You know that if you killed them you would either get negative WP, get kicked and/or lose your suit by way of instant death.

I fail to see how any of those are worse than having over a third of my team sitting in the MCC collecting SP and ISK for absolutely no effort when the rest of use are getting slaughtered trying to actually enjoy the game.

But friendly fire wouldn't solve nothing. It might make everything worse if you think about it.

I also wasn't meaning that I actually want friendly fire on in pub matches. I was just venting my frustration.

Just finished a match in which the reason we got horribly stomped was because six (6) of our team members were afk in the mcc the entire match. That's literally an entire squad worth of players who contributed absolutely nothing to the entire match. I know CCP is working on a fix for this but it can't come soon enough. I am livid.

Were are looking into afk'ers and redline issues. Many suggestions and ideas from players have been brought to the table, and even our own. We are open to hear suggestions still while we continue to go over the options and weigh the pros / cons, and ultimate affect they would have on the game.

Send them an email asking them to please afk on the oceania server.

Most people are just uninformed that afking should be done in oceania.

Is this really a thing? Are the Oceania servers really that bad? Don't the Australian players play on Oceania? They have it bad enough without people sending all the afkers over there.

Is this really a thing? Are the Oceania servers really that bad? Don't the Australian players play on Oceania? They have it bad enough without people sending all the afkers over there.

Send them an email asking them to please afk on the oceania server.

Most people are just uninformed that afking should be done in oceania.

Yes this is a thing.

Last night I was in there AFKing and both teams AFKed the entire game not one single objective was hacked.
I should have took a pic, meh oh well I am sure it happens often.

How to kill your Teammates in three easy step:
Step one: cook a grenade
Step two: while cooking the grenade stand really close to the teammate you want to kill
Step three: let it blow up in your hand

Congratulations; you are both dead

That no longer works as far as I'm aware.

The solution to afk'ing is to remove passive isk & sp gain for people behind the red line. Of course it won't completely solve the probably but it'll certainly stop rewarding people for afk'ing. The sooner CCP does this the sooner Skirmish becomes worthwhile to play again.

Just finished a match in which the reason we got horribly stomped was because six (6) of our team members were afk in the mcc the entire match. That's literally an entire squad worth of players who contributed absolutely nothing to the entire match. I know CCP is working on a fix for this but it can't come soon enough. I am livid.

then i'll just AFK on the edge of the map where snipers hang out at. see not fixed. this redline idea is a bad one which i don't support because its not well thought out. btw the reason there is more AFKers in skirmish is length of the match is the longest and thus most per match in terms of SP so less time spent loading and checking and largest gains.

i just killed an AFKer by cooking a militia locus grenade right beside him but i also died in the process

it looks like an old bug is back!

for the newbs who didn't know, you cook a nade beside the afker and it kills him and you at the same time, welcome to hell..

I can sit my dropship down on you there a hell of a lot easier than I can in the MCC.