International District RA abuse: "sync teaming" for glad farming

There's some pretty serious abuse going on in the International RA's at the moment. People are trying to sync enter and get a full TA team of 4 in the RA to farm glad points - the end result is that they quit out of 95% of their matches because they don't have their 3 friends with them.

I've recognized a few well known gvg and ha players doing this to artificially inflate their glad title track, apparently they're not actually good enough at 4v4 to play real teams for glad points.

In the last two hours of solid arena time I played only a handful of matches (maybe 6 or 8), the other 80% of matches ended before they even started.

This is broken and needs fixing.

yes, alot of times, my group quits before my screen even loads. GG

This reminds me of when it happened during the snowball arenas.

syncing can be prevented easily by ensuring that people from different district are mixed, or by adding a pickup randomizer, making teams within a frame of 5-10 seconds rather then instantly. Though I guess such measures will not be implemented.

I wonder what the succes rate is to "sync" in RA?

This has been going on long time, and I guess it will remain for as long as the servers run.

Title Wars FTW rofl

Remove glad points from RA imo.

Remove all home districts from RA.

Make it all international.

That way its always crowded. ^_^

Pretty high, if you're in an empty district.

I agree on the "remove glad points from RA" notion. Sometimes I just want a quick pvp match while my dinner cooks or if I have a few minutes to spare before work. It's just infuriating when I spend that time rolling 4 matches where everyone leaves.



I'd go so far as to say that only 50% of RA matches are 4v4. There are just so many people who will leave if there is no monk in their team, leave if there is 2 people of the same class, leave if someone leaves, leave if someone is using a class they think sucks, leave if someone has a joke name.

It's been bugging me ever since beta. There needs to be some sort of penalty for leaving, if only just a cosmetic one like -5 faction. Giving glad points for RA just made it worse. I do not play RA to farm titles, I play RA for quick random matches.

Leavers are definately my biggest pet peeve about GW.

I like having Gladiator points as a reward, if only because I enjoy RA more than TA. However, people leaving is a BIG annoyance. Even when I play my monk, people will still drop out before the match begins. There needs to be some kind of penalty for it, imo.

Glad points in RA must die. 10 in a row in RA is not any measure of skill anyway.

Hardly any of the titles show skill.

I don't like the idea of taking glad points out of RA, but I do like the idea of actually making it random. The shuffle all entries option mentioned above would be fine. Or they could completely prevent a group from forming with members of the same guild or alliance. And while they are at it, maybe put some kind of "smart teaming" where it will at least try to put in different classes on a team (no more 2 monk groups).

so your wanting to stop an easy way to farm a title?

wonder what FoTM builds do for HA/GvG does then.

they should have made different titles for RA and TA, make RA "random gladiator" with like 2k faction cap for each rank and TA "team gladiator" and have 5k faction cap for each rank

This has always happened. Also, the probability of all 4 people (during regular ID population) getting on one team is practically zero. Two is pretty easy, and 3 will happen about 1/8-10 times. Unfortunately, it has always been this way, and anyone decent goes to TA anyway because they know they can make more glads there... I doubt anet will fix this, and it honestly does not have that big an impact on the game. I've been on plenty of teams so good that people think we synced and yet we didn't. Very, very few people sync enter RA enough to actually affect the title.

Yeah its a ridiculous problem. Ended up in INT RA occassionally by accident from a HA INT dis, and it was plainly stupid. Like the 2nd match will be against 3 rits spiking, all from the same guild.

People who do this are low scum, able to 'win' only when the other team by default lacks all organization and they themselves have build and voice comm worked out.

This is something different than just leaving an RA game because the team has no chance though.

Might as well stop HA during inactive hours, oh yea and FFF farming, oh yea also forgot about inactive TA farming.. which is worse imo 47 consec wins.

This is such a non issue in my opinion. I mean, it happens, but its so rare that the paranoia about it is way worse then the problem.

If you play in Int don't you only get to play against others who entered from international districts? And yeah they should remove Gladiator titles from RA and give TA the title "Gimmick builds make me strong, but sometimes I lose to RA teams that filter in here". Also has anyone noticed that most monks and rits that hang around the arenas have the gladiator title?