AFK & Bots getting out of control.

[Pata1985]

 

    This is one of the main reasons why I rant so many times, you just cant compete in a 10 vs 12 or 9 vs 12 match, in top of that, there is always a good bunch of YOLO players and people who just do not care about team work.

  As for the people trying to understand the game or classes they play, I have nothing against them because we all came here not knowing how to play, but you can tell most of the time what type of player you are teaming with.

 

    The image below was a LOSING 9 vs 12 match, hats of for the Udaloi that did the best he could, I was fleeing away from the steam roll that was uppon my back trying to do as much dmg as I could, still wasn't enough obviously.

 

 

 

 

   This image was a 10 vs 12 and the team managed to WIN this one, sucked I was low tier in a T10 match but tried.

 

 

 

   What gets me to my nerve, those 2 matches were consecutive, one after the other and most of the time I'm with the afk/bot side, meh, thats how it goes for everyone I know, matter of luck, but the purpouse of this thread is that SOMETHING has to be done for those kind of people who ruin the experience for the rest of the team.

 

    I know sometimes you get disconected and it doesnt matter, but if the reporting system would actually do something, lets say, you get 10 reports in a single day, obviously something is wrong in that account or player and WG should implement actions (not hurting the casual disconection anyone can experience), whereas inmediate actions like automatic disconection from the server and 1-2 days of penalty, or something else, but nothing is done.

 

  Its friday in the afternoon and I'm already salty enough by this lol

 

 K, thanks for reading my rant.

[JochenHeiden]

In other news, Udaloi is so beast at tier 9. I love mine!! 

[pmgaudio]

I will say that, of all the complaints I see in these forums, and mostly just pass by or out up some funny or sarcastic MEME, THIS is one that I have started to experience for the last week or so, and can concur that it is getting a bit lame and old... and I am NOT referring to the DC'sp players, I mean, I have seen them come in game, chat op and then actually either say [edited]this I am out... or just go to the line and leave......

I understand there are some that load late., or disconnect for a few minutes, They come back mad that it happened and try... BUt there are a lot of bots...I am getting tired of it..but it is what it is I guess,,

[Pata1985]

I will say that, of all the complaints I see in these forums, and mostly just pass by or out up some funny or sarcastic MEME, THIS is one that I have started to experience for the last week or so, and can concur that it is getting a bit lame and old... and I am NOT referring to the DC'sp players, I mean, I have seen them come in game, chat op and then actually either say [edited]this I am out... or just go to the line and leave......

I understand there are some that load late., or disconnect for a few minutes, They come back mad that it happened and try... BUt there are a lot of bots...I am getting tired of it..but it is what it is I guess,,

 

 

  Thanks, but I'm disapointed of the comunity because people just do not give enought importance to this issue and while 1 person complains he looks at to many "dragon ships" his thread gets 7 pages, seriously wthis going on here? 

[Bill1923]

I'm still waiting for any complaints about AFK/BOTs on the red team.

[Pata1985]

  

 

     Think I'll use this thread as my personal ranting space due to bots and/or afk players.

 

[Azumazi]

So far Pata, it seems some of those "bots" look to be bad days for a few players.

 

Out of the 6 players you have one of those players is a blue overall, another green, and you have a yellow player in the mix. The last 3 of that bunch are red overall. So, a few of those you could chalk up to bad connection, client crash, or more.

 

 

[Pata1985]

Ive had so many that I just dont look into their profiles, as I mentioned, we all know we have problems we can't control and its the nature of an internet game, but still as you mentioned, there are players that are actually the "problem".  So I have evidence they had 0-50 pts in the match and you are confirming they have red score, coincidence? Hard to beleive.

 

  Also, I'm not taking it personal with the players I'm taking SS's, I just hate there is no way we as players can help to control this real problem, that is the whole point of this thread, we need something in game to make WG WoW's admins to help identify cancerous players for the game and experience.

 

 

[CylonRed]

Problem is - it is still not supremely prevalent, seriously.  Maybe every 3-4th game I am on a team that has a AFK or on the red team.  I have won with a AFK and I have lost when the red had AFK.  Both teams deal with it and there can be a lot of reasons for AFK out of a players control.  Deciding on bots is nothing but guessing.

[Pata1985]

Problem is - it is still not supremely prevalent, seriously.  Maybe every 3-4th game I am on a team that has a AFK or on the red team.  I have won with a AFK and I have lost when the red had AFK.  Both teams deal with it and there can be a lot of reasons for AFK out of a players control.  Deciding on bots is nothing but guessing.

 

 

  If WG devs decide to take actions based on stats of their own warships.today site, things like this could be prevented.

[Pata1985]

Fresh out of the oven

 

[Pata1985]

This never gets old.

 

 

[Elo_J_Fudpucker]

One solution I have tossed out there before, is that after "X" minutes of AFK, the ship turns into a bot of the lowest tier in the match of the same type. It would then at least *do* something.

[Pata1985]

 

 There are some bots that  when the enemy starts getting into the spawning zone and start atacking that AFK ship, it magically starts accelerating and shooting ... lulz

[Gully_Foyle_AS128127006]

This is what I want WG to implement.

1)  Increase Countdown Timer another 15 seconds.

2)  Create within the gamescape a "I am a real, live player and ready to play" acknowledgement button which must be pressed during the Countdown timer or within one minute of the battle starting.

3)  Failure to acknowledge in time sends the player back to port with no penalty/ship repair cost, as well as an enemy counterpart who receives a modest amount of silver for his trouble/bad luck.

4)  Failure to acknowledge 3 times in a row with subsequent auto-returns to port puts a flag on the account limiting that account to Co op battle until that person has placed in the top 3 exp in a Co op battle

For myself, I have a reasonably muscular system and can play with all the graphics maxed out with no problem.  That said, maybe one battle out of twenty I will get the endless loading spinner during countdown and have to reboot the game.  Every time this has happened I am back onto the gamescape within 30-45 secs of the battle having started but, even if I wasn't able to get back in so quickly, I would consider it no problem at all if I were relegated to Co op while I had issues going on so I could work them out without putting a random team at a disadvantage.

One thing is for sure - it's annoying when it's domination and your DDs are resting at anchor while caps are falling and while your CAs are melting as they vainly try to search out those capping enemy DDs, and it's annoying when any ship which could have made a difference is still at spawn.

[dannyboy1939]

As much as I hate captchas, that other Chinese F2P ship game has one after so many times clicking "Battle" that pops up, annoying but seemed to work.

Considering every battle there is at least one person who has crashed, has the glacial speed first load of the day or net problems, can't do much about that and I don't complain cause they usually do something after, but with those there is always one that never moves at all every few games or so and has the 0 exp in team stats, those drive me nuts and make me wonder WHY did you install the game? Hey at least they aren't "buy gold" spam bots.....yet.....

[Pata1985]

As much as I hate captchas, that other Chinese F2P ship game has one after so many times clicking "Battle" that pops up, annoying but seemed to work.

Considering every battle there is at least one person who has crashed, has the glacial speed first load of the day or net problems, can't do much about that and I don't complain cause they usually do something after, but with those there is always one that never moves at all every few games or so and has the 0 exp in team stats, those drive me nuts and make me wonder WHY did you install the game? Hey at least they aren't "buy gold" spam bots.....yet.....

 

 

  Mark my words, there will be spammers offering "leveling services" through their tech trees.

[skoony_1]

 

i see nothing in the OP's post suggesting anything amiss.

 

  Did you ever have one of those games when you spawned late?

In some of my games I spawned so late my torps were active,the

 entire fleet was deployed and I was being bombed.

By the time I got to the action it was over. Run to the next action,over.

In areal battle how many fleets lost ships that couldn't leave port or,

broke down on the way? Mishaps are a dynamic of war and the game

Mike

[CLUCH_CARGO]

Stinky little logs happens get over it, there is no way to "punish" the offenders how you would like short of electrocution. Nobody likes it but giving a death sentence to a purse snatcher is over kill. Play YOUR game don't worry about others. This type of thread reminds me of all the road rage seen on US highways...Shoot grandma for driving in the fast lane making you look Bad. AFK happens Bots happen Stinky Little Logs happen .

[DukeRamulots]

It's been happening more since the patch, it's probably a connection issue not people being dummies.

[Pata1985]

When was the last time we saw 18-19k online players ? Active population suffers from this problem.

[Shadow_1964]

I don't see the problem. In fact, I rarely see this. Except this is 1 of who the hell knows how many stupid thread posts on the same stupid, non-issue subject.