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Colony Invasion constant trolls starting sims with no permission and uses hosts tokens :'(
kawasakizx10rr
Member Posts: 76 Arc User
Hi Cryptic you have a major issue with your lovely colony invasion event, I am so many others play them every day but recently the trolls have found their way into them. Today is the last time i host a colony sim, as constantly trolls just join and click start when i or x host has yet to invite all the players, the tokens cost me so so much xp that i can't afford to make many and today a troll started my sim early and then just as it finished he started another, wasting my tokens to his or hers ! I mean this is just terrible i am so upset and angry, the simulation channel if flaming and i don't know what to do next.
I buy SOOO much Zen each week to fill all the Colonies tier 3 fleet projects so my simulations are at there best but now no joke i just feel like its a waste if i cant even host a sim without a troll joining a ruining it for us all and wasting my tokens and setup time all on my expensive fleet map.
In short you need to implement two or three things:
1: only a player from the fleet that owns the map with the "Manage special fleet events" setting can start the sim ! that is a must
2: If another player is intended to start the simulation from another fleet using their tokens, they must be granted permission by the map owner and again have the manage special fleet events settings enable for their rank.
3: optional but would stop the trolls, a banner like the lockbox reward banner, so once x player starts the sim it would say "playerx@playerx started sim C" therefore we would know who the troll is.
I beg you to please please implement these easy fixes, i know you worked hard on creating the colony world so please stop these trolls.
I buy SOOO much Zen each week to fill all the Colonies tier 3 fleet projects so my simulations are at there best but now no joke i just feel like its a waste if i cant even host a sim without a troll joining a ruining it for us all and wasting my tokens and setup time all on my expensive fleet map.
In short you need to implement two or three things:
1: only a player from the fleet that owns the map with the "Manage special fleet events" setting can start the sim ! that is a must
2: If another player is intended to start the simulation from another fleet using their tokens, they must be granted permission by the map owner and again have the manage special fleet events settings enable for their rank.
3: optional but would stop the trolls, a banner like the lockbox reward banner, so once x player starts the sim it would say "playerx@playerx started sim C" therefore we would know who the troll is.
I beg you to please please implement these easy fixes, i know you worked hard on creating the colony world so please stop these trolls.
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Not "we'll get around to it in the spring, maybe" pace but "next patch" pace.
This needs to be fixed asap.
Also add some kind of teams management interface and while we are here make the sim types actualy different and with different rewards like fleet dil.
Agreed, you can visit another fleets Starbase Holding and spend all that fleets ship provisions on ships for yourself, oh no, wait a minute, you spend your fleets resources no matter which fleets holdings you visit, so then why is the Fleet Colony Holding different? none-fleet members should not have access to a fleets colony provisions/sim tokens just because they have been invited to that fleets map. This needs to be fixed so that so called 'trolls' can not waste a fleets earned resources.
Thanks
Kobayashi Crew.
Dave@dangerousdave1701
@dylankosh Fleet Commander of Naw'Tem/ First Officer of Access Denied
For the record the 2 sims I was a part of tonight had no problems from trolls. We filled a lot from the normal sim channel.
This permission is currently 'bugged' and allowing anyone regardless of fleet, to be able to start simulations anywhere even if they are not a member of another fleet.
Join Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Totaly agree with, this, as Admin of the simulation channel that form these sims. i have to deal with the fallout and yesterday evening 19:00 CET it was mental.
One started way to early and we had to scramble to SG4 to save it, the perp stayd on the map unteamed. Hiding somewhere (enough hiding places on this map) we could not find him, he stayd AFK not responding to tells nor in zone chat, host could not kick him eihter cause knowhere to be found. as a result this sim failed due to voth and one SG (sg2) remained. as the failing started to start the perp beamed up and left so we know who that was, and took a channel action thats only what we can do.
got screens and chat logs, everything of this case.
but this has to be dealth with quick, cause sims where fun and brought players together. now its becomming a trolling/griefers wet dream.
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Ability to kick players from map that are not in immediate vicinity of the host would also be nice.
Thanks
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Mos of the problems I have seen so far is sabotaging a SIM either on purpose or not. For instance people having the wrong skills to heal an SG and staying on purpose to sabotage the SIM...fleets that should remain unnamed that do ENJOY sabotaging SIMs on purpose, or going AFK (either intended or not). However, in this case you can always kick them out of the team and even kick from the fleet map can't you?
I do think that only the host fleet leader should be able to start a SIM. Hopefully, Cryptic might be working on this. In the meantime do have your host leader stay by the SIM creation NPC....if this starts without you knowing but if there is a player talking to the officer you can catch him this way. Take a screenshot and send it to a GM.
Yeah there is always the risk of idiots going in intentionally under-geared or doing things like going AFK to cause it to fail. Sadly that is the same for all PVE in this game.
The issue here is that some morons are starting simulations early when nobody is ready, plus they are not even the host so should not be doing so in the first place. These sims often fail as nobody is ready.
The MAJOR issue with them being able to start the sim is that it can be done from anywhere on the map, you don't need to speak to the NPC direct to do so as you can hail them from anywhere. We've seen people hide away on the map in the mountains etc and hail the guy and click start. That sort of person is impossible to locate.
Only the host should be able to start a simulation, it's that simple.