Hmm.. leeching

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It seems leeching will become a common occurence.. Are there any measures in place to prevent people from doing this? I've seen it happening already.

You could argue PvP is more for fun but never underestimate what people will do if it's a way to earn something for nothing. (XP, Acclaim)

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Huh?

There's no such thing. You can never kill someone too fast.

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Huh?

There's no such thing. You can never kill someone too fast.

Unless it's me.

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I assume that the OP means people just AFKing inside matches...I hope they put some kind of afk timer on it like they have in WoW's BG's.

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Hmm, yeah. Guess I should have clarified.

It means people who sit at the start area and do nothing to earn rewards. Win or lose, it's still a benefit and hinders the team so bad.

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Hmm, yeah. Guess I should have clarified.

It means people who sit at the start area and do nothing to earn rewards. Win or lose, it's still a benefit and hinders the team so bad.

Compared to someone who runs in and dies over and over again, it helps. If they are going to do that, one would prefer they stay by the entrance and not enter. :p

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Hmm, yeah. Guess I should have clarified.

It means people who sit at the start area and do nothing to earn rewards. Win or lose, it's still a benefit and hinders the team so bad.

I am gonna touch up on this, I have been doing the noob "Hero Match Challenges" for the xp and my first little bit of acclaim, and during one of my matches after being Rooted or Snared my toon became "stuck" in the position as if he was about to fire off a power, I could still use powers/target and stuff like that, but I would not budge from that one position. Naturally, the other team figured out "Hey! He's stuck!" and they all came after me XD When I respawned, I was still in the same exact position, and still could not move.

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That's a bug already being worked on...if you dig around the bugged powers area you'll find the thread. If I remember I'll come back and post the link here.

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If you have a flight power its also really easy to get stuck at the top of the cage too

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I assume that the OP means people just AFKing inside matches...I hope they put some kind of afk timer on it like they have in WoW's BG's.

There is I believe.

After about a minute or two of nothing happening the match will declare a "stand still" and you'll be exited.

This will go on your Draw points or whatever...

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I assume that the OP means people just AFKing inside matches...

Yesterday I would crash systematically upon entering PvP. I would restart my computer and log in again and log right in the middle of a PvP match. I expect my team was not happy with my performance...

I tried it three times before figuring there must definitly be something screwy on my end, and I just stayed out of PvP the rest of the day so as not to penalize others.

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Timeout only occurs if neither team does nothing I believe, it doesn't penalise the player.. Although I could be wrong.

I'm not really talking about bugs or accidental being unable to participate guys.. I'm talking about deliberate people taking advantage of the fact they can earn acclaim and XP by doing nothing more than entering.

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Timeout only occurs if neither team does nothing I believe, it doesn't penalise the player.. Although I could be wrong.

I'm not really talking about bugs or accidental being unable to participate guys.. I'm talking about deliberate people taking advantage of the fact they can earn acclaim and XP by doing nothing more than entering.

You cannot sit in the locker room from beginning to end, and earn XP and Acclaim. It was found and reported in beta, so they took it out.

You have to fight at least somewhat in order to earn anything. Now, if people go in, fight, then sit around for a bit, I believe they do get something, but my understanding is it will be scaled to the lower end if you stand in the locker room too much.

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You cannot sit in the locker room from beginning to end, and earn XP and Acclaim. It was found and reported in beta, so they took it out.

You have to fight at least somewhat in order to earn anything. Now, if people go in, fight, then sit around for a bit, I believe they do get something, but my understanding is it will be scaled to the lower end if you stand in the locker room too much.

At least that means they have to be by their keyboard.

I _hated_ the leechers in WoW. With a passion. I left that game ages ago, so don't know if it got worse of better, but when I left it was pretty damn horrible. And the ones that were'nt AFKing were botting.

Yuck.

Now I started to think of WoW. Eewww.

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There are four basic types of advantages (apart from the raw fun of shattering another players soul) in PVP the Acclaim (which god knows how is calculated), the participationm Team Win and Players killed. Anyone that is less than decent will only get the participant and some minor Acclaim though I have often seen people just logging in and not liking the odds and standing around in the locker room.

Remember that the other team does not have a choice as to team layout and numbers either. So just go for it and post a possible soultion here if you can think of one. I think that the teams must be balanced because I have on many occassions run out into 3 on 6 massacres which I must say do sting a bit :)

Psion of PsiberCorp™

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Remember, you can keep shooting after the match is over. If they exit the Hero Games dead they appear back in pve-land dead. Yes, they only lose a star, but that's better than nothing and they'll have to pve to get it back ... which may bump them to level 11 or whatever.

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It seems leeching will become a common occurence.. Are there any measures in place to prevent people from doing this? I've seen it happening already.

You could argue PvP is more for fun but never underestimate what people will do if it's a way to earn something for nothing. (XP, Acclaim)

Agreed, although it could be a bad idea if the 'stuck in a hold' bug is still around, because i know that i've been trapped in the locker room unable to move or do anything because of the bug.

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I am gonna touch up on this, I have been doing the noob "Hero Match Challenges" for the xp and my first little bit of acclaim, and during one of my matches after being Rooted or Snared my toon became "stuck" in the position as if he was about to fire off a power, I could still use powers/target and stuff like that, but I would not budge from that one position. Naturally, the other team figured out "Hey! He's stuck!" and they all came after me XD When I respawned, I was still in the same exact position, and still could not move.

I had this problem also, fortunately, a quick logout, log back in will fix it.