March 3 2010 Hotfix Notes (Battlegrounds AFK Voting System)

Today’s Hotfix addresses those players who have been Queueing up for Battlegrounds and then intentionally going AFK. Players who join a Battleground but lose still earn 1 token. But by neither fighting, or contributing to their teams, these AFK players have largely been dead weight.  The hotfix introduces an AFK Voting system:

BATTLEGROUNDS

We’ve implemented an AFK voting system into battlegrounds in order to report teammates that have gone AFK in a match. A player can only be voted AFK if they haven’t had any recent activity. If they receive 3 unique votes for AFK’ing during a match they will be removed from the match and will not receive a reward. Players removed this way will also receive the Truancy debuff. To vote a player AFK, right-click their avatar and choose “vote afk”.

The complete Patch Notes for March 3, 2010 are after the jump…

ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENTS

• Fixed a bug which caused AA mirrors to not work correctly in some instances on a PvP server.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• You can no longer join a battlegrounds match while possessing a creature.

• Fixed a bug which allowed group leaders to kick people from group in battlegrounds.

• We’ve implemented an AFK voting system into battlegrounds in order to report teammates that have gone AFK in a match. A player can only be voted AFK if they haven’t had any recent activity. If they receive 3 unique votes for AFK’ing during a match they will be removed from the match and will not receive a reward. Players removed this way will also receive the Truancy debuff. To vote a player AFK, right-click their avatar and choose “vote afk”.

QUESTS

• Bonemire – The quest “Go back to Vegli” now correctly identifies the name of the gnome you need to return to.  It has been renamed “Go Back to Vegnit”.

• Players who are searching for the remains of the ritual tablets for the quest “The Footsteps of Dartain: Enlightenment” must now find six separate tablet shards.

• Players who have completed the quest, “The Footsteps of Dartain: Emergence” but have not yet accepted the quest, “The Footsteps of Dartain: Observation”, may now hail Pleni Mas’arc and receive her second quest.

The following quests should now update for all group members who are on the correct stage:
Erudin Research Halls:

• Gear Gathering
• Coded Messages

Royal Palace of Erudin:

• Expropriation
• Collecting Seals

Demetrik’s Bastion:

• Poisons

The Vigilant: Incursion:

• Sash of Courage
• A Little Zap Will Do
• Swiping Scrolls

The Vigilant: Infiltration:

• Collecting Cargo
• Weapon Seizure
• Metaphysical Matters
• Nowhere To Be Found

The Vigilant: Rescue:

• Pets of Zek
• The Crook Cook
• The Captain’s Implements
• Secrets of the Tallonites

Vasty Deep: The Conservatory:

• Void Botany

Vasty Deep: The Abandoned Labs:

• Tissue Issues

Vasty Deep: The Vestigial Cella:

• Ca’Na Medallions