Bad sport lobbies are anti GTA
Since the first thread with 32 followers and 135 responses was deleated I have decided to start a new one, because the bad sport system is an issue for so many players.
The main issue is that bad sport lobbies are empty most of the time, so you are not just excluded from normal lobbies for your bad sport time - you are excluded from GTAO completly. And you can not just exclude players who paid for the game like this. Another point is how you get into bad sport lobbies. Playing in buzzards, tanks or even jets has become pretty pointles, because you can not shoot at most of the players without killing their personal car - so why do you have them in GTAO anyway? But even without playing in those you can get into bad sport far too quick. Lets say you start a beef with a crew (maybe 3-4 ppl). They will come after you, at some point in order to kill them you will use explosives and sometimes you will blow up the car (even accidently). Sometimes you have to blow a car up because they reverse shoot you from supersportcars. So lets say you fight with them for 20 minutes. At that point you will have blow up a couple of cars just to defend yourself. After the fight in the event that you outplayed them and they get pissed they likely to report you (and you get another bad sport points). After this you are already a dodgy player. Fly in a jet for 10 more minutes and kill 3 players and you off to bad sport.
This doesent feel like GTA anymore. Of course you have to protect passive players who just like to drive in their cars allday a little bit from jet players who like to shoot anything allday. But just calling him a bad sport and literally exclude him from GTAO (because the bad sport lobbies are empty or very, very inactive with 3 players) for 2 weeks, 1 month or even 2 months? Yeah, you can say he is a jet griefer and yes you can say those are cheap kills but you cant say that this playstyle is not GTA, right? I mean the way i remember playing GTA was to simply be a bad ass and blow everything up in the single player.
What I want so say is these extreme types of players I just described (the super passive and the super aggressive) are have to be dealt with somehow, because it is no fun for either of them. As a jet player myself I have to say there is nothing more boring than just passive players who driving around allday. On the other side for the passive player there is probably nothing worse than a guy in a jet who simply kills him all the time.
My solution would be the mood system Rockstar already integrated into the game a couple of patches ago. If you are a aggressive player you should get into lobbies with other aggressive player and the same for passive players. This way everybody can have fun in his own playstyle.
But the way it is right now its just super frustrating for so many players who like to play it the aggressive way. Even if you only fight with other aggressive players you can get penalized, when you are using explosives like the rocket launcer and stuff. The blowing car thing is so crappy. If I am in fight with somebody there should be nothing we cant do to each other, except cheating. I dont care if he blows up my car in a fight, because i took cover behind it and he throwes a grenade or something. I mean this is basic combat stuff, neither on of us would call each other bad sport. But the game draws this line in the sand and its just ridicilous. Thats what I mean with anit GTA, because it prevents you from playing it freely. Protecting passive players and everything is important but this cant be no excuse for a system like this. And to be honest: Its so frustrating right now that I dont even play GTAO no more and I wont get it for PS4 neither. Its ashame, because GTA was always my favorite game and I really do love the GTAO but this mechanic is so pathetic and gamebreaking that it ruins everything. Trust me, lots of people think like this right now. So please, no matter if you are passive or aggressive player or what ever, support this one. It has to be changed somehow. I would even accept bad sport lobbies if they would be nearly full like normal ones. I dont care, just do something.