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In game 24 hour chat bans work? Is it something a GM does or is it something that happens as a result of a few players flagging another player for spamming?
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so while it helps us self moderate the "special" users who flame nonsense, it also opens up a greifing key for people who find it fun to get people 24 hr. bans, or people who are set against fleets who dont like seeing the recruiting messages.
I got out of a game that glitched and screwed the team out of fleet marks so i said a few choice words venting in DS9 chat (wrong i know) I didn't spam.. I didn't keep ranting.. I made one statement and that was it .. a minute later I'm on a 24 hour chat ban.
Its fantastic to play a game that has the ability to pour salt on an already open wound.
Bottom line is it needs to be fixed. Otherwise I won't be held responsible for the rage trolling I start doing if and when i receive my 3rd 24 chat ban from other players who are, in most cases, the real trolls.
That happens because people think "what I dont like or want it must be spam" not to mention the smart arses who report people just for the sake of it .Of ocurse people who dont like a recruitment message/other kind of things (usually people can hate just because you exist) cant add that person to ignore but this never happens because cryptic thought to TRIBBLE off players by adding something to exploit.I know people who exploit this are less guilty than those who are paid to prevent exploits which can only annoy (i dont know 1 person who has something good to say about "lets ban people" )
It doesnt matter what you say ...people are not paid to ban you or to decide what is spam or what is not spam.Also I dont remember any rules on that chat.They should add chat rules then spam button.
Before you type anything ask yourself, will this annoy any ordinary person to the extent that they will report me? then ask yourself, will this annoy your average idiot to the extend that they will report me?
If the answer to either of the above questions is yes, don’t type what you were going to say. It relay is as simple as that.
Personal I am all for community moderation. Not because it is better. Obviously it isn’t. But because paying for moderators wouldn’t come out of perfect worlds profits, it would come strait out of the game development budget that is already too small by far.
While I can agree that is a solution. It isn't a solution I agree with. Basically its to my understanding then if I wanted to I could make 5 separate accounts, report people with said accounts and have random people 24 hour chat banned for nothing more then my grins and giggles. That's the clear signs of a flawed system and it doesn't take a genius to realize that people will and HAVE taken advantage of it.
And PW-cryptic Doesn't have to pay for chat moderators, It could easily get volunteers from the game community through an application process which is what many other MMOs have done. And before you say "But they can abuse their power as well" YES but at least we would KNOW who's a moderator and if they are abusing the ban hammer we would have someone to report.. WTF do you do if you get 24 hour chat banned because you answered someones question on which energy weapon type is better and a group of trolls decides they didn't like your answer or just didn't like your user name?
And I know plenty of people who would readily volunteer to be mods in game. Heck I've seen the forum mods in game, why not just extend their mod abilities to the game?
Unless there's a sale, Zen is basically one cent = one Zen. Or in other words, $50 will get you 5,000 Zen, and $100 will get you 10,000 Zen. (Although there's actually a discount for $50 and up, you get a little extra Zen; 300 extra per $50)
How much should you buy? Look at the store and see what you want to buy from it, and buy enough Zen to cover those items, if you're not sure.
The one time I was chat banned I petitioned a GM, and the ban was lifted well before the 24 hours were up, because it was an improper chat-banning. So it is certainly worth a try to submit a GM ticket.
Go to ESD, you'll see plenty of zone chat there.
Just don't go to DS9. You might want to go back to the good ol' days when you could honestly mistake it for being a single-player game.