Guild Wars 2

Organising is all well and good, but when the event pops and 33% of the people on the map are AFK and don’t show for the fight it makes the event all but impossible. Not only does it ruin any notion of organisation, they block players stuck in overflow who want to participate.

Please, implement a stricter AFK timer on Sparkfly fen. It’s simply not fair for people to ruin the event. Even if it’s a 5 min timer, that way people who are AFK will get booted and allow people in overflow to take their place.

I agree on this, the timer should be 15min. if he stands still (or dance mode) for more then 15 minits then he or she must be kicked.
i personaly think 5 is to fast (example: toilet).
I really hope a dev sees this because suchs timer will only do good for the comunity.

The timer should be 5 minutes. Afk people have to be handled stricter on this map.

Not so much a change in the timer… But I’d rather like a change in the world event itself. 5 minutes before the world event starts, everybody in the map will get a message (a bit like the “your server is ready, do you want to move?” message. If you don’t actively click this, you’ll be kicked.

Problem with auto-checking is that when you walk against a wall, you won’t be kicked. The game doesn’t recognize you running against a wall.

Yeah, I just started filling up their mailboxes with suggestions on where to go AFK.

This is what tehy shouldve taken into consideration when they made this event. You spend more then an hour before the event starts waiting in the server map, because else you get overflow and forget about it then.

People are not gona sit and wait for over an hour, they get bored and go do something else. Because the event then doesnt spawn accurately, but has a “window” people miss the event while still AFK.

Also, some jerk keeps spamming my ingame mail! :P

AFKers are a problem, but sadly they’re also a symptom of what’s wrong with this event.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

AFKers and dead people that refuse to WP are a big problem.

They should create an AFK zone on the map. If you are in the AFK zone, you can afk for the normal timer. If you AFK outside of the AFK zone, you get kicked after 1 minute.