Guild Wars 2

Today I experienced an “interesting” new form of warfare in WvW, which I would dub “griefing warfare”.

I was and still am not entirely sure wether I should post this here, because frankly put, I don’t want to give more people funny ideas. But since I’m somewhat at a loss about what to do about it, I’ll go ahead and describe the situation.

We had a couple of “friendly” players actively sabotaging the WvW efforts of our server. They moved with the group, spammed useless construction sites whenever you assaulted a gate, on top of supply spots or simply along the way. They took parked omega golems on forlon hope assault across the map (even actively seeking and eganging an enemy group) and similar behaviour.
I don’t think I have to explain the problems this causes to anyone in this forum.

According from what I gleamed from the map chat and TS conversation, those were leftovers from guilds that left the server for the WvW season.
My first theory would have been someone who changed the server after the start since their personal rewards are based on their homeserver at the beginning of the season.

Anyway, whatever applies, there is no real way for you to get rid of those. Theres no simple way to report someone doing something like this. Most likely because this isn’t something the Arenanet-team can verify by analyzing chatlogs or similar.
The only way to prove something like that would be extensive video footage.

Or am I missing something? Has anyone an idea about what to do about someone like that?
The only thing I could come up is a variant of the vote/kick-system (a kick requiring a lot more votes to occur than in a normal group), but that is a dangerous tool in an environment like WvW in terms of abuse.
Likewise would be an option to report for griefing. To determine the critical mass of reports necessary for action, but for the system not to be triggered by a group just sporting a dislike, might be difficult.

Currently I can only hope that the people currently employing these “tactics” tire of this sort of “gameplay” and quit on their own accord.

I’m aware that someone might argue, that there is no need to do anything about this, since sabotage is a well employed practice in any kind of warfare, but I don’t think this is “working as intended” on behalf of this game.

This is not new. Anet has already stated to report them with evidence.