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Tab lock down (Patch 3.5)
HamsterIV:
I haven't use this feature to mute people in game so much as black list captains who leave mid game. Any captain who abandons their ship/crew after their first death is a captain I don't want to fly under. By the time the match is over there is no record of deserter. So I like the in game block feature so I can flag the offending player while they are in the disconnect phase. If they return before the end of the match I unblock them in lobby. It would be nice to have a separate mute and unfriend list, but I hold no hope of getting that feature.
I may have blocked some decent people who had connection issues at one point or other. The community is small enough that if I see a friend flying with a blocked player I can ask about the friend's opinions of the blocked player and unblock them if the friend's opinion is favorable.
Dutch Vanya:
Why do we need to be able to block people on other ships in-game?
Why encourage MORE blocking In a game that is about communication and cooperation?
In the VERY RARE instance that we desire to block someone, it will already be done in the lobby, and you won't notice if someone does something block worthy on another ship.
I'm sure this system is more abusable than useful. I bet certain other captains will just block me if i'm trying to communicate, because they don't want to hear what i have to say.
It really makes me sad that Muse put time in effort into a feature than no one wanted, and is detrimental to the spirit of the game, while at the same time there is a plethora of bugs they could have worked on instead.
ramjamslam:
I have experienced a captain asking newer players on a ship to jump on certain guns or repair certain parts over others etc. and the newbies end up blocking the captain in game so they can do what they want without communicating. This feature seems to only be abused by people who don't care about the teamwork aspect of the game. In this instance I was engineer crew and had to try to relay information through text chat to the crew members from the captain.
Tropo:
sounds troubling ram i have seen that happen to a friend too wonder if it was the same one lol
i have also had to remove people from my block list due to i have been blocking people in game a lot when i have try to tab while playing
in a game with the need to communicate so much make little to none sense to have anyone blocked
redria:
This is starting to grate on me a bit as well. Initially I didn't mind, but in a game where not being active leaves your ship (and therefore team) basically dead in the water, having tab prevent your motion and actions is a killer.
You have the nice new feature where you can see the level of a player in the tab overlay. Too bad I never get to use this new feature because I can't safely use the tab overlay.
The overlay is nice just for that instantaneous reminder of who and what you have on both teams. To make it practically inaccessible to active players while adding the ability to reduce communications in a game dependent on communication seems absurd. Like people have been saying, we don't really need to block people in game. Heck, we should be avoiding blocking people. It makes it very difficult to play the game if you just block people.
At the very least it would be nice to have an option somewhere to turn this off. I don't want to block people in game. I just want to check the scoreboard - the actual reason for the existence of the overlay - without having to run my ship into a wall because control was taken from me.
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