AFK players have got to be addressed!

PlaneCrazy, on 13 February 2011 - 06:32 PM, said: I would estimate that roughly 25% of the games I have played in the last 2 weeks have had AFK players in them. Not people who have trouble logging in, but people who log in and just go afk where they are or move to a "safe" spot and then go afk. Only 1 players AFK can make the difference between a win and a loss in many games. And when you are grinding to the next tier, the difference between getting 50 points XP and a couple of hundred is huge. I can honestly say that I would not play this game when it goes live unless this issue can be addressed. Either the tools need to be added to the game for the players to report offenders and gather eveidence or some system has to be implemented. As it stands now, reporting players does nothing because we can provide no evidence that they are afk. It's obvious to the observers who have died and are following the afk player, but how can we prove that to the devs after the fact?
This problem is only going to continue to grow because this whole game is designed around the grind for XP. As long as a dead AFK player can still gather XP, then it will continue to grow.
Perhaps a volunteer guide system should be implemented? Where guides can volunteer time to go unobserved into games and watch what other players do. That would also help the TK'r and grief player issues.