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That's news to me. I see new people asking for base improvements constantly *Shrug*
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Yes. The base builder population is a minority group that has been calling for base love over on the base forum for years. They just keep their stuff posted in that section of the forims.
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The Patch Notes published for this game (or any game really) only document a mere fraction of the total things that ever make it into a build. The fact that something like this didn't get listed doesn't really surprise me, especially if the Devs consider this sort of an exploit fix.|
Originally Posted by PumBumbler
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As a feature to prevent people from spamming invites I'd actually expect something like this to specifically NOT be in the Patch Notes. The Devs have a policy of not talking about features that prevent people from doing things they consider to be "bad" and/or borderline exploits.
As I said before I know this annoys people who are trying to invite people legitimately, but this is the price we pay for the few goofballs who abused the system and pissed enough people off via unwanted spammed invites.
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Eh, I don't buy it. This isn't a spammer-grade problem where any sort of boycott would simply be bypassed through rolling another expendable trial account. Not to mention the scale - prior to I19, I only got a blind invite around once a week, if at that, and once I19 hit, it spiked to, oh, once every few days. The fact that you can cheerfully gignore blind inviters and be done with that particular individual also easily alleviates that particular bit of annoyance. Comparing the two... eh, unlike spammers, I can't really point at the occasional blind inviter and say "this is why we can't have nice things".
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The only reason I can "buy" it is because I've seen various people complain about blind spam invites over the years either here in the forums or while playing in the game. Since the "fix" involved was pretty trivial I can actually believe this was one of their "let's get around to it sometime" changes from a few years ago that they finally got around to doing. *shrugs*
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Originally Posted by Quinch
Eh, I don't buy it. This isn't a spammer-grade problem where any sort of boycott would simply be bypassed through rolling another expendable trial account. Not to mention the scale - prior to I19, I only got a blind invite around once a week, if at that, and once I19 hit, it spiked to, oh, once every few days. The fact that you can cheerfully gignore blind inviters and be done with that particular individual also easily alleviates that particular bit of annoyance. Comparing the two... eh, unlike spammers, I can't really point at the occasional blind inviter and say "this is why we can't have nice things".
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Ah, of course, the text points to it being completely intentional, hehe... Since I hadn't experienced it in game, I overlooked that! 
So, yeah... While Lothic's reason for it is likely correct, I'd say that the cost outweighs the benefit.
While blind invites are something that can annoy anyone, I've never seen a terrible rash of them... but, more importantly, it's rather easily overcome.
And it is not like this is simply preventing spam invites to one person.
I formed a team last night, but I apparently did not invite each member fast enough to bring up the error message... So, I don't know... How fast do you need to invite? (My thing was a rather casual collection of friends and I forgot about this, otherwise I would have tested the speed)
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I don't see what this has 'fixed' because it doesn't prevent anyone from spamming a blind invite to someone who doesn't want to be invited by that person at all.
If this is an exploit fix, it's poorly done and has served only to annoy instead.
Unless i am mistaken...
Let's just /bug this then.