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Is farming with traps illegal/bannable?
I had a match right now where in the lobby a swf changed all in the last second to flashlights and used 4 rpd offerings. Because I didn't wanted to deal with that and I actually care a bit about my sanity I moved into a corner and replaced/picked up traps fro points to get at least 8k from the Match.
After the Match was over all 4 messaged (and insulted me) saying they will report me and get my account banned for "afk farming"
So...uh...is it not allowed?
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Probably not bannable unless something falls under the descriptions in their link below
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IMO as an isolated incident you shouldn't worry about it.
They tried to set you up for an awful time and because you didn't get miserable they are miserable.
Consider their garbage words a trophy. Thwarted a ToxSquad with as little effort as possible.
You have my congratulations and respect.
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Since you dind't force them to farm I think it's not bannable
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Dc'ing during offering screen doesn't give you penalty.
You can also do that without fear of being arrested.
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I'm pretty sure you need to do a lot of afk matches before you'd get dinged for it. They want to get bots, not the occasional killer who gives up or survivor who accidentally left the game on ready when they went to go make lunch.
I would bet dollars to donuts that that SWF says that to every killer who stops interacting with them. It's common amongst bully squads.
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There was nothing to stop the survivors from repairing all 5 gens and leaving. So it's absolutely fine.
They just wanted to bully you, and you said nope.
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Being afk and refusing to play is bannable
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Just start taking pictures of every offense chat on DBD and put it on the fridge... you might need like 20 fridges in the first week, lol
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Technically, you're not participating in gameplay.
If you do it once, they won't ban you. If you carry on over multiple trials and you get reported, they could take action.
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Or god forbid the killer has the audacity to bring lightborn, lol, like I do every match even if I don't see flashlights 😂
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Thats just their last effort to bully you. Ignore this. Some one will always threaten to report you for "playing toxic" or "being a ######### teammate" shrugs You can't please everyone, and neither should you strive to do so. Just play the game how you want to play it and maybe try to be as un-toxic as possible; also sweaty gameplay leads to more sweaty games in the future, but all in all just do your thing.
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If you just hung out in one spot the survivors could've come to you and tried to interact with you. Guessing they were too scared though and then at end decided to complain about it.
Most likely they were going to use chat to be obnoxious at the end no matter how the match went. Just ignore them. Even if it was bannable they would need to send in a support ticket with video proof of you breaking the rules and the ones that say they're reporting you probably don't do anything other than just hit the report button at end of match - probably don't even do that because they're too excited to be obnoxious in chat.
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Bannable? No. The only time farming is bannable is when you're forcing someone who doesn't want to be involved to farm. e.g. You and another survivor use them to farm hook/unhook and healing points against their will. Sitting in a corner by yourself is not forcing anyone.
Illegal? Only in some countries. If you live in one of those countries, you'll know it when the police arrive shortly. (Not really.)
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I've never seen anyone try to report me for having Lightborn. It does get a ton of DCs or people insulting me for using the perk, though.
Heh. They won't take me alive! I'm going down with my arms full of flan!
Actually, while you're here on the topic, could you clear a situation up for me? Let's say we have 3 survivors that want to farm, the killer is down for it, but the last survivor doesn't want to be involved and just wants to exit the match. Holding that survivor in the match against their will is against the rules, which includes stuff like slugging them or preventing them from doing gens. However, is there anything wrong with chasing them down twice to hook them before letting them go back to doing whatever it was they're doing (or chasing them down three times and killing them while sparing the farming survivors?) I just want to be sure about what's in the clear and what isn't.
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That's fair. It also sometimes gets tricky where friendly survivors in a non-friendly team are involved, when you as the killer don't want their help but they take it upon themselves to point out where their teammates are or try to bodyblock them towards you, and you're left going "..." because you can't do what you wanted to do in an honest way anymore.
Thanks for the answer! Appreciate the clarification.
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AFKing is indeed a bannable offense. However, if you are not doing it frequently, you should not have to worry about it.
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Yeah, you're not playing the game the way it's intended to be played / afking / unsportsmanlike behaviour. Don't do it too often
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