My Block list is longer than yours.
- Thread starter Chaparral
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But what they are doing is called emergent game play, like when your annoying little brother kicks over your sand castle because he doesn't want to make one and doesn't want you to enjoy yours. He's now the sand castle monster, so now your game play experience is multidimensional. Thanks lil' bro!
Passive aggressive griefing?
Well it was specifically set up as an antigriefing policy as stated by Sir David.
Not really the same, as in real life you can have a word in their shell and they will pack it in.
Trust me i can be very persuasive.
O7
the thing is... if i am a peaceful lawful player that is prepared for ganks with some kind of pvp equip, i would get blocked too. i just find it kinda funny... explicitly taking time to look for playrs to block on some far fetched criteria sounds more like control fetish to me no offense meant. everyone is responsible for tailoring his/hers own experience and you are doing it well. i dont agree but approve.
no offense meant. everyone is responsible for tailoring his/hers own experience and you are doing it well. i dont agree but approve.Until you publish the blurred list of blocked commanders on this forum. Then it becomes its own version of griefing.
Frontier doesn't allow this, because they don't allow naming and shaming. What people do in discords and reddits is another matter of course.
Having said that: Bending "I don't want to play with you" toward griefing is... an interesting excercise to say the least. Well done, her is your gold star!
The list is blurred so it might as well be MS Paint.
Not entirely apparently. People have been banned for stuff they posted in unrelated Discord channels.
Are you alluding to the slavers? Other than that, places like the combat loggers reddit come to mind. Plenty of unpunished naming and shaming there.
Imagine having had your fee fee's hurt 165 times.
Me deciding I don't want to spend time with you isn't my fee fees being hurt, it's quality assurance functioning as intended.
Imagine playing Elite:Hall Monitor.
We're blocking people over ship builds now, are we?
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Except that the block function doesn't always work, is really just an instancing filter, and really mucks up the works in the instance for all the other people in it.
One could (rightfully) argue that blocking is, in fact, passive aggressive griefing.
Short scenario:
I'm friends with CMDR Bob. I like Bob. You're his nephew. CMDR Bob and I want to get together at Space Station Steve to do some mission running and emote to our hearts content in Steve's bar. I jump into the system and dock at the Triple S. CMDR Bob says he's there but I can't find him. We spend the next twenty minutes logging in, logging out, trying to instance together. It never works out, we get frustrated and both log off, grumpy.
The issue? CMDR Bob and I occasionally PvP at the Triple S. The other night, I logged off early and Bob sat in the station, reading GalNet. CMDR HallMonitor over here scanned his build, blocked him because fEe FeE's and gWeeFuR. CMDR HallMonitor was in the instance with me. I saw him. But CMDR Bob had no way of knowing he'd been blocked by CMDR HallMonitor, nor would I have had any reason to think, so CMDR HallMonitor ruined our evening and all he had to do was play future crime in the mailslot.
If you don't want PvP, stay in Private or solo and quit mucking up the instancing in Open.
kthnkbye.
Are you saying, just like that, Bob's my uncle?
That comparison is wrong.
When you agreed to meet, he's your friend or wing.
So whoever banned one of YOU will automatically add the other one.
When you come back in, you won't see him again.
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Except it doesn't work like that at all. Matchmaking will prioritise wing members over blocks, allowing Bob to get into your instance even if he's blocked by HallMonitor.