New mute/blacklist options: a request

It's gratifying to see SQEX provide more options for muting and blacklisting, but for Frontline players they have actually made matters worse.

Due to the presence of noisy commanders who feel the need to spam chat constantly, many of us used to blacklist them. This had the effect of completely removing their spam from chat. As far as I can tell, both the new mute and blacklist options broadcast that a message has been sent from a muted/blacklisted player.

The primary issue is that the original se.x that these people insist on sticking on their spam is still broadcast. The net result is far worse than the old system.

Could "mute" actually mean mute, such that nothing from muted players appears in chat or over sound?

Oh damn I didnt know the sound effect still plays when a muted/blacklisted character sends a message. Yeah it would be great if they remove the SFX. That shit could get annoying real fast.

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Originally Posted by Mnemy

Oh damn I didnt know the sound effect still plays when a muted/blacklisted character sends a message. Yeah it would be great if they remove the SFX. That shit could get annoying real fast.

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Could and does, yeah.

I'm just curious, what are you frontlining for if you wont collaborate with someone that's trying to take direction?

the sound effects thing does seem like an annoying oversight though.

Yes please! Its the same as when you mute/blacklist people who do five lines macros to say hello/goodbye with a giant cat but you still get them but nows its just “sent from ___ user”. I dont want to see them at all if thats how they choose to talk. Its not cute. Its not funny. It’s annoying and spammy. I might also start muting people with raise macro thats are longer than a few words. {Raising} <t> or something similar is all that is needed.

Think it's been addressed in the patch notes.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...ality=lossless

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Originally Posted by Rehayem

Think it's been addressed in the patch notes.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...ality=lossless

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Partially yes. It sounds like if you used a macro using <t> on them it appears as unknown instead of a name and now mutes sound effects which is a good fix but we also want the message gone completely also if they say anything. Maybe the next fix can include this.

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Originally Posted by Nyxs

Partially yes. It sounds like if you used a macro using <t> on them it appears as unknown instead of a name and now mutes sound effects which is a good fix but we also want the message gone completely also if they say anything. Maybe the next fix can include this.

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Agreed, this is much appreciated, but only half way there.

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Originally Posted by RoanValorin

I'm just curious, what are you frontlining for if you wont collaborate with someone that's trying to take direction?

the sound effects thing does seem like an annoying oversight though.

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I enjoy communication and collaboration in FL. However, there are some commanders who spam chat macros and sfx to the point it is a distraction. Those I prefer to mute. Since they invariably also play DRK and lead a premade, it's trivial to follow them and target their target via macro. I can then provide better support than when sfx are exploding like someone shooting a xylophone with a machine gun.

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Originally Posted by Mawlzy

It's gratifying to see SQEX provide more options for muting and blacklisting, but for Frontline players they have actually made matters worse.

Due to the presence of noisy commanders who feel the need to spam chat constantly, many of us used to blacklist them. This had the effect of completely removing their spam from chat. As far as I can tell, both the new mute and blacklist options broadcast that a message has been sent from a muted/blacklisted player.

The primary issue is that the original se.x that these people insist on sticking on their spam is still broadcast. The net result is far worse than the old system.

Could "mute" actually mean mute, such that nothing from muted players appears in chat or over sound?

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Check at the bottom of todays patch notes, it's fixed now.

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Originally Posted by RoanValorin

I'm just curious, what are you frontlining for if you wont collaborate with someone that's trying to take direction?

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Easy XP/Crystals

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Originally Posted by Mawlzy

I enjoy communication and collaboration in FL. However, there are some commanders who spam chat macros and sfx to the point it is a distraction. Those I prefer to mute. Since they invariably also play DRK and lead a premade, it's trivial to follow them and target their target via macro. I can then provide better support than when sfx are exploding like someone shooting a xylophone with a machine gun.

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I'll throw out a direction and a sound macro if the party needs to move to that area. I try not to spam my buttons. Even so, I recognize that some people don't like macros, either from sensory overload or that they feel they're being pushed. I just dislike the infighting.

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Originally Posted by lolnotacat

Easy XP/Crystals

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Why do you mock others with mean and gratuitous statements when you don’t know the player? It tells more about you than them.

First there is zero obligation to follow anyone who posts in chat and it doesn’t mean the person stays on crystals.

While there are good commanders that make good use of macros, a few are so bad to the point that I call it sabotage and they keep spamming sounds non stop while running the group into obvious pinches that you can see coming well in advance. Also some don’t put any marker, are obviously a premade and talking to their group, they are vey hard to follow, keep spamming sounds with no useful directions and give notifications of location (if any) too late. We even got one the other day who was just running the group from crystal to crystal until a faction got angry. Also dozens and dozens of sound alarms in a single match defeats the purpose and ends up being a nuisance. Finally there are people who perform better without constant sound alarms and a chat window that fills up non stop by simply observing movements on the field.

I pretty much always end up with Battle High 5, a decent amount of kills and very few deaths and regularly get comms. To each their own.

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Originally Posted by Gunz_Zbestest

I'll throw out a direction and a sound macro if the party needs to move to that area. I try not to spam my buttons. Even so, I recognize that some people don't like macros, either from sensory overload or that they feel they're being pushed. I just dislike the infighting.

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Oh in CC it's less of a problem unless you get some goofball who is spamming chat buttons just to be disruptive. The issue in FL is there is a subset of commanders who will literally send 100+ messages with sfx via macro in a 12-minute game. The worst excess I witnessed involved a message and thus noise on an average cadence of once every 3.8 seconds. No idea why they think this is helpful. Some sort of performance art maybe.