A rational proposal to reduce blind FC invite spam

[Sonikku13]

Unfortunately, there isn't a way in game to just auto-decline FC invites while allowing everything else, like party invites and tells.

However, there still are problems with blind FC invites. I think there's a very easy fix, removing the Player Search feature. This is the intro screen.



Once you go through that intro screen, and search results come, you can literally send FC invites to everyone without a FC.



As you can see, it is way too easy for a mass recruiter to send spam blind FC invites by right clicking on characters who don't have a FC.

So there's two fixes. One fix is to get rid of the player search feature. The second idea is to remove "Invite to Company" when right-clicking on a character found using player search.

Lemme hear your ideas.

Edit: A solution I like that someone here suggested is a cooldown on FC invites. The cooldown would end either when the person invited accepts the FC invite, or five minutes, which is how long a FC invite lasts before it expires.