Urzigurumash wrote: »What about just having the scroll or hammer move to the nearest shoreline, or, a bubble of Slaughterfish/environmental lava immunity around the item when it's dropped in water/lava?
I've seen people pick up scrolls and run them straight to the other alliance's gates and I've seen people pick up Volendrung and hold it hostage behind the gates of the scroll temples until it despawns. I'm not sure if mechanically they could fix these issues but maybe they can temporarily ban people who decide to do these things if they are reported and found out to be guilty of it?
We tried dropping volendrung in the slaughterfish because one of the other factions had emp and a massive population advantage. It didn’t work though, volendrung popped back out of there pretty quickly, like a minute? It just reset to its original spawn location — behind the emp faction’s gates. 😕
If someone picks up scroll/hammer it's theirs to do whatever they want with. Deal with it or pick them up yourself.
We've known for a long time that scrolls are prone to certain types of troll mechanics, and we are now seeing that Volendrung can fall to similar abuses. I don't have a fix for everything, but I've got a good idea for how to fix a specific subset of trolling mechanics involving slaughterfish and lava.
The change is simple. If someone holding a scroll or the Volendrung dies with slaughterfish or lava damage on their recap, they get an account-wide block on picking up the scroll or the Volendrung for a certain period of time.
There are extremely few situations in Cyrodiil where one could accidentally take either of these damage types, especially someone taking the typical amount of care used by people who want to authentically run a scroll or use the Volendrung. Overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, someone with a scroll or the Volendrung who takes these damage types has intentionally put themselves in that situation in order to troll people. The health of the game and the integrity of the scroll and artifact systems would be greatly boosted if such people were not able to continue picking up these objects on cooldown, especially since scroll runs are rare (occurring only a few times a day) and artifacts have an hours-long hard timer between spawns. We've got a limited amount of time to reasonably interact with those systems, so I think it's best to preserve their integrity to the greatest extent possible. And since we're only talking about a temporary ban on picking up those two interactables, then in the extremely unlikely circumstance that a legitimate runner/wielder gets a ban, they'll be able to bounce back.
My initial thought is to have the ban last for 1.5 weeks in order to prevent repeat offenders from doing a weekly troll, instead forcing them to disrupt their own schedule if they want to troll "on cooldown". I think we could open it up to even longer bans, however, depending on how much someone is a repeat offender. Getting progressively longer and longer bans would thin the troll herd pretty quickly, as few trolls have the stamina for that kind of extended payoff.
What do people think?
We've known for a long time that scrolls are prone to certain types of troll mechanics, and we are now seeing that Volendrung can fall to similar abuses. I don't have a fix for everything, but I've got a good idea for how to fix a specific subset of trolling mechanics involving slaughterfish and lava.
The change is simple. If someone holding a scroll or the Volendrung dies with slaughterfish or lava damage on their recap, they get an account-wide block on picking up the scroll or the Volendrung for a certain period of time.
There are extremely few situations in Cyrodiil where one could accidentally take either of these damage types, especially someone taking the typical amount of care used by people who want to authentically run a scroll or use the Volendrung. Overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, someone with a scroll or the Volendrung who takes these damage types has intentionally put themselves in that situation in order to troll people. The health of the game and the integrity of the scroll and artifact systems would be greatly boosted if such people were not able to continue picking up these objects on cooldown, especially since scroll runs are rare (occurring only a few times a day) and artifacts have an hours-long hard timer between spawns. We've got a limited amount of time to reasonably interact with those systems, so I think it's best to preserve their integrity to the greatest extent possible. And since we're only talking about a temporary ban on picking up those two interactables, then in the extremely unlikely circumstance that a legitimate runner/wielder gets a ban, they'll be able to bounce back.
My initial thought is to have the ban last for 1.5 weeks in order to prevent repeat offenders from doing a weekly troll, instead forcing them to disrupt their own schedule if they want to troll "on cooldown". I think we could open it up to even longer bans, however, depending on how much someone is a repeat offender. Getting progressively longer and longer bans would thin the troll herd pretty quickly, as few trolls have the stamina for that kind of extended payoff.
What do people think?
I think faction locking stopped these shenanigans!
If someone picks up scroll/hammer it's theirs to do whatever they want with. Deal with it or pick them up yourself.
We've known for a long time that scrolls are prone to certain types of troll mechanics, and we are now seeing that Volendrung can fall to similar abuses. I don't have a fix for everything, but I've got a good idea for how to fix a specific subset of trolling mechanics involving slaughterfish and lava.
The change is simple. If someone holding a scroll or the Volendrung dies with slaughterfish or lava damage on their recap, they get an account-wide block on picking up the scroll or the Volendrung for a certain period of time.
There are extremely few situations in Cyrodiil where one could accidentally take either of these damage types, especially someone taking the typical amount of care used by people who want to authentically run a scroll or use the Volendrung. Overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, someone with a scroll or the Volendrung who takes these damage types has intentionally put themselves in that situation in order to troll people. The health of the game and the integrity of the scroll and artifact systems would be greatly boosted if such people were not able to continue picking up these objects on cooldown, especially since scroll runs are rare (occurring only a few times a day) and artifacts have an hours-long hard timer between spawns. We've got a limited amount of time to reasonably interact with those systems, so I think it's best to preserve their integrity to the greatest extent possible. And since we're only talking about a temporary ban on picking up those two interactables, then in the extremely unlikely circumstance that a legitimate runner/wielder gets a ban, they'll be able to bounce back.
My initial thought is to have the ban last for 1.5 weeks in order to prevent repeat offenders from doing a weekly troll, instead forcing them to disrupt their own schedule if they want to troll "on cooldown". I think we could open it up to even longer bans, however, depending on how much someone is a repeat offender. Getting progressively longer and longer bans would thin the troll herd pretty quickly, as few trolls have the stamina for that kind of extended payoff.
What do people think?
I think faction locking stopped these shenanigans!
That has not been observed. We're dealing regularly with the opposite, in fact. One thing you have to understand about trolls is that they're not doing it for a faction's benefit, but specifically for the purpose of annoying people. Factions locks have stopped nothing.
TriangularChicken wrote: »If someone picks up scroll/hammer it's theirs to do whatever they want with. Deal with it or pick them up yourself.
this!
@ OP: you sound like a true zone chat zerg general..let me guess - you also support faction locks, right? Learn to create your own fights so you don't have to follow the toilet paper like a sheep.