Standalone to include 'Report Player' option?

[TIC 1050]

Hey guys, TIC here and I just wanted to bring up an idea that would be pretty beneficial for players who seek to play the Standalone fairly and could reduce hacking and any other type of offender to make everyone's gaming experience fair and equal as possible :)

How Reporting Works

Reporting would work when you click on the button, you can scroll through a list of players on the server(if it's an legitimate offense), after that, you can submit one of the options that are available or you can send a custom message.

Purpose: This would help many players including mods, admins or even Battleye to settle issues relating to players ruining an experience for an MMO. This option could make jobs easier to simplify and eliminate sources of issues from players.

• After a report, takes 60 seconds for you to submit another report.
  
• Reports could be sent to Battleye or an available moderator/Server admin upon your request.
  
• Reporting option would appear in any available corner that you desire(available to move in Options)
  
• Once a report is sent, you'll be notified that it has been received to either Battleye, Admins or moderators available.
  
• This would make jobs easier for admins, moderators and such.
  
• A screenshot could be a possibility to be attached to a report.
  

Reporting System

• Provoking other players with offensive language or behaviour and then reporting them when they retaliate is considered a misuse of the reporting system, and may result in you being penalised. Our logs will clearly show what took place before the report was submitted, and who instigated the incident.
  
• Reporting other players who you know not to have committed an offence, either as a joke or as a way of deliberately inconveniencing them, is considered a misuse of the reporting system, and may result in your account being penalized.
  
• Knowingly submitting any kind of false report is considered a misuse of the reporting system, and may result in your account being penalised.
  

Humanity; Replace it completely and make it an asset to a reporting system as a category. I know bandits, survivors and heroes will not distinguish themselves anymore through transformations ;)

The Humanity Category for reporting consists of both Humanity and Security.

Humanity

Inappropriate Language/Behavior(Racial slurs, Spamming, Trolling, Religion bashing, etc): This is a common issue in most games, particularly an MMO that DayZ Standalone is currently aiming for.

Real world trading: You may not under any circumstances sell or buy in game items for real world money.

Encouraging others to break rules: This consists of rallying up players as a group to oppose guidelines and rules.

Flaming/Harassment: This includes name-calling, bashing, targeting(or singling out someone), arguments and so-forth.

Staff impersonation: Claiming you work for DayZ Staff, administration, moderation or any upper staff should be considered an offense.

Advertising: Leading people to other websites that can lead to a virus, marketing gimmick and so forth.

Security

Hacking: This one is a big no-no and should be recommended if you see anyone abusing in this way. This includes item duping, god mode, aim bots, etc.

Exploiting Bugs: Exploiting a bug to your advantage is considered an offense.

Topic Glossary by TIC321

• Chapter 1: Integrate DayZ Forum avatars, clans, chatroom. (3/5 rating)
  
• Chapter 2: Other methods of combat; non-lethal. (3/5 rating)
  
• Chapter 3: ★Ideas for Hunting/New Equipment. (5/5 rating)
  
• Chapter 4: More Cooperation Features (4/5 rating)
  
• Chapter 5: Improving movements; Additional Gestures (4/5 rating)
  
• Chapter 6: ★Possible new buildings; Serving better purpose (5/5 rating)
  
• Chapter 7: Audio/Music adjustments; creating an ear-joyable atmosphere.(Standalone) (1.5/5 rating)
  
• Chapter 8: Weight as a factor, ability to see items in vehicles. (3.5/5 rating)
  
• Chapter 9: Standalone Weather (4/5 rating)
  

Edited March 19, 2013 by TIC321

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

I voted no main reason being hackusations run rampant some legit, some not. If you allowed every person to file a complaint every time they thought they were wrongfully killed you would need a 24/7 tech team in a sweat shop oversees just to answer them all.

[rossums 2190]

It would take far too much manpower to sift through all the false accusations to actually get to anything worthwhile - Bohemia and the DayZ Team at this point just don't have the staff to do that 24/7.

[TIC 1050]

I voted no main reason being hackusations run rampant some legit, some not. If you allowed every person to file a complaint every time they thought they were wrongfully killed you would need a 24/7 tech team in a sweat shop oversees just to answer them all.

-Knowingly submitting any kind of false report is considered a misuse of the reporting system, and may result in your account being penalised.

Found in my topic ;)

It would take far too much manpower to sift through all the false accusations to actually get to anything worthwhile - Bohemia and the DayZ Team at this point just don't have the staff to do that 24/7.

I believe this could be improved by developing a trusted team of moderators since the DayZ community is expanding and willing to contribute as is. It's a great community. I'm sure people would like to participate :)

Edited March 19, 2013 by TIC321

[Vapordad 81]

No. so many hackuzations

perfect example and this girl is an admin from what I understand in this video

[shadowjack 254]

I am against any type of tattletale system in a gaming environment.

By and large i am against it outside of gaming as well. Just ask my kids how well it worked for them. :)

[TIC 1050]

I think the hackusations is a current problem. I have been accused of it as well and encountered other players tossing this at eachother. Along with invalid statements like 'Bad aim' and bashing banditry but anyways, I am wondering how we can solve this issue for hacking.

One of the ideas I had mentioned is a screenshot method for the moderator/admin to determine but at this point, the current team for DayZ is quite under-staffed to deal with this kind of element. This is why I had suggested that a team based on this would be advised if it's necessary :)

I'd like to thank everyone for contributing and sharing their thoughts. I like this type of feedback very much.

Edited March 19, 2013 by TIC321

[person915 345]

Mmm, I don't think battleye would take the liberty of doing all this, considering it was for ArmA, I believe.

I think it should be more like a report on the website (so it's out of game) and the reports should only show up if there are say 10 reports from 10 unique players within a period of half a week, and then refreshes. Also, you shouldn't be able to report a player for any offence (again), even if they've committed more than one, for the rest of the half-week period. Add a "copy player GUID to clipboard" option to make it easier.

Reports should be simple and for the serious stuffs.

-Hacking

-Offensive language and ect

(needs a picture evidence attatched)

What else do you need? Glitchers will be glitchers, haters will be haters. All you need to do is remove the people who don't play the game right, and the people who don't deserve to play the game, who are one (or both) of those things.

Edited March 19, 2013 by McCullins

[TIC 1050]

I do know that the development team made hacking a priority to make it as less of an issue as possible. The reporting system can be simplified for a use to make it for serious game breaking issues though :)

[CreepySalad 108]

I don't like the rules.

I think the rules should be No hacking, and that's it.

But besides that I guess its okay.

There wouldn't really be a need for it though.

[TIC 1050]

I would like to ask how would this affect the community of having this implemented(IF, not it will) ..

Here are my options with this.

Option 1 --- After a report is sent, Battleye would be notified and will run a scan to the person's character and see whether it has banned weapons(not in DayZ), cheat programs, exploited coding, any type of harassment through chat logs and such. If it happens to find any of that, it will ban that person.

Option 2 --- After a report is sent, players will be given the option to vote to kick/ban the certain person for such behavior. If the majority wins, they'll receive a kick. An available moderator will continue on with this issue to give that person some type of punishment.

Option 3 --- Establish a group of volunteers that meet the requirements to join; This is what I'd like to call a 'Customer Support' group where they settle things like this. Reports will be queued through a list for them to go through. Reports can capture a reason, screenshot, character name and GUID. This is specifically for Standalone.

[kanelbolle 0]

Infestation has tried this (is using this).

 

It does not work.. everyone rapports everyone even if they don't hack....

 

Would only make a big list of useless information for the devs to waste there time on...

 

 

A better anti cheat is the answer or ghosting devs....

 

Just got killed by a hacker when i had played for since the release... He killed us all a few meters from the airfield fence where we entered in pitch black... To be that random place in the pitch black knowing where we where... with almost no players on the server... isn't much more then a dead giveaway for a mod to see that he cheated if he was watched by a mod...

Edited December 22, 2013 by Kanelbolle

[Chaingunfighter 917]

I would like to ask how would this affect the community of having this implemented(IF, not it will) ..

Here are my options with this.

Option 1 --- After a report is sent, Battleye would be notified and will run a scan to the person's character and see whether it has banned weapons(not in DayZ), cheat programs, exploited coding, any type of harassment through chat logs and such. If it happens to find any of that, it will ban that person.

Option 2 --- After a report is sent, players will be given the option to vote to kick/ban the certain person for such behavior. If the majority wins, they'll receive a kick. An available moderator will continue on with this issue to give that person some type of punishment.

Option 3 --- Establish a group of volunteers that meet the requirements to join; This is what I'd like to call a 'Customer Support' group where they settle things like this. Reports will be queued through a list for them to go through. Reports can capture a reason, screenshot, character name and GUID. This is specifically for Standalone.

 

Option 1 - Considering it's the Standalone I doubt any players will have weapons they aren't supposed to, unless they were somehow able to spawn W.I.P. or debug weapons, and just because someone has a program on their computer is not liable enough to ban them (As long as they don't use it in DayZ)

 

Option 2 - While this could technically be a good idea, oftentimes servers have lower numbers of players or have large clans roving around who could easily just group up in order to get people kicked off for no good reason

 

Option 3 - They would get too many reports for this to be feasible.

[Matteh1990 0]

No.