Teleport Griefing

I'm losing my mind here. I'm so sick and tired of people opening trade and canceling my teleport. I just missed a train today because of someone doing it. I'm sick and tired of having to report every time some knuckle dragger thinks it's funny. Why is this even allowed? Why have the devs not fixed this yet after more than 10 years of this game being live? I pretty much report every time it happens, and people still do it. Is square not even penalizing people that do it?

I've never seen anyone do that. You can use /busy if needed.

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Originally Posted by Iskold

I'm losing my mind here. I'm so sick and tired of people opening trade and canceling my teleport. I just missed a train today because of someone doing it. I'm sick and tired of having to report every time some knuckle dragger thinks it's funny. Why is this even allowed? Why have the devs not fixed this yet after more than 10 years of this game being live? I pretty much report every time it happens, and people still do it. Is square not even penalizing people that do it?

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I pretty much report every time it happens

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Lord almighty lmao, you got your teleport cancelled, will you be okay ? I'm sure you'll get through this, stay strong !

I've literally never had this happen before lol, what have you done to make yourself known enough to have this be a common occurence?

It's annoying but just blacklist them.

Then you won't see them again, they are dead to you.

While it is confusing why it is a thing that can happen, I also can't imagine it being this big of a problem. The only time I have it happen is when my wife or friends are messing with me and we are all trolling each other. And we only do it to those in our friend group so yeah... it's weird that you are having it done to you by randos.

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Originally Posted by Reimmi

I've literally never had this happen before lol, what have you done to make yourself known enough to have this be a common occurence?

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It's a thing. I've had it happen to me. /busy fixes it. I've never turned it off since.


They sit there and spam trade requests over and over to keep you from teleporting. The only way to fix it is to do /busy.

SE will temp-ban people who teleport scam so GMs do punish those who do.

Real question is, if this is a common occurrence for you, what exactly are you doing to cause people to do it? Are you throwing too many footballs in your neighbors lawn or or something???

Real solution is to just blacklist those who are doing it to you though.

I pretty much just hang out with other lalas in grid and converse mostly in linkshells.

I've only ever experienced that as a joke from people I know, on occasion anyway.
Sounds very unfortunate but also bizarre if strangers are doing that to you.

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Originally Posted by Clockworks

Lord almighty lmao, you got your teleport cancelled, will you be okay ? I'm sure you'll get through this, stay strong !

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It is perfectly right for them to report over it, since it's griefing. But like everyone has said, this is not a common thing and people usually can't keep up with you if you are flying around aimlessly at a hunt train. They'd have to actually be stalking you to do this.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

It is perfectly right for them to report over it, since it's griefing. But like everyone has said, this is not a common thing and people usually can't keep up with you if you are flying around aimlessly at a hunt train. They'd have to actually be stalking you to do this.

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If people are doing this very often to you, like as in to the point you have to report them because of it, because it actually just happens this much, maybe, just maybe you are the problem.

My friends do that to me as a prank lol
if the people you know are that bad about it just type /busy like the other dude said.

Without all the information it's just as likely OP is just being targeted for any dumb reason by one or a few bored players

I mean they're a Lala, don't even pretend for a second people don't take their Lala hate to an arguably questionable intensity.

I'd keep reporting them since it is griefing. If you want to just avoid it entirely, yeah, the /busy option is probably the only option. Only problem is that status blocks other things, too.

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Originally Posted by Ashiee

SE will temp-ban people who teleport scam

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What is a "teleport scam"?
Is it when somebody offers to teleport in exchange for gil and then doesn't?

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Originally Posted by Clockworks

If people are doing this very often to you, like as in to the point you have to report them because of it, because it actually just happens this much, maybe, just maybe you are the problem.

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How about no?

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Originally Posted by SongOfTheWind

How about no?

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How about yes, I have been playing this game for over 4 years at this point, and I never had the issue except from friends meme'ing on me, I never had randoms come up to me and trade block my teleports, if this is a constant occurence from multiple people, you are the problem.

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Originally Posted by Rin_Sato

What is a "teleport scam"?

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It's just what the people around me called the act of trading someone mid teleport to stop them from porting out since 2.X so I guess I still call it that, woops. It was happening enough back then to warrant a term at least amongst the people I knew.

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Originally Posted by Clockworks

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Lord almighty lmao, you got your teleport cancelled, will you be okay ? I'm sure you'll get through this, stay strong !

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How mature. Real talk though, it does get irritating after a while. You can stay strong through a rash, but that don't make it pleasant. At least not for us normal people.

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Originally Posted by Basteala

How mature. Real talk though, it does get irritating after a while. You can stay strong through a rash, but that don't make it pleasant. At least not for us normal people.

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go /busy then. People have done it to me on occasion and I just /slap them. It's not like they're TPing your entire house and you gotta clean it up.

One of those topics I am surprised made it past 3 comments. Didn't even know this was even a thing.

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Originally Posted by Ashiee

It's just what the people around me called the act of trading someone mid teleport to stop them from porting out since 2.X so I guess I still call it that, woops. It was happening enough back then to warrant a term at least amongst the people I knew.

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I see, the people I knew just called it tele/trade cancel

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Originally Posted by ZephyrMenodora

One of those topics I am surprised made it past 3 comments. Didn't even know this was even a thing.

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I do that to my friends and rarely because most the time I just forget haha it's harmless annoying for sure but to get spammed you OP must have done something

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Originally Posted by Ath192

go /busy then. People have done it to me on occasion and I just /slap them. It's not like they're TPing your entire house and you gotta clean it up.

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Oh I'm aware. And I had to do that for one former FC mate that wouldn't stop doing it, even if we were hosting events or something My point was only that I can sympathize with the OP's annoyance. It's one of those things that gets disproportionally more annoying the more it happens.

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Originally Posted by Reimmi

I've literally never had this happen before lol, what have you done to make yourself known enough to have this be a common occurence?

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I've also never encountered this and I've been playing since 1.0. Am I just lucky?

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Originally Posted by Iskold

I'm losing my mind here. I'm so sick and tired of people opening trade and canceling my teleport. I just missed a train today because of someone doing it. I'm sick and tired of having to report every time some knuckle dragger thinks it's funny. Why is this even allowed? Why have the devs not fixed this yet after more than 10 years of this game being live? I pretty much report every time it happens, and people still do it. Is square not even penalizing people that do it?

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Why have I never heard of this?

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Originally Posted by Ath192

go /busy then. People have done it to me on occasion and I just /slap them. It's not like they're TPing your entire house and you gotta clean it up.

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I have heard of that. :)

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Originally Posted by Darkstride

I've also never encountered this and I've been playing since 1.0. Am I just lucky?

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You probably are. :)
I started in March 2016 and back then this was a thing. On Phoenix at least.
But I haven’t seen this since a few years ! Oo

If I met you in game, and we were friends I would trade block your teleports at random if I liked you. ;P