Feldon If you’re familiar with the Battlefield of Ganak, the Capture-the-Flag arena for PvP/Battlegrounds, you’ll know that players have demonstrated an uncanny ability to collect the opposing team’s flag and then hide somewhere that the other team cannot reach. Various tools have been used, from in-game tinkered spring shoes, to 3rd party jump/hack/positioning software.
There was a thread soliciting feedback on how the EQ2 team could solve this problem.
Already, there is a Truancy system in place, where if enough players vote that a player has gone AFK simply to collect Battlegrounds tokens.
So how could this new problem of out-of-reach flag holders be resolved? Many solutions were proposed. As of last week, we have our answer:
If a player holds the flag beyond a designated amount of time without entering melee combat, they will see a message flash in red characters at the top of their screen “Get into Combat or be Banished!!“.
If you’d like to read player feedback on this issue and solution, check out the thread on the EQ2 Forums.
Once again they put the wrong fix into place.
They just need to make every single BG a deathmatch if this is the way they are going to try and fix their game.
They need to remove Battlegrounds altogether, it has killed grouping in PvE.
Its a good fix, and I’m happy to see it coming. Though seeing comment’s about PvP from non-pvpers is ridicules.
Happened to me tonight. I grabbed the flag right before they almost capped and ran it back to my base. All 15 of my teammates stayed in the other base trying to get our flag back. The message flashed on my screen that i would be banished so as quickly as I could I ran back across the field and engaged but even though I attacked and hit a player I was kicked from the field and the other team one I assume. No where near an unreachable place I was just at the flag base.
Here’s a new tactic: Never chase or try to kill an enemy flag carrier if you have their flag. protect your flag carrier and if they are foolish enough to try to score they willbe banished.
Nice fix guys makes no sense