A battleground will kick me for "inactivity" while I am dead? Seriously???

Dahveed · December 1

Daily endeavour is the BG today, which I literally never participate in. Fine, whatever, I'll just queue up and get my butt kicked and get it over with.

So we get destroyed in a "deathmatch" and I die 3 times very quickly (predictably) but this one clown on our own team rezzes and stays up in the stands so the fight no longer progresses while the rest of our team lies in the dirt (all of us have 3 deaths).

The "system" tells us we will get kicked for "inactivity". [snip] we are all dead, and cannot rez. Of course we are inactive.

So our team keeps yelling at this one idiot to just go and die to end the game so we can all move on and just get our endeavour. But of course ZOS in their 240 IQ decided to design their BG so that one moron could troll 7 people at a time.

Reason #438 to never play BGs in this game I guess, as if I needed another one.

[edited for profanity bypass]

fizl101 · December 1

its a known issue not yet fixed

Djennku · December 1

They are supposedly fixing it in tomorrow's maintenance. Keep an eye on the patch notes tomorrow

Dahveed · December 1

Thanks for the info.

However I still think that players should be forced into the play area after a short timer (10 seconds?) to avoid idiots just standing in the starting area slowing everyone down.

WoW arenas did this after a few seconds: A gust of wind for example would push the players into the play area to force the game to start. This avoid trolls forcing everyone to wait the maximum amount of time in a mismatch where one team gets nuked into oblivion. (Just get it over with and let us continue our lives!)

Djennku · December 1

BGs still need sone adjustmebts for sure. I'd love to see the IC immunity areaon the bases, because as of now, some areas let the other team throw atros and other ground aoes on there, as well as easy reach to nuke you as soon as you spawn in.

katanagirl1 · December 1

I am curious, was there a mechanic to force players off the spawn area previously in BGs? I’m not sure there was, it might have just been the infinite lives and timed match that gave players no reason to sit on spawn point.

I don’t do BGs a lot, but even on my PvP toons I would die quite a bit when I played them before. I would prefer the old system of infinite lives and a set time limit for the match. Did someone ask for that particular change and I missed it, or did they just decide to change to a new limited life versus limited time format?

fizzylu · December 1

@katanagirl1
There wasn't, players staying in spawn simply wasn't as much of an issue since the 4v4v4 format didn't result in one team that's getting steamrolled just hiding from the one team that's steamrolling them almost every match.

katanagirl1 · December 2

fizzylu wrote: »

@katanagirl1
There wasn't, players staying in spawn simply wasn't as much of an issue since the 4v4v4 format didn't result in one team that's getting steamrolled just hiding from the one team that's steamrolling them almost every match.

I thought so, thanks for confirming.

Cooperharley · December 2

Ahem

Queue Borat voice

“Very nice, great design”

Djennku · December 2

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I am curious, was there a mechanic to force players off the spawn area previously in BGs? I’m not sure there was, it might have just been the infinite lives and timed match that gave players no reason to sit on spawn point.

I don’t do BGs a lot, but even on my PvP toons I would die quite a bit when I played them before. I would prefer the old system of infinite lives and a set time limit for the match. Did someone ask for that particular change and I missed it, or did they just decide to change to a new limited life versus limited time format?

As of now, they have a 2 min timer that kicks you off the base when it ends.