DUST Search - AFK CCP what are you doing?

D ust5 14 wrote:

Too often have I found myself in one of the instant matches, and most of my team is sitting around doing nothing at all, and some never even spawn. I guess some just do it for the SP/ISK/Miniscule chance of a win, but is detrimental to people who actually want to play the game. Tonight I found myself in an Ambush match where only six of the sixteen players qued for the match had actually spawned during the whole game. You can imagine who lost. It's not fair to those that actually went out and played the game to get about as much as these people who just sit and farm ISK and SP. I think that if someone doesn't even spawn once, or doesn't do anything for a while, that they should be kicked from the match after, say, maybe five or so minutes of no activity, along with maybe a debuff for a little while of less SP or ISK or something of the sort to make it less profitable to just sit and do nothing. I think most people will agree with me that something needs to be changed about these "farmers," as it lessens the fun of the game when I know I can't win a match when half my team is spectating and off making a sandwich or something else away from the game. Please do something about this.


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ALPHA DECRIPTER M.E.R.C. Conventional Forces D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E 62	Posted - 2013.07.15 12:18:00 - [1] - Quote D ust5 14 wrote: Too often have I found myself in one of the instant matches, and most of my team is sitting around doing nothing at all, and some never even spawn. I guess some just do it for the SP/ISK/Miniscule chance of a win, but is detrimental to people who actually want to play the game. Tonight I found myself in an Ambush match where only six of the sixteen players qued for the match had actually spawned during the whole game. You can imagine who lost. It's not fair to those that actually went out and played the game to get about as much as these people who just sit and farm ISK and SP. I think that if someone doesn't even spawn once, or doesn't do anything for a while, that they should be kicked from the match after, say, maybe five or so minutes of no activity, along with maybe a debuff for a little while of less SP or ISK or something of the sort to make it less profitable to just sit and do nothing. I think most people will agree with me that something needs to be changed about these "farmers," as it lessens the fun of the game when I know I can't win a match when half my team is spectating and off making a sandwich or something else away from the game. Please do something about this. Hmm. The game could count the total time spent within the proximity of the starting spawns (count wouldn't start until all objectives have been captured so as to not penalize those waiting for there vehicles.). Every 60 seconds would add a debuff to your ISK and SP at the end of the match. If a total of, let's say, 8 debuffs are stacked that match then you would simply get no SP/ISK (1 SP is still given for every WP). Extend this to the entire red zone but the debuff is stacked every 90 seconds instead (sitting behind the line is not helping anyone). The extra 30 seconds are to keep poor teams from getting hit too hard while at the same time, keeping players from rushing into the enemy's spawn thus allowing them some breathing room to fight back. And finally if you remain still without performing any action (aiming/hacking/cooking a grenade/charging/squad commands/etc) then it will be the same as sitting behind the redline. It may seem extreme but at least the AFKers are no longer encouraged (huh, I could've made my own thread with this... oh well)