How do you handle unwanted friend requests?
 

When your pirate is high leveled, you would tend to get a lot of friend requests from people who like you just because your good, I've been getting a lot lately and I don't like it when I accept everyone but I don't want to look like a jerk if I decline. And I can't use the "saving room for guildmates" excuse. :(

It's just annoying because if I leave them on my list, they would either take all my enemies, try to take over my ship, or shoot at everything in sight. Sometimes when I leave them there they ask to join my guild, I say yes. And that means I can't kick them off my list. :(

I would just like your opinion and feedback.

I get about three friend requests within the first three seconds of logging on. It's truely annoying.

I'm not really concerned about hurting anyones feelings anymore. If I haven't "met" you here on the forums, or if I haven't played with you in game (and like your style), then sorry, I'm either flat out saying no, or clicking on that little "x" in the request box.

Don't feel like a jerk for declining Admiral, those that request you to be their friends just because of your pirates level should feel like the jerks.

Yeah that makes perfect sense, thanks a lot! :)

Yeah if they don't even bother getting to know you, I hit that NO button.

There's even a game tip Disney has that is the most broken.

Pirate Rule #1: Choose your friends wisely!

Ive told many "Wow, u want to be my friend yet you dont even say hi?!?"

I don't even acknowlage their existance. I have to team up with someone or know them to make friends. Even still, I'm on a one strike you're out rule, you screw off on my ship and take the helm without permission, and I got one more open friend spot on my list.

I know right! That should make them stop and think before inviting just ANYONE!

Disney should find a way to enforce that tip.

Yeah that's one of the main things that ticks me off with other players. Those kinds of people shouldn't be acknowleged.

This is exactly how I handle friend requests...If someone just comes up to me and hits the friend button...NO...Declined. Don't worry about coming off as a mean person. 99% of the time you wont see that person again. Choosing friend's wisely is the number one overlooked rule in POTCO.

Um, say no? You are not going to come off as a jerk for saying no..its just how it is. You have LIMITED space so why add people you don't know or want to that list?

I often get friend requests from people although I'm level 11 which I decline because simply, they haven't said a word to me!

Normally, I decline. If they keep pestering me, I accept, but make note of the name and then drop them after they go away (or I do).

I just hit that "NO" button.

I was in Kingshead, and this group of lower levels tried to horn in on my parade ground action.

(As a side note, it's one thing when someone who is capable of holding the parade ground does that, but it's a whole 'nother level of annoying when it's someone that has no chance and just wants to leech xp. Anyway.)

So I'm trying to persuade them to leave by just not attacking, and they try to force the issue by attacking the group themselves. A couple of the stragglers start in on me, so I hit the exit. I could kill them, but I was really annoyed.

So I'm standing on the dock, and the lowbies all pop out too. Then one asks me to be his friend. "NO". Then he asks me to join his guild. "NO". Then he asks me to group with them. "NO".

"y not"

"Because I don't know you, I've never grouped with you, and I've never heard of you. Why should I?"

"FINE THEN"

They all died soon after and never came back.

In ToonTown, they have an option to turn off friend requests. They really need that here too. :dancetl6:

--Cement

Just say no. I think some ppl ask everyone in sight, go around clicking randomly on any pirate they find, so it's not gonna hurt their feelings if you say no. Maybe eventually they'll learn to at least say hello first before they ask.

What I despise is when they keep asking you over and over again. You click on no and they ask you again. Haven't done it yet but I'm tempted to challenge them to a skirmish - especially with my lvl 37 pirate.

I want a way to kick the leechers off your boat. I had a crew of my guild pirates out on a plunder a few nights back, when their "friends" started to show up hitting anything that moved. They got us sunk.

It should be an invite request rather than just showing up on someones boat uninvited. :degen:

As for friends requests, I have started ignoring them unless I have helped them out or they helped me out. I thought I was being rude, but it sounds like I am not the only one lol :laughks2:

C'mon Disney - give us a KICK FROM BOAT button