There’s a sight issue with sometimes bots loitering in areas that are prone to events they can mooch off of, but also with genuine players having to go AFK and other players mistaking them for bots. My suggestion would be to involve a gameplay mechanic that would allow a player to type /afk, go into a recognizable animation (perhaps with a little “AFK” flag above their head), and while in this mode, the player would be flagged by the system in such a way that they cannot collect event credit, even if they are in the right area for it, which would mean that any player you see in this mode is clearly not up to shenanigans.
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Tested this a second ago.
It doesn’t work.
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4x Necromancer, 3x Mesmer, 4x Guardian, 4x Thief, 4 Revenant
log out to the char selection screen. Why stand somewhere where you can get attacked and why waste server resources while you go do whatever? It is not like it takes long to log in/out in this game.
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Loading screens. Sometimes the amount of time to load is unnecessary long for some computers.
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4x Necromancer, 3x Mesmer, 4x Guardian, 4x Thief, 4 Revenant
Loading screens. Sometimes the amount of time to load is unnecessary long for some computers.
In my experience, a loading screen can take as little as a minute or so, and as long as several minutes, depending on various conditions. I’d rather not log out if I intend to be back within a few minutes, and I know most of the world well enough to put my character someplace relatively safe.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
Really isn’t a need, they’d have to do extra coding for it to be a non issue for regular players , make it so it’s not so annoying yada yada…think that’s why they didn’t add it.
Also, just report the broken bots for standing there dieing over and over naked in the middle of Orr. I’m very sure a regular player isn’t doing that.
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And what is the use of the auto kick after a certain amount of activity crap? If it was designed to kill bots temporarily, it is not working and just annoying players that do afk or switch windows for long periods of time.
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log out to the char selection screen. Why stand somewhere where you can get attacked and why waste server resources while you go do whatever? It is not like it takes long to log in/out in this game.
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This.
And if a loading screen takes 1+ minute(s) in GW2 for you, then there is something very wrong with your computer.
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The OP raises a non-issue: players getting confused with bots. It just doesn’t happen. Sure, someone can accidentally report a real player who happens to be near some bots, but ANet isn’t going to ban them based on just your word (or even that of 10-20 people). They look at the overall picture: same area? same route? often afk in the exact same place? often afk in bot-heavy locations?
Even if this were an issue, there are existing alternatives:
- You can easily AFK by using [F12], especially if you know that you won’t be playing for more than 5-10 minutes.
- If you’re worried about loading times, you can easily move your toon to a safe area (and since it’s safe, there’s little risk of anyone reporting you).
Finally, if I see a naked toon standing near an event-rich area, I’m going to report them regardless of whether they have a special symbol above their head. I’m not able to sort out who is a bot and who isn’t — ANet has paid staff to do that and I’d rather spend my time playing the game.
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Yeah… Anet doesn’t just ban people because they were reported as bots otherwise there would be trolls reporting everyone just to get them banned. They have a lot of information stored their side that they can use to see what the behavior of the reported player has been like and there is no chance of a player being banned as a bot, the differences are just too much. I would imagine if the bot was done really well there’s a chance they might get mistaken for a player but that isn’t very likely and if it does happen it won’t have a direct impact on you.
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Loading takes even longer the more densely populated the zone is, aka Lion’s Arch.