Is THIS report really that useful?

[Smoothrich]

Adding extra work to the player (forcing them to hit ctrl + m during clusterfucks to respect accidental teamwounds) is horrible game design and the opposite of fun for the majority of the playerbase, just putting common sense out there fellers

[Micah]

I think the reporting feature is overall a very good and well implemented thing. In opposite to the OP i believe that its value is not in the possible punishment , but is in the "staged threat". At the end of the day, the goal is not to have someone kicked from the server, but to have all players play together in an aware state about teamhitting.
There is a second advantage of the feature which is, that it gives a guy who got teamhit the opportunity to express his anger in an legal, non-excessive way. Imagine, what would happen if the feature wasnt there ... everyone who would usually report, would now have 2 options left, to either suck it up (which would result in an discharge of accumulated anger later) or express his anger freely in the chat, which would propably done by insulting, resulting in more insults.
Furthermore the feature is implemented in a rather seemless and barely exploitable way ... at least i havent heared many reasonable complaints about reporting-exploits...
People who complain about getting reported should kindly man up and accept to get reported for a teamhit. If they wouldnt teamhit , there would be no reports for them (or only very few).

[Utrakil]

The auto-report is a very bad idea. specially for the guys who like fighting in the clusterfuck. they fight till they have 4 reports and then they only wait for the time to pass. I think if you jump into the crowd you have to live with some th.
The reportsystem works fine as it is. There are always some morons who get kickt because they fool aroud and get reported. and this is what it is made for I think.

Sometimes I got the feeling people are not allway aware of their teamhits. So I think it would be very helpfull to get a message like:
You teamhit player XXX
I think when players realize everyone of their th they become more carefull.
And it would be easier to apologize if you know your victims name.

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[Corsair831]

Adding extra work to the player (forcing them to hit ctrl + m during clusterfucks to respect accidental teamwounds) is horrible game design and the opposite of fun for the majority of the playerbase, just putting common sense out there fellers

worked in ro ostfront / darkest hour, with great success

[Sniger]

totally agree. id just increase the penalty and TH damage. indeed would be very interesting to try the TH reflecting back to TH'er just for a little while im pretty sure ppl would think twice before spamming in a cluster, but its not very realistic. i think max 3 reports = kick would help some. combined with higher score penalty perhaps or maybe if you TK you will be dead next round or something like that.

[Swaggart]

You can't compare shooters to crpg because in shooters your actions have immediate effect. When you release a swing/shot there is time for the enemy to move, or for a friendly to wander into the way. Not to mention your awareness is much lower in crpg than shooters because you are face to face with your enemy (if you play a man's class melee that is).

The system right now is fine. If a person doesn't want to punish a TW, why should they be forced to pause their gaming just so they can hit control m (meanwhile they can get fucked over for the lapse of concentration)?