How About An "Incognito" Player Status?

[Sainya]

You know what would make this perfect is it being a status - where all those folks with the mentor crown couldn't be incognito Problem solved for new folks.

[Magic-Mal]

You know what would make this perfect is it being a status - where all those folks with the mentor crown couldn't be incognito Problem solved for new folks.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the mentor status well... a status? You can't have the crown and a different status at the same time right?

[Kosmos992k]

Not sure if this was suggested, but how about an extended version of incognito that allows you to silently logon without any notification even within your FC? It also disables the chat window except for NPC interactions until cancelled.

This was suggested by a friend who occasionally wants to play, but doesn't want to handle the burden of all the chats and invites that can happen. they literally want to logon and play without interruption, and without hurting anyone's feelings by obviously ignoring communication.

[Magic-Mal]

Not sure if this was suggested, but how about an extended version of incognito that allows you to silently logon without any notification even within your FC? It also disables the chat window except for NPC interactions until cancelled.

This was suggested by a friend who occasionally wants to play, but doesn't want to handle the burden of all the chats and invites that can happen. they literally want to logon and play without interruption, and without hurting anyone's feelings by obviously ignoring communication.

It was suggested. Sometime earlier in the thread. I'm not opposed to the option although it's something I probably wouldn't use it myself. I know of some who would benefit off of this.

[Cinno]

Honestly just allowing us to edit the busy status would solve all of this. Just give us boxes to tick for blocking tells, blocking fc invites, trade requests, etc.

That way I can play on my alt, tick the box for fc invites, and i wont get spammed with fc invites but i also wont have to completely cut myself off from society.

[Alleo]

I agree with you OP. This would also solve the problem with the random group invites from RMT because if we could use it the RMT would need to be near us to invite us again..so at least part of the problem solved. I am also not sure why this would take away the social aspect of the game. People could still spam the say chat, people could still post in their LS and chat with their friends. What exactly takes away from the social experience if someone cant be found in the search function? I mean this would be an option not something forced on everyone.

I am just not sure what exactly is bad about this suggestion? Bad for new players? Why? I was a new player once too and never used the search function to just find random players..and its not like they couldn't talk to anyone anymore. They could still send a tell to anyone near them and the newbie chat exists as help too. (Interesting how some are alway so snarky in threads but call other immature really fast.)

[Dumbledoremd]

Or give us filters for who we get group invites and tells from

[Magic-Mal]

Or give us filters for who we get group invites and tells from

Filters wouldn't be the same as incognito and it seems like it would take alot more work to create filters for it.

-Party invites from PCs
-Party invites from Friend PCs
-Free Company invites from PCs
-Free Company invites from Friend PCs
-Friend Requests from PCs
-Linkshell invites from PCs
-Linkshell invites from Friend PCs
-Trade requests from PCs
-Trade requests from Friend PCs
-/Tells from PCs
-/Tells from Friend PCs

When all you would need is just to be hidden from search and it would be all gone.

[Evangela]

There's no RMT ads on Balmung.

[Dumbledoremd]

There's no RMT ads on Balmung.

High pop servers dont good for you but some of us play on med / low population servers so rmt is a problem