Auto Decline feature

[Zarzak]

for those of us who like to play solo or want to be left alone

Sorry, why did you choose to play an MMO, exactly?

Seconded.

Also

1 Friend requests
2 FC invite
3 LS invite
4 Party invite

All of these features can be abused and should be clearly looked at as a whole.

you say CAN. But Since this is the 1st mention of this I have seen since 2.0 released (and don't remember this being an issue in 1.0) I can only determine that this hasn't been an issue and your just complaining to complain.

[Dhex]

Pretty sure you can toggle off Notifications in the HUD and I'm also pretty sure you can remove system messages & notifications using the Chat log options - and you can always use the /away or /busy status as well.


I don't think you've explored all your options.

: )

[khmfdoom]

Pretty sure you can toggle off Notifications in the HUD and I'm also pretty sure you can remove system messages & notifications using the Chat log options - and you can always use the /away or /busy status as well.


I don't think you've explored all your options.

: )

I know about all the options at my disposal. My point is if you use the busy option you completely shut yourself off from the world in the game. Fine but what if you dont want all the options off as a whole what if you only want to turn off say fc and ls invites or only have friend and party invites on. Then your screwed my whole point which i clearly stated in the post. Is to have the option to turn on and off each individual option instead of completely shutting yourself off from the game as a whole.

[khmfdoom]

Seconded.

Also



you say CAN. But Since this is the 1st mention of this I have seen since 2.0 released (and don't remember this being an issue in 1.0) I can only determine that this hasn't been an issue and your just complaining to complain.

Go test these before you say im complaining just to complain. You can most certainly abuse these options to the point of blacklisting someone and then it can get more out of hand if you have your black list full. My post is a valid post i have done my research on this otherwise i wouldn't have made this post at all

[Dhex]

Good. You have the options you are asking for - Busy & Away. They block invites.

Even if you choose to not use them - you can ignore Notifications and resize or remove it from your UI.
You can only be spammed with new invites as quickly as you deny them - let them tick down or use the tools already provided in-game; or as it can be consider harassment - send a GM a harassment report.

[khmfdoom]

Good. You have the options you are asking for - Busy & Away. They block invites.

Even if you choose to not use them - you can ignore Notifications and resize or remove it from your UI.
You can only be spammed with new invites as quickly as you deny them - let them tick down or use the tools already provided in-game; or as it can be consider harassment - send a GM a harassment report.

again your not understanding what im getting at so im gonna bow out from trying to make you understand what im talking about

[Aethaeryn]

again your not understanding what im getting at so im gonna bow out from trying to make you understand what im talking about

No, you just refuse to listen to reason and want everything your way. How is changing your online status to auto-refuse invites any different than having an option you can toggle for blocking invites? They are functionally the same.

[Noxifer]

How is changing your online status to auto-refuse invites any different than having an option you can toggle for blocking invites? They are functionally the same.

Except OP stated that in the system he'd like to see, each type of invitations should be blockable individually. So for example "block friend requests only". Or "block FC invites only". Setting status as busy etc doesn't do that, does it?

But yes, invitations are ignorable. The one problem I've noticed is when me and my friend play together, and I send a party invite before realizing they're configuring their UI -- suddenly the party invite window is the "selected UI part" (even though it can't be manually selected) until you click on something else, and any size changes happens to the notification window (which then affects ALL notification windows). Sure, that's not bound to happen too often statistically, but when it does it's annoying as heck ^^;;;

[khmfdoom]

Except OP stated that in the system he'd like to see, each type of invitations should be blockable individually. So for example "block friend requests only". Or "block FC invites only". Setting status as busy etc doesn't do that, does it?

But yes, invitations are ignorable. The one problem I've noticed is when me and my friend play together, and I send a party invite before realizing they're configuring their UI -- suddenly the party invite window is the "selected UI part" (even though it can't be manually selected) until you click on something else, and any size changes happens to the notification window (which then affects ALL notification windows). Sure, that's not bound to happen too often statistically, but when it does it's annoying as heck ^^;;;

Finally someone who actually reads word for word what i posted and understands the differences.

[Camate]

Greetings,

Below is a comment from Hiroshi Minagawa about plans for improving the notification feature for free company, linkshell, and party invites, specifically for blocking notifications and black listing players who are using invitations as a form of harassment.

Hello,

While the game currently has an invitation and notification feature for free companies, linkshells, and parties, there are still some aspects of these features where the behavior is not uniform and we will be making the following improvements.

• Improvements to the invitation feature
  • Addition of a setting option in the configuration to block invitation notifications for each type of invitation.
  • Display the name of the person in the free company invitation notification.
    The name of the person will be displayed in the chat log and it will be possible to black list them right from the chat log.
  • Linkshell invitations will be blocked from people that are on your black list. (Currently linkshell invitations are the only thing that is not blocked.)

Currently there is an issue where it is difficult to know who to block since the inviters name is not displayed in free company notifications, and we plan on addressing this issue with the above improvement.

To address this we need to implement this on the server side and there are aspects that are difficult to address immediately, but this is something we are working on with a high priority. We appreciate your patience until we address this.