"Request invite from host" Button
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tupper
There needs to be a button that requests an invite from the host of a room that a friend is in. Right now you have to track down whoever is the room creator in an invite-only room, which makes it difficult to request an invite (especially if you don't have that person friended).
To elaborate, a use case:
Friend #1 is in a room that Non-Friend #1 is hosting/owns, and it is set to invite-only.
I am trying to join on Friend #1. Friend #1 is not the host, so they cannot invite me. I want to press a button on Friend #1's profile that will send an invite request to Non-Friend #1, so if they accept, I can join.
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Mimi
I think the best idea for this method was what TCL said a while ago
"A" see's her "Friend" is in an invite only world belonging to "Non-friend"
"A" requests to join "Friend". "Friend" then gets the request "Request room owner to invite "A"?"
"Friend" hits yes and the system then bounces to the room owner and asks "'Friend' would like to invite 'A', accept?". if "Non-Friend" accepts the invite it will invite "A"
The point of this is 1: it adds more privacy to people in invite only worlds as people cant tell who is in what room with who based on who they can request invite from or not
2: the point of it asking "Friend" first is so "Non-Friend" isnt getting a ton of invites from every players friends. each player can decline if they already know that no one else should join, this also lets the room owner know who is trying to invite "A"
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mrpinkie
The old method of sending an invite to a friend in a private world and then they ask the host/owner to send an invite to you is not feasible any longer. We are seeing huge numbers of people in worlds now. Friends instances may as well be public, so a lot of people are going private instances now and finding your friends when logging in is difficult, and sometime impossible. Also there is the issue of room ownership, in the case of a room that has not been made public yet. The maker creates the instance then for what ever reason, they leave, no one else is able to invite people to the room, there is no ownership hand off. It essentially becomes a dead room, with people in it.
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MisterJerome
i was just thinking about this the other day we really need this