Why can't you boot people from your games on Realms?

[vorasorc]

Why can't you boot people from your games on Realms?

I wondered this. Don't you just hate it when someone is doing another act or something your game is not supposed to be about? Or someone leaves you in dust by teleporting or running way ahead of you. Why is it you can do this on open but not on realms?

I suppose the only thing I can do is spam them by keeping hitting invite and cancel, but can you get in trouble for this? Any reason why Blizzard chose to exclude this feature for the diablo 2 game creator? In almost all of their other games (at least in the intial chatroom, starcraft, warcraft, etc) you can throw someone out you don't want in your game. (War2 had the return to chatroom feature)

 

[droid]

Re: Why can't you boot people from your games on Realms?

Because they're not your games, they're public games you created. And, regardless of that philosophical point, it could be used countless ways to scam people....boot them during a drop trade, boot them after they trigger their hellforge, boot them when Diablo or Baal dies and take all the drops, boot them in PK before they can kill you, you get the idea....

And, plus, who would ever want to join someone else's public games knowing they're at the whim of whatever anal-retentive douchebag created the game? Would you want to join a Baal run or a Chaos run or whatever knowing you might get kicked out before Lister or the seals, just because you unknowingly ran afoul of whatever unwritten Dwight Shrewt-like code of conduct the creator holds you to without telling you?

 

[boogyman19946]

Re: Why can't you boot people from your games on Realms?

i don't understand why you would do your hellforge in a game where someone could kick you out unless you were giving them the forge, drop trade can be fixed by letting people trade those items in the trade screen and those who don't pay attention for mephisto soulstone scams... that's their problem they should be more aware of what might happen,

clearly, if someone is a douchebag in the game, he should be booted and that is that. if you don't like the rules of the douchebag who created the game, leave the game find another one....

i don't know why would someone kick you out of baal or chaos games , more peeps = more exp, and kicking someone out at Lister doesn't really achieve anything, maybe you could kick them at Baal, if the leechers want their drops they can make their own games


EDIT: ZOMG... 499 posts

 

[Spiritspawn]

Re: Why can't you boot people from your games on Realms?

I have to agree with Droid.

Unfortunatly there are so many D2 players that don't have that communal vibe, and they'd be quite happy to boot people just before drops etc.
I mean, how would you feel if you'd just done Meph, and then all of a sudden your booted, and miss out on the drop. Especially if you've made a considerable contribution to the battle and then just because some greedy B*****d wants everything for himself he boots everyone.

I think something like that would ruin public games and people would all start playing private.
I personally play public most of the time, and do so because I don't know anyone else that plays D2 anymore.

If someone is doing something there not supposed to be doing in your game then there's not really much you can do about it, but it's just something that people who play public have to put up with.

Thats My 2 Cents anyway.....

 

[KTang]

Re: Why can't you boot people from your games on Realms?

Mega abuse giving "public game hosts" kickerss.

KT

 

[nicro tower]

Re: Why can't you boot people from your games on Realms?

Wait, you can kick people in SC once a game has started?

 

[0blique]

Re: Why can't you boot people from your games on Realms?

Not after, before it starts (while you're still in the chat room).

I agree with droid's way of looking at it- public games really are public. If you don't like it, you can always make private games and invite only people who will follow your rules. As it is now, you can't have it both ways (open to public, but must abide by certain criteria).

 

[kavlor]

Re: Why can't you boot people from your games on Realms?

just because you unknowingly ran afoul of whatever unwritten Dwight Shrewt-like code of conduct the creator holds you to without telling you?

Ha,I know what you mean.Dont enter the star,I said dont enter the star.The one time I welcome a Pker into a Chaos run.But anyway yes Ive been in games where you can be kicked out of the games and it would just happen out of the blue or soon as you joined a game your booted,it adds to the hostility amongst players rather than being truly helpful.

I found Loki system quite interesting but Ive only played 1-2 game online with it but it keeps all players in the same area although I think you can still go back to town on your own.Wether it would work in D3 in the long run I dont know.I think if they had free games and campaign games it might where it only happens in campaign games.I cant actually see people being against such a system actually as most of the time people are in the same area and if not its usually an issue of then doing some quest and ruining the continuity(and if they wish to level solo go in a free game).

 

[snickersnack]

Re: Why can't you boot people from your games on Realms?

I wondered this. Don't you just hate it when someone is doing another act or something your game is not supposed to be about? Or someone leaves you in dust by teleporting or running way ahead of you. Why is it you can do this on open but not on realms?

Because on open bnet (like tcp/ip), you host the game on your computer. So, when you leave, the game ends. Since it's your computer, you decide who stays and who gets kicked.



I really don't see the legitimate usefulness of being able to kick someone (I can see how it would be great for bogarting drops). They can just rejoin, again, and again, and again. What would be more useful would be expanded filtering capabilities. Like level limits, but rather than the cretin "x levels from mine," a genuine range: "level x to y." Also, an account blacklist (editable from the chat command line), including a perl parser for those who want to go through the effort to use it. There could be other features, but combine an account black list with level limits, and you can make it quite difficult for someone to harass you. (if you that, then kicking could be useful, though)

Also, make a chat filter, again, with a perl parser. Think of it, you receive no chats with the word "lewt" in it ever again! And you can program any filter you want, or use one made by someone else to keep spam out. It wouldn't be hard to do either.