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I know your guys are working hard to give us all these fixes and add new stuff. I am sure most of the Battle-tech and Mech Warrior fandom will stand behind some type of quick fix. We understand that this is beta and they will be game bugs. There is much to work on.
This FARMING BOT issue is becoming a game breaking problem, ruining match after match. It’s getting worse. At first it was one or two bots ruining the game. Now it is sometimes three or more. I’ve even seen, four or five Mechs exploding themselves at start of the match. Worse the bots taunt with a macro with such things as, "I regret nothing!" So why are they doing it? It's either lazy players macro botting to earn easy money for gear and mechs or farmers trying to sell accounts fully loaded out with Mechs.
It seems these players are just too cheap to support a GREAT GAME and help it to become even BETTER. Something needs to be done. Yes, I understand it's hard to be a free to play game and keep banned players from making new accounts but at least it would be proactive.
As far as I know of, there is no IN GAME way to report these players. Not sure if I missed something or if there is an offline forum way to do so. Please HELP.
I understand that the groups and grouping is being worked on. Soon we will have more match choices. Still if you care about the community you will do something to prevent these money farming bot players profiting from the game.
Sure some players disconnect because of crashing, a bug, or a hud issue. They usually try and tell the players they're having an issue. Other players via TS or chat will try to help them stay on base or move to cap. Normally it is not game after game after game.
Seriously, have you guys not noticed the increase of bot farming players. A few weeks ago it was just a few players standing around or logging in and then disconnecting in trial mechs. Now match after match I'm seeing these bot players RUINING the game for all the others playing. It's very easy to spot. They self explode at the beginning of the match, some run right out of bounds in the first few seconds of the game, some just auto disconnect right after the match starts. The real irritating ones torso twist then start shooting everyone until they blow themselves up.
When it was just one botting player on the team, it sucked but the team can most of the time pull together and win. With two botting players, the team is at a pretty extreme disadvantage, a win is unlikely. At three or more self exploding taunting bots at the start of the game it becomes completely unfair for the team. Players on the team are extremely upset and questioning why it is even allowed? Why are BOTS able to make money? Why are BOTS allowed to keep playing? What can be done to stop this?
Suggestion: As a quick fix at start for the first 30secs or the whole match, ZERO MONEY AND EXP for "out of bounds", "overheating explosion", "Disconnecting", "Team Killing”, or “not moving off base”.
If a player doesn't move out of drop, does no damage, does no capping, they should get nothing and pay full repair costs.
As for disconnected, just remove the mech immediately or like in 60secs. It would be nice if you log back into the game and had a quick option to rejoin match if it was before the time out.
I'm sure PGI has some type of log they might check and see that player has continually blow his mech up or disconnected every match for hours and hours. I've been advised we as player are not allowed to post names of other other players doing anything bad on the forums. Instead please email support@mwomercs.com about the player who is farm botting.
Edited by Mason2501, 26 November 2012 - 10:01 PM.
or maybe even another thing to help, though I like Xt1nct1on's idea better, is to make it so players in a match, if they don't move for the first five minutes, then they're automatically disconnected so they don't get anything for the match.
