Goldseller Party invite

Please add a fix that trails can not invite to a part I'm getting these every 5 min's now load's of people are.

annoying as hell

You can't get an party invitations while in dungeons please clarify

There's already a thread on this.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...as-a-char-name

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Originally Posted by dragorian

You can't get an party invitations while in dungeons please clarify

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He's talking about trial accounts I presume?

Trial accounts have all of the following restricitons.

Restrictions for the FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Free Trial

The following account restrictions apply during the Free Trial:
The Free Trial period lasts for 14 calendar days from the day of Free Trial account setup. (time is not calculated by time spent in-game)
Any upgrade to the full retail version of the game during the Free Trial shall result in the loss of any unused Free Trial time.
Free Trial users cannot use paid optional services (hiring additional retainers, etc.)
Free Trial users are unable to log in to the Lodestone and the official forums.

The following in-game restrictions apply during the Free Trial:
(error messages may appear when attempting to use certain features)

[Character Creation Restriction]
- Up to 8 playable characters, restricted to 1 playable character per World, can be created with a Free Trial account.
- In order to keep playing with the same in-game and character data in the full version, players must upgrade to the full version of the game within 90 days after the Free Trial expires.

[Level Cap]
- Class levels are capped at level 20 for Free Trial characters.

[Currency Cap]
- Gil (in-game currency) is capped at 20,000 for Free Trial characters.

[Chat Restrictions]
- The chat options /shout, /yell, and /tell cannot be used by Free Trial characters.

[Market Board Restrictions]
- The Market Board cannot be used by Free Trial characters.

[Trading Restrictions]
- Trades cannot be made with or by Free Trial characters.

[Moogle Delivery Service Restrictions]
- The Moogle Delivery Service cannot be used by Free Trial characters.

[Retainer Restrictions]
- Retainers cannot be used or hired by Free Trial characters.

[Linkshell Restrictions]
- Linkshells cannot be created by Free Trial characters.
+ However, Free Trial characters can join already existing linkshells.

[Free Company Restrictions]
- Free Trial characters cannot join free companies.

[Party Restrictions]
- Free Trial users cannot invite other players to their party.
- Free Trial users cannot recruit party members via the Party Finder.
+ However, Free Trial users can be invited to parties and use the Duty Finder feature. (in-game matchmaking system)

Please note that all of these restrictions will be removed after upgrading to the full version.

Can they invite you if you have your chocobo out? Just a thought.

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Originally Posted by Lujan

Please add a fix where goldsellers can not invite a trial-user to a party. I'm getting these every 5 mins and now loads of people are too

It's annoying as hell

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I think that is what OP is saying ^

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

[Party Restrictions]
- Free Trial users cannot invite other players to their party.
- Free Trial users cannot recruit party members via the Party Finder.
+ However, Free Trial users can be invited to parties and use the Duty Finder feature. (in-game matchmaking system)

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That note has been there for a while, but considering the little nuisances still manage to invite me makes me wonder if this feature is yet to be implemented.
Either that, or they're actually making enough money to pay the subscription fee for dozens of accounts, per server for advertisement purposes or there are a lot of people that manage to get their accounts compromised.
My guess is the first, but I haven't tried making a seperate trial account to confirm.

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Originally Posted by FyrmurlFloerasksyn

Can they invite you if you have your chocobo out? Just a thought.

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Nope, having your Chocobo buddy out is a work-around to avoid random invitations.

And the chocobo way will become useless with 3.5 turning it into a pet, although I'd be surprised if SE didn't expand the quick report to more than just tells from sellers.

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Originally Posted by Magic-Mal

I think that is what OP is saying ^

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Entirely the opposite, he's talking about trial accounts being the INVIVTER not the INVITEE!

Trial accounts cannot invite people to a party.

pretty sure since seeing someone on trial on the novice network ask them to party 2 trials up so they could run a dungeon together.

RMT does pay for accounts.

think it's been ever since they severely limited the free trial options which used to include /tell /shout /invite to party.

Prior to 3.4, I'd get Tells from RMTs every 5-10 mins. Post 3.4, I think I've got 1 Tell from an RMT. I've also only got like a total of 4 party invites from them, and I play way more than most people.
I don't mean to sound like the old man but, you have it easy now lol. I think that's a gross exaggeration of every 5 mins.

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Originally Posted by RockGodOne

Prior to 3.4, I'd get Tells from RMTs every 5-10 mins. Post 3.4, I think I've got 1 Tell from an RMT. I've also only got like a total of 4 party invites from them, and I play way more than most people.
I don't mean to sound like the old man but, you have it easy now lol. I think that's a gross exaggeration of every 5 mins.

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I am notorious for never logging out, and it probably differs per server but I can also still count the times I have received an invitation on one hand.
At least on the times where I'm actually playing the game.

Sure, they're annoying, but I'm with you on having seen much, much worse and not just in FF-XIV.

Now this is absolutely annoying as all get out!! On Saturday I logged in and in the first 10min I was invited over 20 times while trying to do my beast tribe in Sea of Clouds. Its gotten so bad that I'm having to either leave my chocobo out or stay in a party after a hunt to avoid getting these invites. My blacklist is so long it has a scroll bar thanks to these scam artiest.

This is what needs to be done.

No .com names can be made.

No Linkshell names can be made with .com also able to shut off linkshell invites as a option same with Free company.

Because you know they are going to be doing this next.

I haven't gotten an invite yet because I'm in a party pretty much all the time when I play, but I've actually seen invite bots standing near the aetheryte in Limsa. They aren't even trying to be subtle about it anymore.

The easiest solution to dodge unwanted party invites is to open your user info panel and set your Status to "Busy" which automatically declines all party invites ... neh ?

The devs now know how to implement the report menu command. They just need to take that same code and implement it everywhere. Problem solved. The end.

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Originally Posted by Laurima

think it's been ever since they severely limited the free trial options which used to include /tell /shout /invite to party.

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Free trial accounts were never able to use /tell or /shout. (I'm not sure about /invite.) The RMT companies used paid accounts for /tell spam until the reporting feature was added that gave us a chance to get them banned too fast to be worth the cost of replacing. (They use free trial accounts for the /say spam, though. For that, it doesn't matter as much how fast they get banned, since they can be replaced without the cost.)

Further back, they used to use Friend requests (in somewhat the manner they're using /invite now). That was only popular with them when it was possible to be done with Free Trial accounts, but pretty much went away when SE changed the Free Trial rules to block sending Friend requests.

Now that the reporting change means they don't want to waste their paid accounts on /tell spam, they're using them for stuff that's harder to report (and therefore less likely to get reported). I'm not entirely sure why they decided on /invite rather than the Friend requests they used to use (since now either would require paid accounts), but maybe they decided it's more useful when they get through to be in a party with their customer than to be Friended.

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Originally Posted by Zeonx

This is what needs to be done.

No .com names can be made.

No Linkshell names can be made with .com

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And this should be easy enough. Everyone says the reason text filtering in chat doesn't work very well is that the spam will use weird characters in place of the normal ones to show something that looks like their URL but doesn't exactly match.

With these invites, they're limited to putting their ad into their name. Since names are already limited to just letters and a few select special characters (like apostrophe), they don't have the same ability to obfuscate their names and still get their message through. It should be easy enough for SE to block RMT site names from being valid in character (or linkshell) names.

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Originally Posted by Zeonx

also able to shut off linkshell invites as a option same with Free company.

Because you know they are going to be doing this next.

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Agreed. (And being RMT's next haven is only one of the reasons for wanting this part. Even legitimate invites can be annoying to those who don't want them.)

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Originally Posted by St0rmchild

The easiest solution to dodge unwanted party invites is to open your user info panel and set your Status to "Busy" which automatically declines all party invites ... neh ?

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Or summon your Chocobo

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

Or summon your Chocobo

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Chocobos will be considered pets in 3.5, so that won't work by then.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Chocobos will be considered pets in 3.5, so that won't work by then.

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Oh, you're right, I forgot about that change. 'busy' status it is...