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Shared (or shareable) blocklist
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Nyalnara
Marauder Initiative
#1 - 2015-06-10 07:21:51 UTC
Well, I'm pretty sure that most people reading the title will be able to guess where this thread is going to end... Yes, Jita. (Or any other Hub, really.) Jita Local is full of spam, scam and all that. And i appreciate having clear com channels, which is not going to happen there. Never ever.

So i just blocked them all. Again. And again. And... Until someday i managed to block them all.

Then i jumped to Jita with another alt. Oh s***, time to block again.



So here is the proposition: i'd like to be able to block people on more than one character at the same time... Here are a few ideas on how to do it, feel free to add other ideas or potential solutions, i'll edit the list later to add them.


  • Make the default block-list account-wide. (Harsh version, not sure if possible depending on how contacts are implemented.)
  • Add a second block-list account-wide, with a "block contact (account-wide)" button in contextual menu. (Soft version, not sure if possible depending on how contacts are implemented.)
  • In the block-list tab from the contact window, add a button which generate a shareable block-list, which can later be imported on another character. You can now regularly send it through mail to all your alts, like you would do with an overview link. Permit sharing with alts on multiple account. Could be abused, exactly like overview links can.)

French half-noob.

Non, je ne suis pas gentil.
Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#2 - 2015-06-10 07:32:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Samillian
Seems a lot of effort to go to when you can simply minimise Jita local, drag another channel on top of it or just ignore it completely.

NBSI shall be the whole of the Law
Nyalnara
Marauder Initiative
#3 - 2015-06-10 07:41:50 UTC
I've been doing some PvP until recently, and i learned the hard way that you should always see local. Even in HighSec. Because it's definitely not safe out there.

And well, blocking people make their messages be ignored, allowing me to see more important things. Well, not in Jita, content is never interesting there. But people still spam crap when not in Jita, and if i have multiple characters, not having things to read everywhere before deciding whether it's useless or not, because it was already blocked, would be simpler.

French half-noob.

Non, je ne suis pas gentil.
Iain Cariaba
#4 - 2015-06-10 07:46:40 UTC
You can always reduce the size of the chat pane of the local window til it only displays a single column of characters. Makes it easier to ignore.

You can always re-arrange your windows so that the chat pane of the local window is covered by another window. You will still be able to see who's in system.

Basically, your idea does nothing but waste dev time.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#5 - 2015-06-10 09:23:19 UTC
Iain Cariaba wrote:
You can always reduce the size of the chat pane of the local window til it only displays a single column of characters. Makes it easier to ignore.

You can always re-arrange your windows so that the chat pane of the local window is covered by another window. You will still be able to see who's in system.

Basically, your idea does nothing but waste dev time.

Exactly this, you definitely should have it open but you don't actually need to read it, the list of people in the system is the important thing.

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Khan Wrenth
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2015-06-10 10:58:52 UTC
^ That, and I've heard there is a way somehow. Somewhere in your local EVE files should be a file that handles a character's block lists. I don't know the details, but if you dig around you should be able to find it. Spend a few minutes every day blocking every spaz in Jita, and perhaps once a day after you're done EVEing, copy those files over to your other character profiles.

I haven't tried this myself, but the people I hang out with in Mumble spoke a lot about it, for pretty much your exact reasons. They said it worked like a charm.

Let's discuss overhauling the way we get intel in EvE.
Iain Cariaba
#7 - 2015-06-10 15:05:27 UTC
Khan Wrenth wrote:
^ That, and I've heard there is a way somehow. Somewhere in your local EVE files should be a file that handles a character's block lists. I don't know the details, but if you dig around you should be able to find it. Spend a few minutes every day blocking every spaz in Jita, and perhaps once a day after you're done EVEing, copy those files over to your other character profiles.

I haven't tried this myself, but the people I hang out with in Mumble spoke a lot about it, for pretty much your exact reasons. They said it worked like a charm.

I'm not so sure this is the case. I play EvE on two seperate machines, one laptop here at work and my desktop at home, and my block lists carry over between the two. This would indicate that it's a server side resource, not a client side.
Nyalnara
Marauder Initiative
#8 - 2015-06-10 15:23:01 UTC
Iain Cariaba wrote:
I'm not so sure this is the case. I play EvE on two seperate machines, one laptop here at work and my desktop at home, and my block lists carry over between the two. This would indicate that it's a server side resource, not a client side.


I do agree with that. If it had not been server-side, i would have included the copy of that file in my bash launcher.

French half-noob.

Non, je ne suis pas gentil.
Nyalnara
Marauder Initiative
#9 - 2015-06-11 15:50:10 UTC
This is a bump, because i'd like some more opinions.

And if you disagree, try to be constructive about it. The "not needed" argument is nice and all, but so much not needed things got added that it's a bit easy going for that... (MTU while we had Noctis, Salvaging drones while we had salvagers... They were not needed, with better alternatives, but got added nonetheless.)

French half-noob.

Non, je ne suis pas gentil.