Yikes 5 alts!! No thanks, I see where that could be a problem then. I guess i didnt think about it thoroughly. Either way i think the boot option could be a good edition to the game. Either add it as a function for crew (captain use only) or just put it on the player card as an option to boot.
Why are you defending afk'rs, because you seem to be by not even entertaining a captain boot option. It would be an option.
I'm not defending AFK people. I don't know what part made you think that. In fact, I am asking to kick AFK people automatically. So, you are the one speaking non-sense there.
I'm not accusing you of leeching. Totally against any 'auto boot or auto anything' mechanism. That opens the game and developers up to mammoth grief from players and an unending workload of deciding what the parameters are for auto kick. No game I know of has anything like that, because it wouldn't be fair to anyone. There are a hundred reasons why someone may not be active instantly when boarding a ship from lag, dc'd, anything. And only a human being can quickly see what the problem is. As it should be. There's already a rather large delay between an active pirate and a afk status assigned by the games timer. This alone can give afr's plenty of time to get on near the end and gain minimal loot and rep. And I also support no restrictions or rules assigned to the captains boot option at all. Again, almost all complaints will come from the minuscule number of abusers themselves getting their butt kicked.
Shamus, that territory shouldn't come with excepting people who abuse exploits to improve their personal stats. So, you're saying that I can not remove a stranger with drugs who comes into my house with a distant friend who I invited to my party? Just because I opened my house to people doesn't mean I give up all rights to control my house. My ship is my house, I don't want you there, I should have the right to send you packing. I will continue to stress my contention that the only complaints will be from the kicked who were attempting the abuse.
Woah, calm down there buddy. Since when was TLOPO supposed to be compared to real world situations... If you open your ship to the public, you run the risk of having people who feel as though they can AFK or maybe sometimes players need to do something urgent and then leave to go do that task because its a game and you shouldn't prioritize it over things that need to be done in the real world. I understand the anger and trust me I don't like it when I give people a free ride, but then you start to think, does it really matter... Just complete the run, crew the people who earned the loot and then close the ship, you should only need two to three people on a ship to have fun...
The real game world of tlopo, not the real world. I never implied that. But real cheats exist, and people who think it's fun or funny to cheat are in all computer games. And again and again, why not give captains a kick button so they can mitigate that 'risk' from abusers.
If in-game hacking and/or game exploitations are still occurring
, then I am sorry because really...such action taken hurts "us all" (really) as a close-knit community.
I use crew as a way to control the people that enter my ship by checking the crew and friend only tab and guild when I’m feeling helpful, I don’t need exp and most of my crew doesn’t but it’s a nice way to control who boards your ship, I’m not against the feature, I just know a lot of game where the feature is abused or misused and I feel like it wouldn’t give room for error, let’s say I was a level 10 and there was a lvl 50 and I had a cannon slot and the level 50 was friends with the captain so they called the vote or the captain kicked me to let the higher level player use the cannon and not allow me to level up or claim my rewards, plus there’s the possiblility that someone might be annoyed so they kick the whole crew before port just to make a point, there’s so many things that could be abused but if the devs were to somehow balance it, I think it would be an amazing feature, until then though, we will need to have our board permissions closely monitored.
I kinda get your scenario, but I still don't see a captain abuse happening, and in your scenario, If a captain has friends show up, don't they usually set this up before hand? I think so. I'm not understanding such a strong opposition against giving someone more control of their ship. For one thing, so far from the beginning, the afk'r has all the control and jumps ships at will. They don't care what happens on that ship, they don't care if it sinks or makes it. Whatever little gain they get is what they want. If the afk'r lasts long enough on one ship to get 10 iron, he/she just gets on another after another and gets iron and stuff for as long as they want with no effort.
I still disagree. Why would you force it on the dev's to design something and waste their time when a simple boot button for the owner of the ship to use at their discretion and their mind works far more efficient than any script can. Again, arguing from the group getting kicked doesn't hold much weight in this discussion.
I know. I wish the thread title would roll with the scroll like the header does.
Hey, here's an issue where we completely agree. I strongly believe that the ship's owner should have complete control of who is aboard their ship and strongly disagree with anyone who complains that such power could/would be abused. I recall getting the boot in potco SvS a few times, probably to make room for a friend or guildie and I had no problem with it, it was their ship. I think that if the boot were implemented and you felt you got the boot unfairly then you should not sail with that captain again, if you do, it would be your fault not the fault of an abusive captain when you find yourself eating sand.
