idk wrote: »

Sephyr wrote: »

idk wrote: »

The answer I would choose was not available.

The best solution would be a time-out on a target from receiving another mudball. It should be obvious Zos would not give us the ability to completely opt-out of mudballs as it would make the moment obsolete and pointless.

I have never seen the Mystery Meat be an issue. It requires the player to interact with it for anything to happen. Simply move on.

Edit: Heck, I rarely get hit by the mudball outside of the jester event.

You probably haven't gotten pranked with it then. I know quite a few people during every Jester's Festival will throw the mystery meat on interactables, including in dungeons like the pinion in WGT (it was even worse when they'd just cake it and you couldn't interact with the pinion at all). You're right that it requires the player to interact with it for anything to happen, but you can cause people to unintentionally click it on interactables. That isn't something that's new and it's been in the game for years. It happens.

That being said, there's nothing wrong with the option.

I would suggest I am not quick to interact with just anything that pops up on my screen. Especially when it clearly states it is Mystery Meat.

I would also suggest running with a more mature group if they are going to try to wipe the group in a dungeon. BTW, it has been in the game since launch. Technically before launch. Ofc, the cake has only been in the game for the or four years.

So first of all, you must run things pretty slow because when I want to get somewhere and do something - I have a limited time frame on what I can play. You have a subjective experience, just as I have mine -. Secondly, just because I have friends and guildies that prank me doesn't make them any less mature than you or myself just because they choose to partake in Jester festivities around those times. Just because I'm for an option doesn't necessarily mean I'm 'fed' up with their shenanigans, but I do understand it when we're also in the group finder and they're doing it to someone who's a rando that might also have a time-limit. Mara forbid I actually think about someone else's experience other than myself. Thirdly, I know how long Mystery Meat's been in the game? I don't know why/if you're trying to insinuate that I didn't know what it was or when it was added, but given how we had to explain a certain mechanic to you on another thread you should probably know that my forum date isn't my 'game join' date, my guy.

davidtk wrote: »

Other: No change

Oh c'mon. it's just as annoying (maybe less) as duel invitations or crazy running with restoration staff or any of the AoE from every spell (really hate it) in town what interrupt your emotes or animations.

So ingore it or just take it back to them

You can auto decline duels.

As long as the toggle doesn't prevent you from being mudballed, just prevents interact message from appearing or your character reacting to it. Reason being is that there are achievements tied to hitting people with mudballs and pies, and your settings shouldn't interrupt anyone else's gameplay. So thr setting makes it so the color change happens but the player doesn't get stunned into an animation where they shake off the mud either.

spartaxoxo wrote: »

As long as the toggle doesn't prevent you from being mudballed, just prevents interact message from appearing or your character reacting to it. Reason being is that there are achievements tied to hitting people with mudballs and pies, and your settings shouldn't interrupt anyone else's gameplay. So thr setting makes it so the color change happens but the player doesn't get stunned into an animation where they shake off the mud either.

LOTRO players have no trouble getting the emote-related stuff-throwing achievements with a toggle available. There are always enough people who want to use the emotes and are therefore able to be affected by them.

There shouldn't be any emotes or other such actions that physically affect another player's character in the first place, let alone achievements that require them. Especially without the affected player's permission.

I've already been harassed by having mud thrown at me when unlocking safeboxes. And I had (past tense) a friend who was constantly throwing things at me to the point that I hated being around him.

Get rid of these, or at the very least allow players to toggle it off.

Minyassa wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

As long as the toggle doesn't prevent you from being mudballed, just prevents interact message from appearing or your character reacting to it. Reason being is that there are achievements tied to hitting people with mudballs and pies, and your settings shouldn't interrupt anyone else's gameplay. So thr setting makes it so the color change happens but the player doesn't get stunned into an animation where they shake off the mud either.

LOTRO players have no trouble getting the emote-related stuff-throwing achievements with a toggle available. There are always enough people who want to use the emotes and are therefore able to be affected by them.

In PVP the pie achievement would probably be impossible unless they made it so the toggle did not interfere. Your character changing color for a second has no impact on gameplay and should be a fair compromise.

PizzaCat82 wrote: »

Now depending on where you are, you may not have to deal with this menace. But its a blight on our beautiful cities, rotton meat in front of every daily turn in, and quest giver, etc. Its a low-key form of harassment, and after repeated appeals to stop, the situation has only gotten worse.

They should also turn off all effects that players spam all over the place on my and others toons without us consenting. Something should also be done about those stinking healers and tanks using their skills to put unwanted visual effects on me while I am at the enclave for no good reason. We should also disallow players who buy mounts on the crown store and sit around showing them off too -- they should be invisible unless I want to see them. Then on top of that, some random person throws poopy looking mud balls at me, destroying my newly dyed outfit I put together. Blasphemy! 💩

If anything offends and annoys me, it should all be taken away or have an option to toggle.

/s

I get the annoyance 100%. It's happened to all of us... but seriously are we as gamers at a point now where this is really that big of an "issue" ? If something like a digital mudball altering the color of your toons pixels is truly that upsetting, idk what the solution is. It's an online multiplayer game, so change something like this and players will find something else to compensate. It's a moot point really, and personally, I doubt developers would end up using time on such petty little things as any sort of priority -- especially with the current rough state of ESO.

At the end of the day, if someone is ACTUALLY griefing (whether it's mudballs or somethinge else), then report them with evidence of it happening. After that, put them on ignore and take the matter into your own hands and just port out somewhere else. The likelihood of them knowing where you went to is slim-to-none and they can't do anything else to you. Simple. Personally, I don't care how many times I get mudballed, it just makes me laugh (as it was intended to do), especially the resulting player animations and sounds coming from my toon.

It's a video game.



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scorpius2k1 wrote: »

It's a video game.

That excuse is used way too often by players who take pleasure in annoying others. Yes, it's a video game, and one I'd like to enjoy without some stranger using me as a target. You like to throw things that much? Go throw at your friends. But don't be surprised if they get fed up with it, too.