Mute Vote

[TrasHCan]

I have played several competitive online games and still I think the amount of flamers and ragers in HoN beats them all. Why do 4 team members (and possibly the opposing team as well) have to bear with 1 whiny kid, who wants to concede because he doesn't gonna get a postive KDR this match, while the rest of his team is doing fine or at least didn't loose all hope yet?

Often such a person will demoralize the whole team, making the so important teamwork much more difficult. If 4 team members agree that the last 1 is not gonna contribute anything usefull in chat, why can't they vote to make him finally shut up?

Constant concede/kick vote spamming can be just as demoralizing as raging in chat.

This could also be used to stop minimap ping spamming.

Yes, yes, yes... I know you can ignore players, but it is just a totally different thing to stick your fingers into your ears while someone is insulting you (rendering yourself unable to defend yourself) than to shove a sock down his throat.

So my suggestion is: Implement a 4/5 team vote to prevent a player on your team to say anything in chat/voicechat, use pings or call votes.

[Sherwood]

I agree. I've disabled voice chat in HoN because of issues I have with randomers talking to me. As a result I miss out on information that is being said by people who are genuine. It's a trade I have to make because the drawbacks are bigger than the benefits.
If as a team we can vote to mechanically make someone stfu then that would be awesome.

[En_Dotter]

What are u 2 talking about? U can use the "speech bubble" on their portrait to prevent use of voice chat. Id just like an option to prevent them from showing their map signals to me.

[Sherwood]

So that's what that is! Thanks!