Avoiding being flagged AFK

[RobinGBrown]

I'd advise not using a macro that reports everyone AFK. It could be considered griefing and might lead to a ban - especially as you are abusing your 5 chars to do it 5 times. As such it might fall under the forum rules for discussing exploits as well

This sort of thing is easy to get away with once or twice, but if a bunch of boxers start doing it and Blizzard get a lot of complaints then it might get Blizzard to look into their position on multiboxing.

Just a word of caution.

'Do as you would be done by' is not 'do as you are done by'

[Iceorbz]

Lets not discuss ways of overcoming game AFK mechanics.

Dont see where anyone has tried to overcome the afk mechanics, just how to word the script in order to not report his own team.

I'd advise not using a macro that reports everyone AFK. It could be considered griefing and might lead to a ban - especially as you are abusing your 5 chars to do it 5 times. As such it might fall under the forum rules for discussing exploits as well

This sort of thing is easy to get away with once or twice, but if a bunch of boxers start doing it and Blizzard get a lot of complaints then it might get Blizzard to look into their position on multiboxing.

Just a word of caution.

'Do as you would be done by' is not 'do as you are done by'

If you right click on your game map at the start area on the players, it will bring up a large box of player names and you can click send notification for all. This is no different.

There are addons that will automatically flag people for non participation, they are not considered griefing. And reporting people 5 times on 5 different people means little. The players are considered individuals, whether its coming from the same PC or not.

Boxers could do this all day, in fact it would probably promote better starting participation from players. There is no need to instantly begin defending towers, even pre-mades don't do that. Make people get into the fight and send a few opposing force back to their start, help cap the graveyards and the bunkers.

[Ualaa]

When my active toons (not necessarily killing, but pursuing objectives which will win the BG) are AFK flagged while clearly not AFK...

And I ticket this as wrong.
The GM's basically say, the mechanic is working as intended... feel free to post on the suggestion forum if you have an idea on how to change this.

The squeeky wheel gets the grease...
If a drop in the sea (boxers) complain, its no big deal.
I'd tend to think, if thousands of players complain of being AFK flagged when they were not AFK, the system might change.
Then again, it might not.

[daviddoran]

the kind of people that continually flag all your characters afk, over and over simply can not be reasoned with. You either have to leave and find another group in 15 mins, use the above macro to report everyone afk, and potentially lose as legitimate players get booted (like that rogue that ninja caps stuff, he's never in combat, etc)

OR

nuke every last enemy you see, run straight toward them, and just keep dying. Either you will cause your side to bleed resources and lose quicker, or you will slow the enemy down as much as possible, while keeping yourself in combat and avoiding getting kicked.

What I do when i lose a guy, is turn on autorun, and try to get him back to my main team, even if he dies again. Or i just suicide the rest of me so i can rez all my guys at once. Put the bashers on ignore, or better yet, use vanasKOS and add them to the hatelist, so you can still see if they rally the group against you to be prepared to stay in combat.

[Zappy]

What I do when i lose a guy, is turn on autorun, and try to get him back to my main team, even if he dies again. Or i just suicide the rest of me so i can rez all my guys at once. Put the bashers on ignore, or better yet, use vanasKOS and add them to the hatelist, so you can still see if they rally the group against you to be prepared to stay in combat.

First, I have to laugh at the quote, "The rest of me." I've used that in vent a few times and got a good laugh.

I found the easiest way to regroup your team in AV if they get sent to different GYs is to use your trinket and get them all back to the base. Not to mention, if you've already been in battle long enough for them to get split up, you can almost guarantee some opposing faction in your base which will keep them from flagging you as well.

[Sajuuk]

'Do as you would be done by' is not 'do as you are done by'

Here's another saying.

"What goes around comes around."

[asonimie]

"People in glass houses... sink ships"

[Coltimar]

When in Rome . . .

[Ualaa]

In AV, the trinket is an excellent resource for regrouping.
Even if you were to never fight, and just broadcast spacebar to jump (not go AFK), and trinket-hearth to clear the AFK flag, you'd stay in the BG indefinitely... which is an option, if you have an idiot flagging you even when you participate.

Unfortunately, we don't have another mechanic like this in the other BG's.
But they're small enough (mostly), to get into combat fast if you have to.