Guild Wars 2

this is an ongoing problem.

Simply making the rules a bit tighter would fix it.

If more than 2 minutes AFK in WvW you should be kicked back to LA. simple.
It is a War, and active numbers matter. AFK are a dead weight, and hinder outnumbers bonus, or Queue for people that might want to get in, (if there is a queue).

There are queues again? What?!

Silverstone.4539:

this is an ongoing problem.

Simply making the rules a bit tighter would fix it.

If more than 2 minutes AFK in WvW you should be kicked back to LA. simple.
It is a War, and active numbers matter. AFK are a dead weight, and hinder outnumbers bonus, or Queue for people that might want to get in, (if there is a queue).

You see Back before the new maps I ran on EBG and noticed a lot of people just sitting at keep or spawn waiting for their guild cuz of the cue but those same people would get mad because we are losing its like help us don’t sit, they also would only follow their guild and no one else like they are to good to follow another commanders. so I agree we need to stop the bull and kick the afkers

Silverstone.4539:

If more than 2 minutes AFK in WvW you should be kicked back to LA. simple.

You know that wvw is not only fighting, right? 2 minutes would be very annoying for scouts (especially if we get back the alpine borderlands where you can often scout several gates/walls from one position without having to move). Or when guilds are gathering up on a border. Or when the commander needs a quick break. Hell, 2 minutes wouldn’t even be enough to go to the toilet. Or answer the door/phone. Or grab a drink. Or standing in front of a t3 gate waiting for it to open.
You really want everyone who has to leave their computer for more than TWO minutes to have to queue up again?

Afk people probably aren’t a real problem anyway. It’s either a lot of people running around off tag while the commander is struggeling against blobs or people at crafting stations etc. (but the latter usually won’t bother to get through queues so it’s not really an issue either). The people you think are afk aren’t really afk, they just don’t want to follow the commander for whatever reason. So changing the max idle time wouldn’t help matters, it would just make things more annoying for others.
Trust me, I’ve played WvW for quite some time now and witnessed commanders having less than 20 people on tag while there was a queue on the border and less than 10 people “afk” in spawn + keep combined.

There are queues again? What?!

Piken yesterday had queues on 2 borders + eb.

Whats the timer on now? Afaik its been pretty short for a long while.

But regardless its incredibly easy to fool it so there is really no point. Those that want to AFK for an hour will.

If you want less queues, the only way is to work together with the community and spread out across the borders. If your server still got tons of queues after that, well it only show you are overstacked. Play more EoTM or something.

Dawdler.8521:

Whats the timer on now? Afaik its been pretty short for a long while.

It’s currently set to 15 minutes.

Crazy Branden.6951:

Silverstone.4539:

this is an ongoing problem.

Simply making the rules a bit tighter would fix it.

If more than 2 minutes AFK in WvW you should be kicked back to LA. simple.
It is a War, and active numbers matter. AFK are a dead weight, and hinder outnumbers bonus, or Queue for people that might want to get in, (if there is a queue).

You see Back before the new maps I ran on EBG and noticed a lot of people just sitting at keep or spawn waiting for their guild cuz of the cue but those same people would get mad because we are losing its like help us don’t sit, they also would only follow their guild and no one else like they are to good to follow another commanders. so I agree we need to stop the bull and kick the afkers

How are they afk when they’re there to answer and “get mad”? :| Unless afk means them not being where you want. Not everybody wants in on public raids. Makes zero sense for them to do something they don’t enjoy so Johnny Random can have fun. Move passed that.

gennyt.3428:

Crazy Branden.6951:

Silverstone.4539:

this is an ongoing problem.

Simply making the rules a bit tighter would fix it.

If more than 2 minutes AFK in WvW you should be kicked back to LA. simple.
It is a War, and active numbers matter. AFK are a dead weight, and hinder outnumbers bonus, or Queue for people that might want to get in, (if there is a queue).

You see Back before the new maps I ran on EBG and noticed a lot of people just sitting at keep or spawn waiting for their guild cuz of the cue but those same people would get mad because we are losing its like help us don’t sit, they also would only follow their guild and no one else like they are to good to follow another commanders. so I agree we need to stop the bull and kick the afkers

How are they afk when they’re there to answer and “get mad”? :| Unless afk means them not being where you want. Not everybody wants in on public raids. Makes zero sense for them to do something they don’t enjoy so Johnny Random can have fun. Move passed that.

what I was referring to are that these are the people that are mad that we are losing but sit afk in EBG or whatever

volpenvieh.3201:

Or when the commander needs a quick break. Hell, 2 minutes wouldn’t even be enough to go to the toilet. Or answer the door/phone. Or grab a drink.

What’s real life again? LOL Wish more people thought like you do.

Chaba.5410:

volpenvieh.3201:

Or when the commander needs a quick break. Hell, 2 minutes wouldn’t even be enough to go to the toilet. Or answer the door/phone. Or grab a drink.

What’s real life again? LOL Wish more people thought like you do.

I’m sure most do You couldn’t even change your gear/build and run to the BLTC in that time. I do think 10min over 15 isn’t bad though. 2 min? Um, plz no.

I don’t know about just two minutes afk, that’s a little extreme. Commanders/pugs need a break and if they take a 10 min that’s fine by me. I roam and sometimes need to port to spawn, reset and take a 10 minute, get myself a beer then go pretend I’m the greatest player in the game again. Most guilds are in Teamspeak setting up groups during prime or builds, usually that means afk for a few.

Those guilds, commanders, and roamers are supporting your server at the end of the day. Not a good idea just to kick them from wvw for wanting to do things right.

Please record a 6 hour session of World vs World where you don’t go afk for more than 2 minutes.

If you succeeded in doing this, please step away from the monitor. You are killing your body.

ok, maybe 2 minutes is a little short, but there does seem to be general consensus that what we currently have is too long.

Some of you in gold tier are oversensitive to anyone who not running right on top of a tag. The other day I wanted to pick some items from TP, no queue in eb so hopped in and in the short time it takes to run from spawn to tp npc and take stuff from him, one guy got almost a full page of chat qq’ing about spawn afkers (2 guys).

I think the AFK timer is fine. If the Deserted BLa had something to offer then there would be little reason to complain about the EBG queue, hell there probably wouldn’t even be an EBG so often. Go read something and wait your turn.