Brigging a player and the mechanics involved with that.

All the while our third crew mate held a bit of water in his bucket so he could dump while we were struggling to keep our brig afloat during a fight. He held his blunderbuss ammo so he could shoot any explosive barrels that made it aboard and set the ship on fire at opportune moments while we were dead or otherwise away.

Im sorry. What? How?

1. One bucket of water and this did what to your ship?
2. blunderbuss, shooting Kegs...why are they near him to begin with?

Im sorry, at this point, something is fishy with the story to believe.

@burnbacon

We didn't bring kegs near him, the point is the mechanic was denied to us until he was out of ammo.

He holds water in his bucket. During a fight, we gain water. When the water level gets high, he dumps his bucket, getting that big fill you get when you go for a bucket but you forgot to empty it first.

If we save the ship, he simply picks up more water before we can get it all out.

Are you calling me a liar?

@galactic-geek said in Brigging a player and the mechanics involved with that.:

Pirates in the brig shouldn't be able to shoot, slash, charge, bucket, throw or otherwise interact with anything beyond the bars (and vice-versa for those on the outside) - this would solve so many issues that you have described without opening up the ability for crews to kick you out of the game and invite their own friend to steal the credit for your hard work.

Seriously, I would almost prefer it if your pirate, when brigged, would just go into some random emote specific to the brig - like sitting in the corner, leaning on the bars, etc. where the only thing said pirate can do is rotate and zoom the camera in and out. They wouldn't even be able to annoy you with music or spammed messages, as they're effectively auto-muted and denied in-game communication. This would make it feel more like an appropriate punishment IMO, and encourage them to leave of their own accord, or avoid being put behind bars altogether in the 1st place.

Ya, lets do that.

@galactic-geek said in Brigging a player and the mechanics involved with that.:

Pirates in the brig shouldn't be able to shoot, slash, charge, bucket, throw or otherwise interact with anything beyond the bars (and vice-versa for those on the outside) - this would solve so many issues that you have described without opening up the ability for crews to kick you out of the game and invite their own friend to steal the credit for your hard work.

Seriously, I would almost prefer it if your pirate, when brigged, would just go into some random emote specific to the brig - like sitting in the corner, leaning on the bars, etc. where the only thing said pirate can do is rotate and zoom the camera in and out. They wouldn't even be able to annoy you with music or spammed messages, as they're effectively auto-muted and denied in-game communication. This would make it feel more like an appropriate punishment IMO, and encourage them to leave of their own accord, or avoid being put behind bars altogether in the 1st place.

This is a much better solution to such trolling behaviour against their own crew. But again all of this could’ve be avoided if they didn’t release The Curse of open crewing and did a looking for crew post however it not their fault they got a bad player, just some people want to see the world burn.

@galactic-geek
Your two suggestions are really good!
If you would be able to kick someone it would only result in a sort of slavery where other Players just kick one of the crewmates that did all the work with/for them to then invite a friend into the Crew to collect the Treasure and renown for a PL Grind! But if it is made like you said, any griefer could be stopped effectively this way without risking the Support of a griefing behaviour the other way round!

@tenriak

You are with the majority and have full control:

• You decide whether you brig the player, you don't even need a reason.
• You decide how long they are in the brig for, unless they leave the game.

Now you want to add:

• I get to kick them out of the game!

Open crews are already considered by many something to avoid, while I have been doing and still to this day join them... I cannot state I am in favor of a kick mechanic. Just record them, tell them you are doing so (most will leave) and report them. Rare does take action against these people.

Additionally: why stick around with a troll for 4 hours? Hop servers and find a nice crewmate, while we have some ... the majority of open crew mates are just trying to play the game and find some folks to play with: some are decent, many are new-ish and some are true legends.