Guild Wars 2

I have an idea for a new feature. Probably exist in other games but I think this would fit GW2 really well.

The feature is called Jail and Trial. It’s supposed to make it hard for people who act in inappriopiate ways, like kicking for no reason, using harsh words, trolling, etc.

Once these people have gotten enough reports for abuse, they will be overlooked (To see if the reports are true or false) and later put in jail.

Once they are put in Jail, they can either wait till they get out or they can ask for a trial, like a trial for combat, a race or survival of some sort.

If they complete the trial they will be released from jail and if they fail the trial they will have to wait their time to get out. But you should be able to ask for a trial every X hours.

For each report you get jailed 30 minutes. So if you get reported often, then you will get a longer jailtime, plus the trials will also be harder.

This feature is to punish people who act in ways no one really appreciates.

Go play AA if you want that. You also need open world PvP for that and A.Net already said, this game was not designed for open world PvP and would never be in game. It would be used as a way to punish people and just be nasty.

You can already land in jail if you climb around the outside of Rata Sum.

This feature already exists in the game. It’s just has a different name (temporary suspension or permanent ban). Anyone suspended/banned can ask for a “trial” – appeal to support. I see no reason to make the current system less punishing than it already is.

This might work in more sandbox-y games like Age of Wushu and ArcheAge, but in those games there are actual ‘crimes’ you can commit like PK, robbing caravans or stuff like that. It makes sense to use a Jail/Trial system there, because you can actually PROVE from the game logs that this or that really happened.

You propose that ‘being kicked without reason’ and ‘trolling’ could result in being sent to trial, but who exactly decides, for example, where the line between minor annoyance of another player and full-on trolling lies? Who decides that? You? Should ArenaNet hire people as ‘judges’? And when someone gets kicked from a group, there is ALWAYS a reason, maybe a stupid one or something you’d think wouldn’t require a kick, but still. Who decides when kicking is reasonable and not? You, again?

TL;DR: Deciding on very strict rules to follow migth work in sandbox games, where limiting the otherwise endless possibilities makes actual sense, but not in GW2, where interacting with each other is only possible in the most basic of ways.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Go play AA if you want that. You also need open world PvP for that and A.Net already said, this game was not designed for open world PvP and would never be in game. It would be used as a way to punish people and just be nasty.

You can already land in jail if you climb around the outside of Rata Sum.

It doesn’t need Open PvP. People can be kittens in PvE environment and WvW.

Zoid.2568:

Dusty Moon.4382:

Go play AA if you want that. You also need open world PvP for that and A.Net already said, this game was not designed for open world PvP and would never be in game. It would be used as a way to punish people and just be nasty.

You can already land in jail if you climb around the outside of Rata Sum.

It doesn’t need Open PvP. People can be kittens in PvE environment and WvW.

It is a system that can be too exploitable for words. In WvW, say another team gets sick of the Commander on one of the other team – zap into jail they go. No- just no.

It is not useful or wanted.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Zoid.2568:

Dusty Moon.4382:

Go play AA if you want that. You also need open world PvP for that and A.Net already said, this game was not designed for open world PvP and would never be in game. It would be used as a way to punish people and just be nasty.

You can already land in jail if you climb around the outside of Rata Sum.

It doesn’t need Open PvP. People can be kittens in PvE environment and WvW.

It is a system that can be too exploitable for words. In WvW, say another team gets sick of the Commander on one of the other team – zap into jail they go. No- just no.

It is not useful or wanted.

That is why the reports are being overlooked before. Read my whole post before you write.

Zoid.2568:

Dusty Moon.4382:

Zoid.2568:

Dusty Moon.4382:

Go play AA if you want that. You also need open world PvP for that and A.Net already said, this game was not designed for open world PvP and would never be in game. It would be used as a way to punish people and just be nasty.

You can already land in jail if you climb around the outside of Rata Sum.

It doesn’t need Open PvP. People can be kittens in PvE environment and WvW.

It is a system that can be too exploitable for words. In WvW, say another team gets sick of the Commander on one of the other team – zap into jail they go. No- just no.

It is not useful or wanted.

That is why the reports are being overlooked before. Read my whole post before you write.

I did read your post. Reports need to have more than one person reporting. I am not sure how many but in Gw1 it was 5 in town. There already is a system in place and yes, one person complaining does noithing. Adding this would just be time consuming for A.Net to get right and balance.

I will do kitten on dungeon so people will kick me and report them for kicking me.