Rank Farming Banned

[Selebrimbor]

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...rming-Official

Thoughts?

[warg_stalk]

sounds like a conspiracy theory. until it's proven that people are actually "rank farming", the consequences seem a bit excessive.

[Celrond]

I appreciate they are finally making a stand on rank farming but I am curious to see how well this will be enforced.

[galrodan]

Bye bye herpnderp =D

[FittyBolger]

I've never set foot in the moors so this will be a newbie question...

The way I read this is that the loser in a given fight will gain points for losing the fight?
And the problem being addressed is to discourage those who will intentionally surrender (without a fight) in order to gain points?

Is that correct?
If so it is a surprise to me that there are points awarded for losing.

[Grumpisaw]

I've never set foot in the moors so this will be a newbie question...

The way I read this is that the loser in a given fight will gain points for losing the fight?
And the problem being addressed is to discourage those who will intentionally surrender (without a fight) in order to gain points?

Is that correct?
If so it is a surprise to me that there are points awarded for losing.

No, you only get infamy/renown when someone else kills the person you lost to in the scenario you described.

But the subject of this post, rank farming, is when one player has his freep repeatedly kill his or someone else's creep without any contest. By farming players can gain rank even if they are terribly players.

Rank farming is annoying and something should be done, good to see somewhat of a stab at the farming epidemic. Being able to report farmers when they are caught is a good idea, now we will see if anything will ever come of it.

[Summberbell]

By farming players can gain rank even if they are terribly players.

Most people in the moors are terrible players and they still gain ranks.

I still find all the butthurt and rage about this type of farming hilarious, especially due to the above.

Aside of finding it lame and not understanding how someone could do that for hours on end, I've never really cared about farmers since they don't really affect me, but in a way I'm kind of bummed it's being banned. I will miss Goat's Farmer's Almanac as well as trying to find and harass the farmers. It made for some good camaraderie between freeps & creeps when working together.Was a funny and welcomed change from the usual accepted form of farming that Turbine and players promote as PvP.

[FittyBolger]

Thank you for the reply Grumpisaw.

I hope you Freeps and Creeps and Turbine can get it sorted out in good fashion.

[TowlieDaBurg]

Calithin on E was farming himself and he recorded it sent it to a ticket and the GM's responded we do not have enough information to ban this player for Rank Farming. Just a hype for you to think turbine is actually doing anything. Ha.