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Whitelisting and locating friends
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The Sun's Anvil
Jednota Inc
#1 - 2015-01-09 14:27:52 UTC  |  Edited by: The Sun's Anvil
I feel ashamed to ask such a noob question, but after trying to two night strait, and even getting a bit of in game help, I STILL cannot find where to set the "white-list" flag on a fellow player.

Also, by what mechanism can friend find locate each others whereabouts in-game?

Thanks.
Cara Forelli
State War Academy
Caldari State
#2 - 2015-01-09 14:42:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Cara Forelli
1. You can right click a name anywhere in game and go to "add contact". You then assign a color-coded standings level

2. In the "people and places" tab there is a search function to find players

3. You can also type their name in any chat, highlight it, right click, and autolink -> character to create a link to their character. Then you can use step 1.

To find people, you can right click their name and "start conversation" to simply ask where they are. If they are a member of your fleet you can find the fleet location in the fleet adverts tab. You can also find any player in the game by talking to a locator agent if you have the correct standings. This is normally used for finding targets to kill - not your friends. (Unless they are your friends Big smile).

Edit: Also useful - You can drag a character portrait or a system name to any chat to create a link which you can right click and interact with. Try it! You can pretty much do that with anything in the game (items, player names, corp names, system names, etc.)

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Titan's Lament
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#3 - 2015-01-09 14:45:54 UTC
this button opens your people & places.
If you have them as a contact they will be in here.

to find a friend they can click and drag their current location from the top left of their ui into whatever chat box/mail ,
once there you can rightclick it and set destination from the menu that appears.

To find someone specific who isn't requires locator agents, the directional scanner and combat probes.

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The Sun's Anvil
Jednota Inc
#4 - 2015-01-09 14:49:15 UTC
Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology...I've added my friend to my contact list but I get charged 2500ISK to initiate a conversation...and get a message about both parties needing to "whitelist" each other to get around that.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2015-01-09 14:56:09 UTC
The Sun's Anvil wrote:
Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology...I've added my friend to my contact list but I get charged 2500ISK to initiate a conversation...and get a message about both parties needing to "whitelist" each other to get around that.


That's the CSPA charge.

If both of you add each other as +10 it means you don't have to pay that charge.


Or, you can disable it all together in your mail-settings by setting it to 0.



As for knowing where the other is, you just ask him.

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Paranoid Loyd
#6 - 2015-01-09 17:18:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Paranoid Loyd
Just disable it, the menu can be accessed through the icon (four horizontal lines) in the top left corner of the eve mail window

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/EVE_mail

*Wonders how many noobs don't have a conversation they would have had because that silly charge is there by default....

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#7 - 2015-01-09 17:39:31 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
Just disable it, the menu can be accessed through the icon (four horizontal lines) in the top left corner of the eve mail window

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/EVE_mail

*Wonders how many noobs don't have a conversation they would have had because that silly charge is there by default....


Well, most of the times, new players are contacting old player...who most likely have disabled it already.

Or are contacted by old players, to whom 2950 ISK is pocket change and they just pay it.

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Thomas Builder
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2015-01-10 19:17:12 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
*Wonders how many noobs don't have a conversation they would have had because that silly charge is there by default....
Well that "silly" charge stops spammers from sending out thousands of mails.

Just because it's been so successful that nobody even tries to send out mass-mails anymore doesn't mean that it's useless.
Cara Forelli
State War Academy
Caldari State
#9 - 2015-01-10 19:31:36 UTC
I even know a few people that set theirs to a non-trivial amount so that enemy fleets can't spam them with chat invites while they're fighting. "If you aren't blue, you shouldn't be talking to me"

Mine is set to 0, because I love talking. Big smile

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#10 - 2015-01-10 20:22:48 UTC
Cara Forelli wrote:
I even know a few people that set theirs to a non-trivial amount so that enemy fleets can't spam them with chat invites while they're fighting. "If you aren't blue, you shouldn't be talking to me"

Mine is set to 0, because I love talking. Big smile


That's why when I'm in a fleet and don't want to be bothered...I just turn auto-reject on before the fleet leaves.
If you really need me and aren't a random person, you know how to get hold of me.

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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#11 - 2015-01-12 02:07:32 UTC
Thomas Builder wrote:
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
*Wonders how many noobs don't have a conversation they would have had because that silly charge is there by default....
Well that "silly" charge stops spammers from sending out thousands of mails.

Just because it's been so successful that nobody even tries to send out mass-mails anymore doesn't mean that it's useless.

I've only been spammed by CSM candidates, and that was pretty rare. Maybe 5 messages in the past 6 years.
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#12 - 2015-01-12 04:37:03 UTC
Just set your CSPA charge to 315 ISK, it drives miners insane.

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