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Another idea is a timer that teleports players who haven't been active in X amount of minutes off the ship. If the captain doesn't care if people on their ship are getting a share of the loot without contributing, they can just leave the option disabled.I'd like it if a sort of "vote kick" system was implemented, sort of like in CS:GO. It'd be a lot more fair and harder to abuse than a basic "kick" button, like the one present for SvS currently.
Waiting for staff to explain what they've done is what's gotten old. No one suggested staff intervene on afk crew. However, what has been suggested is giving the ship's captain the ability to kick players off his own ship.
To address the "mod abuse" claims: if you think a staff member should be spoken to, send a Personal Message to JFR, TLOPO's Lead Moderator.
Now, getting back on track:
Another idea is a timer that teleports players who haven't been active in X amount of minutes off the ship. If the captain doesn't care if people on their ship are getting a share of the loot without contributing, they can just leave the option disabled.
As for the argument that a player might go AFK because of a real-life situation: Perhaps we could allow them to hop back on if they get teleported off. But honestly, you will only be missing out on 1-2,000 gold if you get teleported off and the ship ports, it is not a huge deal. It is not like this is going to happen frequently either.
Through this system, both sides win. Got no problem with leeches? Leave it disabled. Got a problem with Leeches? Enable it.
The only downside to this system is that the AFK player might become active before the X amount of minutes are met, go AFK again, and repeat to avoid getting teleported off. Hopefully, leeches become frustrated with having to keep track of time and just contribute. It is better to have some sort of system in place than nothing. It might catch some (hopefully the majority) of leeches.
I think it's fair for someone who spent their gold on a ship to be able to determine who gets to board it. By making your ship public, you are gifting the community the opportunity to board your ship and earn some rep and gold. You should be able to decide if people have to put in work or not, in order to stay on the ship. After all, you did spend thousands of gold in buying and upgrading your ship.
I'm going to be honest here, I have gone afk on ships before. I wanted the mats and I didn't do anything. The thing is I really just don't mind people doing this, if someone is on my ship afk its ok with me, I just want a few good crewmembers and if a few others are afk its ok with me.
If this is such a big problem then I guess @John Foulroberts idea of a vote kick system or something might be a good idea. Its just while others see this as a HUGE problem I see it as a minor (if even) problem. Or @MMDR's idea would be a very good idea.
I'll try to be more useful on ships in the future and to clarify 99% of time I am active but a few times I have not done anything and like once I went afk.
Is this against the ToS in any way? If it is then I sincerely apologize. I didn't think it was against any rules though?
What if you ask the captain if you can go afk and he/she says yes?When more people see other people afk. They might get the idea that this is okay and could take over this behaviour. Promoting inactivity to be rewarded instead of punished. I once had a instance where eight out of nine crew members sat around doing nothing and all afk.
It should not become a trend and should be dealt with. Since it will only invite toxicity and saltiness that will ruin the community.
I know it's a risk when putting your ship open to the public but I am getting tired of people doing absolutely nothing and take benefit off the activity of others.
This needs to change in order to stop this trend.
Also I see your point and agree with you.When more people see other people afk. They might get the idea that this is okay and could take over this behaviour. Promoting inactivity to be rewarded instead of punished. I once had a instance where eight out of nine crew members sat around doing nothing and all afk.
It should not become a trend and should be dealt with. Since it will only invite toxicity and saltiness that will ruin the community.
I know it's a risk when putting your ship open to the public but I am getting tired of people doing absolutely nothing and take benefit off the activity of others.
This needs to change in order to stop this trend.
What if you ask the captain if you can go afk and he/she says yes?
This is what I was getting at earlier.When more people see other people afk. They might get the idea that this is okay and could take over this behaviour. Promoting inactivity to be rewarded instead of punished. I once had a instance where eight out of nine crew members sat around doing nothing and all afk.
It should not become a trend and should be dealt with. Since it will only invite toxicity and saltiness that will ruin the community.
I know it's a risk when putting your ship open to the public but I am getting tired of people doing absolutely nothing and take benefit off the activity of others.
This needs to change in order to stop this trend.
I don't think that vote kick would work because there are usually more than one player afk and/or know each other so:
a) if they afk they would not be able to vote
b) if they know each other they will vote no
Secondly a timer might not work because they could just move every so often and reset the timer while still not contributing. Also sometimes due to some unforeseen events you got to go and timer goes off and you get kicked while the captain and/or crew are aware and ok with it.
I think Blacklisting Option which was suggested above would be the best approach, the Captain to be able to blacklist the respective players and not allow them to be on their ship next time. The Captain should be able to revoke the blacklisting status.
This would prevent any abuse from kicking the players and not getting their loot, just prevent them from joining next runs until they see fit.
It also gives meaning to Captain of the ship allowing them to actively select their crew, if they don't mind they don't have to take any actions, if they mind somebody's actions they have the means to prevent them to board their ships after the current run for as long as they deem necessary.