Curse

Gigashadow · Oct 17, 2007, 11:51 PM // 23:51

I notice that many people posting complaints about this system, particularly those who feel they are discriminated against because their "teammates don't like them", also have a posting history on this forum consisting of trashing other people, calling them noobs, and generally being an asshat. Somehow, I'm not surprised they act the same way in game, and can't stand that there are actually consequences for being insulting and treating other people like shit.

cebalrai · Oct 19, 2007, 04:28 PM // 16:28

This issue really irritates me. In my last game of AB we had 2 leechers. I /reported them and tried to rally enough people to do the same. Only two others reported them. And that's better than most times.

So the result? The leechers got full XP and faction. Myself and the two others who /reported got dishonor points for honorably reporting the leechers!

HOW SCREWED UP IS THIS?

Anet, please address this issue in some way. The /report system is COMPLETELY unusable in the AB environment.

Kissa · Oct 19, 2007, 07:42 PM // 19:42

How do you report leavers? Today someone leaved at Aspenwood and I couldnt report him, because player is not in the district anymore...

Konrow · Oct 19, 2007, 11:17 PM // 23:17

haven't ABed in a long while but i can see how terrible this is. People either have to learn about reporting and see that it will help or the amount of people has to get lowered. If I finally have a tool that can destroy these leechers, I'd wanna be able to use it not run around wildly asking others to help me.

As for leavers, I don't think you can report them. And that is logical because sometimes the power goes out or the person just has to go and it would be unfair to punish them for it as much as you'd punish a true leaver or leech.

Turtle222 · Oct 19, 2007, 11:40 PM // 23:40

I think this way is just fine because it is being abused. When i was in an AB (which im sure you know is very hectic), i got reported by a jerk because i didn't heal him... despite him rushing at the army of ele's and sins with the full "Avatar of Balthazar".

This person that reported me had a friend (equally a jerk) who reported me too simply because he was asked to. Luckily he had no more friends and i was let off. Therefore i support Anet's decision to have that report function applying to that number of players

HawkofStorms · Oct 19, 2007, 11:42 PM // 23:42

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Originally Posted by Kissa

How do you report leavers? Today someone leaved at Aspenwood and I couldnt report him, because player is not in the district anymore...

Leavers get dishonor. The reason you report leachers is so they don't get faction rewards. Leavers don't get faction rewards since they *gasp* left.

Frankly it works. You don't need to report leavers if they had a legit reason to leave (work, crying baby, etc). Leavers don't get any rewards. Unless you want them to be banned (which isn't fair for those legit reasons to leave).

Cale Roughstar · Oct 19, 2007, 11:46 PM // 23:46

There is also one major problem with the report command. Not 10 minutes ago, in Kamadan, I was the victim of a petty scam (only out 20k). I attempted to message him to tell him a) what I think of him, and b) that i was going to report his ass. He was ignoring me. I attempted to report him, but he was no longer in my district, so I could not. Does anyone else see the problem here? Scammers need only switch districts immediately to render the /report command useless.

PLEASE PLEASE make it possible to report people who are not in your district.

Needless to say, I feel pretty stupid to get scammed like that >.<

magi of the light · Oct 20, 2007, 12:38 AM // 00:38

i completly agree even though i have no idea what im agreeing on

Lord Sojar · Oct 20, 2007, 01:20 AM // 01:20

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Originally Posted by Cale Roughstar

There is also one major problem with the report command. Not 10 minutes ago, in Kamadan, I was the victim of a petty scam (only out 20k). I attempted to message him to tell him a) what I think of him, and b) that i was going to report his ass. He was ignoring me. I attempted to report him, but he was no longer in my district, so I could not. Does anyone else see the problem here? Scammers need only switch districts immediately to render the /report command useless.

PLEASE PLEASE make it possible to report people who are not in your district.

Needless to say, I feel pretty stupid to get scammed like that >.<

Yes, /report name would be far better. If someone did scam you, they are probably going to do one of two things: Zone or Logoff.

ANET needs to make the public more aware of the /report system and how to use it. As they have said themselves, a very small percentage of the GW population actually uses the forums or the wiki.

cebalrai · Oct 26, 2007, 12:11 PM // 12:11

I was wondering if Anet had any comments about this thread. I still have *never* seen anyone successfully reported in AB and I do about 10 ABs every day. The threshold is way, way too high so it's unusable.

cyberjanet · Oct 26, 2007, 02:31 PM // 14:31

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Originally Posted by =HT=Ingram

I think the point is it has to be OBVIOUS to everyone before a report goes through... Not the typical rage report that tend to happen just cause someone does not like what a person is doing.

Or if your team is losing... I saw a post a while ago about someone saying entire teams were leeching in AB all day long when he played and he gave a screenshot to prove it.

All that screenshot proved was that they were losing very badly. I commented at the time was he sure that the players were not just new to AB and had no idea what to do. Hell, I have only the vaguest idea what to do in AB.

When I first started playing I was recruited into a guild that called all its members in for a guild battle. They were like level 11. And they were so surprised when the opposing team was all level 20.

Some things you can only learn by doing, and if people are gonna run around screaming "leech" because you aren't killing things fast enough, then nobody is ever gonna learn anything.

cebalrai · Oct 27, 2007, 03:19 PM // 15:19

One major reason people leech is because they're in a mega-faction guild that has a 10k faction per day requirement. The big guilds that own Factions towns all have requirements like this... A lot of people don't actually want to have to earn that much faction so they leech while mostly afk.

Fril Estelin · Oct 27, 2007, 03:30 PM // 15:30

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Originally Posted by cebalrai

One major reason people leech is because they're in a mega-faction guild that has a 10k faction per day requirement. The big guilds that own Factions towns all have requirements like this... A lot of people don't actually want to have to earn that much faction so they leech while mostly afk.

What a sad life! I imagine myself in their shoes: "Have to get to 10,000, have to help my guild keep this town, will make a lot of money out of this... hush hush ..."

Until the guy realises he's in a virtual world, where there's only time, his hands moving the mouse and typing, and his feelings!

Just reported a gold seller spammer in Kamadan, hope this will help clean GW.

cebalrai · Oct 27, 2007, 03:35 PM // 15:35

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Originally Posted by Fril Estelin

What a sad life! I imagine myself in their shoes: "Have to get to 10,000, have to help my guild keep this town, will make a lot of money out of this... hush hush ..."

Until the guy realises he's in a virtual world, where there's only time, his hands moving the mouse and typing, and his feelings!

Just reported a gold seller spammer in Kamadan, hope this will help clean GW.

The difference is that while gold selling is illegal, leeching is not. I guess they frown upon it or something. Anet has put in place an unusable mechanism to prevent it from occurring, but they haven't posted a policy against it AFAIK.

Their efforts to prevent AB leeching have 100% failed. Leeches are around in full force and never get /reported by enough people. And even if they did somehow, they can just rejoin AB again in short measure with no repercussion.

I support anti-leeching measures, but this is a joke. Total failure.

reverse_oreo · Oct 27, 2007, 06:51 PM // 18:51

i was in ab the other day and tried to /report a leecher. It said i couldnt report for leeching because i was not in ab....?

Fril Estelin · Oct 27, 2007, 07:47 PM // 19:47

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Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief

ANET needs to make the public more aware of the /report system and how to use it. As they have said themselves, a very small percentage of the GW population actually uses the forums or the wiki.

Well to their defense, when you start the Costumbe Brawl (seems like RA) you have 3 lines explaining the feature succintly. It shows that they are really committed to the thing, not simply providing the feature and waiting for people on forums/gwiki to spread the word.

GG Anet. Now waiting for the "GG GW community"!

Nemo the Capitalist · Oct 27, 2007, 07:48 PM // 19:48

/repoting is lame anyways

Fril Estelin · Oct 27, 2007, 08:03 PM // 20:03

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Originally Posted by Nemo the Capitalist

/repoting is lame anyways

Yes, you're right, we're not kids anymore, we don't point fingers at people, people are adults and can take care of themselves. That's probably what spammers, leechers and all these lamers want. But not what Anet wants.

Seriously, one-liners are really lame.

shmek · Oct 28, 2007, 03:25 AM // 03:25

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Originally Posted by Nemo the Capitalist

/repoting is lame anyways

/unfounded claims like this are sheer derilect. Maybe it's too hard for you to figure out? Or was your leeching hampered?

TheLichMonky · Oct 28, 2007, 06:49 AM // 06:49

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Originally Posted by Nemo the Capitalist

/repoting is lame anyways

QFT, I mean what if my power shuts off for a min, or my computer restarts, or my grandma falls and breaks her leg and I go afk... I get reported and banned.... or dishonored If i leave... gg