Blind invite lol

I will send a PM asking if they want to help with mishes. If I don't get a response from them whithin a min, I will send a invite to team. Why? Because they may be on a trial account and can't comment back. I mean, besides being afk, anybody else would be polite enough to say yes or no to my PM.

Is it Necroposting if the thread has only been inactive a few days?

Eh...

Well, today, I got one of the more hilarious Blind Invites of my short career.

I had made a Brute to test out Redside, and this guy sent me repeated blind team invites. That is acceptable, I suppose. Sure, the fact he did it 5 times was annoying, but acceptable.

But then, I received a blind leveling pact request.

As the people on the Guardian global channel have stated... "That's... special."

Do you really want to entrust half of your total experience and inf earnings to a person you've never spoken too before, and who might never log into that toon again? (I mean, I would have logged in again, but would he?)

I think it may have had something to do with my High Collar. (Level 3 Brutes with Cape Like Objects aren't common, I guess...) I'm not sure. O_o

(Oh, and I made a search comment. )

I logged in a few (dozen) characters in the week just to customise their powers (as I can't play atm - I've injured my arm) and had my first blind invite in ages.

I must have spent 15-20mins customising my Dark/Sonic Defender - afterwards, when I exited the tailor screen, there was an invite window up, but no /tells. My character was hidden from global channels and searches (inviter was hidden from search too) and she was already inside Icon for the dayjob so it's not like anyone saw her outside.

That means someone must have come inside Icon (presumably to change their costume/powers), seen my character stood next to a tailor, then decided to fire off a blind invite

I guess some teams are so desperate for Defenders they'll try anything. Or maybe they thought there was a fashion-based Task Force inside Icon

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Originally Posted by Vincent Morse Is it Necroposting if the thread has only been inactive a few days?

Nah - I do that - not everyone has time to check the forums every day, so sometimes I don't notice a topic I'd like to contribute to until 4-5 days later. Worst that can happen is no-one posts after you and you feel like a thread-killer, but then you can just convince yourself it was dead anyway before you posted

I have a character that has "If you invite me, I will get you debt" as his search comment. I was sent a tell once "That sounds like a challenge". He was polite enough to not send an invite.

As you can tell from that search comment, I don't really like to team up all that much with people that I don't know. Yes, I know. My loss.

I've recently reversed my Blind Invite policy, at least internally, even though my search tag still reads "No Blind Invites". The thing is, I realised it had been far too long since I had any really wacky PUG experiences, and that I enjoy having the stories to tell enough to balance the headache the teams usually wind up being. If the team turns out to actually be functional, just lead by a blind inviter, then I politely withdraw.

The minimum-necessary-effort /tells before a rapid fire invite still get me pretty cranky, though. The ones that read "LFT?", followed a nanosecond later by the invite window appearing. It's like they saw the "No Blind Invites" tag, but couldn't understand what that actually means, like the /tell is just a ritual behavior for the sake of good manners rather than a request for some information about the actual team they want me to join. True Blind Inviters, at least, I can assume just don't know about search comments.

So this thread got me digging through my old Bad PUG Story archives, and ran across this gem from a couple years back.

I was cruising around Grandville for the first time, enjoying the exploration (and not enjoying the lag). An invite pops up, and I swat it down immediately. Then I get the following /tell. This is all a direct quote, CAPSLOCK, txtspk, lack of punctuation, all preserved in its original glory.

"Y U NO TEAM"

"I don't accept blind invites, sorry", a fact that was stated clearly in my search comment.

"OH OK LFT", followed immediately by a second invite window, which I declined.

"U SAID NO AGAIN AFTER I SEND TELL"

"Right, see, the point of wanting a /tell before an /invite is to get some information about the team, so I can decide if I'm interested in joining."

"OK WE DOIN THE RADIO IN PO", the Radio contact, not the police radio missions blueside. This, again, was followed by an immediate invite window, which I declined.

"Y U TURN DOWN AGAIN"

"I'm level 40, and your team is running level 10-15 content."

"PLZZZ I BE UR FREND FOREVER", followed again by an immediate invite, which I declined.

"I'm sorry, I don't know you, and what I've seen of you so far doesn't really make me that interested in the sort of long-term contact that 'FREND FOREVER' suggests, much less the short-term contact of a team with you."

"OK LOL", followed of course by another invite window, which I declined.

"NOW UR MAKIN ME MAD"

"I'm sorry to hear that. But I'm still not interested in teaming with you. Maybe you'll get better results searching for people in your level range?"

"LOL I FORGIV U", followed, of course, by another invite. Which I declined.

"THAS IT IM REPORT YO"

"Report me? To the GMs? For not accepting your repeated and clearly unwelcome invites to a team going through content that would provide me no reward? If you feel you must..."

"THIS A MMO SO U NEED HAVE TEAM THIS THE LAST TIME ACEPT OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES". I was floored by the fact that he could spell consequences. But the seventh and final invite window was still declined.

The GMs still haven't contacted me about his petition.