Guild Wars 2

I for one do not like F2P accounts wasting EWP (Emergency Waypoints) and all the levers they can to purposely screw the other server.
Why not just make the F2P players only have access to EoTM (Edge of The Mist) so not only me but others can WvW properly

What, exactly, identifies account as Play4Free? I’ve not been able to determine such classifications.

Free-to-play accounts can’t even access WvW until they have a character that reaches level 60. Even then there’s no real way to identify if the offending player is using a free, pre-HoT, or post-HoT account. I’m afraid OP’s argument is invalid. There are trolls, there will always be trolls, but there’s no way to identify what type of account said troll is using.

Can always put them on private only. I know not the best solution of all but i have done it couple of times before to stop them pulling it on purpose.

If someone is being deliberately disruptive you can report them, either in-game or by contacting support if you want to include more detail, screenshots etc.

That’s going to be much more effective than arbitrarily deciding they must all have a specific type of account and asking for all those accounts to be banned from WvW completely.

Spies and saboteurs existed in WvW since day 1, years before Play-for-Free came along and they’re probably always going to be around in one form or another. I think the idea is about as old as warfare itself.

But if you report them at least those individuals will be gone. And then they either have to buy a new account or create a free one and reach level 60 all over again. (And given how cheap copies of the base game are these days reaching level 60 on a brand new account might actually be more of a barrier.)

The tactics have fairly simple fixes. Don’t let most of them get pulled unless a large force is on inner. Doesn’t fix everything but it would help EWP, Chilling Fog, etc.

Danikat.8537:

But if you report them at least those individuals will be gone. And then they either have to buy a new account or create a free one and reach level 60 all over again. (And given how cheap copies of the base game are these days reaching level 60 on a brand new account might actually be more of a barrier.)

I can confirm as some one who made a f2p account on a different server (not for spying cause I have friends that are australlia on that server while my main is on the server my na friends are) and it was painful to get my account to lvl 60 as this one didn’t have tomes to speed it up

A lot of people make free to play accts to spy or to troll tactics. Free to play accts should only have access to edge of the mists.

aandiarie.7195:

A lot of people make free to play accts to spy or to troll tactics. Free to play accts should only have access to edge of the mists.

10$ accounts can do the same and they don’t even need to level up to 60 to do it. Like it was said before, this kind of behavior been around since day 1 and there is no point in limiting the F2P accounts more than they already are just because the OP thinks the troll is a F2P account.

if peeps have such a sad life that trolling other servers is an accomplishment for them, I sort of feel sorry for them instead of getting mad…….

So are you guys trying to help anet get less players in wvw?
Cool.

So what happens they take out f2p accounts and some clown still pulls the emergency waypoint for no reason?

They already lock tactics to guild only pulls if you want, you all expect them to make up some complicated system of who can and who can’t pull the tactics next? F2p can’t touch it, lets have a running ban list of trolls who can’t touch it, make sure you only give access to that list to guild leaders, make sure those guild leaders have a level 40 guild, make sure they have a minimum 100 people in the guild, only pullable when there’s 50 people within a 50yard radius, the puller has to have 1000 hours of wvw and 1000 wvw ranks.

Hey how about they deal with it like they did with the supply troll issue, make the tactics automated, they only activate when 50 players are within the outer walls.