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PUG Ground PvP is Exploiter Hell - Plz Fix ASAP

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
This is a warning to all players. The inability to leave ground PvP maps and the absence of Cryptic support in game has led to a lot of exploitation of ground PvP bugs, and it could seriously waste a lot of your time in game without you being able to do anything about it.

If you enter a PUG match in ground PvP, certain players (don't have to name them, we all know who they are) will change teams forcing the duration of matches to extend considerably. The inability to leave the map means you can end up with no enemies to fight because players can intentionally switch sides to the other faction.

The only workaround is to enter ground PvP in premade groups so no one on the other faction can become a member of your team. Ironically, I have seen the bug exploited to allow a player to leave a match - IE - change teams, become the 6th player on the other team, and get booted off the map 10 seconds later.

Until the bug that allows players to intentionally switch teams is fixed, there are all kinds of ways players will be griefed by this bug - including getting stuck in ground pvp for very long periods of time.

Since this was reported to the tribble forums and presumably ignored, I guess this is a new feature of ground PvP? It would also be nice to know how to report players knowingly exploiting this bug or how players can report bugs and Devs actually see the report. I reported this bug to the tribble forums but it still made it to Holodeck.

I also have screenshots of one player in particular on different maps exploiting this bug multiple times, although it is unclear if this is a proper way to report exploiters. This individual in particular will enter a match, switch teams very early on if the other faction is winning, fight with the other faction, then switch back to his original faction at the last second before the match ends so all of his statistics align with his faction (part of the feature of the bug) - but am not sure the process for reporting exploiters.

Does anyone know what to do when you are stuck on a map and the Fed guy becomes a Klingon so he doesn't have to die 40 times?

The Ground PvP system in this game is not reliable enough to prevent players from leaving the map. I have no idea why Cryptic is worried about a leave penalty in PvP, this game is so bugged on certain PvP maps that being forced to stay and PvP in the broken and often exploited system can be punishment in and of itself.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    bump for semtuk
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    What sad is that I reported this exact bug back in BETA as I am sure allot of other people have as well, and they still have not fixed it so it just goes to show you they do not care about pvp and its bugs at all. Because to let this thing go unchecked by a dev for more than 3 months is a joke, they really need to get a team to start fixing bugs because everytime I play this game I find more and more bugs or just encounter the same ones that have been around forever its pretty annoying.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Meow gives this exploit TWO PAWS DOWN.
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