BGs badly need stricter AI for AFKers and you can start by banning the "auto accept" addons.

Selminus · July 2021

This is a serious issue at higher levels. The first fight often dictates the course of flag games and the morale/positioning in TDM. Every 2nd or 3rd game there is some clown just sitting in a base and then when you call them out on it you're "toxic" and it's "just a game". Yeah? When halftime is over in the NBA do players just sit on the bench until they feel like getting up? Does a UFC fighter stay parked on a stool when the bell rings? Of course not. This is like the faketank plague in that it wastes the entire queue for others, you're talking 10+ minutes sometimes and the time of the crippled game. The truth is it's totally unacceptable and Zenimax should take steps. Screwing 3+ strangers over is not ok and corporate can easily fix this.

I suspect that the auto accept addons for DPS that use them for dungeons are a big part of this issue.

Fennwitty · July 2021

How can an addon be the problem when the players themselves are the ones queuing for BG they don't intend to do?

Like forcing them to press 'accept' will stop them?

kargen27 · July 2021

Maybe have a countdown on players in base. Ten seconds after the gate opens the player gets kicked down into the arena. Then when a player dies after they spawn they get 10 seconds again to jump down or get kicked down into the arena.

As I typed that I realized all this would do would make players not wanting to participate be easy kills for the opposition. So bad idea but I'm leaving it up anyway.

Linaleah · July 2021

what auto accept addon?

if you mean an option to auto accept a queue rather then manually, pretty sure that's base game. it still won't protect you from staying while afking in a battleground, unless you go afk after you jump down. I'm also reasonably sure that if you stay up in a safe zone for too long, the BG automatically kicks you out, so above suggestion might actualy make things worse, not better.

the real solution IMO is a minimum contribution of some sort. if all you do is stealth around the entrance doing nothing? you do not get bg completion to count for you. gotta do something whether its an assist or several, or protecting the relic spawn point or any number of things like that.

and i'm honestly so confused why people even go into battlegrounds if they are not going to participate. Cyrodil quests are faster for tickets. and for event meta achievement, you actualy need to kill people, aka participate.

CaffeinatedMayhem · July 2021

Linaleah wrote: »

what auto accept addon?

if you mean an option to auto accept a queue rather then manually, pretty sure that's base game.

It is not base game, and there are several different addons which auto-accept queue.

I agree that there should be some functionality to kick players out of base in BGs. Anyone remember the chaos ball hack to get the ball in your base and then sit there until you win? ZOS may have chosen to fix the chaos ball in that case but the ability to kick inactive players out of base in BGs should exist. I don't care if you don't like your team, you're there to PLAY not make friends. Your team playing death match in a land grab? Well PT(FINE)O by yourself, you'll score higher. This is how I got my MMR f(forget)ml.

redspecter23 · July 2021

Auto accept isn't the issue. In an ideal world, the queue would never be long enough that anyone would need to walk away at all and you would just all auto accept as the standard within 1 minute of queueing. I don't think the "are you still alive" prompt to get into the queue should be needed at all. If it is, the queues are too long and ZOS needs to examine their code or the implementation to get queue times down.

With that being said, anyone afk in a Battleground should be subject to removal. Perhaps a traditional vote kick isn't quite appropriate, but I agree something should be done. The auto accept addons are not the problem. They are a solution to an entirely different problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.