Reading these forums it seems that I’m not alone in experiencing hackers, griefers, and toxic players that ruin the game for a lot of players.
Suggestion - add a report button or toxic player flag that follows bad players around so that if they get enough reports or negative tags, they get the attention of a moderator or admin to investigate them. It would also serve as a warning to players who have to deal with bad apples. Players would see the negative feedback on a player’s name in the player list of a server.
I know we all deal with some aggressive players or don’t all get along, bu this would help identify the worst of the community who jump to many different servers just to be hateful and block obelisks and exploit the game.
Many other games have this feature and it works out pretty good to keep them in check.
Other than marking someone as being a dick (something this subset of players would probably take pride in) I’m not sure what use this would be. Private servers could use it to deny/ban those players, but they already have all the tools they need to combat exploiters and griefers.
Being “toxic” is a fairly difficult thing to police at a glance, which is all any sort of global moderator could ever do. It’s obvious to the population of the server maybe, who has seen this behavior over a long period of time, but from the outside it’s not nearly as clear what’s going on.
That said, I too wish there was scope on official servers for more “admin” interaction outside of the extreme cases (hacking or straight up blocking off the noobie area, and even then it’s not a guarantee anything will be done about those).
The problem with everything being okay and (outside of PVP) there being no repercussions is of course that some people don’t understand (or care) about others’ enjoyment at all, and think that whatever the game mechanics let them do should be done.
The flagger could be investigated if repeatedly abusing the system
This is for Official servers - not private
That’s the whole point of flagging, so that Funcom doesn’t have to police EVERY incident, just ones that get repeated flagged on multiple servers.
Toxic players DO NOT have a reason - they have a choice.
No I don’t grief noobies, I help them level up.
We had full time PvP’ers come to our server spouting racist crap and camping noobies and lower level players, now they completely blocked the Northern Jungle Obelisk on Official PVE-C #1823