I don't think I have ever been so angered by anything in this game ever before.
So I was playing on one of the Klei servers this evening. Things were going well, we made it to winter and things were looking up. Then all of a sudden, three players enter the game. Out of nowhere, there is a vote to kick one of the four or so individuals that I had been playing with. The rest of us were pretty confused since we had all been working together amicably. We kept voting against it of course, but it kept coming up, until somehow that person was kicked. Then another vote kick was initiated to remove yet another of remaining players, and they got kicked too. It was then I realized the three that had just joined were ganging up to kick us all out one by one. Of course, with their numbers, after somehow getting rid of the first player, they had the majority and were able to kick the rest of us. Eventually we were all tossed out and there was nothing we could do about it—the server was theirs.
I had to walk away for a few minutes since I was so frustrated thanks to these trolls. At first, I thought they had kicked us all out so they could take over our base and all that. But when I checked the Klei servers when I got back, they had let the world regenerate.
But the real kicker? (No pun intended.)
I joined another Klei server in hopes of starting fresh. Everything was fine, two other players had joined me and we were minding our own business. And then guess which three players joined all at the same time? That's right, the same three trolls that had joined that first server and kicked us all out of it. With evident glee, they proceeded to kick out the other two players before finally kicking me out as well. Maybe they saved me for last both times since I was vocal about my anger and that probably only fed the troll flame. Regardless, they succeeded yet again. I checked soon after, and they had left that server to (I assume) move onto the next one. As soon as I reconnected, the world was already being regenerated.
Has anyone else dealt with trollish behaviour like this? It's the first time I've come across this tactic in particular. I honestly don't understand how some people derive so much joy from ruining other people's fun. But really, I can't think of anything that can prevent this from happening when a group of people band together and use their numbers to their advantage so that the vote kick passes no matter what. Obviously there are answers, like hosting your own closed server. But the fact that they can just enter any old server with the vote kick function and boot out all the players that might have already established themselves is infuriating to say the least.
