Player Features and Ideas Discussion

How long have the police been working on the case BEFORE the swat team was sent in? days? weeks? months?


Ever been a 911 operator, or an emergency services dispatcher? because the types of questions I posted are asked frequently at least by the 911 operators I know especially if the calls are coming from or they suspect the calls are coming from a cell phone.

Do you really think that the police / fire / ambulance here in the US are going to dispatch units based on a phone call they receive from a game company in Iceland without asking a few questions first?

This whole idea is filed with so many potential problem areas that it is really not feasible, I mean really what could possibly go wrong.

You have untrained people that are doing the initial evaluation of the situation often based on nothing more than a comment made in a chat channel somewhere on the internet.

Other than your shared gaming experiences do you know anything about the person who you are concerned about, what do you know about their life as a whole.

Do you fully understand the local customs, language and dialect they are speaking, this is compounded when you consider that there is likely a large percentage of the players that are not native English speakers. And while we are on the topic of languages which language does CCP use for this system, or would they need to keep people on staff 24 / 365 that speak all languages possible based on their subscribers.

Given that words often have opposite meanings are you really hearing what you think you are, or just a local slang variant definition. As an example we went through that whole phase some time back were "bad" did not always mean bad, sometimes it meant really good

So a player in US pushes the panic button and reports a corp member that lives in Australia to a game company in Iceland.
The game company looks up information on the players address which takes a few seconds but then what do they do? How do they know the proper emergency contact phone number to call, do they have it on file with the account info?

And yet this brings us back to perhaps one of the biggest problems, does the player still live at that address, or did they move and forgot to update CCP with their new address? What happens if the player you are reporting is on a trip out of their home country using a laptop to log in how can CCP know this information, do you even know they are away from their home address?

While this idea seems good at the basic level when it comes down to working around the potential problems associated with it there is just no practical way to make it work. We as players getting to know each other, where we live, what we do for a job is the ultimate answer to this situation

I'm really glad that the location infos CCP have on me is hopelessly out of date.

Everyone seems to be thinking making it red and promising "serious consequences" will mean that no-one will prank with this.

Do me a lemonI The lulz!!! I'm already considering building a chain of fake email addressen to register the character with whom I'll SWAT all me "mates".

I don't recognize your name, so I'm assuming either this was separate from the channel, or I simply haven't met you much due to TZ conflict. Either way, thank you for looking out for your fellow players and I'd love to shoot the **** with you sometime in the B4R channel. If we have (which is totally possible - I'm tired and brain is fuzzy tonight!), I apologize for not recognizing your name atm!

Yes, what some of the e-lawyers and trolls that are here fail to realize is that I didn't create this question to debate the merits of whether "people should bother themselves to notify emergency services" or not. I'll try one more time to spell it out for those of you who do not seem to understand:

1. No one runs off to CCP or emergency dispatch at the drop of a hat. Contacting emergency services is only done when a player has made it reasonably obvious self-harm is imminent. Sadly, even then it's not always fast enough and we still lose fellow capsuleers. But, we have saved a few by being proactive and attentive. Some of them are now volunteers in the channel, actually.

2. Let me be clear - CCP already does investigate and act on threats of suicide. And they are not unique - every game company I'm aware of does. I really don't understand why some of you are arguing about whether or not they should? You can stop arguing - they do.

Through discussions with folks like myself, Devs and CSM, response time is getting better and better, but what I'm attempting to toy with here is making a standard process that will work best for both CCP and players. Some of the concerns that go through my mind are reflected in some of your posts. The fact that manchildren may attempt to abuse the system "for lulz" is enough to make me feel defeated, considering how much good is done already. If you are one of those, do us a favor and focus that type of energy on something more constructive, like spamming the governments for better healthcare for veterans.