Follow In Battlegrounds Broken After 5.2

[Shodokan]

The steps posted on the forums are sorta what you can do, but the other gimmicks to follow still while mounted and such help a lot to get people to the places they need to go.

The only thing that stops me from doing RANDOM bgs is the fact that if you are kept in combat you'll never get to leave the place you are at currently.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Er, encrypt the data.
CRC the data.
But it's easier to ostracise MBers and panda (see what I did there) to the gullible masses!

And the game does not lag enough as it is, you want frame rates even lower?

From what you're saying, it sounds like you believe all of the server's data is stored in RAM on your home computer. That would mean you could just change the values in your RAM to level everyone up on the server to 90! Just think about it for a second...

WoW goes to the server and gets information that your toon is level 89, when the server sends that info back to wow it goes into ram ..... as soon as it hits ram the bot program has access to the information.

You cannot store all information server side else the data requried between the client and server would go up to much.

Its not as simple as either of us are saying I am sure there are a number of check server side if you sent information to the server as to your level, or the server my not ask for such information.


But the point is there is no way to stop the bots; crc and whatnot would cause to much lag, as would storing more information server side.

[blast3r]

Just logged on and found out about the no follow in BGs. This is where I did my most playing at. Guess I need to log in to each toon and transfer gold to a few toons and just disable them all. Total 16 accounts.

[Rosebud]

Perhaps they've been avoiding it because of multiboxers and/or handicapped individuals who rely on it.

I thought of that. Bots are abundant but not at an all time high. Years ago they were just as bad if not worse. I rarely did pvp as the bots were so bad. Multiboxers are at an all time high, it seems, though you all should know better than me. As far as handicapped, I would think they are much higher in numbers than previously since the game has been simplified more than ever.

At this point, I still believe that multiboxers were the target. Bots were the scapegoats. And the handicap were the collateral damage. Of course, the person at Blizzard who pursued this action may not have fully taken into consideration the real effect of it all.

I'm trying to be objective. I never multiboxed in bgs, nor do I have much time or money invested in it. It affects me a lot less. Just looking at it. Just seems very odd; their reasoning that is.

[MadMilitia]

Queues have almost doubled for randoms. To me that says a lot less are queuing. Probably waiting on software updates for their bot.

[Meathead]

Last time I went in a BG Queues was like 2 mins now its like 8 mins , just shows you how many people were botting in battlegrounds. I would say they are going to lose a lot of subscribers, even if they botted in BG's only and played the game for the rest. BG's are so dam boring I usally watch a movie while playing. I dont support botting, but bots rule world of warcraft.

[Chivalrous]

Doesn't show anything really, could be people are trying to unlock that island or doing the new raid. /shrug

my server has a lot of trash farming rep groups running right now on top of that.

[Meathead]

What is sad is I just got 5 new accounts for RAF, now should I level a few to 80 and use my RAF time ect. Or just quit while im ahead, My goal was pvp and pve in wow but atm I feel way too sad too play wow all together! maybe I will just go farm instances since I cant do anything else with my dam 5 man team! screw you bliztard!

[Majo]

I bought my 4 new accounts a week before the patch. I just asked for a refund and they actually did it - refund on all four accounts.

[blast3r]

What if they only allowed /follow if you follow someone in the same realm and/or guild?

Thoughts? A possible solution for Blizzard to enable /follow in BGs for boxers.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8197589941#1

Care to share your macros?