People are playing on my map and everything seems fine. So you loosen up the controls (host blocks on what guest can do) then someone grabs a full set of enchanted iron armor (my only set) and an enchanted diamond sword and says they will be right back. They leave the game never to return.
My reaction is to immediately exit the game without saving and ban them and I also ban whoever invited/vouched for them to join the game. So I don't just ban griefers I ban associates of griefers.
I would suggest a blacklist of griefers but griefers would just grief that and try to get awesome people blacklisted.
Best practice when your trust is breached... exit without saving and then don't invite them back in. My strategy is realy to only play with people who I know very well & personally in the first place.
Best practice when your trust is breached... exit without saving and then don't invite them back in. My strategy is realy to only play with people who I know very well & personally in the first place.
I would prefer that but I need more people to play with. Too many friends only play creative and that's just not my cup of tea. I enjoy going to their map and see the stuff they have made but don't want to live there. So recently I have been inviting more people and trying to find people to play with. Having to hide stuff from guest is unfun and makers me just want to play solo.
I wish there was a group that, like the moderators here, could monitor reported griefers maybe invite them to a map and see what they do. If they are in fact griefeing then there could be a report with their gamer tag warning others. Maybe all griefers could only use the prison steve skin.
Having a list would be a great thing except innocents could be reported as griefers which, really, would be a new form a grieifing. "No one plays with me because some kid in Idaho reported me as a griefer when I banned him". Just a thought...
Griefer Haiku
Griefer in my world
Worse than dastardly creepers
Without gunpowder
That's the kind of situation where I'd cut my losses and just forget about it. I mean, it's only 24 iron and 2 diamonds that went missing. The hardest (read: most tedious) part of recovering that would honestly be getting back the enchanting levels required to enchant a new suit. I generally only resort to exiting without saving if the destruction is greater than any construction that's happened.
Well I showed a guy my map yesterday... and he left with my minecart.. I didn't really feel griefed.... And Don't believe it was on purpose.. maybe that person didn't realize that he took your stuff?
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Well I showed a guy my map yesterday... and he left with my minecart.. I didn't really feel griefed.... And Don't believe it was on purpose.. maybe that person didn't realize that he took your stuff?
I thought of that but it seemed obvious and I even said 'Hey why don't you just put that stuff back in a chest before you leave?'
Yes someone playing MC who is a casual gamer may not realize when they exit a game their toon keeps the items in their inventory. I know if I was gonna grief ya by taking your armor I'd at least tease you about it....nay nay I found your trunk, took your stuff. So maybe you got....NOOBED.
Yes someone playing MC who is a casual gamer may not realize when they exit a game their toon keeps the items in their inventory. I know if I was gonna grief ya by taking your armor I'd at least tease you about it....nay nay I found your trunk, took your stuff. So maybe you got....NOOBED.
I can see that being the case but have had so many issues with griefers better to be safe than sad faced.
I've been griefed similar to this before, usually I just log out without saving and ban them from my world/don't invite them back....but the other day (actually sometime last weekend) one of the people who had not had a track record of griefing on my stuff voicechatted on my party to quick save since he was possibly going to die or something, and I did, only to find out he took ALL my stuff (chests, items, everything) and jumped not only off the game, but offline, essentially screwing up hours of survival mode work, making me lack beds, iron ingots, etc...haven't really played that save since, and will not trust people so much anymore...but he hadn't done that before and even helped me build something on both survival AND creative...so yeah...sometimes seemingly honest people eventually might just decide to grief you for s and giggles, but that's not cool.
I usually only play with my friend, and if he did something like that, I would just go on it with his profile and get it back, cause he downloaded his gamertag onto my xbox. At least I think that would work
Also blacklists here are against the forum policy, primarily because of the flame wars they'd cause.
Flaming isn't really the major problem, the issue lies in the fact that griefing is hard to prove on the console version. Lots of false accusations flying about, and no way to tell the difference. Somebody started a griefer report thread here awhile back, maybe a month after XBLA release. It resulted in arguments where two players would both claim the opposing person to have griefed their world. Some griefers are clever. Think about it; if you just blew up and set someones world aflame, would it not be smart to go report them first as a griefer. Then, when the victim tries to tell everyone you're the real troll, most will think it's just a spiteful trick.
I've been griefed similar to this before, usually I just log out without saving and ban them from my world/don't invite them back....but the other day (actually sometime last weekend) one of the people who had not had a track record of griefing on my stuff voicechatted on my party to quick save since he was possibly going to die or something, and I did, only to find out he took ALL my stuff (chests, items, everything) and jumped not only off the game, but offline, essentially screwing up hours of survival mode work, making me lack beds, iron ingots, etc...haven't really played that save since, and will not trust people so much anymore...but he hadn't done that before and even helped me build something on both survival AND creative...so yeah...sometimes seemingly honest people eventually might just decide to grief you for s and giggles, but that's not cool.
That was a horrid trick to be sure. The one thing, I think, that even the most diligent hosts often overlook is the practice of backing up the world to a USB stick before each session where they open up the game to others online. That way if they are coerced into saving a grief in progress, then all that would be lost is whatever work was done during that most recent session since the griefed world save could just be deleted and the backup copied from the USB in its place.
Well I showed a guy my map yesterday... and he left with my minecart.. I didn't really feel griefed.... And Don't believe it was on purpose.. maybe that person didn't realize that he took your stuff?
I left with one of your minecarts last night :P. Then again, you did give it to me...
My reaction is to immediately exit the game without saving and ban them and I also ban whoever invited/vouched for them to join the game. So I don't just ban griefers I ban associates of griefers.
I would suggest a blacklist of griefers but griefers would just grief that and try to get awesome people blacklisted.
I would prefer that but I need more people to play with. Too many friends only play creative and that's just not my cup of tea. I enjoy going to their map and see the stuff they have made but don't want to live there. So recently I have been inviting more people and trying to find people to play with. Having to hide stuff from guest is unfun and makers me just want to play solo.
I wish there was a group that, like the moderators here, could monitor reported griefers maybe invite them to a map and see what they do. If they are in fact griefeing then there could be a report with their gamer tag warning others. Maybe all griefers could only use the prison steve skin.
Griefer Haiku
Griefer in my world
Worse than dastardly creepers
Without gunpowder
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Oh, and It would be against forum rules to make a blacklist of griefing players. So don't try it lol.
Also blacklists here are against the forum policy, primarily because of the flame wars they'd cause.
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I thought of that but it seemed obvious and I even said 'Hey why don't you just put that stuff back in a chest before you leave?'
Well I'm going to start my black list now. I officially ban myself from all griefers.
I can see that being the case but have had so many issues with griefers better to be safe than sad faced.
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Retired StaffFlaming isn't really the major problem, the issue lies in the fact that griefing is hard to prove on the console version. Lots of false accusations flying about, and no way to tell the difference. Somebody started a griefer report thread here awhile back, maybe a month after XBLA release. It resulted in arguments where two players would both claim the opposing person to have griefed their world. Some griefers are clever. Think about it; if you just blew up and set someones world aflame, would it not be smart to go report them first as a griefer. Then, when the victim tries to tell everyone you're the real troll, most will think it's just a spiteful trick.
That was a horrid trick to be sure. The one thing, I think, that even the most diligent hosts often overlook is the practice of backing up the world to a USB stick before each session where they open up the game to others online. That way if they are coerced into saving a grief in progress, then all that would be lost is whatever work was done during that most recent session since the griefed world save could just be deleted and the backup copied from the USB in its place.
I left with one of your minecarts last night :P. Then again, you did give it to me...