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Should we report unresponsive players?

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Hoja Lateralus:
Basically what title says. Recently I had a situation with a lvl2 crew member on the same ship - she was a gunner, she didn't bring the right ammo, she didn't respond to anything (standard chat, voice-chat, private message procedure) but we decided to play anyway. In the game when told on voicechat "[Nick] front guns!" she actually did go to front guns. So the question is - in such teamwork-oriented game should we report people who, on one hand are at least mildly irritating (we have to suck it up or change the lobby, basically), on the other hand, may just be unable to respond, for example because of language barier.

Squidslinger Gilder:
I'd only report if they do things that are clearly trolling. Problem is sometimes the person doesn't have audio on or has the game muted so they can have their music blasting. It is annoying but it happens. Then other times, yeah language barrier issues.

I used to run with the Japanese players every now and then. While I know some Japanese, its not enough to really converse. So I'd just keep English or Japanese words to being simple 1 or 2 words. One of them who knew English commented that helped the most cause they had basic knowledge like me so they could figure out orders/etc from just a single word or two.

For everything else, block list ftw.

pandatopia:
Yea it is frustrating and unfortunate to run into unresponsive players, but they have every right to play just like the rest of us.

Voice communication is not a required part of gameplay, nor is reading the chat either.

Just use your blocklist and don't play with them.

The Sky Wolf:
How about a player rating?

+2 Very helpful
+1 Helpful
-1 Not helpful
-2 Very unhelpful


"Olde Grim Jack's player rating is -115"

Then every captain can see the rating on people's score cards and decide if he wants them aboard his ship.

sparklerfish:
What about making the number of commendations a player has received public?  If someone has played 100 matches and only received 10 commendations that'd make it pretty clear they're not a team player.  I pretty much always commend people unless they've done something fairly heinous to disrupt the game, including being willfully unresponsive and trolly.

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