/busy is not good enough!!! Can we please have /anon!!! for those alone times :)

Seriously,

I know this is a MMO and by that I totally get its social. And I do truly enjoy being social but not night and day. Sometimes I just want to login and enjoy hanging out with me for a bit. That's not to say I don't want to go raid or chat with my newest fc member. Or help a new player out in town that is just seeing Eorzea for the first time.


Recent RMT tell spams have gotten so bad and we all know they are just using the search option to find us and spam tells. If I am in full social mode sure I'll take the good with the bad and deal with it. But, If I am looking for my alone time /busy is not fair. Sometimes even when i'm alone I truly am not really alone and I get that.

It's for those times when a tell still needs to get through from a friend or someone in need. /anon would server two purposes if implemented correctly. It needs to hide my complete character from searches and second, it needs to still allow me to receive tells.

That's it. This is really all I am wanting for atm.

you just said that there are times you want to be by yourself. You can't be by yourself if you want to receive pms/tells from some FC members or friends.

Create a custom chat mode and get you and your buddies a linkshell. In the chat mode, shut of everything but linkshell chat. Turn on /busy. Problem solved.

What would be awesome, is if they would allow you to edit your status while in a dungeon / raid. I can't count how many times I have been in CT and forgot to shut off /busy and they initiate a /readycheck. /facepalm

there's an option to temporarily disable your chatlog, but that's the best of it.

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Originally Posted by Frost_Trunks

Create a custom chat mode and get you and your buddies a linkshell. In the chat mode, shut of everything but linkshell chat. Turn on /busy. Problem solved.

What would be awesome, is if they would allow you to edit your status while in a dungeon / raid. I can't count how many times I have been in CT and forgot to shut off /busy and they initiate a /readycheck. /facepalm

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But then he would have everyone in the LS read the personal message aimed at only one person. Problem's not solved.

If rmt use search to send tells, this /anon idea is interesting.

My concerns are yea I do have those times I truly want to be alone. But I am never too busy to listen to a friend or someone in need. Getting rmt tells left and right along with random friend requests is very annoying. A friend is gonna see your online in their list and of course someone in need is usually that person you standing next too that says "hey can you help me out rq?". You guys get the gist. Anon is a way to block myself from those searches those RMT do while affording me some option to keep chat lines open. Custom linkshells is not really always an option but I do think they are ok for sometime. Let me ask this. Why do you think we need the ability to search on someone 24/7 in a game we spend most of our time in DF or PF running content with anyways? If those players you want to find are already friends then you have other ways to find them out. A search option just opens us to one specific thing, Harassment by RMT or whoever decides to abuse it.

Why are some people so against /anon? We had it in XI and it didn't break the universe.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with an option that makes it so you don't show up in player search.

What exactly are you doing alone; with your chocobo; that you don't want people to be able to search your location or online status? O.o

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Originally Posted by Whocareswhatmynameis

What exactly are you doing alone; with your chocobo; that you don't want people to be able to search your location or online status? O.o

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Must be from Balmung..

/anon worked on FFXI because people would literally message certain jobs all day long to join their parties.

Not really needed in FFXIV, in my opinion.

the spam tells aren't half as bad as those silly friend request though, can't we figure out how to stop that first? :c
I noticed that you can't get more than 9 pending friend requests so i dont get any new ones but they still have to be there watching me

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Originally Posted by reality_check

/anon worked on FFXI because people would literally message certain jobs all day long to join their parties.

Not really needed in FFXIV, in my opinion.

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Because you say so? and other peoples' reasons for wanting to be anonymous mean nothing - even the concerns about the intrusive RMT tells all day long? This is what I mean - why are some so against even the idea? Is this a generational thing, the 'always on' mentality that no one is allowed even a moment's peace?

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Originally Posted by Souljacker

Why are some people so against /anon? We had it in XI and it didn't break the universe.

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Unless they changed something after I quit, played from NA release date to 2007, /anon still showed you online, and you were still able to get friend requests, tells, LS invites etc. The reason why /anon was so needed for XI was indemand jobs such as WHMs/BLMs/RDMs/Tanks and high level crafters to get constantly spammed by randoms looking for warps, teleports, fill in spots for parties and crafting. I used this feature a lot since I mained WHM/BLM. It worked in FFXI because only friends and LS mates that knew me closely knew what my jobs where. In a game like FFXIV it would make absolutely no sense if implemented the exact same way because you would still show up on world search and still receive invites and tells.

All in all if you want to play by yourself and not be bugged set yourself to /busy and have all the people you want to contact you in your LSes or FC.

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even the concerns about the intrusive RMT tells all day long?

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I'm assuming you want the function to work the same in FFXIV as it did in FFXI in which it will not prevent you from getting RMT spams. You still appear in zone/world searches, just with your job/race/rank information hidden.

An anonymous status would be nice, can't say how often I'd use it. I've grown so accustomed to setting my status to busy for so long...

Honestly, I would love it if they had a Report & Mute function (so it doesn't clutter the blacklist & I don't need to remove names frequently). I know it would take time to implement and they probably have to find a work-around for the PS3, but it would still be nice.

/anon hid you from all searches except for explicit name searches and zone searches. Ideally here it would hide you from ALL searches, but I understand that some folks feel really strongly about other players being able to use such a feature (though I will never understand *why).

I used XI as a reference because the feature existed and no one's gameplay was negatively impacted by it - not because I felt that /anon here should be modeled precisely after it.