Idea for bots spamming friend request.

[KisaiTenshi]

If your request gets denied, you cant send another to that person for another several hours.

It doesn't work that way because they just create more accounts.

This is what I posted in another thread:

Of course, SE could also just have a bunch of tickboxes in settings to control the problem too:
[ ] Refuse all party invites
[ ] Refuse all friend requests
[ ] Refuse all free company invites
[ ] Ignore all tell's that are not part of the FC/Linkshell/Party/Friend list
[ ] Ignore all tells from outside your current zone

If we want to get really nitpicky you actually make a permission table:

[Purrfectstorm]

I tried playing with busy status on and I really didn't like it so now I have tell sounds shut off, which makes it somewhat more tolerable, but yeah the friend requests that you have to decline and then go into your list and decline again are just stupid. I really wish SE would give us more ability to filter this sort of thing. Players have been complaining since release and gilselling only seems worse. It's completely out of control.

[Lilyarel]

Considering the current friend request requires you to actually go into the Social > friend list window and right clicking their name to decline it because for some stupid-ass reason simply clicking no doesn't, I find it incredibly hard to "accidentally decline a friend request"

This. If you some how screw it up 2 times in a row. Then thats a personal problem.

[Marxam]

All of these can be solved by having tells and friend request from people who are not within 10 yalms of you unable to be sent. Similar to how /say works where you need to be within a certain range for it to be heard. Only those on your friends list will be able to send tells to you from anywhere (as is currently in game). Im actually surprised this wasn't implemented as such. This would make player search almost redundant since they would have to track you down and stand near you to send the friend request and tell.

Downside is that bots might start flooding main chat again.

[Welsper59]

All of these can be solved by having tells and friend request from people who are not within 10 yalms of you unable to be sent. Similar to how /say works where you need to be within a certain range for it to be heard. Only those on your friends list will be able to send tells to you from anywhere (as is currently in game). Im actually surprised this wasn't implemented as such. This would make player search almost redundant since they would have to track you down and stand near you to send the friend request and tell.

Downside is that bots might start flooding main chat again.

The Friend Request thing isn't that bad, but the /tell one is horrible lol. You mean to tell me that you think its uncommon for people to actually talk to each other through a /tell, be it LS members or FC ones, when they're not on each others Friends List? I dunno about you, but that happens a lot to me. I'd imagine that'd be a problem for people that fill up their 200/200 list limit too... and there's surprisingly a lot of people like that. I know of at least 4 people offhand that are on my FL or have been in an FC/LS with them. Mind you, this is coming from someone that hardly initiates interaction with anyone, yet I came across that many lol.

[Kaze3434]

Sadly with the current setup you'd have to start by stripping Trial accounts

i swear, there is always someone who says something about trial accounts. they cant use mail, cant trade, cant tell, cant shout, yell, invite people to a party or send friend requests. they literally can not do anything that would support RMT.

[BunnyChain]

i swear, there is always someone who says something about trial accounts. they cant use mail, cant trade, cant tell, cant shout, yell, invite people to a party or send friend requests. they literally can not do anything that would support RMT.

Actually they can send friend requests and it also seems what they are doing.
http://support.eu.square-enix.com/ru...&tag=freetrial

There could be a limitation of no friend-requests until lvl 15 or none at all for those accounts.

[Aldora]

The main issue i have with the fact that Bots are spamming Friend Requests, is that when you click on “No” you would still have to go to the Friendlist and actively Decline the Friend Request in there.

What i would like to see is that when i select “No”, that i’m automatically Declining the Friend Request without having to go the Friendslist and do it again. I also understand that people might accidentally click the wrong button and thus decline the Friend Request by mistake, but SE has found a solution to that in other situations. The “Wait/Hold” button. So, why not use it there as well?

I also think it would be better if they were to change the “Yes” and “No” buttons into “Accept (Request)” and “Decline (Request)”. That way, it will be clear for everyone that you are actually accepting or declining the Friend Request.

The same would apply for the Free Company and Linkshell Invitations.

So, in short, whenever you get a Friend Request or FS/LS Invitation, you would see the following options:

[Kio]

No that's bad idea, what if you accident deny a real friend.

If that happened, your friend could just initiate the invite in reverse.

[raela]

The main issue i have with the fact that Bots are spamming Friend Requests, is that when you click on “No” you would still have to go to the Friendlist and actively Decline the Friend Request in there.

What i would like to see is that when i select “No”, that i’m automatically Declining the Friend Request without having to go the Friendslist and do it again. I also understand that people might accidentally click the wrong button and thus decline the Friend Request by mistake, but SE has found a solution to that in other situations. The “Wait/Hold” button. So, why not use it there as well?

Ignore the friend request dialogue and just directly open the friend list to decline. Cuts out one confirmation step.