards plus lost progress on the pip chests.

Rewarding losers is and always has been a terrible idea.

It encourages nothing.

If players are driven away by this, it isn't the rewards, it is the game mode itself.

 

[Gibson.4036]

3 minutes ago, Crab Fear.8623 said:

The game was actually better when you lost pips for losing.

They should go back to that for the rewards.

No rewards plus lost progress on the pip chests.

Rewarding losers is and always has been a terrible idea.

It encourages nothing.

If players are driven away by this, it isn't the rewards, it is the game mode itself.

 

Don’t reward a big loss. Reward a close loss. Then you encourage continuing to fight until the end.

More fun.

Edited March 5, 2023 by Gibson.4036

[August.5934]

5 hours ago, Gibson.4036 said:

No reward for losing seems like it would further encourage the prophets that give up at the beginning because they think they can predict a loss.

Reward close losses more.

Ohh this ppl are just too much to deal with. enemy 211, my team 83.... all knowing predicter... AFK's cause he thinks we already lost.

[August.5934]

6 hours ago, Cuks.8241 said:

No reward for losing, more reward for winning. Problem solved. 

i actually like this idea. This will truly force player to know their class better and to take the PVP seriously.

Losers not geting anyrewards but when they win, they should they 300% increased reward of current reward.

 

This will truly push ppl on edge but if they win even 1 game, all that stress would be worth having it.

[Incurve Giidis.7829]

they could remove the exclusive currency/chests from ranked if they dont want afk farmers to do what they do in every gamemode

 

[Gladiotor.7561]

You just need the /resign option from gw1. 

[Azure The Heartless.3261]

None of these are good options.

Just prevent ladder loss, mitigate ladder loss, or add ladder progress for top scorers in the game. That will ensure that if one person decides to sabo by being petulant, the collateral damage they do is minimized because you can still go decap/defend/kill/heal people and potentially still get progress.

Edited March 7, 2023 by Azure The Heartless.3261

[Khalisto.5780]

there's a druid that join matches just to afk, afk from start or after dying once

I dont think anet will ever do something bout this, even the feature that would remove idle players after 90 secs was removed

 

[Khalisto.5780]

On 3/5/2023 at 2:37 PM, Cuks.8241 said:

No reward for losing, more reward for winning. Problem solved. 

from what I can see most ppl do it for the sake of trolling, they don't really care about rewards.

[titje.2745]

Anet have to FIX matchmaking, last 10+ matches or even more i got a very dominating enemy team (like it was a pre made team) OR real pvpers, while me a pve player and my team got totally destroyed. this feels bad to me. when in the first 2 minutes of play the enemy got so many points it feels unfair. and opponents always win. so then i just move a bit around the map and want the enemy win faster so i don't waste any more time in the trash battleground. if it's fair match then i fight for it. some teammates don't even revive when you lay near them, they just keep firing arrows. healers should have a special mark so the team knows it, revive a healer has better chances to win.

i already hate pvp, but sometimes i have no choice because the 3nd daily is not easy and so pvp dailys are often easy, get a reward, or kill 3 enemy's or whatever is better then get frustrated at a long jumping puzzle. (there should be more easy and fast to complete pve daily's. 

[Nymeria.1653]

Not sure about the kick, some could abuse it, so maybe to activate it after a while during the match...it happened to me that my connection had some problem and I stay a bit longer in the loading screeen, when I arrived match was started like literally 3 second earlier and people were already "ahhh afk player!! ahhh call the poliiiice" blabla, so with the kick thing they would have kicked me right away.

But of course there is this problem, so a solution needs to be found.

I don't like the no reward thing too, punish everyone for one player is not fair and also some afkers are troll. Idk, for now I voted the third option, the no safe zone one.