A few friends and I were sailing tonight on test, all crewed up... and we discovered there was someone in our crew that we had not invited. We investigated this later, after asking who he was, and how he got on our crew... (No we didn't use the lead pipes). We found there is a new "find a crew" button, where it will ask if you would like to join someone else's crew. It does NOT ask the crew leader if they would like this person in their crew. The person that joined our crew was doing PvP, and we were doing gold runs, so he really had no use for our bunch, but if this "feature" goes to open, I have a feeling that there will be people just joining any crew they choose. I usually know everyone on my crew, and know that they are not "kids"... so don't always keep the tone of the conversations totally "G" rated. I don't think that I like that anyone is able to just join, without at least the crew leader being asked if they can.
Another "feature" we noticed last night, the filters no longer turn filtered words to "arrgh" or give you any indication that what you are saying is being filtered. A friend and I were joking about Pirate names, and one of them had "martini" in it. She kept asking what name I submitted, I kept telling her... I finally realized that the filters have become like the TT ones, and we just don't know what is filtered, and what isn't.
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