Blind group invite solution / group invite 'harassment'

[Dynaen]

<DIV>Not really sure if this belongs here, but couldn't figure out where else to post it, so here goes.  Haven't played Everquest 2 in quite a while, and just started playing again after about a year of not playing.  Love most of the changes, but ever since I started to get higher level, I started getting what I've seen referred to as blind invites.  While they're annoying I can deal with them, except...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When certain extremely rude individuals spam invite you after you decline them.  In other games /ignoring a player would also block them from group inviting you, but here it's not the case.  One night I was repeatedly spammed about 15-20 times in under a minute by the same person after declining.  I filed a harassment report and was pretty much told "too bad" and that I didn't report them.  Well group invite doesn't show up in my chat log.  I don't feel I should have to constantly turn on my "decline group invites" option because of extremely rude players.  At this point I often get reminded by guildmates I have auto-decline on because I had to turn that option on from getting spammed with group invites.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Suggestions for fixing this:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1) If someone has a player on ignore, have it auto-decline the group invite.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2) Add some additional options for auto-declining group invites.  Personally I mostly group with friends or guildmates.  An option to auto-decline invites from anyone other than guild or friends list would be nice.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>That's about it, thanks.</DIV>

[Jaargen]

Another tool they could put in is if someone sends a group invite over X number of times in say 60 seconds to the same person, a server log is recorded.  Most likely, such a person makes a habit of it and if someone complains about the person, a GM could see that there are multiple records of such events on thier record of this harassing activity.

[Tro]

I believe there is an option to disable group invites.. Just turn them back on when you are LFG.. If someone wants to invite you and they do it the polite way, they should send a tell first (Thats what I get mostly).<p>Message Edited by Trook on <span class=date_text>04-19-2006</span> <span class=time_text>09:44 AM</span>

[KBern]

<P>Ignore should get rid of all interaction with the character you are ignoring.  No invites, no duel spam, nothing.</P> <P>Not sure why the ignore feature allows invites....seems pretty ignorant to have one and not the other.</P>

[Zoki]

I personally go ahead and take the group invite, never say anything, and keep tradeskilling or whatever else I was doing.  Then when the group leader asks me if I am coming, I say No, and next time ask someone before ninja inviting them or just never respond at all. lol.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><div></div>

[Lord Montague]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> KBern wrote:<BR> <P>Ignore should get rid of all interaction with the character you are ignoring.  No invites, no duel spam, nothing.</P> <P>Not sure why the ignore feature allows invites....seems pretty ignorant to have one and not the other.</P><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Doesn't block emotes either :smileymad:

[Pins]

<blockquote><hr>KBern wrote: <P>Ignore should get rid of all interaction with the character you are ignoring.  No invites, no duel spam, nothing.</P> <P>Not sure why the ignore feature allows invites....seems pretty ignorant to have one and not the other.</P><hr></blockquote> It doesn't, or at least it didn't previously. That being ignore does make it so you ignore invites sent from the people you have on your ignore list. Try this with a friend, have them added to your ignore list, and then have them try to invite you. It should say, cannot invite person because they are ignoring you.

[electricninjasex]

<blockquote><hr>Pinski wrote: It should say, cannot invite person because they are ignoring you.<hr></blockquote> Bad idea.  Because they may decide to take offense to it.  Better to leave them in the dark.<div></div>

[Etherium]

I ignored one of these annoying people and the invites continued.

[nomatterwhat]

<DIV><FONT size=4><STRONG>" I filed a harassment report and was pretty much told "too bad" and that I didn't report them."</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>SOE customer service proves to be less then useless again.  I really want to know why we pay so much for subscriptions, I thought it included customer service.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Remember that movie about the laywers taking on the big insurance companies.  And one of the polices the companies had was "Always say no first time, No is always the first answer".  I think SOE customer service has taking a page out of large insurance companies.</FONT></DIV>

[DarkMirrax]

You can turn on the reject invites option in the persona tab cant you ?

[Etherium]

<DIV>If I have to set my character to reject groups, then I have to remember to turn it off when entering a legitimate group and back on again when I wish to protect myself.  Since the people responsible seem to be doing it to annoy folks, they would likely view this as a "win."</DIV>

[Rijacki]

It -should- go back to if you /ignore someone it blocks them from inviting you, too.Heck, I'd like to see /ignore also block emotes, too.<div></div>

[MsChief]

<P>Just out of curiosity, for those that are complaining, did you try sending a "thanks but no thanks" tell to the person?</P> <P>I get random invites all the time (especially since I play a healer) and rather than just decline, I'll ususally politely tell the person that I'm not interested in grouping.  I realize it's an extra step but I can safely say, I've never had more than one unsolicited invite from the same person in the same session...</P> <P>Not to mention, if their chat isn't properly displayed, they may not even see that they successfull invited you prompting further invites (I know I've been guilty of that before)</P>

[brandi7920]

<P>I've had this happen before. I was getting ready to group with my regular guild friends and this level 8 noob in Forest Ruins kept spamming invites (and my friend's invites couldn't get through, grr). I sent him a tell that said please stop, I'm not interested. He kept spamming invites, so I sent another tell that said STOP! and then /ignored him and the invites stopped - at least log enough for my friend to get my group invite through. Had the noob sent me a tell, I would have been more than glad to help/assist real quick - but I will never respond well to childish behavior. :smileymad:</P> <P> </P>

[selch]

<P>Another idea would be search by default searches LFG unless any other parameters are given...</P> <P>Currently /who all give all names, actually should give LFG unless /who all nLFG (nonlfg) for example.</P> <P>Most blind inviters never ever select LFG from Find Player window.</P> <P> </P> <P> </P>

[Thicket Tundrabog]

I don't know for sure that the /ignore prevents invites but I've had two instances in the past week which suggest that /ignore works.First time I was spammed with several invites by a Kerran in Ravasect Incursion Point. I put him on ignore and the invites stopped even though he bounced around me trying to get my attention.Second time I was spammed with hails, trade invitations and group invites by a noob in Starcrest Commune. I put him on ignore and nothing else came through except his toon bouncing between me and the mailbox I was using.<div></div>

[Ildarus]

I posted this in another thread recently, there have been a few of these in the last couple weeks, but when I put someone on /ignore it blocks their invites, or at least it did. A couple months back I ran into a similar situation and this individual was spamming me invites even after I declined several times and asked him/her to stop. When I put them on /ignore the invites stopped.

[Calthine]

Unless they chaged it recently, /ignore doesn't block invites.  After actually petitioning someone who harassed me after I asked him nicely to stop blind inviting me, I put him on ignore, and the invites still came. 

[daneeq]

<P>Have had this happen a couple of times.  After declining twice...accepted.. said I didn't ask to be invite and to please stop...</P> <P>Invite continued.. /report  /petition</P> <P>GM response in 5 minutes.</P> <P>But you're right... /ignore should block all aspects of interaction with those individuals.</P>

[Jida]

I dislike being molested with /emote's when i played my alt on the PVP server.Carebare 4 life! WOOT!<div></div>

[Tomanak]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Calthine wrote:<BR> Unless they chaged it recently, /ignore doesn't block invites.  After actually petitioning someone who harassed me after I asked him nicely to stop blind inviting me, I put him on ignore, and the invites still came. <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>and you didnt tell him that you were the Goddess of Tradeskilling and if he didnt stop your minions would 'craft' him into scaps? :smileywink:</P> <P>think thats where you made the misstep...<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P>

[retro_guy]

My L7 scout got a blind invite join a group in Lavastorm earlier today. When I joined them, they kicked me after 20 seconds! [Removed for Content] didn't even say anything. <div></div>

[Geekyone]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> KBern wrote:<BR> <P>Ignore should get rid of all interaction with the character you are ignoring.  No invites, no duel spam, nothing.</P> <P>Not sure why the ignore feature allows invites....seems pretty ignorant to have one and not the other.</P><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Dont' forget emotes.  This is pretty bad on the pvp server....Reds will spam /laugh emotes that fill up your chat log so you can't see what is going on.

[Jaffa Tamarin]

<blockquote><hr>retro_guy wrote:My L7 scout got a blind invite join a group in Lavastorm earlier today. When I joined them, they kicked me after 20 seconds! [Removed for Content] didn't even say anything. <div></div><hr></blockquote> I have a suspicion that they were not actually intending to invite a L7 scout, but maybe mistyped the name of the player they intended to invite. Would have been nice if they could have apologised before booting you, though.<div></div>

[Flor]

<DIV>I like the idea of just accepting and going about your business in the tradeskill instance without comment.  Personally, I may start just innundating the group chat with total kid stuff like how my son is doing on the potty training front and what I'm baking for dinner that evening for the kids.  Or questions to the group like, "Does anyone know the correct oven temp for a chicken cassarole?"  I bet that would get me kicked from the group within 10 sec as the young one realizes that they just invited a mom to their little party.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It is annoying though to be spammed with group invites.  When I was playing a low level alt one day, some pest kept spamming me with invites in Oakmyst forest.  When declining, he then spammed me with duels.  It was quite annoying.  Hopefully people like that get a bad rep and move on to another game.</DIV>

[Geekyone]

<DIV>Accept the invite and never do or say anything...thats good.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I guess to avoid it for the time being...group with a guildie who is doing their own thing or tradeskilling.</DIV>

[lancekortesoja]

/ignore does block, I've tested this, and go to personal window and settigns to turn off group invites<blockquote><hr>Dynaen wrote:<div>Not really sure if this belongs here, but couldn't figure out where else to post it, so here goes.  Haven't played Everquest 2 in quite a while, and just started playing again after about a year of not playing.  Love most of the changes, but ever since I started to get higher level, I started getting what I've seen referred to as blind invites.  While they're annoying I can deal with them, except...</div> <div> </div> <div>When certain extremely rude individuals spam invite you after you decline them.  In other games /ignoring a player would also block them from group inviting you, but here it's not the case.  One night I was repeatedly spammed about 15-20 times in under a minute by the same person after declining.  I filed a harassment report and was pretty much told "too bad" and that I didn't report them.  Well group invite doesn't show up in my chat log.  I don't feel I should have to constantly turn on my "decline group invites" option because of extremely rude players.  At this point I often get reminded by guildmates I have auto-decline on because I had to turn that option on from getting spammed with group invites.</div> <div> </div> <div>Suggestions for fixing this:</div> <div> </div> <div>1) If someone has a player on ignore, have it auto-decline the group invite.</div> <div> </div> <div>2) Add some additional options for auto-declining group invites.  Personally I mostly group with friends or guildmates.  An option to auto-decline invites from anyone other than guild or friends list would be nice.</div> <div> </div> <div>That's about it, thanks.</div><hr></blockquote><div></div>

[Abrez]

Ya i realy miss the debt share mode. Made spam invites easy to deal with get close to spammer and pull to many mobs and die over and over and over. But we cant do that anymore so here is what i will do now. After about 3 invites without lfg on ill just join the group and put the healer on auto follow. And walk away or sit here and just watch and see how long i get exp for before they boot me out of group. <div></div>

[evil_drag]

<BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Zoki wrote:<BR>I personally go ahead and take the group invite, never say anything, and keep tradeskilling or whatever else I was doing.  Then when the group leader asks me if I am coming, I say No, and next time ask someone before ninja inviting them or just never respond at all. lol.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> lol that's a good one :smileyvery-happy:<BR>