Guild Wars 2

Fellow mist runners,

it’s time to cut on one very lame tactic ppl like to employ – creating multiple accounts to disclose enemy tag locations.

Today I received a very funny reasoning when I accused a person of doing this seeing them camp at spawn not the first time. It seemed as they were AFK but when spoken to the reply was “I play other games in the meantime and I like to stay in game to read comments…” – makes me think are people really so bored in their lives that they log in to the borderlands to be AFK and read comments? Really? Not only are they taking limited spots for those who want to join and play, but it’s highly likely they do something else than what they say they do.

Logging in to AFK… – my mind stopped right there.

I know some will object stating they want to try to play for the other side as well and that is fine, however many abuse this in favour of their guild / world, hence something should be done about it to prevent this sort of cheating.

My idea to remedy this would be to allow ppl a maximum of 2 accounts by associating credentials that could not be used across multiple accounts, one on EU and one on NA at maximum – continental difference.

Correction: multiple accounts allowed within the same realm.

I disagree.

My wife and i each have 2 accounts, and both my sons have an account. All paid by me, so credentials match. There are many others i know who have accounts for multiple members of their family and they tend to want to be on the same server.

As for idling, some people actually log in to keep tabs on team chat and guild chat, while doing chores around the house, sometimes i watch tv until something interesting happens. Its my choice how i play, and just because people like to blob up i shouldn’t be denied an opportunity to play when there’s other maps open. Even when i am active on a map, people still whine and moan to free queue spaces because their 35-40 on their tag “is not enough” (VR and KEK for instance)

I think what you should be calling for is more of a better enforcement on autocast scripts since there are always more than a handful around map idling casting the same spell over and over to stay in wvw. I at least manually move myself and am forced to requeue now and then when i get too busy irl (or alt tabbed)

neven.3785:

I disagree.

My wife and i each have 2 accounts, and both my sons have an account. All paid by me, so credentials match. There are many others i know who have accounts for multiple members of their family and they tend to want to be on the same server.

As for idling, some people actually log in to keep tabs on team chat and guild chat, while doing chores around the house, sometimes i watch tv until something interesting happens. Its my choice how i play, and just because people like to blob up i shouldn’t be denied an opportunity to play when there’s other maps open. Even when i am active on a map, people still whine and moan to free queue spaces because their 35-40 on their tag “is not enough” (VR and KEK for instance)

I think what you should be calling for is more of a better enforcement on autocast scripts since there are always more than a handful around map idling casting the same spell over and over to stay in wvw. I at least manually move myself and am forced to requeue now and then when i get too busy irl (or alt tabbed)

I think you missed the point Inoki made: creating multiple accounts to disclose enemy tag locations.

Inactive player in WvW will either need to do some action like AA or move to stay in a WvW map. This happens faster then it would in PvE maps for AFK players.

I don’t see why player who only wants to keep up with chat can’t just stay in PvE maps (they should go to cities [safe zone] as it no fun to rezz player in vital spots during events just to realise that they just give a kitten and are dead in 2 seconds again). This is not a Facebook account after all, it is a game where people are supposed to play or at least be at their computer. ;-)

ANet did also move out crafting from Desert/Alpine maps, so there is no reason to go there if you aren’t there to be actively playing in those maps.

I’m frequently logged in at Citadel on home BL, afk, tabbed out doing many other things, some of which include playing other games or even posting here as I’m doing now. Yes, the game times me out but that makes a noise that I can hear (I have game sound on while tabbed out) so I just tab back over and log in again.

Citadel in WvW is my default “resting” position and and has been for four years. It’s convenient and I can scramble to defend Garri or wherever if I get a ping from the Commander (which I can also hear when tabbed out). Other people idle in LA, I idle in Citadel. Once upon a time I used to have to consider whether I was taking up a spot that someone else could use but since we haven’t had a queue on home BL for well over a year now that’s no longer a consideration.

As for limiting accounts – you are kidding, right? This is a business we’re talking about here. Not to mention that some of us are adults and able to compartmentalize. In the current T3 match my wife and I have accounts playing on all three teams (YB, NSP and EBay) and we won’t even talk to each other about what the other team is doing. What’s more, we don’t even allow our characters to know anything they shouldn’t. If I’m logged in on my EBay account and HoD is on YB’s inner Garri gate and no-one’s spotted us yet not only do I not tell anyone on YB about it, I don’t even swap to my YB account to go and defend because my YB character doesn’t know its happening.

This is an RPG, even in WvW, or it is as far as I’m concerned.

Please stop telling people how to play. If people want to idle in WvW let them.

apparently he is not mad you idle…he is mad that the idle player could be a player from opposite team so can spy the tag thus the location of the players

You can make accounts without associating credentials, and they can still spy.. so then what?

Spying will always be around especially with free accounts, not much you can do about it. Limiting accounts with associating credentials will just hurt households that have multiple family members playing the game, and kittening off customers you don’t need to be doing, anet already does a good job of that on their own.

JemL.3501:

apparently he is not mad you idle…he is mad that the idle player could be a player from opposite team so can spy the tag thus the location of the players

It doesnt really matter anyway. Even if this particular loophole for spying is closed, you can just as easily be a “legit” zerger in guilds across servers and talk in the chat about where the com is. You cant stop it so there is no point having arbitrary rules and regulations.

Correction: multiple accounts allowed within the same realm.