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Femme Fatale

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As you know, when you double click a character you see, you will invite them to team.

Also, if you are in a team with someone who isn't in a faction, if you double click on them, you invite them to your crew.

All I ask is, can the default on both counts be changed so the default is double click to see their details?  The amount of times I have randomly been invited to someones team, or when missioning with a factionless friend I have invited them to my crew SMILEY  This will help us save face and stop any unwanted recruits.  SMILEY




Vindicator

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Aye, it would be swell for the Devs to add this to their list of stuff to-do in the future.  I've had a few times where I've invited someone to either my crew or team by accident when trying to click a door/hardline in front of them.  My recommendation is to either set it to Details or Follow by default, whichever is easier.



Ascendent Logic

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Don't use the Tab button. It automaticlly wants the selected person to join your team OR if you're already in team, wants to invite him/her into your crew o_O

Happened to me dozens of times because I jump through commands with Tab.



Femme Fatale

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GoDGiVeR wrote:
Don't use the Tab button. It automaticlly wants the selected person to join your team OR if you're already in team, wants to invite him/her into your crew o_O

Happened to me dozens of times because I jump through commands with Tab.


I never use Tab, didn't know it did anything SMILEY

Also, follow would be ok, but I wouldn't like to accidently double click on them if I am trying to go to to the HL, and leave to go AFK and come back to see I am following someone accross Mega City SMILEY

Best just make it Details, that way, all it does is open a little window, no invites, recruits or following.




Systemic Anomaly

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Either make the double click show their details or for a /t



Systemic Anomaly

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I think of all the options, showing their details makes the most sense. I've wished for this for ages. And it really shouldn't be hard to do.

And that blasted Tab issue really ticks me off! Many a time I've had to explain to someone why I need to kick them from a team. I think I remedied that problem by changing te key assignment, but I can't remember.



MC Photographer

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I agree. I haven't had this problem too many times, but it's still annoying and makes little sense.



Femme Fatale

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flecky wrote:
Either make the double click show their details or for a /t


Bringing up a /tell would be ok, but if your typing a large speach to help someone and have to check the HL and someone gets in the way and all the text goes to make room for the /tell >_<

With Rarebit looking into making the /details window a bit more detailed by adding Rep points (yes, we will see how faithful you are now) it would make a pleasant suprise to get the background of someone appear, some of the backgrounds are very good and are a brilliant read in themselfs.




Transcendent

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I think the fix for this is easier than that:  just call up a prompt:

Invite [person-name] to Crew?


The user understands that this particular action is a big deal; can't imagine them griping about one extra click, given all the trouble it saves.

For Invite to Mission, you just don't call the prompt window method when the user accesses via the "/invite" command.

Just a thought...



Ascendent Logic

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A work-around for this problem is to use a right-click over the RSI, which targets them and displays a menu, but the menu vanishes the moment you move the cursor off the RSI.  So, do a "drive by right-click" and you'll target without any chance of Invites or Interlocks.  (I learned this when trying to target Agents to do a /shakefist, /loser, taunt etc. at them and I kept Interlocking them instead, which is not at all the same situation!) 




Systemic Anomaly

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MXOWinterMute wrote:
I think the fix for this is easier than that:  just call up a prompt

That'd be a lot harder, actually. A brand new window, command sequence and programming exceptions for the /invite command. Whereas all they should need to do to change the default action is change a pointer or the contents of an array.



Enlightened Mind

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GoDGiVeR wrote:
Don't use the Tab button. It automaticlly wants the selected person to join your team OR if you're already in team, wants to invite him/her into your crew o_O

Happened to me dozens of times because I jump through commands with Tab.
Same as.



Systemic Anomaly

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SolidRevolver wrote:

  The amount of times I have randomly been invited to someones team, or when missioning with a factionless friend I have invited them to my crew SMILEY<img src=" />  This will help us save face and stop any unwanted recruits.  SMILEY<img src=" />

Ya know, both teams and crews offer the boot and remove function...for those accidents.



Femme Fatale

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Cmdr_Dezreki wrote:
SolidRevolver wrote:

  The amount of times I have randomly been invited to someones team, or when missioning with a factionless friend I have invited them to my crew SMILEY<img src=">  This will help us save face and stop any unwanted recruits.  SMILEY<img src=">

Ya know, both teams and crews offer the boot and remove function...for those accidents.

Indeed we do, but it is still an unessicary inconveniance, just a simple change to have their details pop up rather than a team/crew invite.



Jacked Out

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Sounds like a user error.



heh heh


 
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