Guild Wars 2

What’s Anet’s policy against players whose only purpose in game, it seems, is to troll, annoy, or otherwise be unpersonable to the playerbase without actually overtly breaking the letter of the rules?

Reason I ask is that I, once again, saw a well known troll guild start teq as their guild mission while people were forming for reset, and then sit there while the event ran for no other reason than their own sick amusement.

Honestly, it’s getting tiring at this point. I can understand a player messing up out of ignorance, but to have a large guild of people devoted to making every other player around them miserable is just absurd.

I don’t think you’re going to see much change if any. The problem you’re describing, although really ignorant, is not really something that Anet can reprimand a guild for. The problem being it would be easy for a guild to do this and just talk about how much “fun” they are having in trolling over TS rather than in game where the could leave evidence of their trolling. Sure Anet could temp ban this guild for their behavior but people will just get smarter. There’s no way to prove it was a troll keep be if there was no chat about it.

I guess the policy is use your block function. Bad behaviour is just tolerated.

If they’re not breaking the rules, I think that’s Anet’s policy. That’s what rules are for. (Noting that some rules are more open than others.)

As for Tequatl, perhaps you could open a thread suggesting that guilds shouldn’t be able to trigger Tequatl within X minutes of its normally scheduled happening. That’s a specific solution to a fixable problem.

How in the world does the block function help in this case?

BTW, why are guilds allowed to spawn bosses anyway?

They’re allowed to spawn bosses so they can get a big group together and do Tequatl on their schedule. It’s a pretty cool feature, actually, but, as you can see, there’s a little room for abuse with it in this case.

Redenaz.8631:

If they’re not breaking the rules, I think that’s Anet’s policy. That’s what rules are for. (Noting that some rules are more open than others.)

As for Tequatl, perhaps you could open a thread suggesting that guilds shouldn’t be able to trigger Tequatl within X minutes of its normally scheduled happening. That’s a specific solution to a fixable problem.

That’s already in place, you can’t spawn world bosses within 30 minutes of their regular spawn time. The problem that’s unique with Teq is that if the guild-spawned Teq fails, it fills the area with exploding fish heads before the regular Teq arrives.

Oh. That seems harmless, then. Some super early AFKers might have to respawn, but it’s not a big deal.