Suggestion: Kick player from House/Apartment/Room.

As owners of our Houses, FC houses and Apartments, I feel that we should be able to 'kick' or 'remove' people from our houses. For many of us who use these places for Role-Playing we are very aware of trolls. Of course we can Blacklist them, but we can not silence their action spams, performance, etc.

For many of us we open our Role-Play spots as a way to have fun between patches and with the community. To have a player come in only to cause chaos is exhausting, annoying and not how FF has always desired us to act towards one another.

You do know you can restrict access, right?

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Originally Posted by Blokeymon

You do know you can restrict access, right?

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We are well aware of the fact that we can lock and unlock our private residences. The issue arises when we unlock them, and someone enters purely with the intent to troll/harass/disrupt the occupants; these players do exist. We then have no way to remove them from our player housing, nor to prevent known troublemakers from returning. We would simply like an effective way to deal with these players that does not require us to accept their purposeful disruptions.

RP ppl have issues with non RP ppl invading their houses? Funny, I had to lock my house down since the RP FC who had a small house across from me insisted on using my mansion for all their RP needs because "why do you need a mansion if you don't rp?", "Its no fair a single player can have a mansion, we are a group, it should be ours anyway so your just gonna have to deal with it". Even had to yank everything off my lawn to keep them away. After repeated conversations with GMs its all I could do. We do need more restrictions or it is just another reason we need instanced housing.

A few of them did, however, get in trouble when I reported their disturbing lala/roe erp tho, so that was satisfying.

I agree on this general idea and would like to see better acesse-settings in general - right now we can only lock the house or open it for everyone. How about a setting that opens the house just for friends? And especially a setting that locks the house to anyone on your blacklist!

Little sidenote though: If by "performance" you're refering to someones performance as a bard, you can mute that - or you can at least mute performance in general. That will mute the performance of everyone, so its not good if you're holding a concert and someones crashing it, but if you're just hanging out with no one in your group playing, it will work. (And if you're holding a concert and someones crashing it, I'd asked them to stop and if they dont, file a report and hope it'll count as "disruption" because it totally should)

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Originally Posted by Blokeymon

You do know you can restrict access, right?

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That's not the point of the thread. You can have restricted access and still get into a situation where you want someone removed. The point, to which I wholly agree with, is to be able to remove problem people while they are already inside.

I too would like to support the idea of being able to blacklist players from entering residences.

I 100% agree.

I cant speak for the rest of the RP community, but I know that for me personally immersion is important. It's extremely difficult for me to stay focused when someone is running around spamming chat or casting spells for no reason. It also makes it hard to introduce new people to RP environments. Having the option to remove people from your private/FC residence would make those RP spaces safer and more fun for everyone using them.

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Originally Posted by TheDragonsDen

As owners of our Houses, FC houses and Apartments, I feel that we should be able to 'kick' or 'remove' people from our houses. For many of us who use these places for Role-Playing we are very aware of trolls. Of course we can Blacklist them, but we can not silence their action spams, performance, etc.

For many of us we open our Role-Play spots as a way to have fun between patches and with the community. To have a player come in only to cause chaos is exhausting, annoying and not how FF has always desired us to act towards one another.

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This would be a good feature to have. Restricted access only solves the issue of allowing strangers into your venue but it does not stop people who have already entered and then behave in a disruptive way, from simply continuing their behavior.

I honestly believe the inability to kick someone out of your house is a blind spot that should be addressed just as a basic quality of life that everyone could enjoy. It's like we have a way to lock our door currently, but if we let someone in and find out we do not want them in our home, we have no way to kick them out? That just seems like an oversight.
From a specifically RP perspective, I can see easily how an open event can get crashed by people who just want to provoke reactions and cause trouble and a way to deal with that would be wonderful. But even taking that out of account, there should be a way to kick someone out of your house just because you want to, it's your house. It's an option that would be useful for all players.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

RP ppl have issues with non RP ppl invading their houses? Funny, I had to lock my house down since the RP FC who had a small house across from me insisted on using my mansion for all their RP needs because "why do you need a mansion if you don't rp?", "Its no fair a single player can have a mansion, we are a group, it should be ours anyway so your just gonna have to deal with it". Even had to yank everything off my lawn to keep them away. After repeated conversations with GMs its all I could do. We do need more restrictions or it is just another reason we need instanced housing.

A few of them did, however, get in trouble when I reported their disturbing lala/roe erp tho, so that was satisfying.

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Although this thread was started with the RP community in mind, something needs to be made available to benefit everyone. I am truly very sorry that members of the RP community apparently behaved this way. Everyone should be able to enjoy the housing that they took the time to acquire and decorate, without unwanted disruptions such as this. The fact that you felt forced to clear out your lawn to keep them away is terrible.

Even as an active role player, I have entered my own player housing to discover people participating in activities that I had rather they did not. Of course, I don't know what they are up to when I am logged off or not in my house, but when we enter our houses for our own use, our options should not stop at politely asking someone to stop what they are doing or to leave, merely so that we can be mocked in turn as you were.

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Originally Posted by TheDragonsDen

As owners of our Houses, FC houses and Apartments, I feel that we should be able to 'kick' or 'remove' people from our houses. For many of us who use these places for Role-Playing we are very aware of trolls. Of course we can Blacklist them, but we can not silence their action spams, performance, etc.

For many of us we open our Role-Play spots as a way to have fun between patches and with the community. To have a player come in only to cause chaos is exhausting, annoying and not how FF has always desired us to act towards one another.

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This. I have to agree with you on this one. Even though I'm not one that Role-Plays a lot, it irks me to imagine a troll deciding to ruin a good time for everyone. Square needs to add this to the game cause no one wants their fun to be ruined by someone who thinks Role-Playing is weird or is doing it for shits and giggles. Even though what I'm about to say right now is unrelated to housing, I was at an rp event in-game that was getting crashed on by someone spamming a mount action. Speaking of which, I assume some people here will say "Just turn off the effects", "just restrict housing access, dummy" or something like that. But there is one thing that we gotta look out for should the trolls have enough money to pay for multiple subs in which that would be: more troll accounts. SE gotta step up their game in combating trolls (and in an unrelated note here, BOTS *COUGH COUGH* *WHEEZE* COME ON SE. STEP IT UP) and maybe should a troll create more than 1 account to harass people in a house and get kicked out a lot on those characters on that same account. they should get banned from the game. Just saying.

I don't have much to say, other than it really would be nice to be able to do something like the OP suggested and be able to remove obnoxious/toxic folks

Had a guy sit on my toilet for several days I guess to troll. I ignored him and he finally went away. What kind of person does that? Shudder to think and pity the fools he knows in r/l.

I agree with the OP's idea. I keep my house locked constantly cause I cant remove annoying people. If entry were controlled not just by tenants but my friends list that would be nice along with being able to remove unwanted guests.