Make so you Can kick players of your ship,
Im playing with open crew on my own ship and,
3 times today in 6 hours there already been 3 griefers and, I cant stop Them since i cant kick em off, my ship
2 times, I just had too Watch Them, explode the gunpowder barrels,on my ship, since i cant kick, and I want it too stop.
ADD Kick
No. Kicking can be abused:
- Imagine joining an open crew and playing for 1-2 hours. You all stack loads of gold.
- Time to turn it in!
- ...And you've been kicked by the Captain so he can let his friend join.
- Said friend gets all the loot for no work.
- You get nothing for all the work you did.
This has been pointed out the hundreds of other times people bring up this idea.
@capjack0sparrow no. Do not invite randoms onto your ship if you’re afraid of griefers. Record and report them if they’re being toxic. The kick feature would also get abused as mentioned above.
Other than that, as noted already it opens it up to abuse. People open crewing, getting a new player to waste their voyage of luck and then kicking them for a friend to get it.
At most on a sloop if you are the captain you should be able to vote to tie the other crew member to the mast (brig them) if they have caused you damage in the last 15min. That way you can stop them from doing more harm. But can't short change them form their share of the loot.
You and I just completed a FoF. As we go to turn in our loot (and the chest of fortune), I kick you from the ship and invite my friend so they can get credit for it instead.
Are you going to be cool with this?
Just to add to above reasons. Allowing players to kick people would make it considerably harder for new players (as well as those without headsets) to find a crew to sail with and learn the game. I think a lot of people would just keep kicking players they didn't like. Imagine being a new player and trying to join a game and getting repeatedly kicked from every game you try to join because you're new and don't know what you're doing.
@metal-ravage said in ADD Kick:
At this point it would be advisable for those who decide to frequent the forums to google stuff up before posting requests of this nature. This topic comes up day in, day out and the counter point is (rightfully so) always the same: "It can be abused!"
Sometimes I wish there was a pinned section for this topic, as I keep having to reset the counter.
@europa4033 I think having a few pinned topics on the forum is a really good idea. It would help prevent the forum being clogged up with duplicate posts and comments. Could include things like:
Kicking players from open crew.
Safer seas improvements.
Shrinking circle in hourglass.
QOL improvements for controller players.
The return of Arena modeNo doubt there are other recurring topics that would benefit from having a pinned "master thread", or even their own subcategory to stop duplicate posts clogging up the general feedback forum.
I've always wanted an option to kick, after having been on the receiving end of griefers (worst one was a toxic player who refused for over an hour to vote down when trying to turn in a Burning Blade with 15 stacks on it, because they just wanted to be toxic). But I will admit it would be abused having that feature. To be honest, the best thing that could be done is this: Player who gets voted to the "brig" actually ends up in a new Prison that can be constructed somewhere on the edge of the map, so they can't sit and troll the ship with slurs, music griefing, firebombs, etc. Then, if they are in the prison, they receive no money during that time, but they'll still receive commendations, just in case the Shrouded Ghost appears or something. This should help alleviate or get rid of those toxic players who just want to afk in the "brig" but still make money. This also stops crews from vote kicking someone out of the crew to make room for someone else when they're about to turn in treasure or get an important commendation. Not a perfect solution, but one I think that somewhat appeals to both sides of the coin.
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