So people have been posting recently about inactive players in strikes just sitting back, doing no work, and trying to reap free rewards. They'll occasionally move to avoid idle detection. These people are very annoying. I encountered a duo of inactive players just tonight, ~11pm on 11/2/16. I joined Sepiks Perfected at the Walker fight just before Sepiks. I guess I replaced someone who got tired of them and left; they were in a fireteam and sitting way back in a corner. They sent me messages saying they weren't gonna play and that I would have to solo. So what did I do? Well, they either wanted me to finish the strike for them or wanted me to leave so they could invite someone else close to the finish. Either way, I wasn't going to let them have either scenario; at least not easily. So I drew out the encounter as long as possible. I popped some ether seeds and cleared out ads, died, rinsed and repeated for several iterations. Eventually I moved past the Walker and onto Sepiks; the game dragged the other two along but again they sat back doing nothing. So again I popped ether seeds and played around, bs-ing with Sepiks and ads.
(Did you know that you can lock Sepiks into not dealing damage by jumping straight into his eye? His melee attack doesn't hit you at point blank range; instead he harmlessly bounces you back outside of his melee range and then resets himself into fire mode, but by that time you can just jump back into his eye.)
Anyways, I played around like this for about an hour, all the while getting messages from the other guys like "you having fun yet" and "we've got all night" and "you have no friends"; you know the spiel. Well, apparently they didn't have all night, because after the hour passed they started to participate again. And I pretty much just let them kill Sepiks for me.
Moral of the story: there isn't one. I just messed around with some idlers to the point where they got fed up and actually fought. I know that not everyone is willing to waste an hour to prove a point, nor should you. But just know that idlers do have limits to their patience, and its funny to push those limits if you can.
[spoiler]In all seriousness, though, idlers suck. Report them when you see them using the report tools; I did the moment I noticed they were being inactive. Testing their patience is superfluous.[/spoiler]
Edit: [url=https://youtu.be/AXaoi6dz59A]video [/url]for entertainment purposes. This is where that obscure tag originates from.
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Justice delivered... The Traveler is pleased.