Unwanted Invites

[Voltyblast]

Well there should be a "refuse FC invites" option in the game FROM THE VERY START, but since it's FFXIV and they take centuries to add basic options (nearly 4 years for allowing queues with the chocobo out takes the cake IMO), I expect this feature to be implemented in hmmmm.....8.0. Please look forward to it.

But jokes aside, the best advice is to put yourself to busy or away when you go to cities (that's where FC scavenge for people) so maybe put yourself into busy when in cities so that nobody will bother you. You won't get tells, but you won't get invites either.

Beside that, you can just ready your hand and just press refuse as soon as it pops.

Also

There actually is an option to auto-cancel any FC invite

Mind sharing said option that isn't the one everyone experimented?

[Clethoria]

Here's what you can do. Join FC. Turn off FC chat. Go into settings and disable FC tag from your name. Bam, it's like you're not even in one and you even get buffs.

I do agree, like every mmo- there should be an auto decline option in settings. But XIV at least gives you a way to ignore every single person possible. You are going to get blind invites every single day because people honestly don't care about people like you. Their goal is to get fresh bodies who are neutral or don't know what a FC even is.

[KrytosFallaran]

Which is another point why I don't like them they see others as numbers just to say hey look we're the biggest here and don't care about those they invite. It grinds my gears when I see them using shout to say ranked 1st or 3rd on the server.

[ErryK]

I don't see why it isn't possible to just ignore the FC invites. But I guess that's because personally that's what I would do.

[NanaWiloh]

Which is another point why I don't like them they see others as numbers just to say hey look we're the biggest here and don't care about those they invite. It grinds my gears when I see them using shout to say ranked 1st or 3rd on the server.

Large FC's more often then not see people as numbers smaller more tight knit FC's see you as nothing more then a leaf blowing in the breeze. FC Ranks don't really mean anything and are listed by the FC to indicate what FC benefits are open to them not the number of people they have.

[KrytosFallaran]

I would agree but after a while it gets to the point where ignoring them doesn't do it anymore

[KrytosFallaran]

I've had one send me an invite every day and then bribe their members with gil to try to get me into their FC. And I know this because one told me that they are running a bet to see who will get me to join.

[Avatre]

I've had one send me an invite every day and then bribe their members with gil to try to get me into their FC. And I know this because one told me that they are running a bet to see who will get me to join.

Tell them to give you 80% of the winnings BEFORE joining, then join and say FCs aren't for me, and leave. Will probably piss them off, but the they will understand(hopefully) why you don't join....not sure how it is in regards of ToS on your part...so I can't take responsibility for what might come.

[KrytosFallaran]

I just keep telling them no over and over again

[WhiteArchmage]

Sorry to say that then you've become that FC's joke or meme, you could file a harassment ticket but since it's the FC itself, there's very little the mods can do (what? are they going to give a warning against EVERY MEMBER of that FC?).

I do think the "personal FC" is the best bet, like, if you don't like FCs because they can get clique-y and drama filled...uhm, generalization, much? yes, since the game encourages party play and forming a "tight" group (which...it's an MMO) some players in FCs can form their cliques and in large FCs those groups will eventually get fed up and leave to form their own, and not EVERY FC has drama (and if they do, it's not all the time) which is also fixed by making your own and being the sole member (I really see no drawback to this, really, it's all the pros you want and no cons besides not wanting to make one for whatever).

There IS also the option of joining one and just...turning off FC chat.