[QOL Suggestion] /anonymous, can i have it?

[Skivvy]

Are you using /anon the same was as /invisible? /Anon in XI just hid your job, but /invisible made you unsearchable, and you wouldnt show up on any friend list or anything. Was awesome. I've been hoping since day one that they would implement /invisible.

[Bluevann]

I second this, but only if it automatically equips you with a Guy Fawkes mask when used.

[HaelseMikiro]

If you set your online status to Busy, it will block all /tells sent to you.

+1

/busy is the win here. Blocks all tells. Any friends etc that you would actually want to talk to, had better be in a LS of FC chat with you, if they're important to you that is.
Or, just use /afk. Then you can do whatever you want to, as long as people you're trying to avoid don't physically see you doing something, or notice that you're changing zones. Then you can claim you forgot that you set afk on, or something.

Play your cards wrong, and you're going to look like a jerk for ignoring people intentionally, or a coward for avoiding confrontation. Sometimes you just need to grab your selfish-sack, and tell people "No, I don't really feel like doing [activity]. Some other time"

[Ransu]

I would love to at least hide the fact I logged in from my FC... or hide my online status from my friend's list too.

Sometimes I just want to play quietly.



There are some days, a person just wants to lay low or not talk.

There's plenty solo-content in the game I want to do from time-to-time without having to interact with others.

Some days you wanna be introverted & make sole-progress in your MMO, it doesn't defeat the purpose... the purpose of sole-progression is for the multiplayer end of things.

Then just don't log in for the day? MMO's are a social interaction. Again, /anon defeats the purpose of MMO's. I always found that feature in FFXI to be completely stupid.

basically this, i hate having to ignore people when they ask me with help with a dungeon or primal or whatever. but im a lazy person, sometimes i would rather just log in and stand on a roof and watch the people that run by and not have to explain myself to other people why. but rather than tell people no, i just dont feel like it, i either have to ignore them or make up some excuse or lie.

id rather just go /anon so i can do nothing in peace

Then why even bother logging in?

sometimes i dont feel like raiding or running a dungeon, not to much to ask to be able to go private if you want.

So then don't? Why do you need to ignore people by pretending to be offline? You just simply tell them you don't feel like doing that specific content for the day.... *logic*

Meh, XI was a much more group oriented, community based game and it had this option. Inter-server DF has a far more detrimental effect on communities and that's in the game.

And I always found the feature to be pointless. As for cross server queuing. Its hardly detrimental on communities. I came across more assholes/loot ninjas in swtor than in FF14 and swtor is a single server queue. Cross server has nothing to do with it, its just a simple fact that people like that exist regardless if its on a same server queue or not. The positives of a cross server queue FAR outweigh any "detrimental" effect of them... Or would you rather wait 3 hours in a dungeon queue instead of maybe 10-20 minutes as DPS? Cuz that's how it was in swtor. At one point in swtor I forgot I was even queued. It popped like 5 hours later while I was in the middle of crafting and doing dailies.

[Gesser]

It's ridiculous to suggest we just not play at all when we don't feel like talking with our FC's.

There are sometimes I just want to play with my IRL friends & let the FC be, /anon would permit that.

I am very popular, I don't say that pridefully, I just mean to say your argument is like telling a celebrity they need to stop stepping outside if they don't want people trying to snap their picture or shouting at them.

It's ludicrous. Sometimes I wanna enjoy dinner out with my wife at a fancy restaurant without the paparazzi all over my back.

Same applies here, I can be social I just don't necessarily want every circle spamming me in-game every few seconds.

[Sadana]

/afk works well. I announce to the FC that I'm going afk and then go mine or something. If you feel the need to hide from your FC that much, perhaps try a different (smaller) FC or none at all?

[Zeille]

Yeah...because that feature wouldn't get abused at all.

Holy Negative Nancy Batman. Right out the gate too.

I'm legitimately trying to come up with some way in which being anon could be abused. You got anything?

[Niwashi]

if this game had a /anonymous command i feel like we would be afforded a lot more in game privacy. plenty of other MMO's have them and their benefits are obvious. some features could include

hiding your location in player search and on FC/LS/friends list
hiding your job/search info when inspected
hiding your FC tag and info when inspected
only allow people on friends list to send /tell

Ideally, I'd like the various effects to be separated out with some option settings. I've played some games where the /anon feature did things as diverse as hiding your online status from your guildmates and also preventing anyone from inspecting your gear. There were people who (in both directions) wanted one of those effects but not the other and were stuck with a both or neither choice.

[Aegis]

As for cross server queuing. Its hardly detrimental on communities.

It's also a simple fact that the community was far nicer in this very game before DF was implemented. The fact that if you were rude you wouldn't get invites any more helped keep people civil. People didn't tell others to kill themselves because they wanted to watch cutscenes to use an example I've seen just this last week.

[NintenPyjak64]

It's also a simple fact that the community was far nicer in this very game before DF was implemented. The fact that if you were rude you wouldn't get invites any more helped keep people civil. People didn't tell others to kill themselves because they wanted to watch cutscenes to use an example I've seen just this last week.

This. Both in 1.0 and Beta before DF was put in. 1.0 had a much smaller community so those people who were asshats were pretty much well known to be avoided. Beta, before the DF was implemented, felt like it was a much better community, not many people were rude and there were many generally helpful people. You had the old fashioned shouts asking for a Tam Tara party and it was generally a good time

With this community, I'd rather not do things outside my FC because of how it changed.