How do you handle unwanted friend requests?

[Bilgepump]

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.

[Lib Feathers]

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.

[dangerousden]

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.

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

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

[Rackat]

Originally Posted by dangerousden

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

Please! Give us a kick from boat button! How the heck do they get on the boat without being in the Guild or being your friend anyway? I never understood that.

[Mattress]

I'm lvl 32 atm i can't stand it when i go onto a busy server to find a crew and hordes of people named swashbuckler or pirate come upto me and lay into me with friend requests. the worst example i had today, i was in cuthroat jungle lvling up my voodoo doll on stumps and some lvl 3 guy followed me in persistent friend requests and when i declined them it was persistent crew requests, in the end i had to switch servers, he would not leave me alone.

As to how to deal with them, i say no to basic access nearly all the time, if their high lvl and unlimited then i accept them, talk with them and if i like them keep them if i don't, remove them.

[jennabellie]

i usually either just say no flat out or accept them and remove them later. i tend to feel bad about saying no but then i realize it's a game and they should know that.

i still feel a bit bad but i need people on my friend's list that can help me, not hurt me.

[dangerousden]

They are either someone else's friend who is on the boat, or I found the other night that a noob clicked me as I was launching my boat and then came to me from there.

In our guild we are asking members to ask before just appearing on a boat. I think it is only manners. Or we announce that we are going plundering and invite any guild members.

[Rackat]

Originally Posted by dangerousden

They are either someone else's friend who is on the boat, or I found the other night that a noob clicked me as I was launching my boat and then came to me from there.

In our guild we are asking members to ask before just appearing on a boat. I think it is only manners. Or we announce that we are going plundering and invite any guild members.

I appreciate when people ask me "Hey, you going out sailing?" or some such, but to just appear on my ship irks me. I like what your guld does, asking if anyone wants to go.

I had a lv24 just "appear" on my ship. No one else was on but me, so I was really confused about how he got there without being a "Friend" or in our guild. The idiot was shooting at a Revenant as I was trying to get to Cuthroat to finish a quest. I let the Revenant sink us by turning away from whichever cannon he ran too. Then as we were about to lose the hull, I typed "Stay off my ship".

[Bilgepump]

Originally Posted by Rackat

Then as we were about to lose the hull, I typed "Stay off my ship".

If you're about to sink, "return" using the map. That way, you avoid the groggy.

[Rackat]

There is a glitch that hit's if you wait too long to "return" that allows you to stay out of jail, but any time you try to TP anywhere, it says you can't TP from jail. In other words, the game "sees you" as "in jail" even though you never actually went to jail or got groggy. It was worth it to me to aggravate the stowaway with going to jail.

[gatechgal]

Why would you worry about lookin like a jerk when you don't accept someone's invitation. We're BLOODY PIRATES for goodness sake. We're SUPPOSED to be mean.

[Sara]

I wish there was the option to disable friend request too. In toontown that's the first thing I do when I log on.

I don't find it hard to just hit no anymore. The majority of the friend requests I get are from people that don't bother talking to me so I don't feel guilty about turning them down. But it is annoying when that window pops up blocking my view when I'm busy doing something so I would love to be able to not get the pop-ups.

[Angel]

I just click the X now too. Tired of friending people that jump to me all the time.

[Greywolf1063]

unless they speak to me 1st, i usually ignore them

[Moody Grimm]

I just click the X and move on. My friend list has only 4 people on it, and they are people who don't get their feelings hurt when I say I want to train alone.

I had to drop my guild because people were either too sensitive about you not saying hi when you're in the middle of a tough battle, or they just TP to you and start swinging on enemies without so much as a "mind if I join in?".