Random FC invites.

[Nash20]

So...got my myth capped, CT piece obtained and Coil done for the week so I decided to make a few Alts on non legacy servers to check em out and re-do the story.

I was shocked at the amount of blind invites to FCs I got. 5 different invites in less than 2 hours.

I get that people are trying to grow their FCs but how good can these FCs be if they just blindly invite anyone that doesn't have a < .... > by their name?

I mean, maybe I'm just spoiled being in some great FCs and Links...but I kinda expect a quick mission statement or something before being invited.

Like, "hey..noticed you didn't have a FC...well I happen to be a leader of <clever name> FC and we have a great mix of new and veteran players. Would you care to join?"

Is this just the norm on most servers? because if I was on my main, no way in hell would I just randomly join a FC b/c they threw me an invite.

[Cod_Eye]

Because some FC leaders don't care for members and probably have some reward scheme prize for those that can recruit the most members. Best FC's are generally the smaller ones.

[GenericNameHere]

Not that I've seen. Though normally if it's the same person after I first declined I will send them a tell. Most are just people hwo don't really care who joins them at all. They might kick you as fast as you joined if you don't follow them or whatever.

I stay very clear of those types of invites.

[Noshpan]

I don't even get the tells. Just the invites. Which tends to happen when I am afk and by the time I come back there's only a handful of seconds left before it expires.

[Musashidon]

yep! there are 2 fc's that are well known for doing that on my server seems 1 has stopped randomly inviting people. while the other keeps on going. it's even funnier when they boast about their huge fc and having 500 players when 90% of them are inactives that played a day and quit xD

[Nash20]

Ha! I think someone may have read this thread because I got 2 more invites since posting and one ... almost word for word sent a /tell with what I typed.

I think you may be right Vivi, just have a FC's bragging about numbers rather than quality.

[BlueMage]

I don't know why some people are so desperate to have any and every random stranger in their FC. At that point, its like, why even have a FC if you have no standards? Just use /shout or linkshells or whatever if you want the company of anyone and everyone.

[AnimaAnimus]

If you get too many random invites you can report them for harassment. That was discussed in another thread waaaaaay back after initial launch.

Having a relatively new FC and finding it near impossible to find members I can understand why someone would resort to this if they are that determined to have their own fc but it does get quite annoying. Myself I am just waiting to see. Took me 2 yrs to build a ls in xi and we ended up running together with the same group for years.

A good fc is about quality not quantity

[Kewitt]

I've was blind invited before Joining one.

Also had blind LS invites.

[joshsecret]

i left my former FC for this... and a few other reasons. it felt like Hungry Hungry Hippos... eating up anyone without < >. and all of those ppl got put into Q like it was DF to even attempt some easy content. Not Quite 'a FC' (^_^