Burning Crusade Outland - Can we please punish AFK players more severely?

[Novat93]

For the love of god. The amount of afk players, and players playing extremely passive is breaking the BG experience for the guys that actually want to try and win. The 15 minute deserter tag every 10 games, is not cutting it anymore. The Deserter debuff should be applied to people that actively leave the game thru the in game menu because they actually have to leave.

For players that go afk on purpose, we need more severe punishments. I'm not talking about the guys that use a bot, we already seem to have a permanent ban solution for those guys, and rightfully so i might add.

I'm talking about the guys that run to a tower, a base or a flag at the beginning of a game to ''defend''. Only later do you find out, when the base is being attacked and their help is required. That they are in fact not doing anything, but running around a bit every minute or so to defeat the AFK check. I'm talking about the guys that run around a bit, then auto run into the enemy to seem as if they are doing something.

When in fact they have done 0 damage, and died twice. Despite calling out the warlock in question (see image) in chat, the warlock did not participate at all in the BG nor did he receive enough reports because on two occasions he ran into the enemy team to intentionally die so the afk report would not work.

*i'm not entirely sure if posting the name of the warlock is allowed, but the point of the thread is not to call out any single player anyway. This particular incident was just used as an example, that there is a problem going on. So i chose not to display the name*


- Longer deserter buffs
- Revoking honor points
- Revoking battleground marks
- Revoking arena points
- Revoking honor gear
- Revoking arena gear
- pvp currency gain penalty, potentially lasting several weeks.

These are all things you can do, to stop people from ruining the game experience for other people. From an hour deserter debuff for small time offenders, to the outright deletion of arena gear for players that frequently and intentionally ruin the game for other people.


But what if i actually have to go afk?

Use the in game menu to leave the battleground. So that the team can get in a player that is not afk. Don't come back to the computer every other minute to game the afk check, potentially ruining the game for others by losing objectives your team thought were adequately defended. There is nothing worse than having 1-2 guys on farm, not defending it and not calling for help because they thought their task was to just stand around.

[Justmarried]

Calling names is not allowed true that there, as for AFK'ing. Been so called issue for years, same as people don't like multiboxing, but will always be there. So at any point, I think what could do is increase punishment if player is kicked out of the bg either for being reported for afk by rest of the group, or simply. Taking off arena points would be too harsh, however longer debuff would do the thing. As for " Oh, but what if they just run around, afk and avoid the afk debuff in BG" Well you can always take some proof and report to gm's, afking in bg's on purpose is bannable offense.