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"Fire Pit Squatters" in CTA, how about a fix?!?
boldorian
Member Posts: 30 Arc User
I have got to say, the “Fire Pit Squatters” in the CTA events are starting to become even more annoying. It has always been a pet peeve of mine, to be fighting in a CTA and having it take longer than expected, because one or more players feels they should be rewarded for roasting marshmallows. While they are telling ghost stories to themselves around the fire Pit, which tells you something about their mental stability to begin with, the rest of the team is fighting their hardest to complete the CTA and go on to the next one. With one or more players not being involved in the fight, it takes longer to complete, especially if we are using lower level characters.
In my most recent CTA I was running one of my toons, which happens to be a low item level rank 70 SW, and noticed it was not going well, since I was resurrecting other players. I noticed that a GWF had (0) damage, OK not so great a weapons fighter since they were not engaged in battle, and we were currently at the dragon. As soon as the dragon finally dies, the GWF runs through the initial portal and grabs the chest, to exit the event in the blink of an eye. So, they did not have to do any work, and gained the reward that the rest of us fought for. Sure, he could have offered one of his s’mores on the way out, but that would have been little consolation to the wounds the rest of us had to heal, and he had plenty of time to eat them all himself.
I have been playing the game since module one, and I understand how to ignore players, but at the rate I am ignoring players during CTA events, I will be playing all alone soon. I feel it is high time the Devs make a fix to the CTA where you have to at least kill one bad guy, take some damage, or inflict some damage in order to open the chest. We have had enough of being rewarded for knowing how to join a CTA group, without actually helping them in battle.
In my most recent CTA I was running one of my toons, which happens to be a low item level rank 70 SW, and noticed it was not going well, since I was resurrecting other players. I noticed that a GWF had (0) damage, OK not so great a weapons fighter since they were not engaged in battle, and we were currently at the dragon. As soon as the dragon finally dies, the GWF runs through the initial portal and grabs the chest, to exit the event in the blink of an eye. So, they did not have to do any work, and gained the reward that the rest of us fought for. Sure, he could have offered one of his s’mores on the way out, but that would have been little consolation to the wounds the rest of us had to heal, and he had plenty of time to eat them all himself.
I have been playing the game since module one, and I understand how to ignore players, but at the rate I am ignoring players during CTA events, I will be playing all alone soon. I feel it is high time the Devs make a fix to the CTA where you have to at least kill one bad guy, take some damage, or inflict some damage in order to open the chest. We have had enough of being rewarded for knowing how to join a CTA group, without actually helping them in battle.
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Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
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Prepare to be roasted, like am these days, cause many in this community think, it's ok to leech on other's effort and those of us, who complain are some tyrants.
World has turned upside down, especially in this game's community and what makes me mad, most blame the game or anything else, just not the camp fire warmers.
None the less it's good to see people with common sense.
That sentence about ignore is the best, spot on mate, yes my ignore list is long as Tolkien's books by now too. A while ago i proposed to Devs and fellow players here on forums, that the Q shouldn't match us together with people we have on ignore, but guess what, i was silenced again, saying what a terrible person i am for not wanting to "play" with such individuals.
If i may add my advise, i am aggroing the mobs towards those camp fire warmers, so they get roasted too, but this time by the dragon's breath or if i am full with them, i just simply jump out, let them leech on each other.
BTW other games have some minimum effort barometer built in, would be nice to see such thing implemented here too, although these days i wouldn't hold my breath.
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i hate wordless players. we dont know if they cant speak or using bot scripts for CTA events.
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idea would be, inactivity before chest highlighted, they get instantly boot before claiming the chest rewards. it need "disqualify rule", not the ADs nerf again.
about luring the mobs, now i see why, not possible, sorry.
they are using alts from days of invokings, in attempt to use up bonus ADs to get under 100k limit bonus.
Exactly what happened to me 2 days ago, have a tactician GF, that was made a while ago, she is only a bit over 2K and has only a few boons from Sharandar and DR. I had to give her up, cause i can't afford to maintain her anymore and campaigns were a pain with a tactician build, but anyways she was by a mile top paingiver with her 15 STR, big LOL.
Bots roam it sadly and as some have written in another thread, the new invention is the double bot syndrome, i am meeting more of this new type in many zones. Would be pretty easy to catch them, but i am not holding my breath.
Taking away content as with Gateway was definitely not the right way to do it, hurts only legit players and ever since that day, they moved into game and are growing like mushroom on the north side of a tree.
Cryptic needs to realize, they have to spend a bit on their game and use proper methods to fight bot and leeching (although many times combined) activity.
Robert E. Lee
I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.
Winston Churchill
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
David Icke
The vast bulk of bots are running for commercial reasons. They fuel the 3rd party sales sites. Those sites have a niche because players can trade and use the AH.
If players have no way to trade with each other, the only use for bots would be for personal use, which is bad but wouldn't be nearly as prevalent, and all remaining 3rd party sites would be pure scams.
It would be a deeply unpopular decision to remove player trading but it would resolve the vast bulk of the bot problem.
So... to the community: given Cryptic's track record, I'd be careful what you wish for.
Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
I never run them with any character that can't solo it in under 3 minutes (which is the slow ones). Sitters are... yeah, barely going to get noticed.
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i had GF mentor, he was on top 10 during first 2 yrs, i am nowhere near his max gear base, i am still on lot of rank 9s, been awhile since mod 6 that slow down lot of progressions big time when they took out C-wards from T-bar merchant. my old mentor left long time ago.
i do hate those "AFKers", all they do is to collect ADs and repeats and then cycle again with alts until ADs get too small to get. Cryptic is not doing very aggressive with bots using 3rd party scripts. they know these voliated EULA and CoC.
they need to block code scripter, make them not able to log with activated plug-ins, except for those with handicap program should register what is legit or have Cryptic design for handicap to play within option menu.
unattended micro combat is illegal, those gain unfair edge by excessive farming and played for hours without breaks, and exploit on overflow xp, and movement script to chests and kit nodes, and they control prices and inflation on auction house.
Robert E. Lee
I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.
Winston Churchill
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
David Icke
go to sharandar for refine stones until you get sick of it and Dread Ring's refine stones are all random except weekend "selectable" dungeons for specific stones you need.
if you are in 2.5k, it not that bad to reach 2.8k, then it take longer for 3.0k you can be very decent at 2.8k but not in Thunder zones, they are harder, try not to unlock Cold Run until boons are maxed if you doing solo.
2x refine points event will be back in 2 weeks, so stock it up.