[Sport Mode] - Is it possible to block someone that I don't want to play along anymore?

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baldgye
Except that it wouldn’t need to be automated, if the system was tied to someone’s SR rating and volatility and then admins decided what to do, then there wouldn’t be an issue.
It would be users flagging ****** players, the same way they flag cheaters or horrible people that spam racist etc abuse at people online.
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What you're talking about now is effectively a reporting system that weights against low SR players, not a method for allowing players to block people on PSN and never race against themselves again, which is what's being suggested here. Maybe that's not a terrible idea, but essentially what that becomes is users blocking/reporting another player, who may well have had an appropriate SR drop, in order to gain additional action against them... if the objective is to reduce that persons match-making prospects, what automated mechanism do you use to apply that to every subsequent matchmaking process?
 
When I have a reoccurring bad driver appearing in races I don't pass them. What I do instead is constantly place the nose of my car no further than the middle of their car as we go two wide into corners. They usually punt themselves off of me and fly off of the course. As long as I'm not moving outward or inward as they hit me, I never get a penalty.

Please don't do this to normal drivers.
 
MatskiMonk
What you're talking about now is effectively a reporting system that weights against low SR players, not a method for allowing players to block people on PSN and never race against themselves again, which is what's being suggested here. Maybe that's not a terrible idea, but essentially what that becomes is users blocking/reporting another player, who may well have had an appropriate SR drop, in order to gain additional action against them... if the objective is to reduce that persons match-making prospects, what automated mechanism do you use to apply that to every subsequent matchmaking process?
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That’s what I originally suggested, if PD are given access to the number of blocks given to a player then they could weigh that against their SR rating and history and be like, yeah, this guys a ****
 
How this thread gets taken seriously when the penalty system is so universally recognized as broken beats me.

If the game cannot determine who is at fault in a ramming situation/forcing off track/etc., how on earth does Sony/PD determine them being blocked..? Even with as few as 500,000 active players worldwide, Sony could not possibly afford to put human eyeballs on incidents, and that is the ONLY way any block system could work. Trust me, if it was a result of reportage, it would get gamed to hell and back by groups of trolls.

The main thing is, if you are a host in an online lobby, is it like GT6? Are players that are on your block list allowed in YOUR room (remember, a Sport Mode room isn't YOUR room)? If so, all is still OK. Sport Mode is a joke, the bastard child of the universally hated GT6 Quick Race system, which no-one took seriously. The sooner we all accept this, the sooner we can go back to what actually worked in GT5/6...

SNAIL, WRS and human stewarded clean rooms.
 
Enjoy. I can only surmise from your response you never spent five minutes in a properly stewarded room in GT6.

Which, from your attitude, I am unsurprised.

Enjoy your Quick Race rebrand.
 
Am I the only one that always wants to know why people want to block other people and then finding out they were making mistakes themselves is one of the funniest things about these posts ?

Not attacking anyone here !
 
simsimsheree
How this thread gets taken seriously when the penalty system is so universally recognized as broken beats me.

If the game cannot determine who is at fault in a ramming situation/forcing off track/etc., how on earth does Sony/PD determine them being blocked..? Even with as few as 500,000 active players worldwide, Sony could not possibly afford to put human eyeballs on incidents, and that is the ONLY way any block system could work. Trust me, if it was a result of reportage, it would get gamed to hell and back by groups of trolls.

The main thing is, if you are a host in an online lobby, is it like GT6? Are players that are on your block list allowed in YOUR room (remember, a Sport Mode room isn't YOUR room)? If so, all is still OK. Sport Mode is a joke, the bastard child of the universally hated GT6 Quick Race system, which no-one took seriously. The sooner we all accept this, the sooner we can go back to what actually worked in GT5/6...

SNAIL, WRS and human stewarded clean rooms.
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This thread isn't about the penalty system, it's about someone asking if it was possible to block people in Sport Mode.

When I originally mentioned my idea of blocking in this thread, it was only one of the many ideas I have about facilitating clean racing in public rooms in online racing sims (not just GTS). To answer your question (the part I highlighted in bold), Sony wouldn't. Blocking is already done via PSN Block lists, & as you know from GT5 & GT6, anyone hosting rooms automatically had everyone on their PSN Block list permanently barred from entering any of their lobbies. It was one reason among many why my rooms were so clean back then.

My idea was simply for Sport Mode to filter out bad drivers that are on our PSN Block lists while matching us for races. I don't know if it's technically possible, & like others have pointed out it would be a lot harder to implement than the GT5/6 system. It's just an idea, a concept, a brain fart! If it were technically possible, then it would indeed help to clean up online racing (along with the whole host of other measures I've not mentioned here).
 
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You guys think all this is bad? try having to suffer being bullied daily in game and in live stream by the same racing team/ people and them getting their subs to wreck you too in game off and on since 2022 summer of. trying having those same people Dox you and give out your legal name and your address to everyone in live streams and then recieve envlopes on your us postal with no return address on it one with a piece of folded paper with burnt ashes in it another one a few weeks later with a loc of hair in it!

Try having those same people Hack your personal Facebook page steal a pic of your wife in a bathing suit in your kitchen and then repost that that pic on their YT page and proceed to ask all their subs if they are having a tug to her pic? then listen to them feed everyone dumb enough to listen to them that they are not bullies and they teach their kids to never bully others

Yes i have made made threats absolutely a man can only take so much and that is a normal man i on the other hand am NOT! normal i suffer from Neurodivergence i have Tourettes Syndrome.. ADHD PTSD O.D.D and OCD to say that i am mentally messed up is a huge under statement lol
But in the end of it all i have owned my stuff and tried to atone for it all mean while these bullies in this team on the USA server keep doing it everyday over and over ive had my YT channel destroyed by them by spreading lies and one sided naritives saying me and my team are Pedos!!!

All while they continue to play the Victims now with all that then imagine this.... in all this YOU ARE ALONE!!

you get no help from PSN no help from YT and no help from Law Enforcement! you get nothing but to remain to be their fun play thing to poke at :(

Thats my GT7 Life and even though im so misrable in it I wont quit!!! i pay for my subscription like everyone else does i bought the game like everyone else but i dont have the right to enjoy it!

oh and before you ask yes i have changed servers went UK went Japan but they fallow and keep it up there to and when ive said thats it im quitting? and moving on to a new different game AKA Nascar25 ''dont recommend''

they came into my YT and said you will never get away from us we will be there too and sure enough they bought the game and bullied me in that game too...

So yeah to say that GT7 and PSN need to fix it so you can block others from being in your race well that is a understatement of the Centry so im no good at spelling guys but you get the point and let me be clear here I am in no way claiming to be a saint but do i wish they would all die slow and painful? yep everyday!!!! but what has pushed me that far? i have not mentioned the team by name or any of the players because i dont know if it will brake any rules here but if its ok and any of you want to know then i will share that too oh and the little ive shared here with you guys is just a small scrape of the surface
 
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