So is AFK leveling now allowed?

[Tankwipe]

The most likely scenario, I think, outside of there being nothing sketchy going on (possible), is that the person in question just has someone in their household that can pass boxing checks on demand but is otherwise not present.

[Snortles Chortles]

Good use of unemployment

[Vaarsuvius]

Well I guess we don't see exp leeching the same way.

No offense meant, but if I decide to share with a friend of mine half the xp my pet and I earn and he/she goes afk and I'm OK with it, this is nobody's business but ours.

If I decide to PL someone and only move once every 6 minute 30 to cast my 33pt DS on them and do nothing the rest of the time will someone accuse me of cheating?

The fact that I may or may not have a pet is irrevelant as long as one of us is actively playing while the other is having a shower, a dump, a nap, answering a long phone call or whatever and both players agree with that, nobody's cheating or denying anyone pixels.

OP may be mad because that guard who's supposed to be phat exp at his level was camped, but that's different from stating from a 30 sec video showing a fire pet fighting a guard that they're cheating.

PS I was in BW looking for Gylton a few days ago with a max level focused 53 air pet (so a lvl 46 mob), and I can confirm that the blessed days of mages' pet owning blue con mobs are already. over in Kunark:
Fluffy was doing great VS a Sarnak but it died very fast when another one joined the party and I had to run to SF zone line..
Will try again with a 57 earth pet [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Sabin76]

Originally Posted by Vaarsuvius [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No offense meant, but if I decide to share with a friend of mine half the xp my pet and I earn and he/she goes afk and I'm OK with it, this is nobody's business but ours.

If I decide to PL someone and only move once every 6 minute 30 to cast my 33pt DS on them and do nothing the rest of the time will someone accuse me of cheating?

The fact that I may or may not have a pet is irrevelant as long as one of us is actively playing while the other is having a shower, a dump, a nap, answering a long phone call or whatever and both players agree with that, nobody's cheating or denying anyone pixels.

The problem is not that you are letting your friend freeride off of you, it's that it is completely indistinguishable from boxing with a VPN. One of these things is a bannable offense. If the powers that be plan on enforcing a boxing policy, they can't allow things that look like something a boxer would do (have one character be AFK for prolonged periods of time while the other is actually fighting).

AFAIK, they've been pretty clear about actually needing to be at your computer if you plan on getting anything out of this game (XP, Items, Faction, etc.).

[nycfla]

Originally Posted by Vaarsuvius [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

OP may be mad because that guard who's supposed to be phat exp at his level was camped, but that's different from stating from a 30 sec video showing a fire pet fighting a guard that they're cheating.

I'll clarify something here. At no time was I looking to camp more than one of the 3 guard spawns. I was looking for a single 6:40 spawn timer mob to kill while I did work at the same time. I also did not care if it was the guard that drops the shield and sword...I just wanted to EXP. I don't think I could have even handled all 3 at that level with my lower mana pool and weaker pet (I was using level 34 pet).

And I had one of the three guard spawns, so no I wasn't "mad" about anything...I had a mob to camp. The reason I began recording was that after a little while of me being there they both stopped moving and the pet was killing the other two guards that they were camping (it was not killing my guard so this was not about a camp dispute). So no, I'm not salty or mad, I just was casually killing my single spawn and saw two people AFK EXPing and potentially boxing and filmed multiple videos of it.

Although I did think it was funny that when I first showed up they tried to say they could camp all three, and then when they realized I knew the rules they claimed "oh well we have another Mage on the list ahead of you", and then when I essentially said "okay I'll just kill one of the guard spawns until the Mage gets here and then he can have the spawn and I'll go on the list" suddenly they actually didn't have a Mage on the list and I could have one of the spawns...clearly they wanted to monopolize spawns and when I made clear that I was happy to wait at the camp for the make believe Mage on the list to come they then allowed me to have a spawn lol

[Jibartik]

hmm

If someone is PLing an afk person

and that afk person cannot operate the boxing test by the time a GM arrives from a petition

then those accounts will probably be banned/suspended, and that makes sense.

this (boxers) is why we cant have nice things (trust that you're friend is really afk)