Emergency WvW fix! Stop the botting!

#1 - Sept. 25, 2012, 6:02 a.m.
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Problem: Botters in WvW eating up queues and PvE runners eating up queue.

Assessment: The large number of fast spawning npcs and events in wvw has attracted large numbers botters for two reasons. First one of the fastest spawns of events and creatures in game. Second most non-bot players don’t do skritt or centaur.

Additionally the chest reward jump puzzles, vistas, skill points, poi’s attract large numbers of people not participating in the battle.

Solution: Remove all creatures and non-pvp events, vistas, jump puzzle rewards, skill points, and poi’s from Borderlands and Eternal. This includes Creatures in the lake related to weather control nodes(lightning). Quaggin, ogre, etc as they can be farmed and basically add no real help for owning them.

Expected Outcomes: Botters will immediately leave WvW, non-pvp players will immediately leave WvW, Queue times will improve, Rendering will improve, borderland swivel and defenses will no longer annoyingly get lightning’d to death(no one likes this), WvE players will no longer eat up queues while doing jump puzzles.

Difficulty of Change: Low, most items should simply be able to be switched off with no need for any actual scripting.

#3 - Sept. 25, 2012, 6:26 a.m.
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Hi Cayden.

Thank you very much for this comprehensive feedback. I will forward it to the team. But in the meantime, I will proceed to lock the thread as the team is fully aware of this issue.

Thanks for your understanding.