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AFK PVP IO farming against the Rules?

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-07-15 10:13 in The Market and Inventions

 

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Originally Posted by macskull View Post
Why was this thread started in the first place >.<
Because for some reason he feels the need to post everytime his farm is broken up...

 

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I belive this was discussed recently on Beef's site. It is not an exploit, even though its a crappy thing its not really a cheat cause you can be greifed easily.

If you howver found some error in geometry in game to hide it would be.

 

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Originally Posted by Black_Mute View Post
Because for some reason he feels the need to post everytime his farm is broken up...
You give yourself waaaaaaaay too much credit, kid.

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Originally Posted by PL_Beggar View Post
Here come the farm busters to Justice server
Nooooo!!!

 

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What is Farm Busting?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Enjoy your day please.

 

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Originally Posted by macskull View Post
You give yourself waaaaaaaay too much credit, kid.
Ohhhrrrealllyy

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Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee View Post
What is Farm Busting?

Inquiring minds want to know.
You can't figure it out BB?

 

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Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee View Post
What is Farm Busting?

Inquiring minds want to know.
It means stopping an AFK farm. Normally by simply killing the attacking character although I guess you could also do it by using TP foe if you wanted a bit more fun.

 

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Originally Posted by Black_Mute View Post
Ohhhrrrealllyy



You can't figure it out BB?
Players busting farms is one thing, it's something entirely different if a GM is doing it. I am surprised you still play this game. How about some arena?

 

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Originally Posted by Mercury_Down View Post
Players busting farms is one thing, it's something entirely different if a GM is doing it. I am surprised you still play this game. How about some arena?
Until you can categorically and definitively PROVE it is a GM, I call BS.

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Just a thought, does Force Bubble show up in combat logs when you're being pushed all over the place? Me and a buddy have 1 bubbler each and regularly play soccer, thinking maybe you became someone's object of amusement for a little while.

 

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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
The EULA specifically states that, regardless of how it is done, AFK play is illegal. Your original question, though, is about PvP zone griefing. Again, report the offenders. GMs should be held to a higher standard than even the players.
That's good to know.. I'll be sure to start petitioning all the badgers working on their healing and damage badges now.

 

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Originally Posted by FlipS0ckeT View Post
Just a thought, does Force Bubble show up in combat logs when you're being pushed all over the place? Me and a buddy have 1 bubbler each and regularly play soccer, thinking maybe you became someone's object of amusement for a little while.
Was just about to say this. If being Force bubble'd doesn't show up in the log, BOOM! Roasted.

 

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Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen View Post
That's good to know.. I'll be sure to start petitioning all the badgers working on their healing and damage badges now.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but if it violates the EULA--go for it.

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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but if it violates the EULA--go for it.
Here's a question for you then.. If, as you suggest, any AFK activity is a violation of the EULA, then why are dozens of threads on how to do so allowed to exist in the badging section of the forum? Why aren't they nuked by the mods? Those kind of guides have been around for years.

Obviously some amount of AFK activity is condoned as acceptable.

 

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Originally Posted by Shadowdweller View Post
Was just about to say this. If being Force bubble'd doesn't show up in the log, BOOM! Roasted.
Force Bubble shows up in the combat logs.

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Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen View Post
Obviously some amount of AFK activity is condoned as acceptable.
I'm not sure it's being condoned so much as it is they don't have a way to stop it that wouldn't bring negative consequences. However, I'd hope that our devs are smart enough to realize that if you have people AFK farming for something, the bar may be set too high.

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Originally Posted by macskull View Post
Why was this thread started in the first place >.<
OP wants to see an outbreak of farm busting ?

 

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Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen View Post
Here's a question for you then.. If, as you suggest, any AFK activity is a violation of the EULA, then why are dozens of threads on how to do so allowed to exist in the badging section of the forum? Why aren't they nuked by the mods? Those kind of guides have been around for years.

Obviously some amount of AFK activity is condoned as acceptable.
Granted. I concede the point. I'm too tired to say anything else intelligent. Let's just say there is an undefined wiggle area between some AFK play, and other AFK play.

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I know did the AFK PvP farming once.

I set it the night before, woke up the next morning, went to work, came back from work, watch some TV, ate dinner and then came back to the computer.

Sometime during that time, my rezer some how was in the hospital, along with the killer. Looked through the combat logs and there was nothing saying the killer had died, but there was record of the rezer being killed by a player. Thought it odd. (I also noted that not all the combat log was there, seems the game can only hold so many MB of text).

Not gona say a GM did it, I figured another player came


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Originally Posted by Mercury_Down View Post
If not a GM then you explain what can teleport a player halfway across a zone instantly without showing up in the combat log?
I wasn't there, didn't see anything.

However, to provide the requested explanation -

I've been in one place, only to find myself completely across the map before. It was odd, and I know a villain didn't tp me. Apparently, I was "put in my place". The mapserver thought I was supposed to be one place, my computer showed me in another. It was basically a large rubber band episode.

You sound experienced enough to identify rubber banding, so perhaps my explanation is useless.

The only other time I was "teleported" to some location I didn't authorize was during the Ritki Mothership Raid, when I touched something or went too close to something and got located to the other side of the mothership, a good distance away from it.

I can assure you that the devs, though preferring you actually play the game for the joy of it, are highly unlikely to disturb your play, whether you're afk in an old Drecks mission that has no timer, or in an AE farm mission. If you're not disturbing the play of others, I don't see the GMs wasting their time.
Just my opinion, though.

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Originally Posted by SwellGuy View Post
Wouldn't be easier to afk farm in the arena in Pocket D?
The match time limit makes that inefficient. Especially if you want, say, to run a farm overnight while you sleep.

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I'm confused... how would anyone afk farm pvp ios ??

If you die in pvp zone your are TP'd to hospital, how can you farm that???

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Originally Posted by Donna_ View Post
I'm confused... how would anyone afk farm pvp ios ??

If you die in pvp zone your are TP'd to hospital, how can you farm that???
You aren't TP'd right away, there's a timer. Get a self rez power, and put it on auto. Make sure it's 3-slotted for recharge, and you have as much global recharg as possible, to ensure that it recharges before it's needed again.

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It is not rubberbanding. Has happened to me after a few hours of beating on a toon, then presto! I highly doubt it is a GM... Wouldnt it just be easier for them to kill you? I haven't been shifted to opposite ends of a map, I have however been shifted to the opposite side of the same building repeatedly.

 

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Originally Posted by Black_Mute View Post
Because for some reason he feels the need to post everytime his farm is broken up...
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You have only broken his farm up once? Thats not the Black_Mute I have come to know and love.