Did I pick the wrong server or..?

[KinnisonArc]

If you think you won't have any players sending tells to you at this moment, you can set yourself to busy status to stop incoming tells. Just type /busy in your chat, again to undo the status.

[Roric_The_Seeker]

I don't want to disable tells for the main reason that It seems counter productive to disable a game's functions just to avoid this issue. Prime example I was doing some mining and some level 50 came up to me and gave me some high quality gear! If I had tells off then the character would not have contacted me!

I will just continue to add these to my blacklist. Its a small thing to be dissapointed with because so far this game is great! ^^

[KinnisonArc]

If that's the case, if you want to blacklist them quicker you can use the following as a macro:

/blist add <r>

This will blacklist the most recent person to send you a tell, careful when using this around with an actual player just recently sent you a tell. Once you set it as a macro, you will just need a to click it in your hotbar, confirm blacklist and you're done.

[Adrian74]

If you think you won't have any players sending tells to you at this moment, you can set yourself to busy status to stop incoming tells. Just type /busy in your chat, again to undo the status.

I didn't know that busy status could avoid you receive /tell... Neither that you could put is so easily as just writing /busy... Thanks for the info, KinnisonArc-san!

If that's the case, if you want to blacklist them quicker you can use the following as a macro:

/blist add <r>

This will blacklist the most recent person to send you a tell, careful when using this around with an actual player just recently sent you a tell. Once you set it as a macro, you will just need a to click it in your hotbar, confirm blacklist and you're done.

A macro for blacklist just with a button or a click... Thank you again! Goodbye to leave the controller in the table, get the mouse, click the guy, right click and add to blacklist. Now I'll just have the macro for it, one button in the gamepad, no need to drop it.

[Sisqi]

Hi Roric! /wave

I saw you shouting in Gridiana last night Welcome to Malboro! I'm a new player too, only been on a month.

just turn off your tells, and you wont have to put up with the RMTs anymore. Besides, anyone that isn't an RMT that sends you a tell is usually not worth replying to anyway. If you want to talk to your friends, there are linkshells.

This makes me sad. I like to send /tells when I have questions or want to complement cool gear. I recently used /tells to communicate with a very nice Armorer who helped me meld materia. I suppose I could use /shout or /say, but that seems so obnoxious. I played FFXI, and would often have 4-5 different /tell conversations going, plus party and LS chat, so it's what I'm used to. If that's the way this game is going, I guess I'd better get with the times.

[Roric_The_Seeker]

I must've missed you due to your small stature, but hello!

Update:
Day 3 in game now and the tells seem to be less and less frequent, when I first rolled in I was getting tells every 2-5 minutes which is what brought me to the forums, but it seems to have calmed down now perhaps I was fussing about nothing and just wanted a way to come and wave to everyone in the forums ^^

Further question: Can anyone link to me some information as to what reporting the tells to the support desk actually does? If the RMT is all p2p how is SE catching/dealing with em? Burn em all I say!

[Bixby]

Further question: Can anyone link to me some information as to what reporting the tells to the support desk actually does? If the RMT is all p2p how is SE catching/dealing with em? Burn em all I say!

This is what reporting them does. These reports come out once a week. You can find them in the Notices section of the Lodestone.

You'll never hear back from them on RMT reports, so don't expect to get confirmation of a ban or anything. But if they don't get reported, it takes that much longer for them to get caught and dealt with.

[Niwashi]

Besides, anyone that isn't an RMT that sends you a tell is usually not worth replying to anyway. If you want to talk to your friends, there are linkshells.

Tells aren't just for your friends. They're for anyone you want to interact with. For instance, just the other day I died in a region far from my home point, so I asked in /shout if there was anyone around who could Raise me. The guy who agreed to do so asked in a /tell for some further specifics to help him find me. It wasn't someone I know or am in a linkshell with, just someone who was around when I needed him, had a Raise spell available, and had time to help out a random stranger (me). That's not the sort of interaction you want to disable.