It's not exactly that I'm morally opposed to it, although it is frustrating to get devastated in a match because a quarter of your team isn't playing. I just don't understand why you would waste the energy. I never AFK, and I still have fun in matches with the SP I've got. It seems like psychologically unhealthy (obsessive-compulsive) behavior.

I stopped reading and lol'd at "piggibacking"... you're aware that it doesn't matter what teammates do, AFK players get their SP? CCP gives people SP per second. So you can be a bad player and get SP just like a good player.

My main issue is more with the people who spend their time complaining about AFKers and arguing against AFKers rather than taking CCP to task. If people dont realize that this is the result of putting in place a socialistic system of gaining SP then those people need to go read up on the differences between socialism and capitalism.

So that fact that skirmish hasn't worked for a month, isn't a major issue they've felt compelled to fix then.

The game being garbage and busted at the same time, I would have thought is a fairly major issue that needs fixing.

So that fact that skirmish hasn't worked for a month, isn't a major issue they've felt compelled to fix then.

The game being garbage and busted at the same time, I would have thought is a fairly major issue that needs fixing.

Hardly. It's the whole point, why lose suits for nothing, I don't blame people at all for doing it, they are probably as sick of ambush as i am.

No I am using the term socialism which is an overarching idea of which there are many different philosophies some of which the state has ownership of property or the citizens have common ownership of property. I am speaking on the aspect of socialism that uses any of various economic and political philosophies that support social equality and equal distribution of income (IE SP) based on contribution (time in game). Since the majority of SP is earned by time in game and they only threw a small bone to the good players to be able to earn a little more SP than horrible players this system encourages good players to do no better than the bad players. AFKing in the MCC is actually playing better than many players as you have not decreased the clone count wherease many bad players easily go 0-8 and thus not only did they not help their team but they ONLY hurt their team.

Frankly I dont care if people AFK or not. CCP built the system with the idea that going 0/0/0 will still get you SP in the game so what if good players decide to take CCP up on their offer and go 0/0/0 while they do other things. VS the people who play the game and go 0/8/0 and gain the same amount of SP. Like I keep saying if you have issues bring them to CCP and tell them to change the system to reward good play. Otherwise all they are doing is rewarding time in game.

It's so sad seeing people trying to justify their AFKing, almost as sad as seeing people caring about what other people do in game.

But really if you're AFKing then it's not just CCP's fault. The mechanic may be there because of them, but you're the one choosing to exploit it.

I don't care what you do in game, but don't lie to yourself thinking your behavior is justified. The game sucks? Don't play. Don't want to lose out on SP? That's fine, just don't come up with all these other BS excuses. Not sure why you aren't willing to fight people with an SP advantage though, newberries do it all the time, I guess they have more balls then you.