Guild Wars 2

Just be aware that there is a very large population of players that are using exploits or macro’s to stop from being afk timed out while in WvWvW. This behavorior is a huge part of why you are seeing the queue times you are seeing, and is one of the hug cruxes of WvWvW. Not only are these people destroying the queues, but they are also unbalancing the forces actually playing. If 20% of the people are afk at a given time, that is 20% fewer people actually helping your team.

Many of these people are in WvWvW from the moment the server goes live until it is taken down for maintenance never leaving. Even though they may only be playing 2-3 hours out of 23-24 hours they are in the WvW map.

There are two ways people are using to stop from being auto logged out. The people that are simply running into a wall or have a object stuck in their keyboard to keep turning them are easy to detect. But those people using a complicated macro that causes them to take and action (turning 3degrees) at random intervals are harder to detect.

The only real way ANet can outright prevent this type of behavior would be to add a captcha type event. It may not have to be a sequence that you have to type in. But simply a window that pops up that says click the picture of the scissors.

This event could be triggered on people that haven’t taken more than X unique actions within a certain time limit. Say 4 unique actions within 5 min.

But unless something is done to address and combat this core issue, many of these other options being discussed really won’t matter.

sticx.5823:

There are two ways people are using to stop from being auto logged out. The people that are simply running into a wall or have a object stuck in their keyboard to keep turning them are easy to detect.

This doesn’t work. You still get logged out for inactivity.

Why are they doing that? Whats the point? O_o

You ask why ?

In my case the queue was 4h long.

“This doesn’t work. You still get logged out for inactivity.”

The running into a wall with auto-run was working until recently, removed a player from friends list for doing it. Jamming a coin etc into your keyboard to constantly turn your character would still also be working, because it’s constant input from the user.

But those two ways aside, many people are using 3rd party macro programs like the G15 keyboards etc. To give input at somewhat regular intervals, so as to prevent being auto logged out.