Would anything be done if I reported a cross-faction friend farmer?

OldeDevlin · September 2016

(PS4 EU)
I'm not one for running to teacher to snitch, but I'm at the end of my wits with people cheating their way to the top of the leaderboards by having their friends and guildmates log in with other faction characters, to stand around and be farmed for AP. Would Zos actually try to watch them and catch them doing it (I wish I got it on video), or am I wasting my time by sending in reports?

Drdeath20 · September 2016

Your wasting your time.

Drdeath20 · September 2016

OldeDevlin wrote: »

(PS4 EU)
I'm not one for running to teacher to snitch, but I'm at the end of my wits with people cheating their way to the top of the leaderboards by having their friends and guildmates log in with other faction characters, to stand around and be farmed for AP. Would Zos actually try to watch them and catch them doing it (I wish I got it on video), or am I wasting my time by sending in reports?

If there is an exploit people will abuse it. This kind of stuff happens in every game. If it was a mechanic that was being exploited than I'm sure they would want to watch it but since it's just somebody wasting their time allowing themself to be killed over and over again, I doubt they will care about it. It's annoying but it's not against the rules.

OldeDevlin · September 2016

Aye, you're probably right. It's killing PVP though. There are whole campaigns which are ruined by cross-faction character swapping and friend farming.

Asgari · September 2016

ZOS already stated once before that farming friends for AP to get pushed up the boards is a clever tactic and not one they can enforce. How can one prove they are being fed AP on purpose and its not a squad of bad players just not knowing what they are doing ..

but its been around since beta and even long time supposed respected PC members have used this tactic. Its easy to find these AP farms and just go leach off of them until they give up or just let you take the AP and then it slows them down so much they cant boost to the top.

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO · September 2016

Maybe they are just "dueling" XD

OldeDevlin · September 2016

Princess_Asgari wrote: »

ZOS already stated once before that farming friends for AP to get pushed up the boards is a clever tactic and not one they can enforce. How can one prove they are being fed AP on purpose and its not a squad of bad players just not knowing what they are doing ..

but its been around since beta and even long time supposed respected PC members have used this tactic. Its easy to find these AP farms and just go leach off of them until they give up or just let you take the AP and then it slows them down so much they cant boost to the top.

Well, if Zos said that it's all above board, I'd definitely be wasting my time. Just a shame for the players who choose to do things the 'proper' way. I suppose I'm just being naive.
Good to know though, thanks for the replies.

IxSTALKERxI · September 2016

I don't think there's much you can do about this really. People are worth less and less AP each time you kill them to try and minimise this kind of behaviour, but If there is not much action on the map to earn AP via traditional methods, then they'll get more AP than you. If you play on campaigns that are more populated 24/7 you shouldn't experience this problem as you can keep up in AP via traditional methods.

If this happens, try and find their location and leach off them. Or just have a friend follow the person around the map 24/7 leaching / monitoring them while you go make more AP elsewhere. If it's happening on a dead campaign just play elsewhere. If it's a somewhat active campaign and you're feeling competitive you can sill outfarm them. If you are 100% sure they are earning AP illegitimately and have proof, than let people on your faction know about it and they'll be less inclined to help push for emperor (though no one likes false accusations, see CE for example... so make sure you are 110% sure.)

HeroOfNone · September 2016

Might not help console players, but if the API let us know where there were friendly defensive ticks occurred we could self police ourselves a bit better.

Manoekin · September 2016

EZ 20k ticks.

frozywozy · September 2016

Princess_Asgari wrote: »

ZOS already stated once before that farming friends for AP to get pushed up the boards is a clever tactic and not one they can enforce. How can one prove they are being fed AP on purpose and its not a squad of bad players just not knowing what they are doing ..

but its been around since beta and even long time supposed respected PC members have used this tactic. Its easy to find these AP farms and just go leach off of them until they give up or just let you take the AP and then it slows them down so much they cant boost to the top.

you shouldn't have said that, it will just encourage more people to do it.