Are the devs addressing this issue? I’m fairly sure people are just practicing flame ram building in SM.
my fix, ban the account, and any accounts associated with the cred card/email from wvw for a year.
(edit: there are 6 rams in that pic, not 3 as some people are saying. I did not but will post the other 2 pics showing 22 arrow carts, 4-5 cata’s plus balistas all protecting those 6 rams).
This is, to quote myself, something we are investigating. The biggest issue is that there are some people, mostly commanders, who place a ton of siege at a time. This makes it much more difficult to find the people doing this on purpose to be jerks. That means it’s complicated to fix and that we have to find a fix that we are happy with before we send it to you all to alternately rejoice over and complain about. Rest assured this is on my radar.
We’ve had this kind of “siege griefing” on Tarnished Coast in Eternal Battlegrounds for the last 2+ weeks. The character in question spends hours placing ballistas on top of NPCs in our keep. Often 3 ballistas on the same NPC! This makes it harder to see and interact with the Repair guy, Bank guy, etc., but more importantly, as others have pointed out, it wastes the keep’s supplies and wastes the keep’s siege limit. I’ve observed this character even repeatedly run to a nearby tower to grab supplies, teleport back to the keep and continue building along with the help of the NPC workers. She continues dropping siege on each NPC until she reaches the limit and even then, still tries to drop more. And she never says a word. It’s pretty clear that she is a BOT.
This siege griefing is very frustrating for the rest of the players. She is a recurrent topic of complaint in Map Chat, and there’s nothing we can do about it. Vote-to-kick might be a good solution. Or a reasonable limit on how many pieces of siege you can drop in the same place. Or perhaps a bot detector that looks for mechanical patterns in behavior. I don’t know, but Anet needs to do something if it wants to keep our server happy and playing.
Have you reported this? If you report with screengrabs and the character name we can do something about it.
Please be diligent here. I’m the guild leader of a 430 member guild as well as the commander… it would be unfortunate if I received a ban. I drop anywhere from 2-5 rams PER door dependent on what is that we’re attacking. I may drop 5 ballistas, 5 ac’s, a treb, and a cat all in the span of 10 minutes. The reason? My guild feels great having me in control and I ask to be in control of all seige – they donate it to me… I get to keep track of how much supply we have in the group. Win win for everyone.
That’s exactly my point. Whatever change we make to try and stop this has to take your situation into account as it is not as unusual as we assumed at first.
There’s a full ticket report under my account name with your guys, complete with about 20 plus screen grabs and a video. I’ve been told you are looking into it. This particular player has been on TC and doing stuff like this since January actually …. But more subtle before the past three weeks to a month of blatant troll siege.
They have since flipped to a different toon name, but because all chars are account bound we can see its the same person.
I’ll look into this myself on Monday. If it’s as clear cut as you say, likely the ban hammer will rain down with full force.
