"Player X-Blackhand has reported you for being AFK, please type /afk confirm to contest the status"
Another player must have recieved the same message as he typed "I'm not typing /afk :P"
Unfortunately, being the newbie to BG's that I am, I typed it as I thought the message was a standard Blizzard message and (of course, silly me) I went AFK, left the battleground and received a message that I couldn't enter any battlegrounds again for (I think) 15 minutes.
What was this player trying to do. I'll know better now. It was just frustrating.
I play BG's to win... not to go AFK. And, be reminded, that the battle had still not even started.
Can anyone explain this? Thanks in advance.
Max.
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(unnecessary and questionable url deleted, love, Semii)|||There are players like that who type in things to try and get other people to quit/die/etc. in game, just for the hell of it (they think it's cool - go figure!). Basically the AFK system in the battlegrounds is a way of stopping someone from leaching, whereby they go AFK in a remote location on the map and get rewarded for doing absolutely nothing. Blizzard knew about this and so brought in this system where a player can report a person for being AFK and get them removed from the battle.
I'm somewhat surprised that you got kicked out before the battle had started but I think that just typing /afk in a BG will get you automatically kicked, regardless if someone reports you or not. The only thing to do is ignore the jerks and not make the same mistake again.|||He used an emote to post that. /e has reported you for being AFK...
He didn't use the ingame system to report leechers, but a different 'method' of tricking newbies to remove themselves.
By tagging yourself with afk (/afk), you automagically ported yourself out of the battleground.
Similar stuff has been happening since vanilla, with Town Portals in starting zones etc etc. Most people fall for it once at most.|||It's a rude way to weed out the very newest, greenest players in a battleground. Not very effective, since it only works once if it works at all.|||I didn't know that trick. Wouldn't use it unless someone would really get on my nerves.
About emote tricks:
Another emote that I think came from Gorny (not sure); I made it into a macro and use it often with my rogue to confuse people:
Code:
/em steals 50 gold from %t's pocket
So if my Rogue Stabomatic targets Easytarget, he receives the following message in red: Stabomatic steals 50 gold from Easytarget's pocket.
Once a player chased me for about 10 minutes to get his gold back.
I also have the reverse:
Code:
/em puts 50 gold into %t's pocket|||Except that if you truly are the target of an action, it'll show to them as 'you/your'. Seeing your name is a dead giveaway it's an emote.|||Quote:
I didn't know that trick. Wouldn't use it unless someone would really get on my nerves.
About emote tricks:
Another emote that I think came from Gorny (not sure); I made it into a macro and use it often with my rogue to confuse people:
Code:
/em steals 50 gold from %t's pocket
So if my Rogue Stabomatic targets Easytarget, he receives the following message in red: Stabomatic steals 50 gold from Easytarget's pocket.
Once a player chased me for about 10 minutes to get his gold back.
I also have the reverse:
Code:
/em puts 50 gold into %t's pocket
Yeah that one was likely me...haven't done it in a while.
I've also done funnier with emotes...|||Quote:
Except that if you truly are the target of an action, it'll show to them as 'you/your'. Seeing your name is a dead giveaway it's an emote.
Most people see through it yes, and some give nice responses. But there are always a few who think it's real.|||The proper way to do it is:
/me steals 5 Gold 12 Silver and 25 Copper from your bags.
-or-
/me picks your pocket for 5 Gold 12 Silver and 25 Copper
This way it affects everyone in range of your emote, they see on their screen "your" which is the standard way things look, it isn't a round number, and it isn't a big number (some new player who has less than 20 gold won't be fooled by an emote claiming to steal more than they own).|||Quote:
/me picks your pocket for 5 Gold 12 Silver and 25 Copper
Flawed for a few reasons: odd capitalisation and lack of punctuation. Blizzard is very tidy about ending their emotes with a full stop.
Mind you, I seriously doubt people pick up on that one, but it's a giveaway.
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