Guild Wars 2

Hello,

first of all I’m not doing much WvWvW, I just go to the maps in the mornings, do my dailies and get out so I’m hardly familiar with the rules and mechanics. What I do know is, that the counter on the top center goes down to 0 and people on the map get a bonus in WXP (?) then the timer starts again.

This morning I came to do my dailies again and noticed a strange person. He was in the corner of a shop, constantly running in to the wall. Yeah probably he is lagging or my gc freaks out. Well, I d/c during my dailies so started over again. Took me nearly 30 minutes today. So out of curiosity I went back to the shop after the job was done and … well, he was still running into that wall.

I know that method from other MMORPGs, where people use this not to get ported out as they are about to go for some food or toilet – which is fine. But due to the thingy with the timer on top, I’m a bit curious if this guy was just short afk or parked his character there before he went to sleep.

So my question is, does this count as afk farming or is it tolerated and I just wasted 5 minutes of our precious lifetime?

Autorun does not stop a player from being disconnected for being afk as far as I know. Participation starts to decrease after a few minutes if no activity is done to contribute to it, so its not like you can max out participation then go afk for hours and get rewards.

After 10mins he probably has 0 participation. So there is no drive to item Farm tracks that way.

There are potential nefarious things going on, but I’d say auto run and went to bed is most likely.

But he could of been a spy reading team/map chats, back in the day when people “boxed” on everquest (today you can multi box multiple instances of the game on 1 computer) you needed multiple PCs. GW2 takes way to much attention to effectively box but someone could run a free account toon up to 60, log on to enemy server, auto run and read chat while playing their actual account on another device.

It’s not a Friday night, so they aren’t trying to over populate / force queue.

The good news is they aren’t trolling at the time, dropping random siege and pulling switches.

If he was macroing running into the wall every few seconds rather than just constantly running at it, it would not kick him out ever. But he has zero participation anyways.