Unfriendly players in a normally friendly game

I'm sure most of you know that CoH players are generally friendly and more mature than players of other MMO games. But every so often, you come across some really nasty individuals that make Cujo look like man's best friend. I've made this post to let the community know of such players and to tread carefully when teaming with them.

I recently was on a BAF trial with a character by the name of ***** who, in my own opinion was emotionally unstable. We were in the escaping prisoners phase and running the choke-point strategy (Which I learned was to spread along the center pathways around the south and north buildings creating a "gauntlet" to dispose of any escapees) This person however, thought that was incorrect and sent me multiple PM of vulgar insults. I replied to each one with a sly, but otherwise unoffensive and non-vulgar comment, simply brushing off her vulgar insults, the next thing I knew, I was in the RWZ because she apparently kicked me from the Trial. I asked the League leader if he could invite me to the next run, but unfortunately, he was close friends with ***** and, although he was friendly and polite, he wasn't going to take sides and apologized for the inconvenience, which I totally understood.

If you happen to be on a team with *****, be forewarned that this player, at the time we teamed together, was very vulgar and more volatile than a vile of nitro glycerin. I'm not sure if she's like this all the time, but please be cautious, stray too far from her idea of how a TF or trial should be run, and you mind find yourself kicked from the team.

I would like to hear if there are other players like this who we should be cautious of. Thanks and have fun playing on Virtue.

EDIT: I was told by fellow forum members that calling players out by name is against forum rules so the name mentioned has been censored despite nothing vulgar being said *sigh*

calling players out by name is against forum rules just an FYI

you could describe the situation but you cant list names

/popcorn

Yeah, although a bad situation at the time for you, we all at one point or another ran across some morons.

That being said it is against forum rules to post folks names, so in this instance you might want to erase the name from your post and leave a note that if anyone is interested in the name of this person then they can pm you.

Other than that don't let one bad apple ruin your day, it happens in rl and it happens in game, there are no predators to eat such people unfortunately.

OP can you send me a PM with the person's name? I'd like to avoid 'em.

We have a popular crowd? O.o

As for some concepts or whatever not working out or getting in... yeah, that happens with RP groups. If you're applying "John McSkullcrusher" who wears black trenchcoats and jeans everywhere to a theme-centric group that leans towards, say, classic comic book heroes, you'll probably be rejected because it doesn't fit the team. It might even be a fine, interesting character with a good costume and intriguing backstory that you can RP incredibly... but doesn't really fit the team's theme.

While I've seen people who insist that they are the uberist of the uber (they've usually got sarcastic comments by me in their player notes, and inspire snickering when Carnies or whatever feed them their capes), never really run into groups that make you acknowledge that Character Whatever is THE best. That's just... really odd.

In general, you've got to be proactive with getting involved. A pet peeve of mine is the attitude of sitting back and going "Gimme RPs!" (with little grabby hands) while never actually contributing themselves, but demanding other people bend over backwards to work them into the story. Sitting around waiting for other people to notice you isn't going to get much.

Wait, if you guys were going the split-up strategy, why was this girl taking it out on you? It's not like you were the raid leader... and if she was a team leader...

I smell fish-sticks. Are you sure you didn't start arguing first? Were you running off and disobeying the strategy?

Now, I hate to be the negative one like this, but anyone notice how the OP just happens to leave out everything else besides "person pm'd me with bad words, I replied back being the mature person I am and got kicked."

Were you the only person running around while everyone else was condensed around two areas? If so, then the bad person was most likely a raid leader tired of people who haven't learned to put league chat into one of their chat windows yet.

While it's entirely possible what you said did happen, I'd say it's also entirely likely that you weren't following the leader's instructions, got kicked for it, and are now on a personal vengeance quest to get as many people to never play with that person again as possible.

Also:

Popular crowd? What popular crowd? You mean the groups of people who make alts just to make it seem like their group of 3 people is bigger than it actually is?

Well, in cases like this I like to remember that there are 3 sides to every story; His side, her side and then the truth somewhere in between. Yes some people act like jerks and get carried away on missions/TFs/trials, it happens, make a note of them and avoid them in the future. But when I see "so and so said mean/bad things" I often wonder because I have seen so many people that are so over sensitive about everything that a simple critique or direction is interpreted as an "attack"... same with the "responded as a mature adult", the translation for that is many times "I climbed onto my moral high horse" which can be just as bad or worse than what started the situation.

Just my 2 cents worth.


As for the RP exclusionary situation, well like Rev and Brand said, sometimes you have a character that just doesn't fit in or doesn't inspire people to approach you. You might have the coolest concept ever, but if it is Darkity McDark the Dark One who's bio reads about how sinister and menacing he is, chances are it is not going to inspire people to come talk to you. Same with the painfully shy and the "stutterers", if you make it too difficult for people to actively interact with you, guess what?, they won't.

I'd call this the case of Wrong Time - Right Place Syndrome. Just because by and by you normally don't encounter these folks, doesn't mean they're not out there.

All I have to say is, "That's a [censored] fifty DKP minus! Many whelps! Now! Handle it!"