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[clanwolf3050]

I was playing today and two guys strated to shoot at others in the team. I was trying to do some recording so i had Fraps loaded. After being told to not shoot team mates they continued. I hit the record button. I then let them know I was recording, Which they just keeped shooting. With a response of "record this." Is there any where I can turn. I tryed support@mwomercs.com but that didn't work. Is there anywhere to turn?

[Daycrist Bloodfang]

as it stands at the moment PGI doesn't do much against team killers you can't post their names and all you can do is submit to support who probably won't do anything in the end as it's a free to play game where the Team killers can easily make a new alias

Edited by Daycrist Bloodfang, 23 November 2012 - 08:51 PM.

[Tuku]

names here will get deleeted....but if you post the video to Youtube and then the mwo Subreddit and a couple other places I will look it up and instantly shoot any one of them I get put in a group with .

[Felicitatem Parco]

clanwolf3050, on 23 November 2012 - 08:36 PM, said:

I was playing today and two guys strated to shoot at others in the team. I was trying to do some recording so i had Fraps loaded. After being told to not shoot team mates they continued. I hit the record button. I then let them know I was recording, Which they just keeped shooting. With a response of "record this." Is there any where I can turn. I tryed support@mwomercs.com but that didn't work. Is there anywhere to turn?

The email address, as typed here, is the correct address to contact Support and report Team Killers - they have a log. Althgough I don't know what you meant by "that didn't work," so all I can suggest is that you continue to report future instances of TK to the support email address <support@mwomercs.com> with the offending player's name, the time your match started (time, date and timezone), the map, and any notable texts that got sent in-game.

Also, retaliating against a Team Killer is still very unsportsmanlike, even if they're "known" as one of ill-repute.

[clanwolf3050]

Prosperity Park, on 23 November 2012 - 08:54 PM, said:

The email address, as typed here, is the correct address to contact Support and report Team Killers - they have a log. Althgough I don't know what you meant by "that didn't work," so all I can suggest is that you continue to report future instances of TK to the support email address <support@mwomercs.com> with the offending player's name, the time your match started (time, date and timezone), the map, and any notable texts that got sent in-game.

Also, retaliating against a Team Killer is still very unsportsmanlike, even if they're "known" as one of ill-repute.

I clicked the link on the support section. I will try it as an email address. Thanks.

[Daycrist Bloodfang]

I believe the Devs/Moderators should make a list of known Teamkillers based on repeated reports ect so it will be unbiased and we can keep track of these guys. Until 8 man teams are reinstated we are all potential victims of these people and without some way to regulate them they rule with impunity.

[topgun505]

Teamkilling is kinda a hard thing to pass judgement on as you likely don't know the details of the situation.

Example: I was in a match with my 4-man group and a misc 4-man pug group. We roflstomped the other team except for 1 unit which went and powered-down/hid somewhere so we started to cap. One of the pugs in a Commando as he was walking up behind the rest of us for some reason decided to fire his lasers. Not sure why as there were no enemy targets around ... best I can figure is he was being a goof and was trying to shoot the base structure ... missed ... and hit one of the 'Phracts in the back and killed him. The other two guys on the squad in retaliation turned around and immediately vaporized him.

Was it an accident? I don't know. The game ended immediately after so couldn't do in game chat to find out (we REALLY need to be able to do in game chat for like a minute or so after the match).

Was the TK (either of them) justified? Maybe, maybe not. But the point is how are the devs to know the details like this? They can't. So it would be really difficult to pass judgement on things like this.

[Zelus]

topgun505, on 23 November 2012 - 10:35 PM, said:

Teamkilling is kinda a hard thing to pass judgement on as you likely don't know the details of the situation.

Agreed. I've TK'd in self-defense before. Weirdo; started shooting up the team at launch.

[Zelus]

Prosperity Park, on 23 November 2012 - 08:54 PM, said:

Also, retaliating against a Team Killer is still very unsportsmanlike, even if they're "known" as one of ill-repute.

Really? I understand the point here. It's about containing chaos; but do you really expect the players to just tolerate being shot? That's entirely unrealistic.

[MayGay]

was it a commando? I think I saw that, just some ***** being a douche

[clanwolf3050]

topgun505, on 23 November 2012 - 10:35 PM, said:

Teamkilling is kinda a hard thing to pass judgement on as you likely don't know the details of the situation.

Example: I was in a match with my 4-man group and a misc 4-man pug group. We roflstomped the other team except for 1 unit which went and powered-down/hid somewhere so we started to cap. One of the pugs in a Commando as he was walking up behind the rest of us for some reason decided to fire his lasers. Not sure why as there were no enemy targets around ... best I can figure is he was being a goof and was trying to shoot the base structure ... missed ... and hit one of the 'Phracts in the back and killed him. The other two guys on the squad in retaliation turned around and immediately vaporized him.

Was it an accident? I don't know. The game ended immediately after so couldn't do in game chat to find out (we REALLY need to be able to do in game chat for like a minute or so after the match).

Was the TK (either of them) justified? Maybe, maybe not. But the point is how are the devs to know the details like this? They can't. So it would be really difficult to pass judgement on things like this.

Ture, but in this case it was intentional. They were tolded to stop shooting. In addtion, when given a heads up that is evidence,of the behaver, they continued.

Edited by clanwolf3050, 23 November 2012 - 11:16 PM.

[Xenophontis]

I took a real risky pot shot into a close range brawl, with my gauss. Ended up hitting my wounded ally right in the head. I was about 720 meters away. If it had been an enemy it would have been a killer shot. But alas I got a team kill.

Learned my lesson about shooting near my team mates that day :?/

[Stingray Productions]

I hate team killers, sometimes you just gotta run away and deal with the impending loss; oh well, it's just one match......

[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

clanwolf3050, on 23 November 2012 - 08:36 PM, said:

I was playing today and two guys strated to shoot at others in the team. I was trying to do some recording so i had Fraps loaded. After being told to not shoot team mates they continued. I hit the record button. I then let them know I was recording, Which they just keeped shooting. With a response of "record this." Is there any where I can turn. I tryed support@mwomercs.com but that didn't work. Is there anywhere to turn?

Send them an Email at Support@mwomercs.com.

Basically upload the footage to youtube or the like, then send them the link.

[Zphyr]

There are TKers and then there are TKers.
- Nearly all of the TKers are accidental ones... they were just distracted or something (or you just walked in front of them). This includes that fool of a gausscat that shot me in the back (was in front of him for an entire minute), and me shooting someone because I was trying to get in the right window (click - shoot). Hey, fecal matter happens! Most people complaining about TKers merely had a too intimate encounter with one of these.
- The real TKers are rare and they do that for the lulz. They often shoot you right in the beginning, instead of waiting (boring!). The real troll ones are those that would TK in the middle of the match... very difficult to identify and even more to prove.

So... retaliating is often a bad idea. If the other person only shot accidentally and you kill them, then you (yes you!) are the shameless TKer.

Suspect that X is a TKer? Report them. It may or may not do anything to X, but only a repeat offender would have their name in the black list.

[Orkhepaj]

TK is the best thing in this game.
Just had a team fight was better than go vs the enemy and get slaughtered by no backup.

[pjnt]

Prosperity Park, on 23 November 2012 - 08:54 PM, said:

Also, retaliating against a Team Killer is still very unsportsmanlike, even if they're "known" as one of ill-repute.

I agree this is unrealistic and naive - if not straight out insulting. If we knew there was punishment awaiting TK pilots we wouldn't have to self govern the battlefield. Since we see nothing happening and familiar names keep popping up it would seem there is little to fear from TKíng - hence pilots defend themselves. Let's put our efforts into the unsportsmanlike TK'ers first shall we? Make certain they are openly chastised for their crap.

[Voidsinger]

Strange thing is, I killed a TK before (he was in a trial mech). There was no penalty for a team kill at the end. He had already killed one team member, and started on me.

Makes me wonder.

[Shadow Beast]

Had it happen to me this week. A guy start pounding a team mate from the off, didn't think that much of it as some people may be testing builds etc. The "victim" is KO'ed and as I'm attacking the enemy I keep being rocked by AC fire. I naively put it down to him being a bad shot. So I turn round and he continues to fire on me, I return fire but by then it was too late. I do have a plan if it happens again though; call a truce with the opposing team. 15 vs 1 are bad odds even for the best pilots.

[Weiland]

I TK on principle for the following offenses:

• Actively firing on teammates. I let them get about one "I'm A Moron" shot and then proceed to core them out of existence.
  
• AFK running. It's a little hard to tell, but if a mech hasn't moved inside of the first thirty or so second, I usually strip them to the bone and then core them. It's about the only way I can actively punish AFK farmers that hurt the team. If they start playing after I peg them, then so be it.
  
• Reporting intel over global to the enemy team. Had a commando do this yesterday: started giving loadout data to the enemy team. I legged him and then castrated his mech before coring him. Had the nerve to cry about TKing and reporting me. I said, "Bring it."

The military in me hates people like this. I'd almost rather shoot them in the head before leaving the foxhole than give myself the false hope that they'll do anything but let me down. Also, it sometimes serves to send a message to the offender (though not really, I'd imagine they just get butt-hurt and continue offending) and the enemy team (because I don't mind offing one of "my own" - as if I'd give them that label - in order to make up for dishonorable and detrimental actions). In the end, we end up fighting harder to make up the slack and often win.

So keep your nose clean, OP, report those that wantonly TK and grief people, and don't be afraid to take the 15K CB + 150xp hit for curb-stomping a dumb ************* out of existence - especially when doing so might end up saving your team.

Edited by Weiland, 24 November 2012 - 05:45 AM.