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Currently it's possible for a player to continually kill himself and thus spam the deaths tab (this is happening right now), this makes it harder to spot when a player actually dies and might need help, making the tab a lot less useful. It would be great if, after X deaths in a small period of time from one player, that player's deaths could be filtered out for the next hour or so. 5 to 10 might be a good number for X there.

 

This way the tab wont be spammed into uselessness and people can keep using it to help and assist players when needed.

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Another possibility would be to have /ignore include the players deaths in the death tab, so that people could easily continue to see relevant deaths while filtering out abuse of the tab by somebody being an idiot.

 

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Yeah this seems like a good idea

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This also demonstrates how worthless and dysfunctional KoS on Freedom is. Just having a minimum deed by a makeshift alt near a guard tower and having harrassment of others (be it the KoS'd or in this case the originator himself) nearly free of charge. Best would be to remove KoS on Freedom altogether, or at least restrict it to recently premed mayors at minimum.

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3 hours ago, Delone said:

Another possibility would be to have /ignore include the players deaths in the death tab, so that people could easily continue to see relevant deaths while filtering out abuse of the tab by somebody being an idiot.

 

That would work. Would this include /snipe?

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Its not like anyone uses the deaths tab to do anything other than say F anyway. If anyone ever actually did help others, occurences of which are few and far between, it would be the poor guy who is dying 10 times in an hour that really needs it anyway so this change would have the exact opposite effect by hiding their need for help.

 

It also isn't *that* hard to just ignore it on the rare occasion that it happens. Otherwise, if you limit this then why not throttle how many posts per hour/minute someone can make to CA or kchat as well so you don't get bothered by the nasty flashing red tab?

 

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what's the use-case to die a lot? spam server's death tab?

is it.. not possible to ask a gm to soft-ban the cretin ?

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sure makes sense to have

/deathtab list

/deathtab ignore <name>

if the name exists in the list - do not show it's deaths.. if you ignore it 2nd time.. -> remove ignore from the deathtab events and resume seeing them... like how chat /ignore command works..(works great for certain spammers in trade chat)

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1 minute ago, Finnn said:

what's the use-case to die a lot? spam server's death tab?

is it.. not possible to ask a gm to soft-ban the cretin ?

Cretin may be slightly offensive, yet from his "conversation" in Freedom he indeed appeared somewhat feeble minded and extremely egotist. And ok, one may doubt the usefulness of the death tab, but at least it is somewhat informative and at times entertaining. Moreover, it indeed triggers help sometimes. I had the opportunity to assist a veteran returnee lately in recovering his stuff after death in a highly adverse region, and that was fun. It was not directly triggered by death tab, but its informations helped to understand the situation. And at least me, I would support everyone in my area after death.

 

And yes, a GM was asked for help, and the molester eventually was gone.

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4 hours ago, Finnn said:

ask a gm to soft-ban the cretin

 

There are such regional settings? 😇

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