This is absolutely ridiculous. For the second time now, I’ve had a guest on my local party that sucked. For both of them, it was their first time playing reach. The first one had never played a video game before, and the second time the guest was 7 years old. Both times, they got less than one or negative kills, and I got credit banned. I can understand if it’s an actual member that is AFKing for free credits, but why should a whole console get banned for one terrible guest who cant earn credits. I know those responsible get a lot of stupid “unban me because i didnt do anything even though i totally did” requests, but this is stupid.
Someone help me figure out how to appeal this or something.
I’m not the guy to answer that, but I’m the guy who can point you to more knowledgeable folks. See that thread up top that says something like “Why Did I Get Banned?”? Please take all your ban questions there.
Don’t worry about it.
same here… got banned for having two guests that sucked.
When Bungie said they could detect AFK players, they were exaggerating. They can’t detect AFKing directly, so they have to guess at it. Getting 0 kills in multiple kill-oriented matches will lead the system into assuming you or a guest were AFK.
There is no solution or appeals process; it’s fully automated. All we can do is hope that 343i is more honest about what they are and aren’t capable of when Halo 4 comes around, and that they avoid using bandaid solutions.
For now, you could try ensuring that your guests get at least one kill every match. Perhaps practice with them in Campaign, or play for them if they start to do terribly? It’s a bad solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist, but better than nothing, I suppose. :\
> When Bungie said they could detect AFK players, they were lying through their teeth. Getting 0 kills in multiple kill-oriented matches will lead the system into assuming you or a guest were AFK.
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> There is no solution or appeals process; it’s fully automated. All we can do is hope that 343i is more honest about what they are and aren’t capable of when Halo 4 comes around, instead of improvising bandaid solutions a la Bungie.
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> For now, you could try ensuring that your guests get at least one kill every match. Perhaps practice with them in Campaign, or play for them if they start to do terribly? It’s a bad solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist, but better than nothing, I suppose. :\
If your guest are not that good at Reach then I also suggest that you practice with them in the campaign or firefight that is not matchmaking. Another thing is once you got a lot of kills personally then you could switch controllers so that both you and your guest account are both getting enough kills and therefore no more problems.
Haha, unless you’re playing FFA do yourself and the rest of your team a favor by not even going into a team MM game if your guest can’t get kills. 
Instead, entertain yourself with their frustration by making a spawn point killball trap in forge for them.
> This is absolutely ridiculous. For the second time now, I’ve had a guest on my local party that sucked. For both of them, it was their first time playing reach. The first one had never played a video game before, and the second time the guest was <mark>7 years old</mark>. Both times, they got less than one or negative kills, and I got credit banned. I can understand if it’s an actual member that is AFKing for free credits, but why should a whole console get banned for one terrible guest who cant earn credits. I know those responsible get a lot of stupid “unban me because i didnt do anything even though i totally did” requests, but this is stupid.
> Someone help me figure out how to appeal this or something.
I just have one question, before I comment beyond, why did you allow a 7 year old to play an M-Rated game? Yes, I realize that age restrictions are Not the same in all countries, and some may even have them as more Guidelines than rules, but never the less, a 7 year old on an M-Rated Game? Seriously? Why?
> When Bungie said they could detect AFK players, they were lying through their teeth
Okay and you have proof of this?
> > When Bungie said they could detect AFK players, they were lying through their teeth
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> Okay and you have proof of this?
LOL sorry but I just have to throw this in here…It’s on the internet so It Must Be True!!!
On the Bungie forums a fair amount of time ago, an inquisitive user made a 1 month GT to experiment with the ban hammer. He decided to test the theory of if you get no kills you’re counted AFK.
This person got assists, wheelmen medals, spawn sprees, EMPs, etc, but NO kills in a lot of matchs. What happened? He got the ban hammer upon him.
> This is absolutely ridiculous.
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> For the second time now, I’ve had a guest on my local party that sucked. For both of them, it was their first time playing reach.
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> The first one had never played a video game before, and the second time the guest was 7 years old. Both times, they got less than one or negative kills, and I got credit banned. I can understand if it’s an actual member that is AFKing for free credits, but why should a whole console get banned for one terrible guest who cant earn credits. I know those responsible get a lot of stupid “unban me because i didnt do anything even though i totally did” requests, but this is stupid.
> Someone help me figure out how to appeal this or something.
Then WHY did you take them into SWAT and TU Slayer type games??? This is just asking for trouble with the broken ban-hammer system.
Never played this game, you should have taken them into some Campaign first, or FF, then into MM. Let them get a feel for it before throwing them into the proverbial lions den…It ain’t H3, with Lone Wolf, and putting a controller in your friends hand and saying, “Shoot anything that moves.”
Threads like this always make me laugh a little, and think back to my first time playing…But that was on H3 Lone Wolf, not Halo:Reach…Hope that ban will be a short one for you.