03-30-2011, 04:15 PM
Jazz has recently been persistently giving coords of gad's turret in pub chat. He and capefire and perhaps others are less than happy about it from what I gather. He gave out my coords both on a turret and solo for a while last night, and for me, that was fun.
I'd like a discussion on and people's thoughts on giving out coords in pub chat.
First some info:
There is no way to prevent people from doing the exact same thing on priv chat, or team chats etc. If I have high bty I just always assume that someone is spec'ing me and giving out coords. If they give out my coords (or the coords of a turret I'm on) in pub I consider it a sign of recognition of achievement -- but it can also be a sign of lame play.
This has never been illegal previously. Excessive spamming of pub chat is illegal and giving coords often needs to be frequent enough to be classified as spam. We could never completely eliminate it in any case (just like spam).
Giving coords in chat is not remotely as helpful to hunting as watching a second Continuum client spec'ing the object of the chase -- it allows you see to the hunted's energy, direction, speed of travel, items, mines, traps, bricks laid, etc. all in real time. There is no comparison between the usefulness of the two.
It is virtually always done as a macro, so players can ignore public macros and not see any of the coords/spammage. Probably there are a number of ppl who don't even realize it's being done.
In the old days, for example, if someone mine repped a Warlord (or otherwise diss'ed him/her), the squad would band together, with one person spec'ing and giving info over squad chat, to hunt that person mercilessly, and embarrass them in chat by calling out their lame behavior.
Ok -- now what are your thoughts? I thought I'd give people a place to discuss and vent if they want <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Just fyi I'm highly disinclined to make a new rule about this, but as always, I'm willing to listen to reasonable arguments.
--hallu
I'd like a discussion on and people's thoughts on giving out coords in pub chat.
First some info:
There is no way to prevent people from doing the exact same thing on priv chat, or team chats etc. If I have high bty I just always assume that someone is spec'ing me and giving out coords. If they give out my coords (or the coords of a turret I'm on) in pub I consider it a sign of recognition of achievement -- but it can also be a sign of lame play.
This has never been illegal previously. Excessive spamming of pub chat is illegal and giving coords often needs to be frequent enough to be classified as spam. We could never completely eliminate it in any case (just like spam).
Giving coords in chat is not remotely as helpful to hunting as watching a second Continuum client spec'ing the object of the chase -- it allows you see to the hunted's energy, direction, speed of travel, items, mines, traps, bricks laid, etc. all in real time. There is no comparison between the usefulness of the two.
It is virtually always done as a macro, so players can ignore public macros and not see any of the coords/spammage. Probably there are a number of ppl who don't even realize it's being done.
In the old days, for example, if someone mine repped a Warlord (or otherwise diss'ed him/her), the squad would band together, with one person spec'ing and giving info over squad chat, to hunt that person mercilessly, and embarrass them in chat by calling out their lame behavior.
Ok -- now what are your thoughts? I thought I'd give people a place to discuss and vent if they want <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Just fyi I'm highly disinclined to make a new rule about this, but as always, I'm willing to listen to reasonable arguments.--hallu