Curse

majiger · Jan 14, 2009, 07:30 PM // 19:30

I hate seeing syncers in RA, even partial syncs piss me off.
Sure I get a random team, 9 times out of 10 with no healer.
While 9 time out of 10 the enemy team has a pretty balanced team with a healer.

My suggestion is when deciding teams take them from all districts.
So usually american dis has about 3 with around 100 people in each district.
IMO this way the only way to sync would still be the less populated asian and european districts but you mostly fight syncers there anyway.

Not a perfect idea but I think it would bring randomness back to Random Arena.

Anyone got any other suggestions?

Bob Slydell · Jan 14, 2009, 08:09 PM // 20:09

Well, it might be a little more complicated that that, but why don't these idiots just go to TA? They don't have to work as hard to sync... just click a guy + invite. lol....

HawkofStorms · Jan 14, 2009, 08:21 PM // 20:21

You want to only play RA games with healers... play as the healer. Then 100% of the time you'll have a healer.
If you don't like having to play RANDOM team compositions, don't play in RA. I have personally won 16+ matches before with no healers (just 1 BHA, and 3 guys inflicting blind).

As for syncers... god, dead horse much?

Strife17 · Jan 14, 2009, 08:46 PM // 20:46

another QQ thread

sync, because we don't want to team up with single profession scrubs that don't carry res signet and basically have no idea what they are doing

no TA because it's empty as hell or you face glad 7/ phoenix / or some lame ass spike team.

gg

next thread?

ousbique · Jan 14, 2009, 09:13 PM // 21:13

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Originally Posted by Strife17

another QQ thread

sync, because we don't want to team up with single profession scrubs that don't carry res signet and basically have no idea what they are doing

no TA because it's empty as hell or you face glad 7/ phoenix / or some lame ass spike team.

gg

next thread?

Wow, huge fail.

arbiter · Jan 14, 2009, 10:12 PM // 22:12

haha i do find the way that RA forms teams funny. When I dont play as a monk my team hardly ever gets a monk. But when I switch to play as a monk myself, i get another monk and a healing rit on my team more times than not haha...

Strife17 · Jan 14, 2009, 10:32 PM // 22:32

lol Evil Eye and osbique i don't see you guys hang around in TA?

ohno you are the cool glad 1 guys who play TA and RA, because it's cool !! and you are real pvp'ers yeah rock on!!!

WOOHOOO

lmao, i'm just telling the truth, did enough TA to see getting beat up after 20-24 wins, because some lame ass way or lame ass spike or some phoenixes

sync first and you'll have another 10 wins

why do the hard way, if easy goes aswell? i did enough time monking my way up to glad 3 in RA. i have had enough frustrations because of you pathetic noobs failing. srsly

and i rarely sync with 4 ppl. mostly 2 and prey for something with common sense.

but ye syncing is fun!! or you want me to run a lame shit spike to mess you're cool super honorable build? because you are so pro you only TA?

pathetic trying to be cool about TA

nice joke you guys are.

Enon · Jan 14, 2009, 10:40 PM // 22:40

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Originally Posted by Strife17

sync, because we CAN'T WIN ANY OTHER WAY CAUSE WE SUCKZZZZZZZZZZZZZ AND I AM AN IDIOT

no TA because THE TA TEAMS BEAT OUR NUUBZ TEAM LULLLLZZZZ AND I AM AN IDIOT

Fixed that for you.

majiger, unfortunately Anet doesn't consider syncing a form of exploiting, even though it obviously is. There have been several suggestions for a fix, some even provided codes, but there hasn't been any feedback on that from Anet. I personally wouldn't wait on any fixes in the short run. Just keep playing fair and ignore synced parties. Good luck!

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Originally Posted by Strife17

why do the hard way, if easy goes aswell?

Why bother arguing with somebody when you can just shoot a bullet in his tiny brain which is lacking chromosome 21? Right? (No offence of course <3)

jiggles · Jan 14, 2009, 10:43 PM // 22:43

everyone in this thread complaining about syncing needs to grow up.

Jeydra · Jan 14, 2009, 10:50 PM // 22:50

Guys I'm too bad to win at HA, I'm just going to get some buddies to sync me and /resign in the Underworld so I can get a Phoenix and make people like Strife17 QQ when he sees me in TA.

/sarcasm

Syncing in RA should be fixed. I've no objections if people sync random RA builds, but sadly most syncs I notice have one Monk + one Warrior when syncing two people, and I've even seen people who synced four people into a single team, with a perfect TA setup to go with it.

Maybe they think that since they're going to make 40-win streaks in TA anyway they might as well start in RA and get an easy 10, but that's plain cheating and you get a coordinated team vs. uncoordinated opponents in RA - not a fair fight. Hands up those who want to play against Shovespike in RA?

If I Monk RA and run into a sync team, I won't leave even if we have 3 Monks, because I hate syncers so and don't mind wasting 8 minutes to ruin their would-be streak.

pumpkin pie · Jan 15, 2009, 01:29 AM // 01:29

easy solution:
don't count consecutive wins,
every/any 5 wins gets 1 glad points
return to RA Island after every game win or loose

why do you think players don't sync in Aspenwood or Jade Quarry?

Or change Aspenwood and Jade Quarry to 5 consecutive wins and see what happens.

but then again, i don't care! because Arena Net don't either, i beat sync team just fine! when and if i get a good team.

If you want to sync, sync, don't try to justify your cheating action, looking at it from any angle is cheat and exploit. Even if Arena Net Says its okay, it is still is exploit and cheat. You don't get your fun and glad points the cheating/exploiting way and also gets to sleep easy at night :P Also don't say you are any better then all the non-synchers, if you are, you do it the Random way like everyone else and win, facts that you sync is cos you got frustrated like the rest of the RA players and decide to take the easy route. those are actually what irritates me most about synchers.

BTW, from my observation during the pass double glad point weekend, sadly to say it is mostly the big guild that does the synching. some even gone so far as to take out their guild tag, lol which unfortunately i have screenshots of.

pumpkin pie · Jan 16, 2009, 03:13 AM // 03:13

it is being look into, but no high hopes...

"We are aware of this concern in the community. We are exploring our options for ways to improve the match making system in RA but we don't know if any improvements are feasible at this time, so don't get your hopes up. It is something that we are thinking about and looking in to though. - Image:User Linsey Murdock sig.jpgLinsey talk 23:55, 14 January 2009 (UTC) "

majiger · Jan 16, 2009, 03:14 PM // 15:14

Well It is not that I am complaining just about syncing, it is the fact that if I play anything but a healer I will never get one.
As soon as I monk, healer rit/ele/mes whatever, I get another monk or 2 in the party and we fail becuase of no damage.

It is getting annyoing. And what's this about TA being dead? You do have something called a guild and an alliance with about 400 ppl total (That is my alliance anyway), Ask them to come instead of PuGing.
Personaly I have faced 1 or 2 phoenixes so I don't see what the problem is.

Enon: Ya I'm pretty sure Anet will do nothing about the whole syncing problem, but I guess that is what we gotta go through for GW 2...

Tullzinski · Jan 16, 2009, 03:57 PM // 15:57

Would it be better to remove "random" altogether and just have groups form up outside arenas then enter? May reduce bots in some places also if you have to form up a group prior to entering.

pumpkin pie · Jan 16, 2009, 04:04 PM // 16:04

At least now what Ms Regina says match with what Ms Murdock says. both says they realize its a problem and are looking into it. Before this players sneakily post ambiguous title under Ms Regina's talk page and its worse on Ms Gaile's talk page.

Jeydra · Feb 13, 2009, 08:39 AM // 08:39

Dear ArenaNet,

If fixing syncs takes too long, then please allow us to report syncers for violating this section of the EULA:

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Originally Posted by EULA

(iv) take any action or upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any content as determined by NC Interactive at its sole discretion that is harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; or contains any viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information

Syncers abuse RA, and it's not that difficult to spot them. There will be times when two people from the same guild end up in the same group by chance, but when someone runs 1 Monk without condition removal + 1 Necro with Foul Feast + 1 BA Turret + 1 Primal Rage Warrior you know they have synced. Or hell, when someone runs 1x W/A with Shove and 3x Mo/A with Stonesoul Strike + Holy Strike, it's obviously syncing. Allow us to report them and them to be banned, and you might not even have to implement fixes to syncing in the first place.

Wish Swiftdeath · Feb 13, 2009, 09:01 AM // 09:01

Yeah this really should be fixed,

im kinda over it because i just play solo RA and still win most of the time when my team isn't completely retarded. When i have friends on i just play with some of my friends and get 40 streaks

Shasgaliel · Feb 13, 2009, 09:40 AM // 09:40

seems to be simple but effective idea.
/signed

kazi_saki · Feb 13, 2009, 10:06 AM // 10:06

Yeah, let us add syncers to the /report list.

obsidian ectoplasm · Feb 13, 2009, 10:06 AM // 10:06

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Originally Posted by jiggles

everyone in this thread complaining about syncing needs to grow up.

Agreed,

Yes I do not TA because I will get beaten, that is because everyone knows, I am no total noob, but I am not gonna bother vs'ing the G9/10 TA groups when they are on, it is stupid and a waste of time

open your eyes GW is dead, stop qq'ing

2nd of all, I have personally seen ZoS sync, so anet obviously don't give a shit about it and probably never will so plz, just meh close thread