fame farm?

te spiezzo in due

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2009

how do you do it?you need to play with 1 afk player, and ask to other 6 person to play with 1 afk for free...how?

Faure

Faure

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

Mystic Spiral [MYST]

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Wat?

Fame farm is a farm team that consists of 7 people with a build + the skill to play with an 8th afk'er. I think it's only viable in the Tombs, but not sure.

te spiezzo in due

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2009

so the payment is shared between the 7 members right?

crazybanshee

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Look out!

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umm, what? Are you talking about farming fame, like heroes ascent, Or paying to get fame? which is illegal according to the eula? I'm confused.

Marvollo Gaunt

Marvollo Gaunt

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2009

Tucson, AZ

Perfectionist's Cult

W/Mo

I'm pretty sure what you're thinking of is leeching. which is a violation of the eula.

Songbringer

Songbringer

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

EastCoast

E/Me

Uh when you pay for fame you pay high ranked people who are willing to let you come along in some gimmicky meta build. r8-11s take some garbage guy along getting him fame. MATH has(or had) a free service up on guru that said they were willing to take newer players(or sucky people) along on there runs to help them get fame. That is an example of paying to get fame. Even though MATH offered the service free.

Fame farming and paying for fame are not the same thing

Fame farming is referring to. Say when you say I am fame farming. It means you are running some kind of gimmick team build that is just there for fast quick wins rather then holding halls. Examples: Sway Iway Hway SF Spike, EleBall, Monkball(Smiteway).

stretchs

stretchs

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

Untimely Demise [Err了] - SOHK

If you recall people selling Fame previously got a swift kick in the rear end for it, so be careful what you do.

Shadowspawn X

Shadowspawn X

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fellowship of Champions

R/E

Farming fame is the practice of running cheap degenerate builds to accumulate fame quickly with minimal effort or skill.

Burton2000

Burton2000

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

A cardboard box in England

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Mo/Me

Since when is farm selling against the eula? Surely it is just like running people to places.

Leigh The Legendary

Leigh The Legendary

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

some reform version of ibot

Mo/E

Just run randomways and gimics builds like RTL, SFWAY, IWAY, SWAY and you can get your deer + with little or no problems in less than 2 months playing a couple hours a day. Really it's not that hard. Just read a little of the tactics and backround on wiki and you should do fine. Don't act like a noob because that is when people treat you like one. NOT HARD

Nimble Night

Nimble Night

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Join Date: Jan 2007

london

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I assume you are talking about paying RL money for fame. Generally they don't go afk, they are just given a really simple role that is hard to mess up. Although apparently Anet bans people for providing this service.

te spiezzo in due

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2009

i mean this:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10391212

sry if i explained in a wrong way

fenix

fenix

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Join Date: Aug 2005

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Fame farming is this;

7 gimmick players take 1 low rank player to farm them fame.
1 low rank player gets given a SUPER easy bar to play, because they're usually bad.
7 gimmick players run their stupid build and grind the first few maps over and over.
They all get fame, you get fame, except you pay them.

It's a pretty dumb way of gaining fame, since if you were a similar rank as the guys who DO farm it, you'd know that they're usually shitters and bad at HA.

aga

aga

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2009

England

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Quote:
Originally Posted by fenix View Post
Fame farming is this;

7 gimmick players take 1 low rank player to farm them fame.
1 low rank player gets given a SUPER easy bar to play, because they're usually bad.
7 gimmick players run their stupid build and grind the first few maps over and over.
They all get fame, you get fame, except you pay them.

It's a pretty dumb way of gaining fame, since if you were a similar rank as the guys who DO farm it, you'd know that they're usually shitters and bad at HA.
This is too true. Although there are a few "decent" players who offer these services.

The current price is 4k per fame, let say you want r3 and you have 0 fame, that will cost you 720k. Is it worth it? lol

Shadowspawn X

Shadowspawn X

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fellowship of Champions

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I'm not understanding why everyone is talking about buying/selling fame when the question was about farming fame.

Jensy

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Join Date: Apr 2007

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The thread that you linked to implies that you're paying that guy 3k for each point of fame you want. There's no AFK in HA, lol.

If you're looking to run it yourself, you're going to at least need to know how to play gimmick shit in HA. You're actually going to need at least 6-7 players that do, or expect to, er, not win anything. Since the whole point is paying for fame, if your team is not winning anything... well, you're not going to get any money. o_o

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

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Please... if you don't know WTF you are talking about, please don't post in a thread about it just to boast your thread count. Ie, why did one guy start talking about leeching, another guy say "well you can only do it in tombs, but I'm not sure," and 2 people said its against the EULA when it isn't. I mean, asking questions is fine. But don't "answer" them with misinformation. "I think you can only farm fame in HA." Seriously?

A.net has never banned for Fame Farming. Although one person once made a thread on guru that he had, but Regina then told everybody on the forum that he was banned for violating a different rule (for the 8th time I might add, opps). It is a perfectly acceptable practice since you are paying in game goods for in game services, no different then buying a weapon or sweets for a title or paying for a run.

Reverend Dr

Reverend Dr

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Join Date: Dec 2005

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Anet has banned for Champ Point selling, but only due to the method used, which was organizing specific matches and resigning (aka match manipulation).

Traditional selling in the "give the buyer a super easy bar and let us carry him" has been used in TA/HA/GvG and is perfectly allowed. This also has to be what was being talked about.

Master Ketsu

Master Ketsu

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2006

middle of nowhere

Krazy Guild With Krazy People [KrZy]

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there are 3 forms of fame farming I am aware of.

1. Play lame, get fame. Self explanatory.

2. Pay high end groups ( IE rank 9+ HA guilds ) to let you in their team and give you fame runs. This is usually done by the person paying for the run being given a very easy build to run that requires little to no experience such as spirit spamming or a 12345 bar, while the rest of the players do what they do best.

3. Pay high end HA guilds to train you to be a semi-decent player, then do the same thing as #2 but with a slightly less braindead bar.

As for the AFK method I have never seen it done and honestly don't see why anyone would waste their time gimping themselves to be 7/8 just to get some nub his fame. The gap between good HA teams and bad ones is not quite wide enough to guarantee wins with one man down. It's almost always #2 or #3 when money is involved.

Sarevok Thordin

Sarevok Thordin

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Join Date: Apr 2006

Scotland

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I don't play in HA since I have 0 chance of getting rank 8

Faure

Faure

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Join Date: Feb 2006

Mystic Spiral [MYST]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadowspawn X View Post
I'm not understanding why everyone is talking about buying/selling fame when the question was about farming fame.
Quote:
Originally Posted by HawkofStorms View Post
Please... if you don't know WTF you are talking about, please don't post in a thread about it just to boast your thread count. Ie, why did one guy start talking about leeching, another guy say "well you can only do it in tombs, but I'm not sure," and 2 people said its against the EULA when it isn't. I mean, asking questions is fine. But don't "answer" them with misinformation. "I think you can only farm fame in HA." Seriously?

Because the dude in the OP spoke about 1 afk'er getting fame for free. Being taken along with 6 (should be 7) players.
I think he confused fame farming and fame buying.
I then named the fame buying wrong by calling it fame farming.

@hawk I assume with tombs you know i mean the first map, and not the tombs of the primeval kings . People call it UW too, whatever. Same map, different names. If you mention UW people can start to flame that it's not the UW where you farm for ecto's, there's always something to cry about.
Apart from that, your post doesn't really explain a lot more, apart from why it's not against the EULA. Instead of saying who is wrong and what they did, you can elaborate and give your opinion/definition/information about the subject. Now it's just bla bla bla they suck bla bla.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

But Fenix had already posted with the correct info. I didn't feel like having to post repeated info just to + my post count.

Bah, forget guru, everybody is so jaded. On to guru2, full of good times and optimism.

Kamatsu

Kamatsu

Moderator

Join Date: May 2005

Australia

I'm going to close the thread - the OP has already had his question answered, and this isn't really the Q& forum anyways, and there's nothing really to discuss about this matter.