New instance type - friends only+
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Desunyan
Would be very useful to have friends only+ instance type.
Main point is ability for friends to join instance owner without invite but people who not friends with instance owner and friends of instance guests should be able to request invite from their friends who already in friend only+ instance.
This will solve issue with friends only instances when friends of friends can't join instance but will be safer than friends+ instance type.
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shininghero
Hmm... at that point it would make more sense to just toss instance types as we know it, and make a Unix type permission system.
The first section would define if the Owner's friends need an invite, the second section would define the same for the Owner's friends, and the third would define it for everyone else.
It would be powerful, but potentially confusing.
loukylor
In my opinion this is just very confusing and kind of unnecessary. VRChat already has a huge learning curve for new players, (private vs public avatars, where to get avatars, how to upload an avatar, cloning, instance types, blocking, muting, safety, the culture, etc.) and this really only makes it worse. I found this difficult to read and understand and the name "friends only+" is so confusing. Maybe I'm just dumb who knows.
I also have a hard time seeing where this is actually useful. From what I can see the largest convenience this has is if a friend forgets to go into orange, but you could just as easily making an invite+ world and set your status to blue. Friends of you could easily join by requesting off you, then friends of friends would have to request and get an invite back.
Adding all that up, I don't think it's really worth the devs' time to implement this especially considering adding this to the game would be a fairly large undertaking both for the client and also the API. It's just really not worth it to me.
Eremite
This wouldn't be a bad change to just apply to Friends Only instances without having to make a new type of instance. Just make the owner of the instance be the one who has to approve the invitation.
Lil Fluff
Eremite: Agreed. It would be less work for the devs to allow the room owner to approve requests, which should also be implemented in invite only. Allow the room owner to approve or deny all invites rather than some odd message about "ask (owner) to invite them" when they aren't already a friend of the owner.
poplopo
Can you clarify a bit? How is this different from a Friends+ instance?
Based Bass
poplopo: Friends can join no problem, people not friends with instance owner needs to request invite off the friend and friend can ask owner if its ok to invite.
Vulpes Sly
I think this is a great idea. As a social interactive game it makes things difficult if only friends can join. If I make a friends only world and someone elses friend wants to join... the only ways to access my instance is by using 3rd party software to ask who the world owner is and send me a friendrequest. The other option would be inviting your friend out of the friends only world to ask who the worldowner is and send a friendsrequest. This is alot of trouble... therefore I think even friends only worlds can even get inviterights to the worldowner as a standard function. And the worldowner can still manage who comes in and who doesnt. I do not think we should have to rely on other software to see friends.