Warzone AFK exploiters

Well I just encountered my first one and it appears they've been doing it since early start

I didn't believe it so I spent half my time looking for the bugger and there they were standing behind a crate.

Roll back these exploiters and ban them from Warzones... They do it because they can get away with it and take the poop... don't let them!

^^This is one of the few people actually operating in reality around here. AFKers spend money to be here. The practice chaps my backside, but from the perspective of someone running a business they are really not much different from people who choose to RP. It's a way to play, and they pay to be allowed to do it.

The only real option is to incentivize people to actually play.

Except it is interfering with other people's enjoyment of the game. As some else said, you're free to go afk out by yourself in the middle of nowhere, but when you do it in a warzone, you're making the experience worse for everybody else on your team which can cost the game subscribers if it continues unchecked. The thing keeping me playing at the moment is fairly competitive warzone matches, if it becomes whoever has less afkers wins, I will stop playing since that's not in any way fun.

agree ^

As long as Bioware forces me to PvP from 10 on up with fully geared 50s, there are a lot on Grigga, (Red & Vicious) I'm going to take it easy when it 's a farmfest. Don't like me sitting in a corner? Too bad. I'm at my keyboard sending my companions on missions. Don't like that? I'll run straight into the nearest red, let them kill me, take the 60 seconds to rez, then the 60 seconds to join the battlefield.

If it's apparent our team isn't a bunch of simpletons fighting in the middle trying to rack up dps scores, we usually do well and I have a fun time playing with other pvpers win or lose. However, if I get stuck with a bunch of simpletons, their either going to learn to play or they'll play a man down and there's no choice but to accept it. Had a GM ask me today if I was afk. Since I was at my pc I simply said no, got up and ran to a red, died and that was that. Don't really care if a bunch of irrelevant forums jockeys approve or not as it has zero effect on me. It's Bioware's mess, not mine. If they want to rush their launch to make Christmas sales and leave out the basics of PvP battlezones, they have no choice but to deal with the consequences. Did you know you can leave a BZ and re-queue again right away? There's no excuse for that.

Too much of this going on. Please implement a few minimum barriers to pass to get any xp/credit. Zeros across the board should not cut it.

Sorry, but I lol'd.

Also, you have a problem playing against 50s, but you won't actually try to level to even the playing field. Sounds to me like you're just trying to make excuses.

I have a +100 cunning bonus.

Thats the thing, it's not a way to play because they aren't actually playing. They are sitting there leeching the reward off of the team, and doing absolutely nothing for it. This game (and MMO in general) is based on effort and reward.

Bots won't be allowed in any respectable game because it benefits the player while requiring no effort at all.

Tell me how this afk situation isn't exploiting?

Oh and give up the $15 a month argument. We are all paying $15 a month and the difference is, the AFKers $15 "experience" is degrading mine. So here I am trying to get the situation fixed.

While I agree, they also have to be careful. I consistently get kicked out when I enter a huttball game after it has already begun to replace someone else. If you get placed at an unlucky time (ie so that the gate comes up just as you get to it), you get removed. Kinda blows, they could at least give new players a special buff to get through the wall, as they haven't died yet and shouldn't be waiting anyways.

But I agree, something has to be done about the idiots who stand in the corners. I reported one when he was level 10 and I ran into him today at level 31... obviously working out for him.