Banned for banning xp farmer.

@cannibalbob Wow that is pretty bad Customer Service.

There is no option to boot people from a crew.

Is this xbox that banned you from submitting more reports or rare?

@cannibalbob why not just find a different server. There's plenty of nice pirate legends willing to help players out. You don't have to do what the "xp farmer" want you to do...

If they spinning you can ask other crew to kill him or scuttle to drown him.. if spinning on ferry continues more and more crew will report him.. i dunno what else to do :(

@cannibalbob try to join a discord or just keep sailing and see if anyone is nice enough to join an alliance and put one down for you.

The open crew system is probably one of the worse party forming systems in any game. The brig system is an individual toxic player’s or troll’s paradise. They get to be the worse they can be to get locked in the brig to soak up all the rewards for doing absolutely nothing but what they love... being a toxic player or troll.

Rare’s answer to the open crew system issues forces good players to either let the toxic player or troll sit in the brig or force all the good players in the crew to start over. These types of bad players flock to Sea of Thieves because they get to “play” in the worst ways possible saying “I am only being a pirate”, “this is a pirate game”, this is not “Sea of Friends”.

Rare must change their stance on this major issue and implement a more respectable party/crew management system. They need to make the person who launches the ship the captain. The baton of captaincy could be passed on so the crew could sail on. The captain should be able to kick any player if they truly deserve it.

I proposed a Walk the Plank gameplay mechanic of kicking a player out with a little gameplay. It could also be used as a tiered voting system in addition to the brig. Problem with voting though is having a limited number of crew members to do the right thing when it becomes necessary. Captain of the ship is the best solution.

Many will say you cannot add a kick a crew member option because the fear of it being used against them. The most common problem is a single crew member which the captain could effectively deal with. Do not want toxic players or trolls in your crew? Just start your own ship and be the captain. Good players playing together in a good crew should never be the ones forced to start over or live with the problem.

Sea of Thieves excels at being a social game playing with others. It is a real shame the very thing that can make it great, can also more often make it some of the worse experiences in an online game. Better crew management will only make the game a much better experience for everyone and help keep it that way.

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My hope would be the respawning will stop him spinning and if afk get kicked. Or else get reported by more players on ferry for afk..
Or if comes back some spawnkilling by another crew camping the brig can make them leave.. or maybe a snake can spawnkill him in the brig could be fun..

I also tried puking on them -.-

@cannibalbob Reminds me of a time I joined a random and there was one guy on the ship already and another that joined with me. I was jumping games helping new players. Laid down athenas for him and helped him to do a little.

Turns out the guy that was already there was AFK spinning. Normally I would leave but the guy I was playing with was a nice guy and then another guy joined and the Athena went fast. I just reported the guy and moved on hoping he would get banned or at least lose levels

Turns out halfway through the Athena the AFKer comes back and asked to be let out of the brig. I yelled at him for being AFK he said "Sorry I was at the Gym" So this guy is on an open group, AFK spinning while he went and done his own thing.

lol yeah kick option is needed.

As has been said, the Open crew is not the best place to find a group.
Group finder on X-Box and Discord are great places to find a crew that actually works towards a common goal.

I'm expecting this topic to be locked soon seeing as discussing disiplinary actions taken against yourself is against the forum rules but I can't blame Microsoft fot he Ban, I'd klick ban too if someone spammed my inbox. Every time you report something someone has to inspect it and look into it. doing that 12 times for the same person against the same player is annoying.

You as an individual should only report someone once. Sending the same report 12 times for one instance from one player probably triggered some sort of auto-ban as the system likely detected spam from you.

But yeah, its unfortunate there's no way to really deal with AFK farmers in the moment.

@cannibalbob yea spamming reports like that seems silly, and you were being useless to your team while doing that, poor team was probs doing it with just 2 guys for half the time because you were so busy spamming the devs with reports on a guy who is just afk farming. you realise other people report proper hackers and people who are toxic and you spamming reports about a guy afk farming can probebly wash the other more important reports away in the sea of reports.

I have seen various "Walk the Plank" solutions, but the potential for abuse kind of ruins it in most presentations.

For AFK'ers, a solution I would like is for the Ferry to kick anyone who is on there for more than 10 minutes or so. Then all you need to do is get them there, easy enough. A "Walk the Plank" could work for an AFK'er if they had to mimic some sort of sequence to confirm they are there, or they get kicked.

In this particular situation, the group was better off partying up, setting the ship to "Private Crew" before jumping onto a new server together. This way the AFK'er would get nothing as he sits there all alone until they realize what happened. They don't really lose anything since they weren't there, but they don't gain anything either.

@cannibalbob said in Banned for banning xp farmer.:

Was playing on xbox. Joined a galleon crew. One player wasn't playing. We brigged them. They had avatar spinning after starting an athenas. You know, so they wouldn't get auto booted for non movement. We as a crew of three continued athena mission. While on said mission, which can take well over an hour to complete, I submitted twelve reports about his Farming xp. He wouldn't leave, he wasn't helping, because of all the spinning in place, and the only way i know to get someone booted is to submit reports in hopes of getting them kicked. Thanks for not allowing for a team to be able to vote Bad players from a Great game. I have been banned for submitting reports against cheating xp farming trolls. Please fix your broken crew booting function. Brig is not enough if the offending player still gets xp and we as a crew get F'd over because we have to run short handed.

Brig him. Sail just out into the red sea enough to get the noise/music but no damage to the ship... and everyone change servers. Leave him to come back to that later.

We have done that in the past, with a ship FULL of loot, without even leaving the server and the guy just eventually left because he knew we wouldn't turn in anything with him still online.