This really isn’t acceptable anymore. It has been half a year since Global Chat was released. The game was streamed by a German streamer with over a million subscribers, and it was in the latest Humble Monthly. The game has just gotten relatively big, and with 0.7 right around the corner, it’s only going to get bigger.
To give credit where credit is due, the dev team have been pretty good at dealing with reports, and players who break the rules are usually dealt with on the same day.
Unfortunately, as I mentioned, the game’s current and incoming growth is going to make 11 people, who mostly live in America, just not good enough for moderating such a large game.
To be constructive, I have some suggestions for potential moderators:
Potential moderators
Well-regarded GMT moderators, for example Bikonito, Massaki, etc - they already have history moderating TU’s predecessor
Drrabbit - Well-known game veteran with a good sense of judgement.
Demoncyborg/Commodore Beeps - Active player with moderation experience.
I won’t rattle off names for too long. I’m sure the devs can find suitable moderators, especially if there was an application page.
I’m sure this has been on the dev’s bucket list for a long time, but the large argument in global chat that happened today, along with how it affected my close friends, tells me it could really use some prioritizing.
yeah though, I’d really like to see some sorta filter and player moderation thing happenin, it kinda sucks that a lot of these folks get away with sayin garbage for hours until a dev hops online to ban em. especially considering the influx of people who got it from a bundle and just wanna cause trouble on a game they got essentially for free.
Your best bet for now is to just block them. I do hope that we’ll get more moderators in the future, especially those that can understand multiple languages.
The fact of the matter is that having censors and whatnot in place is not going to deal with the problem, because those undesirables will still be there, I know “just block them” is a solution, but again, those people are still there, earlier today was a prime example of people having zero attachment to the community coming along after getting TU off of Humble Bundle and spurting a bunch of toxic bullshit. We need real people to moderate chat that covers all potential timezones.
One of the main issues is there is no way to know if a moderator banned someone. When we ban players, and we have around 1200 bans in total (not all active), it just happens. No one else knows but us. It’s something we want to fix.
Also, we do have a filter of bad words that is always on regardless of chat filter settings. This filter targets racial slurs, religious slurs, gender slurs, and certain taboos.
It’s be nice to also have a sort of system similar to the votekick option that would block a player from using global chat for a certain period of time, potentially increasing after every chat block. Although this would require a much higher consensus, probably 85-90%+ because it’s a more severe punishment.
I would suggest a report system like Rocket League, when you report the user, the last 5-10 text messages to an Admin and they will be able to punish them.
