/tell and friend requests from bots

[chrissm]

Can we please please please have an option to filter out tells, shouts, and friend requests from any player who's highest level class is level one?

Who really wants to be friends with some level one git named Abaframamama Klupiat even if they did ever set foot outside of Ul'dah or wanted to do anything but charge up my credit card?

(My apologies in advance if there really is someone who is not a bot named Abaframamama Klupiat)

[Niwashi]

A level restriction wouldn't help. If they needed to be level x (whatever number x is) in order to spam their advertising, then the bot script would be updated to first level them to x and then start their ads. There'd still be just as many of them, and just as much spam coming from them. They'd just be a different level while they did it.

All it would accomplish in the meantime is making it harder for genuine new players to meet up with their friends.

[Cherryblossoms]

Hence his request for an option...

Please give us tools to help us to at least try filtering out some of this garbage. I should be able to turn off tells, friend requests and make myself unsearchable. If i want an hour in my private room undisturbed to craft, i should have the tools available to me to do it.

[Niwashi]

Hence his request for an option...

Please give us tools to help us to at least try filtering out some of this garbage. I should be able to turn off tells, friend requests and make myself unsearchable. If i want an hour in my private room undisturbed to craft, i should have the tools available to me to do it.

You can already do that. The only part not in the game already is basing it on the level of the character who's sending those tells, which is why I pointed out why that wouldn't accomplish anything.

The simple way to turn off all of that at once is to set your status to /busy. Then nobody can send you tells, invites, friend requests, trades, etc. And it can be easily toggled on and off.
(EDIT: Oh, but it doesn't make you unsearchable. I'd support a request to add an /anonymous option that does all that and also makes it look in search as though we're offline, if that's what you want.)

If you want to just turn off tells, while leaving the rest, you can remove "/tell" from your chat log filters.

[Cherryblossoms]

I googled busy status... thank you a million times!! This is my first final fantasy game and i have only been playing a few months. I had no idea those commands existed!

I am looking forward to my hours of peace!!