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Ignore System keeps pairing the same players with me in TFOs
drycraeft
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The game keeps pairing certain other players that were in the TFO we just finished into the next couple TFOs when running Events or Random TFOs.
It also happens when i think we ignore or unignore players it tends to then pair us with those people in TFOs and those they're playing with, which is annoying because i doubt any of us want that to happen and it's giving the impression i landed in there on purpose, which i did not. Kinda funny lol but at the same time i want it to keep giving me new random players.
It also happens when i think we ignore or unignore players it tends to then pair us with those people in TFOs and those they're playing with, which is annoying because i doubt any of us want that to happen and it's giving the impression i landed in there on purpose, which i did not. Kinda funny lol but at the same time i want it to keep giving me new random players.
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What i'm saying is i keep being paired with the same players frequently and i'm doing a bit of a clean up of my ignore list and whoever i re-add or remove suddenly i'm being paired with them or people they play with.
Then when i start another of an Event TFO or Random while i'm in there it then puts us together again, either all of us or with 1 or 2 of the people i just played with and it will keep doing this 2 or more times until i quit out of them. So i have to quit to lower the chances of that happening again then reload but it still happens every couple of games although with Randoms i definitely don't want to keep doing that.
So if it's not meant to do that i'm letting you know it is, i don't know how the ignore system works entirely except it blocks the chat and from being visible in searches but it does seem to effect things with TFOs in this way. Not just me but other players get annoyed it does this more than 2 times and after that they think we're following them around LOL, i get why they would think that because i think some players take advantage of this loophole but noop it's just doing that. So maybe it could be tweaked so it doesn't do this?.
People tend to fall into habits, like logging into a particular game at about the same time of day (or night) when they do play, and so the same people you tend to argue with (or whatever that landed them on your ignore list) around those times are probably queuing up about the same time you do because they are probably still regularly playing in that time frame.
Well there is that too but it doesn't explain why i keep being repeatedly paired with people. Then how i get put into a TFO again with them or 1 or 2 players in the next TFOs when i join another one while still in the TFO.
I guess if they don't fix it then i'll just have to quit and reload every couple TFOs since it does lessen the chances of that happening, but it's definitely happening a whole lot more while going through my ignore list.
In the meantime while it does this because it's connected to the friend system then nobody can actually use the ignore feature without this happening, but since players can create as many accounts as they want it's much needed for it to work how it needs to, or only let people have 5 accounts because people don't need more than that anyway. The ignore system is fine it's just that which is the issue with it.
Now with that said there's a couple things I need to address. The random system is just that, random. You don't know who you're going to get paired with. You could get paired with the coolest team ever, the biggest tools on the planet, or a team that couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag with 4 knives and 10 sets of instructions each. There are certain people who I don't want to be grouped with either because they were jerks or had no business in the specific content they were joining. Such as joining elites but only doing 4k DPS. The easiest way to avoid being grouped with certain people is form private teams. Otherwise when using the random feature there is only so much that can be done. I don't see not wanting to be grouped with certain people as only wanting to play with specific folks (within reason) but more wanting a quality team.
Another thing I saw previously but seems to no longer be here is mention of people with multiple accounts. If you've put someone on ignore and they're using multiple accounts to message you afterwards, report that immediately because that's not cool and is bypassing an ignore.
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No one is saying you are arguing, you've found what you believe is an issue and reporting it to others. I pinged @darkbladejk as I have always found dark to be the beast in helping with in game issues, builds etc.
If it's not supposed to do that then definitely something not right with it. I think the ignore list needs a selection tool as well so anyone can select as many players on the list or all of them and remove if they choose to use ignore. Also an option to filter out players on the ignore list in the search.
Edit: So right now STO is glitching in a bunch of ways so perhaps this is what's happening with this and somehow it's limiting the players it makes me join TFOs with in some way. I've switched quadrants, location spots, and instances then before that i reinstalled Arc and STO because eventually it doesn't load so well so i was also logged out of Arc and STO.. All i know is if something has glitched i'm probs going to keep my ignore list empty so it might not do that again.