Guild Wars 2

Report options are atm sent to the developer team or whoever handles them and players won’t see it really afterwards. But how about people who set a bad reputation for themselves? Like in dungeons, map chat, or where ever bad eggs are.

There should be some sort of reputation report option for “uncooperative”, or “unskilled” so people who come across them when forming dungeons or in map chat can report them as such and warn future players about their behavior.

For “unskilled”, this is basically another way to word uncooperative for dungeons but more so along the lines of “this person will need tips and advice during the dungeon”. unskilled will be more of a reputation where players will be warned to help that player out and explain the procedure of things before running in, not soo much of a bashing. Many people may hate them and ban them from party, but I’ve seen enough people to know there are generous folks who will gladly explain things to new people, it just makes the playerbase easier to deal with.

Uncooperative is just, “this player is rude and you will most likely disband the party due to their behavior”. Not necessarily inevitable, but its a reputation that will warn players to be cautious around them.

Elitist much? I get the uncooperating one but banning people just cos they aren’t as good at the game as you are? Get off your high horse please.

Would be nice to immediatly spot newbies or rude players and give people a reason to not be pricks. Would also need a option to say “this player isn’t rude at all” or “this player isn’t a newbie anymore” and give them a chance to better themselves.
Or if they’ve never done the dungeon (or path before) they automatically get newbie status.

Although would be a problem to create “outcasts” → people who were rude and no one wants to run with them. I think because of this it won’t happen.

The newbie-system would be nice though.

prism.4982:

Elitist much? I get the uncooperating one but banning people just cos they aren’t as good at the game as you are? Get off your high horse please.

never said they get banned for “not being good”. It just forwarns people too ask that player" have you done this dungeon before?" so they don’t walk in and THEN start yelling at them for being a kitten. It would most likely prevent party drama at key parts, plus make the run smoother IF that player didn’t know from the start. For example:

Lets say player A joins a party, they found out a cool skin from a dungeon and decide to work towards it. Only problem is, they have never done the dungeon before. Instead of risking being kicked for “being a newbie”, they decide to play it quiet and feel like they can pull it off, shouldn’t be too hard. Turns out the dungeon they chose is difficult and the team starts bashing on them saying things like “Are you _?” or “What the kitten are you doing?” or worse “You’re a ______ kitten”.

Fact is, not all players speak up before dungeons saying “hey I havn’t done this before, could you explain it to me?” and sure enough they are likely to repeat that mistake and just bother people or cause unfortunate rage quits and then no one is happy.

I think the “outcasts” as you put it would be tedious, people could just report them as unrude for the fun of it and one day they just get told “Get out of our party”. Maybe instead of it being a set reputation, after a certain amount of reports of being “uncooperative”, they would get a message in the mail saying “Your fellow players are having an issue with your team support, and we believe in your best interests you should better yourself and cooperate with others.” or something along the lines of that.

Could also counter it with what SSalp said, give a secondary option to “praise” I guess where they get known as a “good team player” or “helpful”. Don’t need any rewards of items or currency for this, just a reputation.

Terrible idea, this would just split the community even more than it is already.

Why do l even need to say that, you guys should realise that anyway.

If something like this is implemented, there would have to be some sort of griefing protection as people could just down rate people on purpose for something unrelated to the use you are mentioning.

I remember in other games when we had server reputations (was a long time ago, it’s so easy to be anonymous nowadays due to the structure of the current games and stuff like dungeon finder, paid name change, paid server transfers) where everyone knew everyone else and if you were uncooperative everyone eventually knew about it and you would be blacklisted from even joining any guilds let alone doing any content.

Only if we could mark people as elitist so we know to avoid those, too…

Great idea. But decades of political correct propaganda (school/TV/society) forced everyone into rejecting these things…

Lol you kidding… NO. What about new players? They need to get a chance to LEARN.

Sirendor.1394:

Lol you kidding… NO. What about new players? They need to get a chance to LEARN.

They will, but people will know to teach them atleast instead of learning in the worst possible way (i.e. a dungeon boss wipe) I may just be speaking out loud but I think warning people that “this guy is new” instead of finding out after a frustrating boss / event is much better. Don’t have to go as far as “unskilled” label but atleast some way to know. As for uncooperative, if they wana trash their name by being rude or offensive during parties they will be treated as such over time until they correct their behavior.

That’s okay, but I think your suggestion would cause that experienced players wouldn’t invite the new players anymore cause they saw they were ‘unskilled’. Also if someone abuses this feature?

Sirendor.1394:

That’s okay, but I think your suggestion would cause that experienced players wouldn’t invite the new players anymore cause they saw they were ‘unskilled’. Also if someone abuses this feature?

2 things that could prevent abuse of this, one being you can “praise” them for being cooperative, or helpful. Praising would get them away from the new player label if they got it (no one would start with new player label, they gain it from showing they need help on some things, and that expecting them to just know everything isn’t likely to work.)

The other being since it is a “Report” option, ArenaNet can still look at it. If they see a ridiculous amount of reports of “uncooperative” where some may not want to invite them, they can send the player a mail message telling them that their felow players have not appreciated their attitude or w/e. just telling that player they are discouraging and should be more helpful to players. If that doesn’t work and they continue to be rude, then the Verbal abuse report option would be the next step and then ArenaNet handles it differently and more assertive.

Sorry if it seems like im an elitsts, I really don’t mind the occasional kitten in the parties and I do explain things if they ask. But too many parties have gone by where they don’t ask for help, get people killed and then some either rage quit or yell at that player and call them names or sometimes worse. I only yell at them if they are completely insane and running around looking for “some glitch they heard of” while our party is wiping, otherwise I just brush it off and move forward.