Is there an unwritten etiquette for GTA V lobbies?
I've only racked up about 10 hours in GTA 5 Online (for PC), and so far just having fun in the lobby is fantastic.
However I'm only a Level 10 , so imagine my surprise last night when I went to go to Los Santos Customs and saw about 5 members of a crew, all level 100 or above, in identical cars, driving in a circle formation around the Los Santos Customs car park.
So I did what any self-respecting GTA player would do. I got out my rocket launcher and blew them up. All of them.
This resulted in them getting mad. They became verbally abusive (eh, this is not uncommon and doesn't particularly worry me), told me that it's not cool to interrupt when they're "trying to do something" and they all voted to kick me from the session, and BAM I was gone.
In my searches for an answer to this on the internet, I found a lot of people who are very grumpy when people kill them "unprovoked". But I thought that was the point of the game?
I'm not particularly concerned about the incident, but it made me wonder if there's some sort of unofficial etiquette I should have been following?
Solution 1:
Generally in all game lobbies and other idle servers, it's not considered good etiquette to enter combat with people in an area that is clearly not conducting combat. Generally this is go with the flow. Don't go all PvP if other players aren't doing the same.
If you are not sure if people age goofing off with combat in an idle server or lobby or if they are goofing off without combat, you can simply ask. You don't have to go into details.
Still, kicking people from a public lobby for breaking PvP etiquette is not a very polite way to deal with it either, so don't go doing that yourself.
Still, try not to judge others for being jerks, especially when you were accidentally a bit of a jerk. We've all been jerks once or twice by accident or just from being in a bad mood, and we've all been the victim of jerks, so we should not be judging people over it unless they are mic spamming profanity when they aren't rapping along with the rest of their crew.
p.s. feel free to substitute jerk for a more profane word not appropriate for Stack Exchange but plenty appropriate for GTA V.
Solution 2:
The rules are as follows:
Do Not Jet Grief (Only use a jet to take down other aircraft or fly around in it, do not kill people on the ground)
Don't tank grief (Unless people attack you or come at you leave them be)
Only attack people in self defence (this includes pre-emptive attacking if you believe they are about to attack you)
Don't bug people with texts or chat if people don't wanna talk to you don't talk to them (Only message people who are interested in speaking with you)
Leave people in passive alone if they follow you get away from them (they're probably planning on killing you sneakily)
Don't use mods or modded things (Nobody likes or respects modders the only people that say they do are ones using them for money but they don't mean it)
No glitching this means no glitch outfits, wall breaches or other glitches (Use the game as it was meant to be)
Only report or kick people who are griefing or modding
Don't spam mission invites if people aint interested
If people are trying to get away from you don't follow them
You should only kill people and chase people down if they attack you a crew member or friend or kill you.
Using passive mode and off radar are acceptable but people may ridicule you.
Don't spam rockets or overpowered weapons use overpowered weapons as a last resort (People who use overpowered weaponry at the start of a fight look weak and are viewed as noobs)
Solution 3:
Do whatever you want to do. You paid same money as them to play online. If they don't like the way you play, they can change server, go into the passive mode or start a private session.
All parties have options.