Syncing, is it against the rules?

A lot of this has been going on lately, you can go to RA and you can hear them counting in on all chat or just look at guild tags on the teams. I'm wondering if this is against the rules? I personally don't have much of a problem with it, If they actually manage to sync good job to them, now they only have 2 other fails to deal with.

It's an exploit, and it's really cheap and cowardly, but to the best of my knowledge there's no actual rule against it anywhere.

Well they aren't actually doing anything that hacks into the system or w/e. Most of the time they count in and you see one stuck in town and the other gone which makes me laugh. It's very rare for them to actually Sync.

Erm.. What is syncing?

something that doesnt exist acording to ANet

I'd like to know that too:|

Its when a guild or friends sit in an empty RA dist, countdown and try to get on the same team so they can farm glad points easier per say...

All exploits are against the rules.

Whether you're actually going to get punished for doing it is another question entirely.

Syncing is a technique used when you and people you know click to join a match at the same time (like RA, or multiple teams in AB).

It can be done because players and teams enter a queue when they click the button, which puts them in line with everybody else already waiting or who click it after.

If everybody is in line after each other with nobody they don't know in between, they end up on the same team or in the same match. (Hopefully anyways, there's a chance they could get divided and have like 2 in one match and 2 in another, or get put on opposing teams etc.)

its not an actual exploit tbh and you do have a chance you wont make it in the same group, yes its cheap but according to mighty a-net IT DOES NOT EXSIST.

Why is everyone saying Anet said it doesn't exist?

because, well, a-net said it doesnt exist, which means that they do not care about this. thus its not against the rules.

Source?

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All exploits may be against the rules, but this is not an exploit. Technically, you're doing nothing other than pressing the button to enter the battle, which, last time I checked, was an intended feature of the game.

Unless you're implying that anytime anyone plays Random Arenas, they're exploiting the game?

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I sync with a friend or two once in a while. Most players that's played RA can't say they NEVER synced. It's not even that bad...obvoiusly if you get douches are you team you're screwed but that's not the syncer's fault.

by said im merely referring to the fact, that all they've done was to make it easier to sync, the unification of the districts as well as the fact they have not said anything against syncing. also no where on the EULA does it state you shall not go to a district thats empty and enter battle in the hopes that you would have a group together.

Syncing isnt a bad problem,and it will never be.

And no..it really isnt against the rules in any way.

Then again.....it could be like the Mallyx glitch,and they could decide one day that its a bad thing and every one who has synced in the past 3 months could be banned.

If it hasn't been "Cautioned" yet then its not against the rules.

On another note... how can it not exist if (personally I've done it in AB) it works, and it may not work 100% of the time but, you have a better chance of being with your Guildies if you "sync" then if you go in randomly.

So IMO it totally works.

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cowardly like people who run from warriors instead of standing and fighting with honor?

Syncing isn't against the rules, if it was they would easily stop most of it (the noticeable kind) by making it so guild members with the same tag/ alliance couldn't be on the same team.

I sync, not for glad points or anything like that. The only time I sync is when me and a friend want to do dragon arena or snowball arenas together and have some fun.

I think that it's kind of a big deal, to the people who get noob teams. But then again, they will lose to any good ra team that they fight. Just sort of deal with it and accept it.