Can NPC stop postulating in our squadron at some point?

I mean at some point when I reject all those catgirl and lalafell dozens and dozens of time they'll stop coming eventually??? Why do we always get the same NPCs we don't want?

All NPCs are tied to certain categories of Challenge Log. For example if you never do FATEs you'll never get Jolaine, and if you never que PvP you'll never get Dolfin.

There's a few 'rare glamour' NPCs you can get from certain things, like I think there's one with bunny ears you can get from I think the crafting challenge log?

Someone recently made a thread about Mylla (the gladiator-guild-master) being a doormat-character. I feel that this applies way, way more to V'nbolo who stands at my doormat every week only to be send away - even "funnier": in the german recruits that are coming from gathering have the following reason to enlist: "Your gathering-achievments deserve the utmost respect! I'll never serve under anyone else!" (losly translated by me)
So I like to imagine that they simply have no choice but to try again... and again... and again... just for my own amusement.

Seriously though: I'd like to "block" some of them aswell. Yes, its true that you can influence whos enlisting by doing their challenge log entries - but I will always complete gathering and crafting, even without trying. So each week I need to tell V'nbolo "No, I dont want you here!"
Always a bit dishearting to go through the new entlisments, hoping to finally, finally see Raelthota show up and instead be greeted by yet another gathering-enthusiast...

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Originally Posted by Bacent

There's a few 'rare glamour' NPCs you can get from certain things, like I think there's one with bunny ears you can get from I think the crafting challenge log?

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https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/w...adron_Recruits
Here is a list of all the recruits, complete with their reason of enlisment aka what challenge log you have to do to get them. Not sure if its a 100% though.

I know all of that. I keep doing weekly log to get those I want but it just keep poping all those I don't want. I know it's RNG but after rejecting 10 times the same NPC there should be something like % chance to postulate decrease.

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Originally Posted by Arutan

I know all of that. I keep doing weekly log to get those I want but it just keep poping all those I don't want. I know it's RNG but after rejecting 10 times the same NPC there should be something like % chance to postulate decrease.

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Just let the new recruits available pile up for a few weeks, and go through and dismiss the ones you don't want. Eventually you will have the one you want waiting for you to accept them.

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Originally Posted by Avatre

Just let the new recruits available pile up for a few weeks, and go through and dismiss the ones you don't want. Eventually you will have the one you want waiting for you to accept them.

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You can only have one recruit from each category waiting at a time, and which one it is, is determined the moment you check the enlistment papers, so you can literally get the exact same twice in a row without even leaving the barracks.

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Originally Posted by Mholito

You can only have one recruit from each category waiting at a time, and which one it is, is determined the moment you check the enlistment papers, so you can literally get the exact same twice in a row without even leaving the barracks.

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That I was not aware of. Good to know.

I stopped caring about recruits after I got Careless Whisper and the snowman lala. I felt like I won after recruiting them.

Agree with the OP. Even completing the challenge log, I always get the same profiles. And I can compare with an alt, it really is a rng matter.

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Originally Posted by Arutan

I mean at some point when I reject all those catgirl and lalafell dozens and dozens of time they'll stop coming eventually??? Why do we always get the same NPCs we don't want?

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At some point about lalafells, I maybe have a theory, they want to conquier the world, then they need to be everywhere :D

At least, a full team of lalafells, we get some reserve of food :rolleyes:

I spent months dismissing the same NPCs repeatedly till I got the ones i wanted. >< They haven't gotten the hint.

I attract other lalas. And they are so cute, I can't dismiss them, so they all can stay. Well, 8/10 at least.

http://i.imgur.com/e5RjyMH.png

I already have the group of NPCs I wanted, but I wish you could recruit more to have reserves in case you need more than 1 or 2 of a certain role to complete your mission. I collected as varied in roles as I could, but I would like to have multiple of each roles as well.

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Originally Posted by SuperZay

I attract other lalas. And they are so cute, I can't dismiss them, so they all can stay. Well, 8/10 at least.

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You're missing the best one though
http://i.imgur.com/kH4fZYY.jpg

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Originally Posted by Antonio_Xul

I already have the group of NPCs I wanted, but I wish you could recruit more to have reserves in case you need more than 1 or 2 of a certain role to complete your mission. I collected as varied in roles as I could, but I would like to have multiple of each roles as well.

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You know that you can change roles by using those "books" from your GC? The recruits arent bound to their job at all!

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Originally Posted by Arutan

I mean at some point when I reject all those catgirl and lalafell dozens and dozens of time they'll stop coming eventually??? Why do we always get the same NPCs we don't want?

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What exactly are they postulating? A grand unification theory? Eorzaean evolution? Language development of Miqo'te?

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Originally Posted by Mholito

You can only have one recruit from each category waiting at a time, and which one it is, is determined the moment you check the enlistment papers, so you can literally get the exact same twice in a row without even leaving the barracks.

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Actually you can, I get an average of 2-3 recruit from Gold Saucer a week without getting to see who that is. But I think overall you're limited to a queue of 5 'cause I didn't get any new recruit for a moment until I go check my queue which had 5 recruits waiting.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

You know that you can change roles by using those "books" from your GC? The recruits arent bound to their job at all!

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Yes I know that. I just don't want to relevel them. I just wanted more than 8 characters, so I can switch them out. If I could have collected more recruits along the way, they would've been the same level as the rest, so they would've leveled together at the same time and rate.

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Originally Posted by Arutan

Actually you can, I get an average of 2-3 recruit from Gold Saucer a week without getting to see who that is. But I think overall you're limited to a queue of 5 'cause I didn't get any new recruit for a moment until I go check my queue which had 5 recruits waiting.

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This is what I've noticed as well. I've been trying to get recruits specifically from MGS, so I pop Squadron Recruitment Manuals and go to town. Some weeks though, I wind up with 0 new recruits even after finishing all my MGS logs with a Recruitment Manual up. When I go back to my barracks, I find that I've already got 5 recruits waiting from other challenge log entries, like crafting or PVP. While it could be consistent bad luck, I seriously doubt it. There does seem to be a hidden cap on enlistment papers you can have in your queue.

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Originally Posted by Antonio_Xul

Yes I know that. I just don't want to relevel them. I just wanted more than 8 characters, so I can switch them out. If I could have collected more recruits along the way, they would've been the same level as the rest, so they would've leveled together at the same time and rate.

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They only go down by a level or two. The rerolled characters will catch up to the rest of the squad in a day or two.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

hoping to finally, finally see Raelthota show up

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Waaay back in the day when I was still a sprout and actually bothered with squadrons (being the only way to increase your Grand Company rank), I would get her repeatedly every single week. Was the most frustrating thing, easily the worst recruit in the entire list.

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Originally Posted by Antonio_Xul

Yes I know that. I just don't want to relevel them. I just wanted more than 8 characters, so I can switch them out. If I could have collected more recruits along the way, they would've been the same level as the rest, so they would've leveled together at the same time and rate.

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Could it be that you're thinking of retainers? I mean, I get the inconvencince, they do lose a level when you change class, but its only one level after all...

Can we get something like a recruit blacklist where we can put one of each cathegory we do not want to see ever again (looking at you Tewawa)
So we can still generally get recruits from there, just not that one. There is 10 recruits of each race anyway, and minus the one from gold saucer that's still enough to fill your squadron with just one race.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

Could it be that you're thinking of retainers? I mean, I get the inconvencince, they do lose a level when you change class, but its only one level after all...

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Oh really?! That is good to know. In the end I still would a larger squad to mix and match.