Guild Wars 2

Hi everybody.
Since i didn’t find a sticky thread about i decided to make one.

I am going to try to explain what i did understand about:

1) Being AFK is legit ( though in some part of the game, like spvp matches, is forbidden and eventually punished ).
2) Being AFK with pets, turrets, runes which spawn pets, regen+retaliation and get loots ( or simply exp ) from mobs is not legit.

The question is, since i have seen people afk with pets/turrets for an instance in Siren’s Landing, near shrines, in order to

a) Buy 8 more chests from shrine vendors, which should be legit.
b) Tag themself through pets for the 2 events nearby ( and maybe got ressed if dead ), which should not be legit.

what does ANET say about this?
and more important, what do GW2 staff do in order to check if a person is or isn’t afk?

I know i could simply stay afk while watching a movie for an instance ( 2 activities in a row ), but are there any checks in order to control players?

ps: if there’s a thread with a clear response from ANET feel free to link

Thanks for reading and for the answers.

Dev responses to similar behaviour

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ranger-Pet-Botting/page/3#post6093187

Also

Chris Cleary.8017:

I’ll pitch in on this thread, as there seems to be some confusion about this situation.

The auto-cast feature was never intended to be used as an AFK farming mechanism, and usage of the auto-cast feature while AFK is fine as long as it is not used to facilitate unattended gameplay.

Mastery auto-loot also stopping players from being flagged afk seems like a bug instead of a feature, and I’ll be sure to bring it up today while we have a chat about this internally.

1) Using skill (1 or more) while AFK
2) AFKing in a place where it is beneficial for your character to be at
3) Unresponsive to interaction with GMs

If all 3 of these apply to what you are doing, you may get actioned for it.

As far I personally am concerned, I could care less. If that’s how players want to play, good luck to them. It’s not fun to me, but it has zero impact on my gameplay

Thank you very much Randulf.

The issue of taking map positions when active players are trying to participate is my concern. Tangled Depths is the main offender.

You mean afk players which are holding a spot for the meta part but not contribuiting building up the 4 line defenses doing the premeta?

I did not explain that very well but i hope you understood what i wanted to say.

Josh.4016:

The issue of taking map positions when active players are trying to participate is my concern. Tangled Depths is the main offender.

please go play tequatital . it happens their all the time !! personally myself them types I just leave on the ground .and do not reze them at all . noting at all to see 10 or 20 people down on some maps