Guild Wars 2

So I have been having terrible connectivity issues since the September patch. I disconnect at LEAST once a day if not more. It is super annoying.

I was very recently in a PvP match, and I disconnected twice. I managed to get into the match but I couldn’t even leave our home base because of lag. All the while I see someone in /map from our team telling everyone in the match from both teams to report me for being afk, and that I’m running into the wall (which should have been an OBVIOUS indicator that something wasn’t right but I guess some people aren’t that bright). I PM’d the person later on and told them I was lagging but clearly they didn’t care considering I didn’t get a response or an apology or anything.

From what I have heard, if someone is ACTUALLY intentionally afk, the proper report function is for ‘botting.’ I could be wrong, but I’m just going off of what I’ve heard.

So now on the chance that I get disciplined for something beyond my control, what am I expected to do about it? How is ArenaNet planning on handling cases of people lagging and getting reported for it over cases of people intentionally throwing a match?

Sorry if this should be in a different subforum. I’m just a little irritated that I’m getting blamed for throwing a match when I didn’t do anything wrong or intentionally harmful at all.

pff nice try but you were obviously afk, enjoy your report.

Here’s a tip: if you don’t have anything useful to say, then don’t say anything at all.

mcgriddles.2416:

From what I have heard, if someone is ACTUALLY intentionally afk, the proper report function is for ‘botting.’ I could be wrong, but I’m just going off of what I’ve heard.

I don’t even …

How is afking == botting ?

“You may not use any third-party program (such as a “bot”) in order to automate gameplay functions, including playing, chatting, interacting, or gathering gold or items within Guild Wars 2.” – Guild Wars 2 Rules of Conduct

That is botting.

MARKONINI.4153:

mcgriddles.2416:

From what I have heard, if someone is ACTUALLY intentionally afk, the proper report function is for ‘botting.’ I could be wrong, but I’m just going off of what I’ve heard.

I don’t even …

How is afking == botting ?

“You may not use any third-party program (such as a “bot”) in order to automate gameplay functions, including playing, chatting, interacting, or gathering gold or items within Guild Wars 2.” – Guild Wars 2 Rules of Conduct

That is botting.

I said it’s what I heard, and that I could be wrong, but I’m just going off of what I heard.

From what I was told, it’s because you are accruing rank points without actually earning them.

We use ’botting’ because we *still* don’t have proper report functions appropriate to PvP - something like ’not participating’ would be nice to have.

We’ve definitely been told by someone with a red tag over their name to just keep reporting intentional afk’ers as botting for now. It’s not the right label, but it fits better than the other options do.

cheese.4739:

We use ‘botting’ because we still don’t have proper report functions appropriate to PvP – something like ‘not participating’ would be nice to have.

We’ve definitely been told by someone with a red tag over their name to just keep reporting intentional afk’ers as botting for now. It’s not the right label, but it fits better than the other options do.

Thank you.

mcgriddles.2416:

Here’s a tip: if you don’t have anything useful to say, then don’t say anything at all.

Here’s a tip: If you know you’re lagging, don’t go into pvp.

oxtred.7658:

mcgriddles.2416:

Here’s a tip: if you don’t have anything useful to say, then don’t say anything at all.

Here’s a tip: If you know you’re lagging, don’t go into pvp.

What the

I didn’t KNOW I was lagging. I did not start lagging until I had hit ‘Go now’ to enter my match. Basically you’re saying that I deserve being reported & possibly disciplined because of lag which is not even my fault? Bye

What I’m saying is you’re being pretty agressive for someone seeking help on a forum about how the poor you disconected.

Because I’m frustrated? Gee. How dare I be upset about a negative experience I had.

Am I supposed to be like, happy that I was being cursed out and had false statements made against me?

Acting like a frustrated child won’t help you, and being agressive in general will just get you more troubles. People here aren’t responsable for your lag, trust it or not. I however blame the guys playing with you when you had those lags, did you pass your anger on them as well?

Hang afkers…hang them now

oxtred.7658:

Acting like a frustrated child won’t help you, and being agressive in general will just get you more troubles. People here aren’t responsable for your lag, trust it or not. I however blame the guys playing with you when you had those lags, did you pass your anger on them as well?

I’m not holding anyone accountable on these forums for my lag. I’m not going to tolerate people in-game accusing me of things that are not true, nor am I going to tolerate it on the forums.

I came to these forums asking if ArenaNet had any plans to make differentiating between people who are actually afking & being reported for it versus people who are lagging and being reported falsely. The story I shared about my experience was merely to add context to my question. And instead of reading suggestions or any possible insight, I’ve just read unprovoked attacks and accusations directed towards me.