Some player named @nature built a giant ālameā in front of the contest platform. My guess is heās upset thinking that I took over a bunch of gleam locations. I am actually protecting a bunch of them from being taken permenately by NOT plotting the gleam spots. I took the plots above them which prevents players from claiming the gleam. They are still available to anybody who would like to harvest them. I would love for @nature to remove that eyesore of misunderstanding and calm down.
4 Likes
@nature is the same person who claimed the red gleam spots. They seem to be a fan of trolling people. Whilst the red gleam plots were in a grey area as to whether it was griefing, I think this definitely is, and something should be done. @james
5 Likes
That sucks. 
2 Likes
I doubt they will be removing it anytime soonā¦ 
Oh well. Iām not gonna let some immature kid ruin my fun. 
Iām sure more stuff like this is gonna happen especially once 1.0 is released.
2 Likes
Yeah. Still, I hope some action is taken over things like this so that the worlds arenāt littered in the future, especially after 1.0
3 Likes
So we have our first official troll playing? Thatās a position to claim I spose. Devs, could he be given a title? 
2 Likes
Hah, that would be funny, maybe a dunce cap for his account and any alts he makes? 
.
4 Likes
Just for those who might not know, Natureās appeared elsewhereā¦
2 Likes
I think this shows this individuals actions to claim the gleam was not just someone new, but someone that wants to cause issues and hinder play by the rest of the community. I wish the developers would do something about this. Like removing all their beacons.
2 Likes
@james my opinion is that this person should be warned and de-beaconed. Consider this my griefing report 
I saw that ugly ā ā ā ā blocking view to Cookās awesome project/idea, but didnāt check the player, if I saw it was nature, I wouldāve reported it 
This is really bad behavior.
2 Likes
Thanks @Spoygg. Iām not really upset that he built something that blocks my entrance, after all, I didnāt claim those spots so theyāre up for grabs. Itās what he did and why that makes me mad.
2 Likes
Sure, thatās my thoughts too. Here you are organizing tournament to celebrate new chisels, and than thereās this dumb ā ā ā ā who is just mocking it. As for claiming red gleam, thatās not an issue in my opinion, but this is just plain trolling.
I think this is definitely a learning process for us (as devs) and everyone as a community, about how we respond to other players. Maybe they are deliberately being an ass? Maybe theyāre trying to be funny? Insensitive? Clever? Trolling? Who knowsā¦
But we can predict that the more players we have in Boundless the greater the variation of personalities and associated activities. How will we deal with them?
Ideally issues are resolved in-game without resorting to dev powers. But there will definitely be a few hard lines that we canāt tolerate, for example - players bullying other players.
In this particular case I see this as a mild nuisance - and not something that is hurting @Cookviperās enjoyment of Boundless.
Additional: Btw - Iām very happy to have a discussion about this sort of thing and work out where we think lines should be drawn. Iām just giving my opinion at the moment.
8 Likes
Okā¦ But itās griefing, right? So something should be done
But is it? I donāt really see whoās enjoying is being spoilt. Itās a minor (childish?) eye sore.
Maybe (as usual with all online debates!) we need to define what we mean by āgriefingā. Once we share a definition we can start defining actions.
8 Likes
I appreciate your view, and agree. There is only one thing that I think is making everyone un-happy about this, and that is giant word ālameā spelled in front of someoneās build. If that player build anything, whatever, I wouldnāt care, but this is open aggressiveness in my opinion. It is obviously done with specific negative aggressive intent towards other player as much as game allows and of course not going for straight curse words which would straight get banned.
Actually I just discovered that he didnāt build ālameā in his beacon. He built it so it could be removed. The fact that he did that gives me soooo much more respect for his foolery and griefing. Donāt get me wrong, if PVP was enabled Iād hunt him down, tie him up and dangle him in front of a bunch of lvl 3 poisonous spitters. But at least he had the decency to make it destructible. 
3 Likes
Lol, thatās interesting to say the least.
1 Like
Ah, well I guess that could be seen as a prank, or was that unintentionalā¦ As he does have a claim there right? Was the word on the plot boundary? Regardless, Iām glad it can be removed.
2 Likes