Multiplayer Blacklist

[Jeff]

There are a couple players that have caused nothing, but hardache in multiplayer:

Cold - Told him I was saving research bytes for something. He wouldn't help do the research so I did it all. Once I got the points I needed.... he had already spent it on junk we don't need just to spend it (I was gone in seconds).

Mow....slid - He came into a multiplayer game yesterday. Our Atrox base was almost set up fully. Complete with a dozen large rovers and tons of resources from all over.

1) First thing he did was jump into a pit (three times) that I spend 3-4 hours making hundreds of medium storage's. He dug deep holes in a few places, and all of our inventory went way down into them (took the rest of us an hour to retrieve most of them

2) he dug large holes in the base (hoping that the platforms would fall in).

3) He disconnected the underground power lines (which retract and have to be dug back up and started over

4) He removed all the batteries from a large rover as I was driving (causing me to go down a large hill without brakes while he laughed)

5) He unplugged the power cable while we were trying to unlock a gateway on Atrox

He never offered to help us. Just kept undoing things that we spent weeks to develop We kicked him after all this and removed him from our friend's list. He could change his name, but he talks like a gay person and laughs like a five year old

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Diantane:

He never offered to help us. Just kept undoing things that we spent weeks to develop We kicked him after all this and removed him from our friend's list. He could change his name, but he talks like a gay person and laughs like a five year old

Have you ever stopped to consider that they could well be a young child just having their own kind of fun? My son used to do a lot of the things you describe when he was 6, but I never let him play multiplayer.
Be a little more considerate and what does a gay person sound like? Seriously, you're the one that should be blocked if you cannot accept.

[Jeff]

Just found a newly flattened hole loaded with tether bundles and research pods. We were trying to unlock the Atrox core and we trying to figure out what happened to all of our tethers (we spent 30 minutes redoing this.

Does this sound like the work of a child? He spoke like a teenage (deep voice). i didn't say to block them. Just beware of inviting them.

BTW, Gay Person is out of respect. It's like saying African American. What would you have me say, "He talked like a fairy?"

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Diantane:

Does this sound like the work of a child?

Sure it does. It sounds very much like a childish prank and I'm sure they got a big laugh out of it.

BTW, Gay Person is out of respect. It's like saying African American. What would you have me say, "He talked like a fairy?"

Respect? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. What difference does it make how they speak or whatever their orientation is?
The fact that you're labelling them is in itself disrespectful. African American? Why don't you just say American? Grief... we are all human beings. Try to act like one.

[MyProfile]

Please don't lock this thread... Thank you Diantane for perfect comic relief.
Grapplehooker you should lighten up, lol.

[Melkor]

What? You mean that people online are acting like aasshles? That's so weird. People are usually so respectful and nice. LMAO Diantane welcome to the world of online gaming. Unless you take precautions against unwanted intrusions then sorry to say this is the world we live in. Furthermore, you posting here and complaining like this will only invite more of it. Hell it makes me want to dig holes in your base just listening to you, and I never behave in such ways. You just sent an invite to every troll on the internet to come grief you. Buck up camper and understand that some people just like to watch the world burn. Nothing new there. Either fix the damage and move on, or accept that with any open server you expect certain collateral damage from ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Ewanc]

Sorry to hear about your losses... it sucks to build a masterpiece and have it crumble. You have to admit (despite the lack of empathy and merciless sadism) it was a hilariously well thought-out sabotage, and in his own way added an unpredictable protaganist element to an otherwise passive game.

This is why I don't play online; because I'm all about grandiose visions like yours. I hosted a few similar server sessions for a different game and they all got grieved to the point I had to make backups before every session to mitigate damage. I ended up having a master save that I would load every night and just let them run rampant on it until there was nothing left. It was fun to watch the destruction once I accepted it as the norm. You'll find that the grievers get bored very quickly and go away, then you can get back to the master plan.

Id suggest attempting to out-think the "enemy". Setting up contingencies and fool-proofing things more would be a first step. Make it part of the fun and you might start to like it occasionally. Like i said, backing-up often is the main way to keep from getting too behind on a huge project like your working on. I mainly do massive 3D art and real-world art projects too and cringe after things go south and usually don't have an adequate backup to recover to.

[Jeff]

I said gay person so that if this player changes his name to avoid other players from inviting him. They could hear the voice and giggle and might know who it is anyway.

[Jeff]

Thanks for the understanding, ewanc. We've spent hundreds of man hours building this enormous base (I added over 30 miles of roads today) and designed and built three specialized remote bases, plus several mobile gas plants.:

1) We have a large rover on every planet that we do not inhabit. It has nothing on top (just RTG, Oxygenator, seat and tethers). When a large shuttle arrives for resources, there are two large storage's with four medium storage's moved from the shuttle to the rover. The rover drives down below and we gather resources filling the rover. When full, the rover drives back to the surface and the large storage's are moved to the shuttle which returns to the base that needs the resources.

When the shuttle arrives at that base, the large storage's are moved to two smelters on the new extra large platform C. If they don't need processing, they are moved to the waiting rover that carries it to the warehouse area. to be distributed.

2) There are two centrifuge's in another area on the same large platform C. A large soil collection rover gathers the soil by leveling mountains (surface is flat when complete). The soil is processed in the centrifuge's and then hauled to the warehouse area to be distributed.

3) In another area four research chambers are on a Platform C inside a cave using a private road coming off a main road. The mobile shredder rover also comes here to the trade platform.

The only gear in the warehouse area is the shelter, two chem labs and the three printers.

We don't accept new players now unless we know them a little first.

[davehnz]

Question. What multiplayer controls (if any) are in place? Can a host or mod kick / ban players?

[Jeff]

That is easy. Just remove them as a friend and then save and quit to main menu (send message on Steam to others on what is happening). When you restart the game all other re-join, but the kicked person won't see your join-able game - ever

[EgoAcid]

Originally posted by MyProfile:

Please don't lock this thread... Thank you Diantane for perfect comic relief.
Grapplehooker you should lighten up, lol.

Agreed


Daintane is a good player.
These were ♥♥♥♥ players nothing more and wish it was less.

I am sorry Diantane, I hope I can get some long extended free time to assist you this weekend. In an online class all week this week.

[Jeff]

Seen you log on, friend. Hope you can join us some day. Spent 10 hours working on improvements to the Atrox base and remote sites yesterday . Much more to do. I will be on in about 10 minutes.

[Jeff]

Another friend came on a couple days ago. Borrowed a tractor and went sightseeing along the ten miles of roads on Sylvia. We haven’t been there for weeks. Atrox is over five times larger.

[BHarm]

Yeah, I play with Steam invisible now, after some helpful soul dropped into my game and left me a hole filled with 13 portable oxygenators. And people think I am crazy that I don't want to play MP

[Jeff]

lol