Guild Wars 2

How about implementing a rule that would give you increasingly longer dishonor periods for people that AFK and/or disconnect during matches?

It’s mainly to discourage AFKing or PvPing when people KNOW they are having connection issues.

My idea for the implementation is:

• If person gets shown the “If you don’t move or use a skill you will be kicked….” message during a match dishonor gets triggered.
• Staying in base for too long (30sec?) triggers dishonor.
• If a person DCs during a match (i.e. after the match starts) dishonor gets triggered.
• Dishonor time can be calculated by following formula:
  [Last dishonor time (1 if it is the first trigger)]x3. So 3min on first trigger, 9 on second, etc.
• First AFK warning and first 2 disconnects every day are forgiven to account for server sided random DCs and give a little bit of freedom to afk in case you need to sign for a parcel or something.
• Forgiven triggers do not get penalized, but once they start getting penalized they stack.
• (optional) It possibly exists, but a dishonor (with initial higher penalty) could be triggered if a person gets reported for match manipulation by at least 4 people (that must be in the match) in at least 2 matches on a particular day.
  So if, I got reported by 4 people on 1 match, and then on next match I got reported by 4 more people I should get dishonor.

I think my reasons should be clear to everyone playing pvp. Disconnects and occasional AFK moments are sometimes out of players’ control, but when it’s consistent it just ruins the game for other people.

You know you can just jump around spawn and not get afk message (that is what trolls have been doing).

Cynz.9437:

You know you can just jump around spawn and not get afk message (that is what trolls have been doing).

And that’s where optional dishonor on enough reports comes in.

Jitsuryoku.9038:

Cynz.9437:

You know you can just jump around spawn and not get afk message (that is what trolls have been doing).

And that’s where optional dishonor on enough reports comes in.

Take a wild guess when customer support actually did anything about reported afk’ers, griefers and trolls. Just prime example: there is a necro on EU that has been notorious rager and afk’er for years. Everyone knows him, people have been reporting him for years, no one-two times, years!!! Was anything done about it? Nope.

Cynz.9437:

Jitsuryoku.9038:

Cynz.9437:

You know you can just jump around spawn and not get afk message (that is what trolls have been doing).

And that’s where optional dishonor on enough reports comes in.

Take a wild guess when customer support actually did anything about reported afk’ers, griefers and trolls. Just prime example: there is a necro on EU that has been notorious rager and afk’er for years. Everyone knows him, people have been reporting him for years, no one-two times, years!!! Was anything done about it? Nope.

Yeah, anet doesn’t seem to ban lightly, which is why automatic measures to prevent PvPing (but not playing the game) would be nice.
I mean if a player got reported 4 games for afking and there was a stacking dishonor rule that would give the player a bit over a day of dishonor. So that necro of yours could only troll a few times a day.

Jitsuryoku.9038:

Cynz.9437:

Jitsuryoku.9038:

Cynz.9437:

You know you can just jump around spawn and not get afk message (that is what trolls have been doing).

And that’s where optional dishonor on enough reports comes in.

Take a wild guess when customer support actually did anything about reported afk’ers, griefers and trolls. Just prime example: there is a necro on EU that has been notorious rager and afk’er for years. Everyone knows him, people have been reporting him for years, no one-two times, years!!! Was anything done about it? Nope.

Yeah, anet doesn’t seem to ban lightly, which is why automatic measures to prevent PvPing (but not playing the game) would be nice.
I mean if a player got reported 4 games for afking and there was a stacking dishonor rule that would give the player a bit over a day of dishonor. So that necro of yours could only troll a few times a day.

The automatic features would be abused. I don’t like someone? I would just get few buddies to report that person – BAM, he can’t queue anymore. I don’t want to face top players? Report them! You see the issue?