Trolls and disco dance items

[Parsifal_]

I'm getting fed up with trolls and morons messing with people using disco balls and other items that make them yell and dance like idiots. Some keep popping them every time they come off cooldown, be it in the fleet or in an ops group while you're trying to explain tactics.

 

Could these items be given a FAR longer cooldown, or have them only affect the user's party?

 

Or could you add a setting that makes your character immune to outside emote effects? Some games like LOTRO already have such a setting.

 

A great solution would also be turning any disco ball (or a similar item) user into a free-for-all PvP target for the next 72 hours minimum.

[DWho]

They could make it easier to report those trolls by putting their name in chat with a right clickable report option. [Player X] throws a tinsel bomb at Player Y. That would also make it easier for Bioware to review the chat logs to determine if harassment was occurring (it could even be automated with something like a script that checks to see if a threshold number of actions occurred within a minute or two). Throwing one tinsel bomb is probably not harassment but throwing one after another is (also note that since this is a reportable action, two players pummeling each other by choice would not be impacted). This could be extended to spam guild invites too. More than 3 guild invites to the same player in a minute is a squelchable offense. Edited July 27, 2022 by DWho

[JediQuaker]

Another 'solution' would be for you to 'lighten up'. 😇

 

Also note that there is a 'disco' thingy that heals players in the area, which is actually useful in many group instances. 🤔

Edited July 27, 2022 by JediQuaker

[DWho]

Another 'solution' would be for you to 'lighten up'. 😇

 

Also note that there is a 'disco' thingy that heals players in the area, which is actually useful in many group instances. 🤔

 

I don't know if it is a lighten up thing. Once or twice, fine but when it is one after another, it is clearly intended as harassment (RP players are the primary target for this type of harassment). The problem is that the harassers have learned that putting lots of alt-characters in their names makes them difficult to report. To report them you need to see them do it, get a screenshot of their name so you can duplicate it in the report, figure out which alt characters they are using, and then hope Bioware can figure out from the game logs that they were throwing one after another.

 

The core question I guess would be, if you were playing group content and someone decided to keep tossing those items at their fellow players would that be considered acceptable. I don't think it is, so doing the same thing to other players outside the group content shouldn't be allowed either. There needs to be a better way to report these types of players.

[JediQuaker]

Yes, I'm sure that they're all just trying to 'harass' you - just you. Having 'fun' never occurred to them either. 😂

[WHTJunior]

I feel this way about snowballs.

 

There are three types of people when it comes to dismissible friendly non-stat buffs:

• People who like, and want, the buff
  
• People who are indifferent, tolerant, or barely notice
  
• People who dislike, or hate, them, and don't want others controlling their character.
  

 

I don't need a flurry of snow around my character. I dismiss it as soon as it is applied. I even watched the player hit me with one version, and when I dismissed it, they used the other one. Of course, they just stand there pelting people constantly, whether they like it or not. If I right-click dismiss a friendly "buff", it should ask me if I want to permanently dismiss it for that session. Maybe a short list of options when you right-click it:

• Dismiss Buff
  
• Dismiss Buff for this session
  
• Dismiss all Friendly Non-Stat Buffs for this session
  
• Dismiss all Friendly Non-Stat Buffs permanently
  

[BRKMSN]

I feel this way about snowballs.

 

There are three types of people when it comes to dismissible friendly non-stat buffs:

• People who like, and want, the buff
  
• People who are indifferent, tolerant, or barely notice
  
• People who dislike, or hate, them, and don't want others controlling their character.
  

 

I don't need a flurry of snow around my character. I dismiss it as soon as it is applied. I even watched the player hit me with one version, and when I dismissed it, they used the other one. Of course, they just stand there pelting people constantly, whether they like it or not. If I right-click dismiss a friendly "buff", it should ask me if I want to permanently dismiss it for that session. Maybe a short list of options when you right-click it:

• Dismiss Buff
  
• Dismiss Buff for this session
  
• Dismiss all Friendly Non-Stat Buffs for this session
  
• Dismiss all Friendly Non-Stat Buffs permanently
  

 

During the Life Day event, those people are trying to earn snow covered parcels. They won't keep throwing them at you if you have the debuff because they can't get a snow covered parcel from that. I recommend that people that hate snow balls just avoid standing around in public areas.

 

I find it curious that people get all worked up about "being covered in snow flakes." It's strange to me because there are hundreds of things that affect our characters. De we get all indignant when a random stranger uses an aoe heal near us? That pesky green gas surrounding my character and strange numbers periodically leaving his body...

Edited July 28, 2022 by BRKMSN

[TahliahCOH]

I've only ever seen this in the fleet, and I think it's so fun! When I get tired of it (after about a minute), I just leave the cast area. There are so many actual problems with this game that I don't get caring about this; though I do think that having a way to opt out of group or random forced emotes would be fine. Or even create a vaccine for disco fever as we have with the Ranghoul infections. I'd far rather my toons danced a cheery jig than were gagging and oozing green smog before dropping dead. But lots of people find that hilarious and fun. It takes all kinds, and this is really small stuff.

[JediQuaker]

Btw, if you are being bothered by snowflakes, disco lights, etc, on Fleet, it's easy enough to just go to your Fleet Apartment stronghold. You can still see and interact with Fleet chat while in your Apartment, so no excuse (other than a lack of said SH). 🙂

[Toraak]

I don't know if it is a lighten up thing. Once or twice, fine but when it is one after another, it is clearly intended as harassment (RP players are the primary target for this type of harassment). The problem is that the harassers have learned that putting lots of alt-characters in their names makes them difficult to report. To report them you need to see them do it, get a screenshot of their name so you can duplicate it in the report, figure out which alt characters they are using, and then hope Bioware can figure out from the game logs that they were throwing one after another.

 

The core question I guess would be, if you were playing group content and someone decided to keep tossing those items at their fellow players would that be considered acceptable. I don't think it is, so doing the same thing to other players outside the group content shouldn't be allowed either. There needs to be a better way to report these types of players.

 

while I'm not a fan of such things, if you get on a mount (when in area's you can) you won't be forced to dance.

[WHTJunior]

I recommend that people that hate snow balls just avoid standing around in public areas.

 

This is usually what I do, but there are a few times when I need Fleet, whether I'm getting starter planet Heroics, Galactic Seasons vendor stuff, Tech Frag vendors, Commendation vendors, or whatever.

 

I'm only mildly annoyed during the event, since there are droids every two feet doing the same thing, nearly every planet you go to. It's when someone is just doing it because they like it, outside of the event. I get it. You're having fun. What I don't like, is when people act like my opinion on the matter isn't also valid. I don't like having people put "buffs" on my character, that last until I dismiss, or some indeterminate amount of time. Healing isn't the same. It's instant, and doesn't linger.

 

I'd just like the ability to disable them, like we can with duels, guild invites, etc.