DUST Search - AFK farming in squads, brainstorming

Aqil Aegivan wrote:

trollsroyce wrote:

A duct tape setup for getting WP is a bit on the verge of exploiting. Afk farming is the kind of entrepreneurship where you sign up for anti-piracy protection on a ship and just don't move a finger when **** hits the fan. I can see bad entrepreneurship all over new Eden, heck its even in that future vision trailer where lazy mercs get the reset button from a dread on orbit.

There is no idle timer kick currently except when waiting for a spawn.

When do I afk farm, one might ask. Let's put it like this: I don't play dust to afk. I afk to play dust with better guns. Just picked a fresh batch of Thales, while watching tv.

So it's more in the vein of a merc who kicks back because he's hourly and the client is dumb enough to pay just as well for a job not done, caveat emptor? i think I see the distinction and that's fair enough, but this kind of "ethical AFK'er" approach isn't a group charter.

Exploiters gonna exploit, and while they ruin the game for some CCP inadequately addressing the issue ruins the game for more.


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Sobriety Denied Universal Allies Inc. 432	Posted - 2013.02.23 21:57:00 - [1] - Quote the droplink actually works, i scored a 100 WP in the MCC with one they were spawning at it for whatever reason also a logi with 3 nanohives for the ragers friendly firing the AFKers, make sure they have enough ammo up there maybe i'll make a logi with 2 nanos and a droplink..
Sobriety Denied Universal Allies Inc. 432	Posted - 2013.02.23 22:04:00 - [2] - Quote Vaerana Myshtana wrote: Sobriety Denied wrote: the droplink actually works, i scored a 100 WP in the MCC with one they were spawning at it for whatever reason also a logi with 3 nanohives for the ragers friendly firing the AFKers, make sure they have enough ammo up there maybe i'll make a logi with 2 nanos and a droplink.. I have that fit, although I usually use it for actually playing the game... ...this is a fascinating idea though. Read as: "CCP, when are you going to go after AFK farming in Dust?!" a better question would be: when are they going to reward me for playing the game instead of going afk? example: 1rst skirmish of the day- 9 kills 1 death. I score 6k SP, full skrimish game. 2nd skirmish of the day- 0/0, camping MMC i score 8.5k why am i being given bonus sp for camping the MCC? if they wanna build a short bus then by all means i will get on it if it means i'm saving gas.. same way i view dust
Sobriety Denied Universal Allies Inc. 432	Posted - 2013.02.23 22:34:00 - [3] - Quote friendly fire will actually make this game fun.. some of us are not new to friendly fire because we started gaming before 2009. bring it. if FF is on i might actually jump from the MCC, colors and petty restrictions no longer mean anything only the people you trust = a true MMO. seriously were talking about a sandbox here.. where green fights blue and blue fighting reds and everyone fighting everyone- pure chaos, pure mayhem, pure beauty, class death match minus the team malarkey. before there was team death match there was only death match.. and we will return soon to this mother of all game modes!!! pure mayhem!
Sobriety Denied Universal Allies Inc. 432	Posted - 2013.02.23 22:56:00 - [4] - Quote nothing is being exploited by gaining a few extra WP in the war barge, being that it was i killed 9 ppl made me gain less SP than camping the lolbarge all together i doubt 100 WP could exploit any more SP than getting actual kills did
Sobriety Denied Universal Allies Inc. 432	Posted - 2013.02.23 23:06:00 - [5] - Quote Aqil Aegivan wrote: trollsroyce wrote: A duct tape setup for getting WP is a bit on the verge of exploiting. Afk farming is the kind of entrepreneurship where you sign up for anti-piracy protection on a ship and just don't move a finger when **** hits the fan. I can see bad entrepreneurship all over new Eden, heck its even in that future vision trailer where lazy mercs get the reset button from a dread on orbit. There is no idle timer kick currently except when waiting for a spawn. When do I afk farm, one might ask. Let's put it like this: I don't play dust to afk. I afk to play dust with better guns. Just picked a fresh batch of Thales, while watching tv. So it's more in the vein of a merc who kicks back because he's hourly and the client is dumb enough to pay just as well for a job not done, caveat emptor? i think I see the distinction and that's fair enough, but this kind of "ethical AFK'er" approach isn't a group charter. Exploiters gonna exploit, and while they ruin the game for some CCP inadequately addressing the issue ruins the game for more. my issue is im not being rewarded for playing the game i can do nothing and still make the same SP, the 1500 extra is not incentive, this whole system is fail resulting in us afkin for the sake of the eve player gaining passive sp or w/e, so in a way it's a protest against a failed experimental system in place for not rewarding us for doing well in the game while incentive to camp the MCC with mysterious bonus SP is in place. and dont no one start on me with that "bigger picture meta gaming" non sense were stuck in limbo here, there is no meta game unless u call the travesty of 8 vs 8 epic. no ones trying to ruin pub match game here, if your expecting some randoms to carry you thru a pub match your doing it wrong. that seems to be the biggest problem of ppl vs afkers, because the afkers are not helping to win? the afkers are in protest of a failed system they are not trying to ruin the game, they're trying to prove that the system is failed incentives to play the match. the system does not work from an FPS standpoint. you make stupid systems they get explouted- thats the nature of online gaming.