Why not start going AFK soon about 50-60% of players will be afk and CCP will do something about it faster

Votes are allowed to kick a player from game. Still wont fix it. Youll have squads of 4-6 players AFK.
Cant be in redzone or your kicked. They will go out to to the far end of the map and camp there. If your team is redline guess what your kicked from the game.
Change it so WP is your SP. This will gap the game from who is good and who is bad. Also hurting anyone who isnt logy.

Only true way to fix AFK players is to drive to there house(hopefully they are home) and make them play.

Really, it seems the obvious solution is simply removing the non-WP related SP for battles. People would still gain passive SP normally, so the terribad players would still gain SP, but there would be no incentive to AFK farm.

To make up for the difference they could simply skew WP so players gain less SP per WP as they accumulated higher SP totals in a single match.

For example:

Up to 200 WP could earn 5x SP per WP
200-1000 could earn 2x SP per WP
1000+ earns 1 SP per WP.

Basically, diminishing returns.

This would keep the "participation points" aspect intact for the newbs and bluedots.

Earning 200 WP would earn you 1000 SP (200 x 5)

Earning 700 WP would earn you 2000 SP (200 x 5 + 500 x 2)

Earning 1500 would earn you 3100 SP (200 x 5 + 800 x 2 + 500)

etc.

The exact numbers could be fiddled with obviously, those are just an example.

oh ye of little imagination. Here's a suggestion I made in another thread that would remove AFKing:



I'm sure there are other solutions as well, that one was just off the top of my head.

In the end, the last thing I want to do is waste my gaming time NOT PLAYING a video game. I'll go ahead and keep playing, and I'll keep making fun of all the morons who would rather not play and watch a number get bigger, than just play the game for the fun of it.

I'm pretty sure making the game enjoyable would go a long way in making people not want to find these exploits in the first place. The SP system combined with stale gameplay and promises of fixes / content are what made the "problem" what it is today.

I got a better solution.

Super simple.

Spawn on the ground and never look back at MCC.

That way you wont notice ppl being afk in the mcc, hence they will disappear ... from your mind

You win some you loose some. Its a problem both team are facing. Chillax, use cheaper suits if you wanna tryhard.

That's cute and all, but the real solution is the same solution most of us have implemented:

We just don't play.

Enjoy all your SP in the game that bombs because of the terrible "community" that would rather watch their SP go up than play the game.

No i'm serious, I rarely notice ppl being AFK this way. Unless i'm put into the battle midway threw. I do my thing in my cheap suits trying to get the most of it.

TBH i think its wishful thinking to consider CCP will fix it. its been around for a freaking while and they nerfed the friendly lav collision and the nade cooking that helped prevent it.

Never played eve but mcc afking seems to be more work than mining in eve .

Remove the in-game passive SP gain altogether, and increase the SP gained by actually contributing and playing.

You want SP? Stop hiding, come out and EARN them.

Kick all the AFKers.

I can't wait to see what woud happen to player numbers.

I'm morbidly curious about the whole thing.

Change it so WP is your SP. This will gap the game from who is good and who is bad. Also hurting anyone who isnt logy.

Only true way to fix AFK players is to drive to there house(hopefully they are home) and make them play.

....and it'll just encourage Proto stomping, new players who can barely do anything will not be able to get better gear, and Proto Stompers who don't really need it as much will get most.

No, that is NOT the "only true way" to fix it.
Making the game more enjoyable and rewarding when playing, than when AFKing, would be a better way to deal with the problem.

Force and punishment will do nothing but drive AFKers and some non-AFKers away, not make them play.

To those who say "Well good riddance"
Yeah...you don't care if its good for the game overall, or not, do you?

no they wont CCP will look at themselves and go look we built a game where they pay money to do nothing. no really some of the afkers i know pay for boosters :\