Player on Stf that will stay afk for free reward

michele86ita · August 2012

One player on Kithomer accord space (elite) told at me and my friend...
[get me free stuff....work you dog ill collect free rewards if you finish]

Now, what we can do for this players? Player that will take the reward whitout play and insult you.

Please ban them because every time i'll lost stf for this players.

Thanks

denliner1701 · August 2012

Just fail the mission so he doesn't get any rewards.

Even though you won't get rewards, at least he isn't leeching off your success.

Just try again and hope you won't get that guy again. And I don't there won't be a kick system unless it is necessary. For now, this is a small annoyance.

skhc · August 2012

If he actually said he's AFKing in chat, then screenshot the chat (type /screenshot_ui) and send it in to support. They may ban him. I don't think they've ever said if they ban/suspend for that or not, but it's worth a try. If you got him from an STF group channel, report him to the admin of that too.

Within in the mission, I dunno, all you can really do is intentionally fail if you're in a position to take the penalty yourselves (ie. have other accounts to play on whilst your on the penalty cooldown).

verlaine11 · August 2012

This problem has been bought up quite a few times, unfortunetly a kick vote would be easily abused - what would be better is either you have to do a certain amount of damage in a certain amount of time to get your reward or a rating system, at the end of the stf where your fellow players rank you from 0-10 (if you keep getting 0s the system will register it for the next time you do an STF, if you are under a certain line it will ban you from STFs for a certain amount of time.

darkenzedd · August 2012

It is far better to do what has already been suggested. If this was said in chat, take sreenies and report to all the stf channels and cryptic.
Id rather take the 1hr cooldown hit knowing I stuffed up that guys afk free loot!

lostmoony · August 2012

still this funny thinks never happend to me and coz a player say he goes afk its 100% no reason to get any typ of ban.

i remember on a nice stf for me where 2 kiddy flame to me TRIBBLE and mean they are my comanders and i have to do what they say.

after i told them i dont give anythink on 2x 10 year old kiddies they start to insult massivly + tell me perm they are epic progamers bla bla bla.....

i say to the "pros", then do it alone if you think you can attak players personally , so i block him in chat go afk and what the really funny show.

it was in infected space a really nuub mission, but this 2xpro gamers + 1 neutral one defeat finally the cube afther ~25 min."1 other player also was attak so he leave the mission earlier.

jnohd · August 2012

Right-click their portrait and report.

this will open a dialogue you can include the time/day/place and character name, include the quote, and so on.

Sadly, I think they're understaffed and not really doing much against this, but I report AFKers in nearly every mission. Here's hoping repeat reports accelerates the process.

I will admit though, it beats the botters who have bots set up to automatically take and afk through missions for them all day - for that I'm willing to suggest some tough love tactics like you find in other games, including fleet disbandings to clear out ill-gotten starbase gains.

lostmoony · August 2012

never have seen that go afk for any reason is a break of any TOS if any kiddy caled from momy to breakfast he have to been kicked from the game? lifetime ban?:D

jnohd · August 2012

I miss the feature where we could addignore trolls on the forum and have them added to the blacklists in the game too...

foundrelic · August 2012

michele86ita wrote: »

One player on Kithomer accord space (elite) told at me and my friend...
[get me free stuff....work you dog ill collect free rewards if you finish]

Now, what we can do for this players? Player that will take the reward whitout play and insult you.

Please ban them because every time i'll lost stf for this players.

Thanks

/tell the other players and get them to leave. TRIBBLE the penalty.

majesticmsfc · August 2012

Reporting is pointless, I have yet to see anyone get banned or even a communication line from Support saying they are investigating the matter. So really reporting is a wate of your time, until PWE gets off their Perfect Chairs and actually do something we are going to continually get people like this.

darkenzedd wrote: »

Id rather take the 1hr cooldown hit knowing I stuffed up that guys afk free loot!

Pretty much all you can do. Best to get the entire PUG group on board so only he is stuffed up and not the other innocent player who like us are there for the fun/loot etc and do the right thing and work towards that mutual goal.

eazzie · August 2012

About a month ago I was playing Cure Space normal, and there was another player who just sat at the edge of the map, didn't fight but when something came up as need greed pass they were always the one to get the items. The only time they joined the battle was briefly towards the end when the carrier was down to around 5%. As you can most probably work out the rest of the team didn't complete the optional as we weren't fighting as a full team. That aside though this player went away with a load of goodies which in all fairness had no right in having.
Even when I said to this player that some help would be useful they ignored me.

Reporting them would of solved nothing, just made me out to be bitter so I left it. But players like this should be highlighted in some way to make others aware of them should they end up on the same team.

alexrayu23 · August 2012

Don't tell me it's not doable! It is! A usual game in PVP lasts 15-25 minutes. It is not hard to program a "You have done no sufficient damage! If you fail to do damage in 2 minutes, you will be penalized!"

And the logic is simple - if a player does no damage for 1 minute (which is quite a long time for a fast-paced game like PVP) - he gets warned. Another minute - and he gets auto-kicked, his place free to join.

This IS important. It is very upsetting to have a parasite in the game, who flies into a corner of the map and goes away. And then he either collects a reward, or makes you fail with Donatra.

At the same time, some people without ill intent need to run somewhere, and instead of quitting and freeing a place, they hang in respawn point.

There should be an auto-kick, no need to harshly punish - but an auto-kick is doable and needed.

romuzarii · August 2012

I came across a AFKer for the first time in nearly 300 STFs the other day. Usually when "something" happens, a person leaves at the start. Anywho this person wasn't really AFK. They just stay back and passed or lotted on drops until the end when Donatra was ready to be killed then proceeded to lot on all opt rewards then actually engaged Donatra.

If I had my way everyone in the group would just do nothing, too. For several minutes until the problem player left because if there's one thing such problem players hate, it's having their time wasted, even though they certainly enjoy wasting the time of others. Unfortunately too many people agree that they rather fight it out as 4 than make the 5th pay for insulting them by not participating.

If I really had my way, they would stop everything they are doing and immediately implement measures to prevent this stuff via what Alex is saying. The fact that they still do not take action speaks volumes.

criminius · August 2012

Enable team kill after 3min of idle. Kill him then the game will queue someone else. Hey some of you pver's can get a taste of pvp. Granted in pvp we tend to fire back though

Yes, even us pvper have to deal with the dilth grinders going afk. Sadly we cant tk them either so, this could work in both situations.

nynik · August 2012

This is in line with Cryptic policy and feature design.

Player on Stf that will stay afk for free reward

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