Y2Venom

Its a hard job to moderate the servers. I popped on there today. Same dethreaters throwing games that were doing 6 months ago, they are still bronze, they just laugh at you for calling them out because they know nothing will be done. I would like to see the servers moderated like the forums to be honest. Saying that the forums moderation is not great either as every first response is always somebody trying to discredit the poster. I moderate other forums and this is a big NO NO and is an instant warning. (Note above) Hilarious, it happened as i was typing this. Give players a time out. Even if its for 48 house its gets the trouble makers off the servers for the weekend. But that wont be done because the population is not great. But the population is not great because of this problem. Its a vicious circle.

When you have a community that implodes on itself like Innova, then that community moves to Necrova and implodes on itself. Moving to Citadel will implode also. Good, social players will just drift off to another game. They wont feel like going back.

It would have been more entertaining to merge the Nekrova with Jericho.

I love Russians but Russians dont like me because i am not Russian. This is why you see RUSBoris of Clan RUS with a Russian flag tattooed on his forehead. If Innova dies and all the players move to Nekrova, then Nekrova dies. Players move to Citadel. Citadel will die, its inevitable. You can already see the decline and this is one of the reasons. You will see a bust of population once the engine update comes out but that will start to subside again due to lack of community. I personally think Nekrova should be locked. US should be locked and Europe should be locked. Each server should be moderated to suit the Geo.

No but at level 27 you haven't unlocked character mods, you are not able to drive certain vehicles. But you still have the experience to abandon mission until you get some more experienced team mates. The whole problem is not match making. Its experienced players unwillingness to team with new players.

It always goes a little like this ..... You get to the Break in Point, you get it to 95% . /T Team : Wait for cops please You see him getting closer. Team : Wait for cops please He is getting closer and he is on a mission. /Whisper NewGuy Wait for cops please He is getting closer again. He reaches the point. He stops looks at all of us . There is an awkward stare down. He then steps into the 1 foot space between you and the window and starts to break in. You give him a warning shot. He unleashes all hell on you. Grenades and every bullet he has got

It actually is if break it down mathematically it actually is. If the game is broken down into experienced and non experienced, 50/50 The Experienced players know how to abandonmission and to group up. Not only that but they know how to avoid groups of in-experienced players. This means that, the 50% of experienced players will group together. You have the other 50% which do what the computer tells them to do. They get grouped together, they then get rolled over, they quit and go and play fortnite. The game slowly bleeds out, which it has been doing. The only way to fix this is to have servers dedicated to clans, and clan competition. With the other servers purely computer match making. But experienced players dont want this as they want to be able to roll over other players and they would wine wine wine on how the game is ruined, if it were implemented.

I like this, more things to do with cars.

It does come from the Vets and their unwillingness to take new players under their wing. But that unwillingness stems from some of them being closets and the group almost being like a mafia protecting the rule breakers. Games then are Experience players on teamspeak Vs Players Un-grouped. They will happily slaughter those players over and over again, until they quit and dont give a dam about the community population. Add in the hackers and the dethreaters, the Russians who dont like you because you are not Russian and you have a big mess. But i do have faith in LO changing this. Something i didnt have with G1

I dont want this to be that negative second comment but they have been very open, even posting news today.

I think its a good idea. I think there is a lot of room for RP in this game. U used to watch a guy do Ambulance RP. I was always entertained by that.

So i was just playing and i got teamed with these 2 guys again . Of course both were bronze and they lost the game on purpose again. 3rd weekend of these guys doing this, reported numerous times. Of course i got abuse for saying anything. These guys will be on all weekend getting teamed with new players who will then quit and play something else.

J Just another example. There are 2 guys who have been throwing games for 2 weeks straight. They are both High level bronze. They are abusive, i have played against them with them running up to me to be shot. Complete disregard for their team mates. I have been teamed with them 5 times in the last 2 weeks, every time they threw the game. They are abusive if you say anything. Multiple reports from me and their team mates. Even my own team reported them when they were our opposition. This has been happening daily for a 2 week period and nothing. Whilst its hard to police the game, if somebody is able to get away with something like this fore more then 2 weeks, mathematically its worth doing if the punishment is a few days.

Whilst the idea would actually work in getting rid of the troublemakers, the downside would be less players all around. The game would die a death fairly fast.

I completely understand where you are coming from. As they know they are screwing you over in order for them to gain. I posted about it in another post. I wouldn't go for a permanent ban on this one though. Unless they are ignoring warnings etc... I also dont think any 1 to 7 day ban will work either. I think they will take that chance.

I also agree with this 200% , it helps build community.

I call for something similar in Star Wars TOR. Star Wars a movie based on master and Apprentice, but could not understand why a feature like this was not initiated into the game. But it is something that i think would be great in APB. Its done in real life in which Rookie cops are teamed with more seasoned cops. It gives new players a little more protection and can give seasoned players more achievements to unlock. Also there could be a history in Character Bio of your mentors etc..

I think its a fantastic idea, its something that we do at our company which is also a subscription based company. Our analytics team were running the stats and we were losing so many new members due to them being overwhelmed when joining. A mentor system was put in place where other members, mentored any new members joining. The pickup was slow to start but once set up, there is initially no cost only revenue to be gained. Maybe drop the tutorial and have a mentor server, in which experienced players can wait and help any new players who have joined. Can also be used for clan recruitment.

Appreciate the advice guys. The worst thing is, this is completely in the control of LO as well as G1 but yet nothing has been done. I understand circumstances in which a player might do it, so he can join a server with his clan. Or somebody is having a bad weekend. But this is relentless for 4 years and is still going with zero repercussions.

Punctuation and Elaboration are fundementals of communication.

For the last 4 years i have been teamed with a certain player, i wont name him so lets call him "34PL" He has griefed my missions well over 20 times. I have played against him and he has griefed on his team mates well over 20 times. I have reported "34PL" with tickets, I have reported "34PL" using the report function. He has been griefing games by standing around and is griefing today. 34PL is one of the reasons i stopped my subbing in the past and i am pretty sure i am going to stop again. I have never had a response on the issue. What is worse, i googled his name he is well known for this. Other people have had to come to the forums to report him as nothing has been done. As the player was named, the post was deleted, I was able to read the cached version. ... So i've been playing APB for quiet some time now and one group of annoying kids keep dethreating themselves as a group to ruin everyones time in bronze they should be playing in gold so the lowest district they go to should be silver in my opinion these guys needs to be gold threat locked it are always the same 4 people that join bronze districts as group become gold instantly match after and stay in there the whole evening. Playing against them is just boring as fuck since they all use spamming weapons like granade launcher. the group consist of the 4 members called ......... 34PL (wont name the others). To point out, the poster below joined in October 2018 and has not logged in since November 2018. Upon more inspection of the player i found posts on a Russian apb facebook page. DEC 18 APB Player : 34PL has always been like this .. By nature like that. He happens to be bombed when his ogre is shot with an old one and just stands afk the whole mission. Unfortunately, there is never any sense from him. APB Player 2 : I moved to a security official only because of what I thought, maybe most of them are adequate, how wrong I was, half of the waste they discharged if something they don’t like, 34PL is an example of Down. I am a subscriber and this player has directly cost revenue from me. AT this moment in time i know the system is broken and is going to be fixed in the future. But this is a post about relentless griefing by a player with absolutely nothing being done. Tickets not being responded to. Posts being deleted instead of the players name being clipped out. I dont want to have to post about it, would rather be playing APB. But i am also posting on behalf of any new players he has griefed, who dont know how to report him. With the information i have posted about we are nearly going on 4 months of this player griefing ???

I was wondering what happened. There is a certain spooky clan that has a lot of new really good players tonight.

There is no 100% solution to cheating. There will always be a way to get around it. The actual problem with cheating is the acceptance of it within clans and on the servers. Players covering for other players they know who are cheating. The other problem is lack of communication between players due to language barrier. This lack of communication doesn't allow positivity to grow and instead attracts negativity.Not only does it attract negativity but it allows negativity to spread. Hence creating a toxic environment. Once the environment is like that, this allows an in for toxic player's who will then exploit the game where they can. Simply because they know they will get away with it at a moderation level or their chances at getting away with it are higher, but they also know they will get away with it a community level. The worse part is , Toxicity is contagious. Here is the thing, this actually happens in real life also. Poorer communities attract more drug dealers, thieves, murder is higher simply due to the fact that "community" has broken down and the police are too busy trying to police everything. Good communities are normally policed by the police and the community itself. At this moment in time, there is hardly a community out there. There are just bands of groups in it for themselves. A lot of players are more concerned by Percs or Runners, yet will turn a blind eye to their clan mate who cheats or dethreats, whilst steamrolling any new players that come into the game. Who will probably never come back.

To be honest i saw more comradery on the forums when we saw "big name" players get banned. I felt like we achieved something.

Same thing that happens in all other threads. Members first shoot down the idea or discussion and begin to character assassinate the poster.