Necessary improvement of the player list
 

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The ignore button should be, as it does now already, block out the private messages by specific persons for every player himself and report the person awareness that his messages are not welcome. That already shortens the untoward jabbering a bit.

But the mute button, should definetly cut out anything of the person listed in there, be it the onscreen chat, guild chat or any other messenger possibility.

This is necessary, and should have been added to this game long ago. That would make the game so mutch more enjoyable, its everyone himself, who he wants to read and talk to, and who definitively not.

I for one would play Era a lot more given the option to ctrl a the playerlist and select mute.

Thats nice for Era, but it is badly needed on zone aswell.

Edit: Misunderstood the previous post above, sorry for that.

They would still find a way to harass you, like through name changes or with their friends or even through masses where everyone but you could read and someone tells you about it.

Just dont have enemys :)

That doesn't really change anything within that this is required. That would be like you say'd we don't need bans for hackers, cause they will find a way through it anyways.

It is not only annoyance and harassment, but also tons of mental garbage and other stateless special refuse.

Thats needed, and it would increase the enjoyment of the game for many people.

Sounds like an really interesting battle game. :asleep:

Zone isnt a Game, it is just chatting with Guns.

Zone isn't Graal, just a game with guns.

zone is only a small part of graal nowadays, compared to the playercount of classic servers atleast.

Until the person or people doing this harassment find another way to harass you..like hunt only you or get you through their friends or even on the forums. I explained to you (i think) that since no one is really face to face online that people will say anything they want because they know that the worst that can happen is a ban. Big deal they will find another game to play.

IRL though people wouldn't dare mouth off for fear of getting their mouth shut with a fist. I really do hope that graal don't have some live meet and greet...actually I take that back..i hope they do...it would be the most polite convention in the world because people would be afraid to lip off at each other.

speak for yourself

Erm, nice! Actually that makes the game interesting.
That is, what this personal mute command is of course aswell for.
Would save up diskspace and time, taping videos and taking screens.
Can't find any reason, not to implement this feature. It is simple but results a great advance.

It wouldn't be hard to script a mute function locally for the server. A clientside timeout/loop for players in the same level as you referencing an array (likely in a client. string) of people who's chat should not be seen on your screen, but again- that'd be scripted locally and obviously wouldn't be a built-in feature of the game.

I am pretty sure I saw something similar in the works on Era a while back, and again recently, but I am not sure what ever came of that or why it was never used. I think it was one of Crow's works before he quit. You could use commands like /mute Add Account, /mute Remove Account, and /muteList. Simple stuff.

That already happens, although it's not a message. They try to PM you and you don't receive the message and on their screen your name turns red or something. I think mute means no voice function? Iuno. I think if you can't deal with the remarks of a 10 year old that plays zone, you should just quit. You'd end up muting pretty much the whole server.

Crow was that awesome?Yay4Mrreplacevulcan.

that's hard to say when they choose you.

Er, and what exactly is now your problem with that? It can't get mutch more minted than my private message ignore list is right now.

So you're realy ok with playing zone by yourself. I dunno, you just never who you might get along with later on.

Why not add mute...just don't say I warned ya.

If you ask me why not, I'd say that zone realy doesn't have enough scripters. They can be working on better things.

Yeah, absolutely. If you scan the zone forum for keywords like "teamplay" or "community" you won't find anything positive about that anyways. The lack of teamplay, and the rants about the community (which the players who post are obviously part of, somehow) won't give me the feeling about missing mutch. :p

I agree with you Dennis.
But I also agree with this.

I wouldn't mind the mute button working like this.

Why would anyone? You didn't.

Though a mute button doesn't take that long to script :)
Maybe a few hours at most.

Obviously i'm not a part of the community, so dun point fingers at me. You haven't seen any "teamplay"? All the lamers working 2gether. Sounds like teamplay to me.
Some people may only have a few hours a day to work on something before they have others things to care to in real life or something.

That wasn't my intend, it was ment as a general statement.

There is a good difference, as I think, between teaming/ gangin by gathering together out of the situation, or a intended teamplay to enforce and battle another team.

Well, thanks to TSAdmin I have that script here, so it should not be mutch time consuming to implement it.

Alright, I will discuss this with Dan :). Thank you Dennis and TSAdmin.

:) Nice Dennis
Would Dan also except work for the local guild system?
Since I can easily get some scripts for him.

and what do you mean by "get"?
take it from another server?
i hope you mean that you script it yourself.

he keeps ranting about how he could script it in like 5 minuets.

I doubt he can realy make it. He said "get" not "make".

Well I meant I could ask for scripts from other servers but if I had to make it I could within a few weeks though. Since I don't script using G2, I tend to use C++ or C# which isn't what graal uses.

Bad ideaaa.

I realised this too.. since Zone's local guild system seems to be using different scripts according to the pictures.
I would script for this if I knew G2 rather then C++