I attend on average about 30 to 40 events a month. this happens once in a while but usually only when the EM has been idle or texting for a very long period of time, which can be boring for many players so is understandable. My best advice would be to put those players on ignore. they are a small minority. Any time you have a large group of people, especially in a video game, its to be expected that a few will not "play nice"
lol
I am somewhat familiar with the powers that EM's have and I know for a fact that an EM can pull you to where they are. Telestorming would be that power in reverse. And being squelched? Not sure how abuse-able that can be. A five-minute squelch on a spammer isn't bad is it?
What in the literal hell, is "telestorming"?
If we ban people for saying "where's my drop at EM events?", then what's next? It opens up a Pandora's box of asking for other speech to be, in your own words, squelched. That's not okay. Kicking players because you can't deal with having to look past their dialogue is selfish and hurts the overall spirit of the game.
I am not saying squelch the person that asks about the drop once. This would be for the one that ctrl-q's the question to the point that it pushes everything else off the journal and covers up the EM's, and all other players chat in the game itself.
It is a term I first heard used in UO from "back in the day". It was a time where most every shard had the population that Atlantic has currently. When shard-wide quests came into being, everyone would be bunched up into one or two of the subservers during the event and would make it very difficult for the game to function properly. From what I remember and understand, the lag was so bad that even the mobs would lag. To help remedy this problem, random players would be teleported to safe locations, usually to towns many subservers away. This would ease the strain on the specific subserver that the event was occurring.
Sounds made up.
I promise that it did happen as I described. I really would not have any reason to make that up and post it in a forum where others, that have played longer than me, would see what I said and refute my post.
Telestorming is real. It happened to me when Trammel was opened for house placement. Starr Long, one of the original UO developers, spoke of it at the 15th anniversary event in Fairfax if you care to dig for the video.
You are correct. Trammel's opening to house placement was the first wide use (and automatically kicking in) when any particular subserver had too many people. I don't remember any placement reverts on Sonoma, just a lot of lag when trying to place a large house and seeing the ghost image, but unable to click OK. Some said they saw their house go down, only for it to "poof" back into the deed.
Agreed even if it was only for 5 or 10 min I think the perp would get the idea soon enough. As for Telestorming that too could have a limit and would be something that should only be used when squelching or whatever doesn't work.... or if the person is blatantly disregarding the order to back off. I wish they had a "push" that shoved folk back 5 tiles. I thought Mesanna was trying something like that.
Ah Merlin. A prime example IMHO. Nothing constructive to say, just immature name calling. *Bows with grand flourish*
I speak the truth. If it were up to the whiny little teenage girls of Stratics, the 6 person developer staff would have to micromanage every single little aspect of this game.
Well thank God you don't own the game and don't have the power to ban people just because you're too impatient to tolerate other gamers acting in ways you don't like. Comments like that are exactly why EMs, who aren't really employees in the first place, shouldn't be given any sort of new 'super power' .
All semantics, chief.Love ya Merlin! Your like a prime example of why something should be done. Please continue!
Not surprised by your response: unable to discuss the topic - booting players for unwanted speech during EM events - you resort to semantics.
The one who's being the cry baby is the one suggesting people be banned because they're not adult enough to look past the in-game comments of other players. There are bigger issues with EM events (and this game in general) than your minor complaint of people spamming in chat. Spamming in chat has been around in this game pretty much from the outset. Not sure how this is some sort of surprise for you.
Waaahhh! Someone keeps asking for drops at an event. Let's make new powers to kick them or shut them up!
Did you consider not everyone of my replies is geared toward you? Context.
How is telestorming and squelch weak and whiny? Simply because you personally do not like the idea? In your opinion, the spammer should be accommodated at the expense of others? The squeaky wheel gets the grease, so to speak.
Or maybe its someone who just thinks that this is just a minor issue that doesn't warrant attention from limited developer resources.
Who are you to say how people should act at events?Squelch and kick(telestorm to a far-away Tram overland subserver). Too many times events would be crashed by these greedy lil buggers that spam "When's the drop? Can I have my drop now? Spawn the boss already so I can get my drop." ect ect. This, I feel, would go a long way to solving the spamming event-crashers that don't care if they are ruining other players fun. Thanks.
At least the supposed juveniles are actually at the event.
If they actually were juveniles that would be a little better lol. As far as the Fel PVP trash talk there's another situation where a ban would be something I'd enjoy see being enforced again like the old days. Some of the PVP trash talk is way over the top. Not to mention having to hear it forever. It's amazing how many people have no idea how to function in society. No respect for themselves or anyone else. If people only knew how stupid sounding they come off sometimes. You'd swear many never made it through grade school and clearly had no parenting.
does it really surprise you that people spending a large portion of their lives playing on online game dont know how to function in society? just saying. i think the behaviorl in uo is very good in general considering there is absolutely no enforcement of tos. any time you get more than a handful of online players together, there is bound to be a few whose strongpoint is not politeness. the trashtalk in uo seems very tame actually compared to online console games. honestly for many people thats why they play. because they can blow off steam and act totally atrocious wheras irl this wouldnt be acceptable. but its not real life, its a game. i do agree tho that the osi UO community is particulary toxic when compared to other online games of the genre.
Years back when events on LS had us meet up at British's Castle, the EM there would squelch people for spamming and being annoying. You were saying? I wouldn't doubt it happened on other servers too.
