I don’t AFK but it also doesn’t bother me either. It’s very casual content and it doesn’t really effect me getting my rewards. As someone else has said the only time I don’t get all the boxes is when it’s early morning.
This is kind of a non-issue besides just being slightly annoying to some folks.
Pretty much this. Instanced content I can understand why afk players is a prob, but rifts are pretty much solo player content until you get to the boss part. Now if you are grouped with others doing rifts, then ya, but most folks are probably doing rifts solo.
My only issue with the AFKers is when it is like there are 15 people doing them and 10 of them are AFK. Keep in mind, the better box you get, the better the chance at more then just the flakes.
I don’t really care if people AFK or not, it is more I wish instead of auto AFKing that people would look to see how many are there and choose based on that or at least take a "do I want to take forever to get what I am after or do I want to cut down on the time it takes?’ stance.
so are you thinking it would be better if those 10 afk people were in valdrakken instead?
Unless there is a way to game it, I don’t think you can get credit for it without at least being in the area. After all the first thing anyone has to do to activate the gsathering/activities is report in, so if it is possible to do that then still get credit while in Valdrakken, then it does not matter where they AFK.
To use the soup as the example, is the timer/even active for anyone NOT in Iskara but just the span in general? If so, then one could still get credit even if they are doing WQs in the span and not helping with the cooking, if not then one would still have to be in Iskarra to get credit, but if you are in the area anyway, why not at least put in a token effort (in the case of the rifts, just run around killing mobs).
TBH kind of sounds like you just have a negative attitude.
But lets induldge, why do you say that? Because my server can’t even seem to get the green boxes lately, so the only way to get boxes is to join a raid? So pointless joining?
yes, i agree that they wouldn’t get credit. i’m asking how things would be different for you if those people were just afking somewhere else, or not logged in at all.
there are other ways to jump realms without joining a raid full of afkers.
One alternative that another game i play uses is % damage done. However the flaw (for me as a casual) is that compared to the DPS of someone with elite top level gear, they kill things long before i can reach the % damage done threshold and i get 0 credit for my participation.
Most likely I would not even notice them if they were AFK outside the area or not even logged in. Like I said, I don’t care if people AFK or not, I am just one that wishes people would not auto AFK the event, if they are in the area the least they can do is see if it is going to be too much issue to tag anything, due to sheer number of people, or if they are one of a handful that would be struggling to get even the lowest box without everyone participating.
I guess you could say I don’t care much about people going AFK, but I am a bit tired of people being leeches, the thing about leeches is they are less noticeable if the body or, in this case, active participants can cover what is missing/lost without issue but the more there are, proportionally, the more issues there can be.
I was flying nearby once and was getting boxes, and I hadn’t reported in. That was early on though so maybe that was hotfixed. That was before I had even gone to the hub for the first time.
i still don’t understand. why do people think this event scales with the number of people there?
No clue but on a server like mine with as many people are there every event that would be a nightmare.
afkers have no impact whatsoever on your rewards. period.
it’s open world. mobs spawn at the same rate with the same amount of health whether there are 700 people in the zone or it’s just you. people who are afking would be doing the same amount of helping whether they’re afk on a pillar or logged out completely. it doesn’t affect the outcome even a tiny bit.
It’s simple. People are making a mountain out of thin air. At this point, they’re either trolling, or will never understand that someone who is AFKing is not going to “contribute to the cause” whether they’re AFKing on a pillar or in the middle of the Great Sea.
Where do you get the idea that people are thinking that? It does not scale, but the more that are actively participating, the easier/faster it is to build up to the better rewards.
It does not matter if it is one there, doing everything, or 100+, the difficulty is the same. Like with the feast, you have those getting fish, those gathering seaweed, those stiring the pot, etc.
right, but if afking didn’t give rewards, those people wouldn’t suddenly start helping. they’s just log out.
I’m just gonna throw this out there but I would prefer more people AFK on my server, I’d get more hits in which means more flakes and rep for me because at least halftime it’s impossible to get hits in on stuff, add in there’s at least 1-2 minutes left before portal opens usually when we get the purple box and it’s like why are people complaining about people being AFK because it’s literally a nonissue.
As an avid Rift AFKer, I would simply tag the absolute bare minimum with a Heroic Throw and still collect rewards 
then let them log out.
hey, as long as you are contributing in some way, I could care less, evein if in the case of the 10 AFKers, if those 10 did want you would, it could still add up.
I know it’s 9 days later, but I thought you would be happy to know that SOMETIMES… not all the time unfortunately… but SOMETIMES afkers get nothing and the fight actually takes participation into account.
I definitely wish blizz would partner with some of the dps addons to further take fight contribution into account.
Like if you are a hunter and auto shot is #1 and you used aimed shot 3 times over the course of a 5 minute fight… hmmmmmmmm