Project 1999 - AFK Leveling = Banned. New Unspoken rules Via Guide Drommund. Proof inside.

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Here's a picture of him trying to ban me over what I said in OOC.

http://i846.photobucket.com/albums/a...innf/asdf4.jpg

The best part is, if you get banned for 7 days, you'll be just as afk as you were before.

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Originally Posted by Qi0 (Post 21292)

I will discuss rather than chide you for doing any complaining that you're not actually doing.

1 - How long have people been AFK leveling? Is this now a bigger deal because it's become more popular? I wonder how many players have done this, really.

2 - The 'penalty' for AFK leveling was previously being booted to desktop, as per the thread in question. Did this ever actually happen? It also seems weird that there's a penalty for it, but no mention of banning or anything. It's only 'frowned upon'.

3 - IIRC on live there's a 75% penalty to all kills where the pet's owner does not do at least 1 damage. Was this not in during classic, or is it a code issue?

1. People have been AFK Leveling since the server started. It's becoming real popular.

2. The punishment for AFK Leveling, according to the rules in print, are Frowned upon and booted to character select. No where does it state a maximum penalty of "banishment"

3. Back in 1999, AFK Leveling was around. The 75% penalty wasn't implemented until Luclin I believe. Could've been Velious.

One of our guys mooned the GM last night pre-raid and he made that guy spin in circles repeatedly. True story!

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Originally Posted by Aeolwind (Post 21290)

lol, Well, I have to say my methods are far more devious, especially if someone is AFK camping half a zone away.

I would just go make a PEQ character now - when a dev says devious and you are playing "you can't make me" the end result for you isn't going to be good.

Geee whiz, in all those other rules on that page there is no specific punishment listed for them either. Except in a blanket statement at the bottom,

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Failure to comply and respect these rules will be viewed as disruptive behavior and players will be subject to disciplinary action. Please dont let it come to this.

It would seem that would apply to all the rules, am I right? And banning would be a form of disciplinary action, am I right?

Rogean, Can you please confirm/deny if this is a bannable offense please?

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Originally Posted by wooly (Post 21303)

Rogean, Can you please confirm/deny if this is a bannable offense please?

Hahaha are you serious? Did you not see the post about the guy who used to AFK level in ocean of tears and someone came by and dropped off a charmed mob and while he was gone he lost about 25 levels?

Yea, keep it up, that will happen to you, whether its a "banable offense" or not.

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Originally Posted by wooly (Post 21303)

Rogean, Can you please confirm/deny if this is a bannable offense please?

I can comment that if I find someone doing it they generally don't live much longer. After having to get your corpse off the bottom of the lava lake in Lavastorm or finding yourself 2 miles in orbit obove EC and falling fast, most folks have received the message. Another personal fave is making the pet kill its owner, or deleveling the pet, or making the pet DT the owner, or drowning, or dumping them next to the Neriak Warrior guild, I could go on.

The code is not in place to sap all the XP from pet owners yet, but if the trend continues you can pretty well bet it won't be long.

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Originally Posted by wooly (Post 21303)

Rogean, Can you please confirm/deny if this is a bannable offense please?

Though I'm sure Rogean can tell you, I'd imagine the person you'd really want clarification from is Nilbog.

But none of that is really important, as afk leveling just makes you look like a tool and results in your only end game guild option with Transcendence.

Their founders started the fad after all.