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Some suggestions
BlackenedPies:
I've played over 2200 hours with lots of good and bad communication. Yes there are such players who are young and new to this unusual game. The quantity of real trolls is low and the best way to root them out is to give recommended loadouts. If they don't accept the loadout don't fly with them or you're asking for trouble.
If you don't know your crew then don't fly a goldfish. Few players want full time repair duty and I think it's disrespectful to new crew. Of course they want to shoot so give them a gun. Don't blame them for hopping on the gun when they learn their job is 99% repairing. Be respectful or expect trouble.
With good communication and an organized ship this is a non issue. Run a tight ship or don't complain.
BlackenedPies:
Recommend loadouts, give everyone a gun, and explain positions. Tell them when to shoot and repair. There won't be problems.
Sarabelle Marlowe:
The issue I see is not so much communication, many of us agree that it is key to any victory. Running a tight ship is not the argument, far from it, and in this game it's top priority.
The problem is when you run into a player that refuses to listen. More then once I've been trolled simply by having someone, no matter how any of us asked through both text and voice, that the gunner needs a particular gun and they wont budge from it.
The instance I am recalling was during sales. There were three of us dags, and we were playing around having fun with a hwatcha fish. We got a crew member from MM fairly late in the lobby, a couple levels up, he accepted the load out, everything seemed alright. When we loaded in, he dashed to the front and stayed on the gun. I asked him not to, I wanted to pre-load my ammo. He wouldn't move. Alistair asked, both text and voice to no avail. We got hit by the enemy team, and the engi on the front gun kept hitting the balloons, loading the wrong ammo, refused to shoot what Alistair told him to, ect ect. We had to resort to using the flame thrower and ram kills. So after the game, we left the lobby, and what more, this guy followed us. We had to leave lobby and sit before he went away.
On some ships, this isn't so much an issue, but there are ships with guns that benefit best with certain types of ammo. And even if that were not the case, then you have someone that refuses to listen to target priority and refuses to repair because they wanted to gun and the load time for them was faster then the gunners.
If someone indicates and asks they wish to gun before we load in, I'll switch over, but more then a few times there was no indication and they cost us games because we were down an engineer and not doing the damage or disable we needed. For some, this is a far and few between problem, but when it does happen it's very annoying. Even on ships with many guns, some people have ignored the requests. I've seen players tell off me or my captain that they want this gun and they were not going to shoot anything else. In some cases, mild annoyance, in others, costly.
Giving priority to the gunner class would have fixed at least the damage/disable part. Not much to do with an uncooperative player, but at the very least a gunner could do their job.
Kamoba:
Oh yes, it is true that trolls that camp guns do exist...
They refuse to communicate and ruin everyone on their ships fun. I tend to refuse them arcs when I have them on my ship even if it causes a loss for the team, by refusing to give the troll a chance to even shoot tends to encourage them to communicate...
Once on a.blender fish a guy with chem ext pipe wrench camped the heavy carro, refused to comm of accept loadouts, but in the end I though, okay its not the end of the world, in match he sat on front gun and didn't let gunner shoot... So I didn't engage enemy. Kept them visible to the front side but never gave arcs to front gun until finally in crew chat.. And I quote... "wtf u fcking retard cap lemme fkin shot u cnt! Fcking retard nt usin frnt gun!" So I replied quite simply "Oh that's not your gun." He raged in voice and then after our allies third death, he agreed to sit on flamer..
Final score 4-5 loss, the guy who raged then said the game sucks and I assume he went back to CoD because he didn't log on since...
But yeah unpleasant players do exist, and this is just an emphasis on why you -should- play with friends!
Stack the ships with your friends, stack ally ships if you have enough friends.
And don't fear being labelled a.stomper, all you're doing is avoiding painful matches. Plus is everyone teamed up with friends without fear of (bullshit) labels such as stompers and stackers etc etc, then more often balanced matches would appear as there would be more stackdd teams to pit against each other...
But for some reason so many people avoid "stacking"....
BlackenedPies:
Recommended loadouts are your first line of defense against trolls. Never play with anyone who refuses the loadout. Block people so they can't join on you. They want to shoot so give everyone a gun and don't fly a fish. It's rude not to give everyone a gun if they're new crew. Notice the pattern of examples on goldfish? Be respectful and let them shoot or you're asking for trouble.
Trolls exist but the vast majority of players cooperate if you make them a part of the ship. Follow the 3 steps and there won't be problems. Give loadouts give guns give positions.
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