Unwanted friend requests

[MoldyOne]

its actually simple to take care of,

1. make it so Busy can accept tells, party invites and do ready checks while on Busy from friends and FC mates and have everyone set to busy when they log in after level 10. then all but the ones doing the shouts cant do anything and they will look for other ways around it.

2. it would also help if we could do a quick report/temp blocklist that locks the entire account from tells/friend requests and doesnt go into our blacklist for RMT spammers until the message is viewed by a GM and then have the GM either add to a master list of spammers or release the account to send more tells. imagine these companies getting reported and entire accounts locked down after 2-3 minutes due to this. it would become very expensive, very fast.

3. make it so trail accounts cant send tells.

[ekatss]

its actually simple to take care of,

1. make it so Busy can accept tells, party invites and do ready checks while on Busy from friends and FC mates and have everyone set to busy when they log in after level 10. then all but the ones doing the shouts cant do anything and they will look for other ways around it.

2. it would also help if we could do a quick report/temp blocklist that locks the entire account from tells/friend requests and doesnt go into our blacklist for RMT spammers until the message is viewed by a GM and then have the GM either add to a master list of spammers or release the account to send more tells. imagine these companies getting reported and entire accounts locked down after 2-3 minutes due to this. it would become very expensive, very fast.

3. make it so trail accounts cant send tells.

[1 - 3] This suggestion does resolve many problems, but you have to think that such a solution makes things very boring and restrictive for the new player coming into ffxiv. As a business, SQEX wants to bring in new players, but if you cannot send pm's to your friends it gimps he social aspect of the game a lot. Plus it locks you out of a very important social mechanic. Restricting tells to friends before X level would be a good enough deterrent IMO.

[2] Good point, but it isn't GM's who examine the reports for botting; they are escalated to a special purpose team. What would help is IP ban / CC ban if X amount of reports oroginate from this. This still can get circumvented, but it maes life harder, so less face value for botters.