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Unfortunately, this feature could have been extremely useful just this afternoon and for the remainder of this weekend. Juggling GM calls and people who use deceit to get around the players' current tools to prevent malicious activity in-game in personal housing areas has been quite the setback.
Agreed. Please add this.
We made progress today and he was removed from the plot; however, because of the procedures in place it wasn't able to be done until the run ended. I'm sorry to any EU players that were only able to make it today. We set these 12PM PDT matinees up just so you had an option to come see the show live not at a weird time, and to my cast -- we had some understudies taking the lead for the first time tonight.
This would be a great feature to see, along with other controls on who can enter FC/personal housing.
Seems like a good idea, especially looking at the trouble A Stage Reborn has been having.
I fully support the ability for players/FCs to have greater control over who can enter and who is barred from their homes. If these trolls keep going and keep getting more and more of their characters blacklisted, it would only make life easier for GMs to know who to tell that it's time to move on to a different MMO.
Piping up to say that I agree this feature should definitely be implemented, but that also SE needs to make sure that this house-blacklist feature either does not work on FC Members at all or does not work if the FC Member currently has an FC room in the FC house.
I don't know if this has been fixed yet, but in the past FC leaders were able to remove housing privileges from their members and essentially hold the members hostage, because they could not leave their FC without removing furnishings and demolishing a room.
I updated my original post to address concerns about abuse were it to be a FC function. Because FC members can native have access toggled via rank permissions, it should only be an option to execute against non-FC members / non-tenants. That way, if there is a harasser caught within the FC or as a tenant, you can kick them and subsequently remove them from the plot.
This is the kind of quality of life feature we need! With the expansions coming to housing soon, this feels like a excellent time to add something like this.
My free company also hosts roleplaying events regularly, and we will occasionally get trolls who show up and attempt to disrupt people who are having fun. If we could eject these members from our FC houses/personal estates (and further prevent them from coming back in somehow) that would be wonderful. As it stands now, the best we can do is ignore them, but if they are physically being disruptive, there's not much to be done for that.
I agree, this would be a wonderful feature to have.
Yes, I would like to see this implemented!
Would definitely love to have this be an option! It would make coordinating events much less of a hassle and keep unwanted people out.
Yes please!
Yes, absolutely agree with this suggestion.
This would be a great feature to have. It makes it easier to limit the amount of people I want in my house without having to add them as tenants or unlocking temporarily then locking back up. While I haven't had it on XIV personally, I've had problems with people coming to personal house areas in other games and being rude, and the option to just kick them was always there which was nice. Please consider adding it to XIV.
I support this suggestion! The current options to let everyone in or lock everyone out are far too broad. There needs to be some middle ground to allow home owners and FCs to have better control over who enters their property and how to remove someone who is a problem.
Would love to see this implemented, had someone disturb an event running from the house I was running it at and it left a bad impression on a few people, so I'm all for this
I have witnessed disruptions in events almost half the time when said event has been held in player housing that is open to the public. Because event organizers cannot eject the players doing the harassing, all that organizers and attendees can respond with is blacklisting and waiting until the GMs respond to a report - often after long amounts of time, and often with a reply that nothing can be done. This type of situation is not unique to large servers, but on smaller servers I have spent time on as well.
I therefore wholeheartedly support the implementation of this suggestion as soon as possible.
Just here to say this would be a welcome addition to our housing. You could set it up so that if you're set to public, your list can function as a blacklist to keep people from entering. If private, you could have it function as an allowance list for non-FC members. This would be great!
I wholeheartedly support the features described in the original post. This would be an immensely helpful administration tool for house owners.
I think this function would be immensely beneficial to every kind of player in the game and free up a considerable amount of work for the GMs.
I'm all for this feature, even though I would wield such great power with irresponsibility by kicking my in-game husband out of the house whenever I felt like it. >>;
I really want this feature, please, please. x.x
Please square listen to your players on this issue, I agree
i support this 100% house owners should be allowed to remove people that are acting/speaking rude or inappropriately from their houses
It should be as simple as if "the owner" puts you on blacklist. It should automatically eject them from your house.
Just curious, is anyone here multi-lingual and able to put this recommendation in the other language forums as well (i.e. Japanese, French, German.) I think this is a conversation that should span across more than just the English-speaking player-base.
Please SE, we need this. I don't want to keep my house/fc's house locked in order to keep out a handful of unwanted players. Also it's never happened to me, but I've heard of home owners returning to find random people erping inside and not being able to get rid of them.
Also wouldn't mind another way to tease my dearest sister-in-law when she misbehaves.... I mean, what? >.>;;
I did post a translation in the german Forums. Can't do Japanese or French, but i guess there will be someone else who can do it.
For those interested this is the link for the thread I opened.
This would be an excellent tool for people who run roleplay events too. You don't want to have griefers crashing your party!
This is absolutely a thing that should be implemented! I had problems with that in my first house all the time. My neighbors would randomly come over and run through my house without so much as a by your leave. And none of these people were friends either. They just liked to invade every chance they got no matter how much it bothered me.
Piping up to absolutely agree with this suggestion.
I have had to lock my personal plot due to non-RPer neighbors who would crash into the house and squat / troll there constantly, and still treat the yard as their own. Had a similar problem with my FC house for a while, and still have occasionally found folks doing god-knows-what in the house until they're caught and hastily hearth. No trolls yet, but I would prefer not to deal with them should the issue arise.
There are people who will spend as much money as they need to obtain multiple accounts, subscribe to multiple VPN services to swap IPs frequently, borrow accounts, open up several checking and credit accounts and so on just to circumvent official action. It's 2017, and many of us know and have seen first hand that a ban is no longer truly a ban. Malicious players can be smart about it and it can take weeks to piece together all the evidence to even get so much as just one character temporarily removed far after the fact.
Hopefully these are some of the things Square Enix (and other game companies) look into in the future when implementing social environment controls in online games. As new as the work and technology that goes behind tracking and suspending or banning users is, it's already obsolete. We absolutely need a change.