Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Niwashi]

I wish they would add to the General / Battle and event section put a Friends/linkshell and Fc all in one section that way I can change it from general to that and they cant spam that unless they are my friend fc or LS

You can do that already for your FC and linkshells. (Not for the Friends part, though, since there's no chat channel associated with the Friend-list.) Add another tab and put whatever you want there. We're limited in the overall number of tabs we can have. (I think 5 is the max, IIRC.) But you can control what messages go to each of them.

Personally, I removed /tell from my "General" tab, leaving system, advancement, loot, etc. messages as well as the chat channels I'm more likely to be interested in (Party, FC, linkshells, Shout, Yell, and Say). But then I added another tab, which I just called "Chat" which includes all the player chat type messages (including /tell there). I usually stay on the General tab, but can switch to the Chat tab now and then to to check /tells just in case someone sends a non-RMT tell.

Some people have asked for the ability to allow /tell only from those on their Friend list. Personally, I don't see how that accomplishes much. None of the real and legitimate /tell messages I've ever gotten have come from people on my Friends list. They've always been from strangers. So blocking /tells from strangers isn't much different than blocking them entirely, which we can already do.

A more flexible version that achieves the same goal as that request might be to separate out /tells from Friends and /tells from non-Friends as two different categories in the configuration of which messages go to which tabs. That could allow things like /tells from Friends going to the General tab (or whichever you usually watch) while /tells from non-Friends get relegated to another tab you only check occasionally. Or you could assign the sound associated with them to only occur if the /tell was from a Friend. (And for those who want to, this would also allow leaving out /tells from non-Friends entirely, so they don't appear at all. It's not the way I'd use it, but some people might.)

But SE you really need to give us a option to shut off and on friends invites cause RMT gonna spam that invite button after cancelling its a problem.

This should still be added. The frequency of the problem dropped off quite a bit when they restricted free trial characters from sending Friend invites, but it doesn't seem to have stopped it entirely. And anyway, we should be able to choose whether we want invites of various sorts (Friend, FC, LS, Party).

This isn't just an anti-RMT tool, though that's certainly one of its purposes. It should be available in general. Some players who don't want to join an FC yet, for instance, get annoyed by blind FC invites which might be coming from well-intentioned players recruiting for good legitimate FCs. The invites can still be annoying to someone who doesn't want them.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

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Having tells set to friends only CAN help. Not every single friend of mine is in my FC or linkshells and sometimes I want to talk to a specific friend in private.

[Niwashi]

Having tells set to friends only CAN help. Not every single friend of mine is in my FC or linkshells and sometimes I want to talk to a specific friend in private.

That's important and I wouldn't want to block it. The reason I said making it Friends only wouldn't help is because I also wouldn't want to block private conversations with other people I'm playing with, helping, or who are helping me.

Separating it out into two categories lets us keep both while just displaying those from Friends more prominently.