Guild Wars 2

Last night I saw a new low in WvW. A player, dissatisfied with the server’s performance, determined that he was going to transfer servers as soon as possible. While this is an acceptable, personal choice, his subsequent actions were not. He decided he also wanted to punish his server by “sabotaging” it.

To sabotage the server, he went to every keep, tower, and supply camp that we controlled and drained the supply to build Battering Rams inside our keeps and towers. The effect was two-fold: he denied us supply to upgrade our fortifications and he capped the fortifications siege build limits to prevent us from building siege equipment to defend.

Currently, there does not appear to be an applicable category to “report” his behavior. I know many on the server were reporting him as “spamming” since he would occasionally fill map/team chat with boasts of how he was sabotaging the server’s efforts in WvW but even that seems to be a stretch. Should there be an option added to report “griefers”? Otherwise, what is the best option for the server to remedy the situation (outside of “do better” to prevent it in the first place)?

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

roll over and take it….

What a bad troll – everybody knows flame rams have their own siege cap.

eithinan.9841:

roll over and take it….

is that what you think is representative of anet’s “philosophy” ?

No that would be “just play spvp if it bothers you”

Ricky.4706:

eithinan.9841:

roll over and take it….

is that what you think is representative of anet’s “philosophy” ?

I cannot respond to this with my personal opinion because it would get me infracted.

Warthog.6870:

What a bad troll – everybody knows flame rams have their own siege cap.

Except they’re really great as a proximity cap sadly.

To the OP, a one-off day of him doing this they can’t really do anything about unfortunately. Take pix, document it and keep it. If he repeats this for several days in a row, take more screen shots/fraps, document it and file a support ticket. Particularly useful is screengrabs of any chat of him saying he’s doing it on purpose — that’s in map or whispers.

People rage like this all the time. Thankfully for most it’s usually just the one day of it.

Jayne.9251:

Warthog.6870:

What a bad troll – everybody knows flame rams have their own siege cap.

Except they’re really great as a proximity cap sadly.

To the OP, a one-off day of him doing this they can’t really do anything about unfortunately. Take pix, document it and keep it. If he repeats this for several days in a row, take more screen shots/fraps, document it and file a support ticket. Particularly useful is screengrabs of any chat of him saying he’s doing it on purpose — that’s in map or whispers.

People rage like this all the time. Thankfully for most it’s usually just the one day of it.

I believe he placed some of his rams on the walls and near gates to fill the proximity caps in critical areas, too, so that would definitely hurt us.

I have the screen captures of him actually building the rams next to the supply depot in the keep and of him bragging in map chat, so the first offense is covered. Hopefully, he will not do it again but it is hard to say. To ensure he doesn’t do it again would require the server as a whole to keep an eye out for just one individual going to our fortifications to sabotage us by ram building. We should only need to watch for players from the other servers, not our own. It is disappointing that there really isn’t much we can do to counter this kind of behavior as it happens. Even if we could break siege down, then it would be worse because he would have destroyed all the siege we had already placed to build more rams.