When I block someone i shouldn’t get grouped with them through the activity finder

festegios · October 2023

there’s only a few people I block, mainly the people that play too slow in tales or tribute.

But once I block them, why do I get grouped with them in content again?

I get that in ‘craglorn’ groups it can’t be avoided sometimes.

Pls 🙏 just save my sanity from these people that take 20 minutes to play a 1 gold card

NeuroticPixels · October 2023

I agree. They only give us 100 slots for ignores, but doesn't fully "ignore" them? That's nonsense.

It seems a large portion of players, including myself, only ignore other players as a last resort. We reserve our ignore list for the worst of the worst, and probably have less than 10 (or even less than 5) players on their ignore list. So if so many of us are so lax about it, why doesn't the game do more than just blocking their text from us? We can even still whisper them, AND they will even receive it if they don't also have us blocked??

That's malarkey.

wilykcat · October 2023

NeuroticPixels wrote: »

I agree.

🇮 🇦🇱🇸🇴 🇦🇬🇷🇪🇪😃

festegios · October 2023

NeuroticPixels wrote: »

I agree. They only give us 100 slots for ignores, but doesn't fully "ignore" them? That's nonsense.

…

That's malarkey.

I just keep getting matched with the same guy in tales of tribute even though I have him blocked. Anytime I play him it turns into a 45 minute match where nobody gains any points,

I’m sure there are strategies to win etc, but I just hate when people drag it out for no reason as it turns it from being fun into just boredom.

I don’t get why it keeps matching me with him/her either 🤣🤣🤣

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NeuroticPixels · October 2023

festegios wrote: »

turns into a 45 minute match

If it makes you feel any better… I had a 45 minute match tonight with a novice npc.

festegios · October 2023

NeuroticPixels wrote: »

festegios wrote: »

turns into a 45 minute match

If it makes you feel any better… I had a 45 minute match tonight with a novice npc.

Next request: block npc’s

CameraBeardThePirate · October 2023

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but when games fully remove people from the matchmaking pool when ignored, players that ignore people tend to run out of other people to play with.

This game doesn't have the population in group content to support removing ignored players from the pool. You'd very quickly start to run out of players to find in the activity finder - especially in Tales of Tribute.

festegios · October 2023

CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but when games fully remove people from the matchmaking pool when ignored, players that ignore people tend to run out of other people to play with.

This game doesn't have the population in group content to support removing ignored players from the pool. You'd very quickly start to run out of players to find in the activity finder - especially in Tales of Tribute.

I’d rather not match with anyone that the game keeps forcing me to play against that I’ve ignored.

I’ve tried to speak to them in a dm, but I can’t expect them to change the way they want to play, hence why I want to just not match with them. I don’t find slow drawn out games interesting. I know this is a very specific example, but surely there are others that have been bullied etc that may find themselfs in the same situation

CameraBeardThePirate · October 2023

festegios wrote: »

CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but when games fully remove people from the matchmaking pool when ignored, players that ignore people tend to run out of other people to play with.

This game doesn't have the population in group content to support removing ignored players from the pool. You'd very quickly start to run out of players to find in the activity finder - especially in Tales of Tribute.

I’d rather not match with anyone that the game keeps forcing me to play against that I’ve ignored.

I’ve tried to speak to them in a dm, but I can’t expect them to change the way they want to play, hence why I want to just not match with them. I don’t find slow drawn out games interesting. I know this is a very specific example, but surely there are others that have been bullied etc that may find themselfs in the same situation

And I'd rather not play against/with block tanks that do nothing other than sit on flags holding right click in BGs.

The point is that when you give players the ability to blacklist other players from their matchmaking, the matchmaking system stops functioning. In a game with a population (in terms of PvP/ToT/group content) as low as this one, that hypothetical would be even worse.

YffresTrill · October 2023

If you choose to block people over something as trivial as this, this is your decision, but I do find it questionable, especially since at present it doesn't even have the effect you intend.

I personally only block people for advertising gold-selling or being horrifically offensive, and obviously I would prefer not to end up in a group with such people, so I agree with you on these grounds.

festegios · November 2023

ComradeBiscuit wrote: »

If you choose to block people over something as trivial as this, this is your decision, but I do find it questionable, especially since at present it doesn't even have the effect you intend.

I personally only block people for advertising gold-selling or being horrifically offensive, and obviously I would prefer not to end up in a group with such people, so I agree with you on these grounds.

The why we block someone is our choice.

I know my reasons are kind of petty, but I value my time more. I’ll just continue to abandon the game and switch characters for now

Treeshka · November 2023

In one of the games, the people you ignored does not get matched against you. It was made one very good player unable to play the game. So this is not going to happen in this game due to this reason probably.

DUTCH_REAPER · November 2023

A 100% this. Totally agree with OP.

Necrotech_Master · November 2023

i think there are other games like this such as overwatch that tried doing something like that, and it eventually lead to one of the best players in the world being matched with newbies because every time players lost they would block them lol

needless to say it was very quickly scrapped lol

while it makes sense on paper, it doesnt end up working in practice

Horny_Poney · November 2023

100% agree. I remember constantly grouping with a tank that didn’t want to play: each single time he stayed at the dungeon entrance or exit the dungeon, asking to be kicked.

Necrotech_Master · November 2023

Horny_Poney wrote: »

100% agree. I remember constantly grouping with a tank that didn’t want to play: each single time he stayed at the dungeon entrance or exit the dungeon, asking to be kicked.

likely he was asking to be kicked because he didnt want to do the dungeon that came up in the queue but he also wanted to avoid the queue penalty for leaving on his own lol

best way to handle people like that, go all the way through until just before last boss, then kick lol