EVE General Discussion

blobs ftl.

and on a more serious note, CCP needs to remove how conversations between me and people on my contacts list work. the idea of people being able to force me to open a conversation with them, no matter what my standings towards them are, results in anger filling my train of thought and I find myself almost wiping out my list of several dozen contacts(most of which are friends) completely clean.

When you set your client to block incoming conversation requests, the server only knows about this by knocking at your door to see if you are set to accept incoming convo requests. If the block-flag is set, the server sends a reject back to the client requesting the convo. You as the intended recipient should not even see a Chat GUI popup at this point in time. That is how it should work. Can anyone confirm if this is how it is or not ?

Given the above condition, the server takes a quick peek at your client settings for each and every convo request, so in essence, your incoming IP traffic is increased. Your client will not suffer as much compared to if the GUI actually popped-up for each inbound request. If the GUI does pop-up, that will no doubt cause a much heavier load on your client.

I would suggest to the CCP DEV to set a simple flag for the client. You should be able to set this on or off. Almost the same as setting the block characters setting, but not quite. Here's the logic flow of it :-

IF ClientA is in a fleet, prevent any outgoingchat requests from ClientA if any or all of the following conditions are true :-

- intended recipient is not in your Fleet .
- intended recipient is not in your Corp.
- intended recipient is not in your Alliance.
- intended recipient is at war with you.
- CCP should give everyone the OPTION of disabling LOCAL whenever the Client wishes. Flooding local with traffic is also quite a problem.

Other than that, set your CSPA charges to 100 Million ISK to make them pay if they want to play the ingame DoS game by mail-flooding you if they are unable to chatflood you. If CSPA cannot be set to 100 Million, then CCP should probably make the change to allow this.

Just a thought.

Sounds like ECM to me.

Anyone else think it is funny that OP seems butthurt over the fact that he can just tick the auto reject invitations and it has eluded him so far? Please tell me you are using a Mac because then it would all make sense why you are crying about this.

I think it is even funnier that you are in RAZOR alliance and you make a whiny post.

/wrist much?

You sir are simply a genius at comedy! You are the Mozart of comedy.

I look forward to read more and perhaps one day hear when you speak!

I am not justifying anything. I am asking you why it is so difficult for you to tick that auto reject in the settings menu and you avoid the question by saying that I am intellectually inferior to you.

And whiny posts like yours attracts me like blood and guts in the water attracts sharks.

I didn't avoid the question. It was already answered before you ever posted here. In the very first post. Ticking the auto-reject does not prevent the client from receiving the request, it only removes the GUI and automatically rejects the request. There's still traffic generated which is what causes the lag.

Because the people intentionally trying to lag you out are completely without fault am I right?

This is kind of presumptuous, given that we're not exactly sure of the nature of the problem (client or network lag). I can't speak to any setups either, seeing as this has in fact never happened to me.