Sorry if this has already been asked before but couldn't find a smilar topic.

I have two questions and potential issues/suggestions with adding or removing members to party (Im posting in this section since its possible these might be noob questions in essence and I might be missing something I dont know about yet).

1) Adding New Members: Once I form a party I no longer get the option to add more characters simply by just clicking on their name and selecting the "invite" option from the drop list. I was told in area chat that I could use "/invite [Character.Name]". My question is, is there a faster more convinient way to do this (since we might make spelling mistakes writting the character's name, for example)? Also, is there a reason we dont get this option once we've already formed a party? If not, it would be a nice option to have all the time, since its faster, more intuitive and convinient than having to write each party member's name after adding the first.

2) Kicking Party Members: I ran into an issue today trying to kick a party member that was offline and had been logged off for a while. The issue came up when I was trying to add new members and the party was already full (because of the Offline member), but I kept getting this message that I couldn't kick a party member within 120 seconds of combat (which I assume its a preventive measure to avoid dropping someone at the last second to cheat them out of their rewards). The problems are:

A) 120 seconds is too long. A lot can happen in 120 seconds, including someone aggroing mobs by accident or someone not in your party bringing enemies your way (which happens a LOT in Siniestral Manor, Poporia, where I was at the time this happened), which will get your perpetually locked within 120 seconds of being in combat.

B) Why are Offline party members prevented from being kicked if they're offline (particularly in this case, where the party member in question had been offline for at least 5 minutes and I had simply forgotten to kick them)?

Is this feature really necessary? Can it be improved by allowing us to kick Offline party members even if there has been combat within 120 seconds? Or is there something I'm missing?

so you're saying that you can't get a group of people to stand still for 2 minutes? Maybe you guys should lay off the Mountain Dew for a bit and relax.

The game doesn't allow odd characters as far as i know, so typing a name shouldn't really be that difficult. It's easy enough to scroll the chat screen slightly so that their name is on screen when you type it.

Quote: Gileain on 05/14/2012, 09:46 AM - view

Well, the thing about it is in the area we were at (just outside Siniestral Manor, by the portal) people kept aggroing Ovoliths our way (there's a quest to get Ovoliths in that area). Plus by the time this happened we had already spent so much time trying to get a full team together, and everyone was tired, not being able to simply kick the Offline party member quickly to add the final member was the thing that finally broke the team (everyone gave up went off their own way) and I gave up and logged soon after.

Quote: Gileain on 05/14/2012, 09:46 AM - view

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. I just figured I asked in case I was missing anything. I also don't understand why we get the dropdown list that includes the "Invite" option by simply clicking on the name of the first party member we invite, then loose that list of options (even the "Friend" option and a couple more I don't remember) after the party is formed.

But I suppose I can type the names to invite (and already have). I just figured its faster and more convinient to quickly click on the names and select "Invite" as the names of people asking to join come up, and don't really get why forming a party would remove that option.