Please do something about global chat.
Hello, I've only been playing this game for about a month and just signed up on the forums today. I felt the need to join the forums so I could bring up a problem making this game less enjoyable to play, and I'm sure many other people are having similar issues. The issue I am referring to is the mass amount of people on the global chat that report others for a completely ridiculous reason, as giving helpful advise or just chatting with others.
Here are a few examples I have encountered:
1) I just opened the game and went to the global chat to see what conversations were going on. The first message that comes up is someone at a lower level than me saying "my base is perfect." So I go to their place to see what "perfection" looks like. Looking at their base I easily spotted many flaws that made them an easy target for loot and trophies, so I went back to the global chat and kindly informed them how they could greatly improve their base. What was their response? "Thank you, I will consider those changes?" No. This was their response: "F*** you ninja, I reported and muted you." After that other people in the chat responded with "lol" and "yea I reported him too haha." Seconds later I was muted from the global chat for 24 hours.
2) This scenario happens quite often. I'll be chatting with people on global while people periodically say "need clan." Most of the people requesting a clan are at a low level or low league so I ignore them and let another clan pick them up. Then a worthy enough player will come on the chat and ask for a new clan, so I respond to him, along with many other players, by telling him he can join my clan and that I already sent an invitation. Afterwards someone might send a message like "my clan is better than ninja's you should join me instead." Curious as to whether or not this statement is true, I view this person's clan. Let's say I find that only two or three of their players are at a higher level and league than the people in my clan, and even have less people in the clan. I'm a truthful and helpful person, so my instinct is to inform this person that their clan is not in fact better than my clan, and I explain to them why this is. Yet again, I get lashed with hateful comments for pointing this out and am again muted for 24 hours within seconds.
3) This has happened to for each situation (the two are similar in a way):
-In the global chat I will see someone post a racial/hateful comment towards someone, so I inform them that their comment seems racist. Muted for 24 hours.
-I'm not very religious, but I don't respect people who claim other religions are wrong or absurd and the people who practice those religions will suffer in some way. I came across a person like this in the global chat once and asked them to refrain from acting so ignorant and saying hateful things about another person, and in return I was reported for telling that person they were being ignorant. Muted, again, for 24 hours.
4) More recently, I found out how to have a large blank space in between words and have it show up in the chat. So sometimes while in a conversation with someone on global I will put a large gap in the middle or at the begging of my message for a little fun and humor. I guess some people hate how it looks or envy me for knowing how to do this when they don't, because I have been muted three times for having spaces in my messages during a normal conversation.
Having this happen the first couple times didn't bother me so much, but now it has gotten out of control. People (I assume little kids most of the time, and yes I even refer to kids younger than 13 who "shouldn't play this game") are abusing this report system completely. I'm not saying I don't use curse words, I'm a normal college kid, but I respect the game rules and stay away from that kind of language as much as possible while on global chat. However more people now ignore that language and report people for reasons that are completely fatuous. I don't have a solution to this problem, but I think Supercell should look into this because it is making this game very aggravating at times. Thank you for reading what I have to say, let me know if you have anything you would like to add.
*** To any person who might comment "just don't go on global chat," that is not fixing the problem that is avoiding it completely. I believe this is important to the game's overall view and it is an aspect I enjoy using, when I'm not being muted from it.
