John Demonsbane
Unorganized Ninja Infantry Tactics
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.10.19 17:28:00 -
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Honestly I think a lot of these issues could probably be minimized by a combination of a few things that have already been discussed:
1) You can't join FW until you get a certain number of WP. Period. Hard to believe anyone is going to grind an alt for 2-3 months to tk over and over again. I mean, once someone is seen griefing relentlessly people will catch on (see below) this would probably be the most effective prevention. But, hey, if they really want to spend the next 6 months doing nothing but grinding a couple new characters just to awox, well crap, maybe they should be rewarded for that dedication, lol.
2) Forgiveness. A Kill screen option to forgive, and the first tk each match doesn't go against your standings no matter what; Everyone gets a mulligan. Squad kills are always forgiven - killing members of your own corp/squad is by far the easiest thing to police. Lock your squad if you don't want randoms in it.
3) A kick option, you can also put it on the kill screen. You can vote to forgive. If you don't, you can then vote to kick or not. So many votes to kick and you're out. That way you can't get kicked randomly, you actually have to have tk'd some people first. This way you can also still punish that idiot you know didn't do it on purpose but is careless by dropping their LP gain but not getting them kicked. Also, with this mechanic there's no need to put in a blanket X many Tk's and you get auto-booted, like with the occasional wayward orbital or one of those future full-auto missile tank salvos (sounds scary but glorious). I can see why people would be concerned about that happening to a teammate.
3a) A variant of this would be a vote to kick option in the warbarge. You see a known griefer, start a vote. So many votes and you're out (maybe it would be more than 6 so a single squad can't do it alone). Combine this with a minimum WP level to even enter the match as mentioned above, and bang, serial awoxers become an endangered species.
Obviously this could be exploited such that (to use a previous example, lol) Amarrian stalwart General John Ripper could potentially be kicked out in the warbarge by Minmatar supporters (or maybe bacon supporters, or people who inexplicably don't like tacos - who knows what goes on in the mind of a griefer!) so they can weaken the team. Easy fix: if you have a certain level of standing with that faction, you can't be kicked. The Imperial Guard is obviously not going to expel one of their finest soldiers based on the word of some rabble. o7 |