ok, what i'm suggesting is an official person (or persons) maybe an employee of anet, whose job is to moderate "in game", in real time. there could be an added feature of reporting where you have the option "summon/call game moderator (GM)" when there is a SERIOUS offense taking place. we all know there's alot of random arguments and verbal garbage that goes on in towns and i am NOT saying this is what i'm suggesting this feature for. this would be for extreme circumstances where immediate action would be necessary and appreciated by other players.
i'm basing this suggestion from a situation i ran into at shing jea (yeah, shing jea, what else do you expect lol) a person was running around town shouting the most extreme, vile, graphic language you can think of, verbally abusing other players, the list goes on. no this guy wasn't just saying "bad words" i'm not offended by most things but this guy was seriously disturbed. i mean going into detail about molesting babies is a little much for me. some of you might say, just ignore it, turn off your local channel, etc. i know that guy will get his punishment when anet receives all the reports and has a chance to review the chat logs but situations like that would benefit from *immediate* action, in my opinion at least.
i think the threat of immediate action and the idea that *someone is watching you* might make SOME of these people think twice before going out of their way to disturb the gameplay of others.
to *hopefully* cutback on abuse of this feature, a message could be added warning the reporter of the consequences. such as, type /report, select "summon GM", then a message pops up stating something like...
"you are about to summon a GM to evaluate a possible illegal action. if this report is found to be unsubstantiated, you (the reporter) could be punished for abuse of this feature. are you sure you wish to proceed?"
something fun that could be done instead of summoning the GM to your location, would be where the reporter and the person being reported would both be summoned to an isolated location.....like GM island or "the isle of judgment" lol where both persons could be questioned, if necessary, and the GM would review the chat logs or whatever to confirm the illegal activity. the reason for the reporter being sent to the island would be to reduce the risk of abuse of the feature, being that the reporter must stand behind what they have just reported and take time out of their gameplay to defend it. of course with that the person could just log out, but if they do they could be placed right back at the island when they log back in, or face some sort of punishment. but the original reported action would still be evaluated if that happened and the GM was unable to resolve it. the GM would just forward it as "unresolved" or something and then it would be treated like a regular "report".
i based this idea off the GMs in the original Neverwinter Nights (haven't played in years so i dunno if they still use them). way back when i used to play, my friends and i were friends with a GM of a particular server. occasionally he would bring us to random locations or pop up where we were just to mess with us, lol we were friends so it was cool, but this is also why i say a GW moderator would definitely need to be an official, unbiased person preferably an ANET employee.
i doubt this is a feature that will ever happen, but i still like the idea.
but yes, even though i like the idea i still think it's something that would be abused.
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