Gold Sellers

[Faelandaea]

The real problem is that although SE constantly posts in "Information" about "actions taken against RMT", their coding almost seems to not deter, but rather PROMOTE this kind of harassment.

Here is the biggest issue:

1. Gold spammer spams me BUT also adds me to friends list. I right click their name in chat, only to be smacked with "You cannot add this person to blacklist because a current friends request is pending"
2. I look to the right of my window and see the friend request pending button. I click it and click "No" to adding this person to my friends list, then repeat the aforementioned right click and blacklist, only to get, yet again, "You cannot add this person to blacklist because a current friends request is pending"
3. Huh? i clicked 'No", so I manually go to menu, social, and friends list and sure enough their invite is still there. Now I have to Right Click and forcebly decline the friend request, which is followed by another dialogue of "Are you sure?" Really? YES I am sure!
4. Now that I have FINALLY gotten this idiot's friend request declined, NOW I can go about adding them to my blacklist.

Whichever dev on the team thought it would be hilarious to implement a "feature" that blocks blacklisting because of a random friend invite really needs to rethink this through. It's not funny, because by adding all that code to make this possible, you seemingly have PROMOTED Gill selling in FFXIV, not deterred it.

Also, I agree with the comments about level requirements for /shout. At a minimum make it level 20. There is no content, hunts, etc. which anyone needs tobe shouting for below that level anyway, and if you have gameplay questions you can ask your friends, FC or Google. It only takes like a day or so to get to 20 anyway when starting a new class.

[Zebyxus]

<snip>

Macro for you;

/friendlist deny <r>
/blist add <r>

You will get an error if there's no friend request, but it automatically denies the request and the only prompt is that "Do you want to add [insert name here] to your blacklist?"