New mute/blacklist options: a request

[lolnotacat]

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

Easy XP/Crystals

[Gunz_Zbestest]

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.

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.

[Toutatis]

Easy XP/Crystals

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.

[Mawlzy]

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.

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.