Some tips to use against trolls.

[FernandoCR [ESP]]

Hello there.

 

Just some minutes ago, I was driving peacefully on a highway when I started noticing that something wrong was happening ahead. Before I could react, a troll driving a Scout Pilot car came towards me, driving wrong way and rammed my truck heads-on.

 

So, because of what I saw in the aftermath, I decided to create this topic.

1 - As soon as I could, I started my truck (it had been badly damaged), turned on the emergency lights and drove away from the road into the emergency lane.

2 - Once I was sure that the way was free, I stopped, hit 0 to enable the free cam and immediately after that, F1 to enter Pause Mode.

3 - Using free cam, I was able to get some good video evidence of these 2 trolls wreking havoc on that stretch of the highway, so I'd be able to send a web report later on.

4 - If once you are stopped at a safe place and if you see that the trolls won't move, you can simply open the chat, send /disconnect to leave the server, drive away for 5-6 minutes, then stop again, go to the menu, Exit - Launchpad and join the server again.

 

Good things about this:

1 - If you go into freecam before hitting F1, you can move freely, so you can get better views, close images of the trolls' names, TMP ids (if you have them enabled to be shown by the name) and so on.

2 - You can still use the chat, so you can warn other players about the issue. Just don't engage with the trolls, no matter if they speak to you. Unless you want to mock them a bit 

3 - With just sending /p or /pinfo <id> in the chat, you don't send any messages to others but you "reset" the 10 minutes AFK timer.

 

Best of all:

- When you are in Pause Mode, the trolls can't damage your vehicle, they can't even move it. You can get some laughs at them, seeing their cars bounce away when they hit your truck 

 

Hoping that a lot of people will see this and try it out. Lots of trolls would leave the game if everyone knew this, their "job" would become old and boring pretty soon.

[Granite [SVK]]

This shoud go into Guides section and get pinned.

[DorukD]

 Helpful 

[Interstate Nomad]

Thank you,  @FernandoCR [ESP], for this helpful tips. 

I wasn't are that one could move in freecam mode even if F1 was pressed afterwards. 

 

And I agree with @Granitethat it should be added to the guides section.

 

[Bangshuai6]

Thank you for the guide, it was very helpful and I agree very much with the method you recommended to protect myself very well.

[B&Č Transport ASIR [CZE]]

Or become an admin and ban them straightaway. 

Helpful and good guide, though!

[Franze P.]

I think this is a good way to deal with these things and I also suggest this post can published in the guides.

[Belusitaire]

I actually did this like 2 days ago when 2 people near Oslo were trying to troll me
One was blocking and the other one was trying to damage my truck. It was so funny to see them trying while I was recording everything. They ended doing F7 or disconnected, I don't know, but they failed miserably 

[dragonslayingmaster1000]

I will definitely consider using F1 if in a situation like that or just stopped in a traffic jam, I heard of people doing it before and didn't know exactly what it did but that's a good thing to know.

[Astrealth]

Haha, lovely tips and I didn't actually know. Thanks for sharing it with us. 

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