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Tab lock down (Patch 3.5)

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Boneses:
I normally check the tab menu while I'm running around from part to part or while I'm buffing something. I like to see what we will be going up against, for example if I'm in a match and I see that there's a ship with 2 gunners I can let my captain know that they will probably be an easier target to kill than a ship with 2 engis.
I personally would rather have the mute menu separate from the tab menu. You could also make it look different than the tab menu and include spectators since there isn't a way to mute them using the current menu.

Wundsalz:

--- Quote from: Urz on February 05, 2014, 12:24:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Sammy B. T. on February 05, 2014, 11:39:38 am ---I'd also like to mention that I have not yet been in a scenario where I strongly felt a need to mute someone in game that I hadn't already done in lobby. While I can understand it is easily conceivable to be in a scenario where it will happen, its not terribly common. Therefore this doesn't need to be the most streamlined action if it comes at the cost of another streamlined action

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I would like to corroborate this statement with some of my own insight...

Out of 2811 played matches, there are only 27 people on my blocked list. That is less than one mute for every one hundred games. In addition, almost every one of these players was on a ship other than my own, as if there is somebody mute-worthy in my crew, I will generally go to another ship or lobby. Muting doesn't solve trolls.

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That's a very good point. My block list is rather empty too and I can not recall a single instance in all 3000 matches I've played so far, where I've felt the urge to mute someone in-game. Those few guys who managed to get an entry on my block list due to their vocal gibberish, accomplished it in the lobby already.


--- Quote from: redria on February 05, 2014, 03:19:34 pm ---My biggest problem with the block/mute feature is that, unless I didn't notice a sudden change, muting and blocking are one and the same. There are plenty of people that I block just because I don't want to have to deal with listening to them. It is bad, but sometimes you just can't listen to the squeaky voices, or the over-amped microphones, or the music/echo/etc. I don't necessarily want to block said people. Just not audibly hear them. It would be sort of nice to have distinct options.

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This is a good point as well. The block-feature is currently misused for purposes which have probably not been intended by muse.
I personally use the blocklist for the following purposes:
- block people which annoy me via voice or written text
- mark people with outstanding underperformance.
- sometimes I mute kids as they open their mouth. Not because of childish content, but just because I'm not in the mood to listen to kid-voices.
- sometime I'm not even remotely interested in discussions going on via voice chat and mute people participating in those.
- I occasionally mute people like geo, who play music in lobbies.

Taking the wide range of uses for the blocklist into consideration it might make sense to diversify it a bit. I'd like to be able to distinguish between voice-chat-mutes and entire communication blocks including text-chat. Also I wouldn't mind to see a block system distinguishing between temporary blocks (e.g. for boring discussions and tedious voices) and permanent ones reserved for people I actually never ever want to meet in game again.

Squidslinger Gilder:
I <3 my blocklist. Don't even have to bother dealing with some players, just block and...sweet silence....ahhhh...

As far as the ingame lockup goes with tab. Doesn't really matter to me. I don't check often enough and when I do I'm not doing it in combat. A quick glance for a moment doesn't do anything to me.

Frogger:
If at all possible, please do fix this so you can still move while checking the Tab player list. It's extremely annoying if you're trying to do a quick check to see if you or an opponent has dropped a crew member, or something like that.

Sammy B. T.:
So is there going to be any movement on this. I find this amazingly and annoyingly disruptive.

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