Gil sellers becoming more aggressive.

[Niwashi]

Those not in those groups, would get a message stating you have blocked all tells, and if it is a legitimate contacting of the person, then they should find an alternative way to contact you.

an alternative way? Just what sort of alternative do you suggest that legitimate players could use to contact you but gil sellers couldn't? Usually, that's what tells are for, they're how another player can contact you.

Next! A checkbox to block all friends requests. Bam, another one of the bots scripts destroyed. If someone wants to friends list you, they can either ask you to add them, or request a temporary unchecking of the box so they can add you.

Except they cannot ask you to add them. They can't ask you anything or contact you in any way because you've blocked them from doing so until after that friend list invite goes through. So you cannot ask to friend someone until after you've already friended them. There could be a problem here.

With them things in place, the player then must protect themselves from the bots trying to get around the blocks by sending party invites. Which is easy, just don't accept random out of the blue invites. If someone is legitimately wanting to group with you, they should as you first if you want to group up for something.

Except they cannot ask you first, since you've blocked everyone from communicating with you.


Far too many consequences here and no real benefit. All we need is a couple minor rule changes regarding blacklisting and we can accomplish the same thing for gilsellers without blocking out the entire game community. Just allow blacklisting regardless of online/offline status and regardless of friend status. (If a friend invite is pending, it would automatically be rejected when blacklisting the player, and if someone is already accepted on your friend list, the blacklist could have a confirmation box, where confirming the blacklist would both blacklist them and remove them from your friend list.)

[Risvertasashi]

While this isn't a real solution to the problem, it may provide relief for the most harassed in this thread:

/busy

This command blocks tells, party/friend/FC/LS invites, trade requests, and so on.

[Blackweaver]

Niwashi, alternative ways of contacting someone is if you are in the same area as them. You can /shout or /yell. Or if they are in front of you, /say. There's other forms of communication in this game besides /tell. And World of Warcraft had such features in place to block whispers. People could toggle them on and off. If you legitimately were looking for a group, you could uncheck the box and ask for a group. If you are standing next to a person who intends to pull something, /say "Hey can we group up?". They will hear it unless you are blacklisted.

[Vanguard319]

They send friend invites now???

They do indeed. Gaze upon my chat log and despair.

[Moqi]

That really sucks to hear. I am on Moogle and I have not gotten a single tell in more than a month now. When 2.3 dropped they disappeared completely.

Now for the past 3 days I am getting at least one tell from players trying to sell me T5 :/

[SummonerSenah]

I haven't gotten any, but I'm not surprised. With the cost of berries and the amount people are using in trial and error to get the color they want for their chocobo, RMTs probably see this as an opportune time to get buyers. It's funny how SE doesn't want RMT but keeps putting money sinks into everything.

[Ashkendor]

They send friend invites now???

They send a friend invite so you can't just right click and blacklist them.

[LyrioDC]

Getting friend request from bots is getting really annoying... I mean the /shout and /tells were annoying enough but now there really is no escape from them besides throwing them on your blacklist after you decline their friend invites :/

[NorthernLadMSP]

Happened to me three times last night. Three friend invites some something like "Fjghgh Ashtuj" level 1 in Uldah. Declined, declined, then blacklisted. Annoying.

[Naberrie]

I've been getting this a lot lately. I figured out that it's because you can't blist someone who's sent you a friend invite. So they can spam you with tells until you decline the invite. Only then can you blist them.

Probably quick on a PC, but on a console it's really annoying.