Free Company Recruiting tactics, what do you prefer when being recruited?

[An0nn]

"I-it's not like I wanted to invite you or anything, b-baka!"

XD

This is actually genius. If I ever open my own FC that's totally going to be how my entire ad sounds.

Lol right? "Wha-? No! I'm an elite player, really! LET ME JOIN YOU!"

Though I almost felt like they were offended that I sort of (perhaps insensitively) cut their intro short by saying I wasn't interested before they had technically invited me.

"Why hello fellow Eorzeon! Are you being troubled by a barrage of unwelcome fc invite spam? Well-"
"yes."

If it was indeed a creative twist on inviting people I guess I can only say that I admire their persistence!

[DirkTungsten]

Lol right? "Wha-? No! I'm an elite player, really! LET ME JOIN YOU!"

Though I almost felt like they were offended that I sort of (perhaps insensitively) cut their intro short by saying I wasn't interested before they had technically invited me.

"Why hello fellow Eorzeon! Are you being troubled by a barrage of unwelcome fc invite spam? Well-"
"yes."

If it was indeed a creative twist on inviting people I guess I can only say that I admire their persistence!

Reminds me of the "Cartmanland" episode of South Park.

[An0nn]

Reminds me of the "Cartmanland" episode of South Park.

Lol you're right! I just saw that one recently.

Maybe they were on to something then.

[Neetborn]

I don't see the point of joining an FC when most people chat on discord anyway so it is hard to make friends. SE really needs to add a filter to block random FC invites. Party finder and Linkshells are enough to get stuff done without the need for an FC.

[goob]

I don't see the point of joining an FC when most people chat on discord anyway so it is hard to make friends. SE really needs to add a filter to block random FC invites. Party finder and Linkshells are enough to get stuff done without the need for an FC.

People have been asking for several years for a way to easily block FC invites without blocking other things such as tells. The only "solution" is to create your own FC, which makes me wonder whether this is intentional. A new player running around will see that almost everyone is in a FC, leading them to believe it's a very social game (which in many cases it is indeed). But how many of those people created a FC just to stop getting those random invites?

[Tlamila]

People have been asking for several years for a way to easily block FC invites without blocking other things such as tells. The only "solution" is to create your own FC, which makes me wonder whether this is intentional. A new player running around will see that almost everyone is in a FC, leading them to believe it's a very social game (which in many cases it is indeed). But how many of those people created a FC just to stop getting those random invites?

The problem is that the game doesn't even want you to create your own FC, since you need at least one friend plus some alts for it.
Indeed it's always been ridicolous that there's no way to block invites. Although even then you still wouldn't be able to block those in tells.

[goob]

The problem is that the game doesn't even want you to create your own FC, since you need at least one friend plus some alts for it.
Indeed it's always been ridicolous that there's no way to block invites. Although even then you still wouldn't be able to block those in tells.

You can still create it. The only issue is that you'll have a notification in the alerts/notification section of your UI that says you need to add people to the FC. I went into the UI settings and minimized that notification panel to be as small as possible (something like -60%) and moved it to the lower right corner of the screen as far as it could go. That served a second purpose of not making blind invite notifications as annoying.

Then I transferred servers and didn't bother setting it all up again, but it is indeed possible to be in your own 1-person FC. It will have a "pending approval" status or whatever they call it, but at least you won't get more random invites.