Hi, I’m Vallun. I am a competitive achievement point obtainer. I did all of the personal stories, got the Emperor title, and do my dailies every day. I was on the second page of the leaderboards before my account was banned for “Botting”. I have never botted and as such it takes a lot of effort for me to maintain my position on the leaderboards, doing every living story and daily while searching for older achievements to go for. I have also five writing courses and a real life to juggle, yet I love Guild Wars so I keep playing.
I was working on getting the Lunatic Inquisition Regular achievement points when I had been banned. I can see why this would occur because of the nature of the game type. Villagers have to be very still and hide, which would set off the AFK timer. Ghosts that kill too fast would have little to do and become bored near the end of the match. Knowing that I needed to be the top 10 scorer, it was impossible for me to be AFK and still get the achievements. Yet I still had to watch Bridesmaids (it was ok) for a Gender and Theory in Film class. So while I was playing Lunatic Inquisition (not AFK), I would be watching this movie. I could easily get top scorer early on, and then become lazier near the end when the action settled down. I could see how this would be considered circumventing AFK timers, but at the same time it wasn’t ruining the game type or using an exploit/bot, and therefore not deserving of a ban.
This issue seems to be uniquely tied to the Lunatic Inquisiton game type because of its need for anticipation. So I don’t think the game type is wrong, but the bot buster system needs to take account for this unique situation. I think the bot system should be removed from the game type in the first place because you get nothing if you have less than top 10 points, making there no incentive to AFK anyway, and only incentive to be competitive.
