Archive: 31 posts

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It is with regret that lately I've had to remove some LBP people from my friends list. Thankfully, none of them were any of you My reasons for doing so are fairly simple. There are a lot of people out there who think it's okay to spam you on PSN while you're online. Now, I don't mind spam as long as it's fun conversation, but I was getting several people spamming me with "join plz!" messages after I ignored several in-game LBP invites a row. I'm not talking a single message either, but sometimes 5-6 messages in a row after declining several invites. Generally speaking, if I'm going to ignore an invite, it's probably because I'm - busy creating and do not want to be disturbed - in the middle of a level that i am reviewing (or simply enjoying and don't want to quit) - NOT HERE Anyways, I just want to remind everyone that courtesy is important. Don't annoy your fellow LBPers. One or two invites is all you should send, and if they get ignored, then a single polite message asking for help at a later convenient time is all you should do. People have their own things to do, please respect their time and inboxes

2009-03-10 00:11:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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So far this hasn't been a big problem for me. I do have some younger players that will want me to join when it's not the best time but I've discovered if you put your status as unavailable and make a comment that your building a level in your comment area they generally respect it. Good point though to let others know sometimes you just can't play when you're building a level. Thanks for mentioning it.

2009-03-10 00:16:00 Author: Morgana25 Posts: 5983

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About to clean house on my list as well. I get bombarded with invites that continue after declining or ignoring. Not only do I get a request I get a request, I send deny, then I get a PSN message saying let me join, followed by another request, I deny again, followed by another PSN saying please, then another request... etc etc.... that cycle continues until I finally message and tell them stop or just delete them. Not only is this annoying during creating but the very few times I do go check out a level, I cant enjoy it.

2009-03-10 00:50:00 Author: rz22g Posts: 340

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Theres one person on my friends list that does that, however, I know he's really young, because he has a headset, and he's the brother of one of my brother's friends (wut?) So, I guess I kinda got off lucky.

2009-03-10 01:02:00 Author: DRT99 Posts: 431

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I was playing Nattura's "Anubis" level with a friend a few weeks ago, and someone on HER friends list wanted to play. I asked her if I should let this person join, and she said "Naw, let's just play with the two of us" ... so... good, fine... I hit cancel, and we continue with the level. ... About two seconds later, I get "such and such wants to join you" ... I hit cancel. Well, this went on every second for five minutes. The person wasn't on my friends list, so I couldn't do anything about it. I actually called my husband in to show him what was occurring, because of HOW ridiculous it was. My friend ended up having to take this girl off of her friends list and block her. ... seriously, her invites were causing me to fall into pits and die. I usually put a message up that says I'm building a level, but people generally haven't respected that. I ended up having to go offline and work at certain times. My problem is that I don't ever want to hurt someone's feelings by taking them off of my friends list, because the people on there generally aren't bad people, but as it was stated before, some of them are just very young and don't understand. Usually when I want to join someone, I sent them a psn message saying "hey, do you feel like playing?" and if they say "yes" good. If they say "no" i move on. ... that's just my two cents though, and I'm nobody. ^_^

2009-03-11 01:57:00 Author: xkappax Posts: 2569

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Yeah, this is really annoying. Thankfully, most of my friends don't do that. Two days ago a friend asked to join me...in the middle of a survival challenge (Sack'a'Light). That was annoying for a couple of seconds, as it made me lose my timing. Sometimes I send a few requests if it says the request timed out, but I assume that means that the other player didn't even get it.

2009-03-11 12:04:00 Author: Sackdragon Posts: 427

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I've only recently worked up the courage to play online with other people (had terrible lag/ps3 freezing experiences before). I generally don't send a join/invite request unless I see that the person is in their pod. I'll only send two requests at most and then let it die. I think that's reasonable enough.

2009-03-11 13:57:00 Author: Gilgamesh Posts: 2536

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Two days ago a friend asked to join me...in the middle of a survival challenge (Sack'a'Light). That was annoying for a couple of seconds, as it made me lose my timing. I wish there was a way to stop those notices! Aaaarrgh.

2009-03-11 14:24:00 Author: Boogaloo Posts: 254

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Thegide, on your Asteroid Pinball level, when I was just about to beat my score I lost my last ball because someone was sending me join request every ten seconds...grrrr! It's not a good idea to accept friend requests with message like this "UR LVL R SSO AMZING". Lesson learned.

2009-03-11 14:41:00 Author: JackBurton25 Posts: 116

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I've had no problems. I ONLY accept friend requests from decent, mature authors who I've built up a friendship with here. I practically never get direct requests to invite or join - they always send me a message first asking "Got a minute to try a level?" or something like that. Snowspot (JonMartin) will periodically do it, but only does it once and understands if I decline (he's an author too).

2009-03-11 18:36:00 Author: CCubbage Posts: 4430

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Thegide, on your Asteroid Pinball level, when I was just about to beat my score I lost my last ball because someone was sending me join request every ten seconds...grrrr! It's not a good idea to accept friend requests with message like this "UR LVL R SSO AMZING". Lesson learned. Part of the problem is 90% of friend requests have no message attached to them. I think it's going to be my new policy to reject requests unless they have some sort of identifer message attached to them. Up to now, I've been accepting every incoming request, mostly from LBPers.

2009-03-11 18:57:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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[...]It's not a good idea to accept friend requests with message like this "UR LVL R SSO AMZING". Lesson learned. Heh. I never accept a friend request on PSN unless I somehow know the person. I've gotten a couple now from people who have played one of my levels... but yeah, even though it might seem cold I have to deny the request.

2009-03-11 19:01:00 Author: Gilgamesh Posts: 2536

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I can't really remember, but I think I just send a single request too. I also try not to invite the player if I see he/she is creating (I think I once accidentally did this to you, Thegide, but I seriously can't remember, If I did, I'm sorry)

2009-03-11 21:39:00 Author: DRT99 Posts: 431

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No worries DRT, I don't mind getting an invite when I'm busy, I just don't like getting 10 invites in a row followed by PSN message spam because I don't join.

2009-03-11 22:06:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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Today I had a situation with invite/join nonsense that is beyond words. I think it's time for me to clean house on my friends list. I feel bad just chucking people from it, but this was extremely annoying. I had someone invite me like 10 times in a row, and i was right in the middle of publishing something... I declined. 10 times. I then got a message saying "why won't you let me join" followed by 10 more requests. I finally had to sign off. I went on again later to try to publish again, and the same kid was on me like a buzzard to a gutwagon. It was just like "join, join join join!" ... I really think lbp has to add some sort of "away" or "invisible" feature, because I had my status as unavailable in the PSN, but it meant nothing to this person. There needs to be something like an away message ingame. I don't necessarily want to remove these ppl from my friends list, but I don't want to play all the time, either. ugh. I also, right after the first incident, had a kid try to join me a few times. Then I sent him a message saying "some other time, okay?" to which he said "okay"... he then proceeded to TRY TO JOIN ME AGAIN! Honestly, I'm a very nice person and I have a hard time saying no to people, but this game is making me learn how to say that two letter word REALLY fast. It's upsetting. >_<

2009-03-15 22:05:00 Author: xkappax Posts: 2569

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Today I had a situation with invite/join nonsense that is beyond words. I think it's time for me to clean house on my friends list. I feel bad just chucking people from it, but this was extremely annoying. I had someone invite me like 10 times in a row, and i was right in the middle of publishing something... I declined. 10 times. I then got a message saying "why won't you let me join" followed by 10 more requests. I finally had to sign off. I went on again later to try to publish again, and the same kid was on me like a buzzard to a gutwagon. It was just like "join, join join join!" ... I really think lbp has to add some sort of "away" or "invisible" feature, because I had my status as unavailable in the PSN, but it meant nothing to this person. There needs to be something like an away message ingame. I don't necessarily want to remove these ppl from my friends list, but I don't want to play all the time, either. ugh. I also, right after the first incident, had a kid try to join me a few times. Then I sent him a message saying "some other time, okay?" to which he said "okay"... he then proceeded to TRY TO JOIN ME AGAIN! Honestly, I'm a very nice person and I have a hard time saying no to people, but this game is making me learn how to say that two letter word REALLY fast. It's upsetting. >_< Nowadays if you let people on your friends list who you don't know, you're just asking for trouble. But I've been good... can I stay? I like seeing what you play. I'm kind of nosey that way.

2009-03-16 02:42:00 Author: CCubbage Posts: 4430

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You're one of the good ones. lol. you can stay. In all honesty, though, a lot of the people on my friends list were really nice in the beginning, and I've kept them on. Every single random person I've had join in the past month has been a horrible join button masher, though!

2009-03-16 03:52:00 Author: xkappax Posts: 2569

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did you try changing your comment to something like "building level" or "do not disturb"? that should get the point across

2009-03-16 04:39:00 Author: RickTheRipper Posts: 345

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Someone suggested once that there should be modes you can set in LBP. Like a "I'm Busy" mode that will prevent all invites and even tell the inviter you are not available.

2009-03-16 05:50:00 Author: Walter-Kovacs Posts: 542

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did you try changing your comment to something like "building level" or "do not disturb"? that should get the point across People don't read... .

2009-03-16 06:14:00 Author: RangerZero Posts: 3901

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yes, people don't read. I could have my away message say "go the #$@% away" and also have my status as away, and the MOMENT i sign into the game I'll get "jimbob20009290202 wishes to join you" 17 times in a row. unfortunately, i had to take the individual in question off of my friends list, and i don't like to do that. my favorite time was when i was playing Tomb of light with my husband, and it got so bad that we kept falling into pits, and it actually caused us to lose all of our lives. in all honesty, you know it's a real problem when you send them an email saying "i can't play now" and then they still do it for five minutes following that

2009-03-16 13:34:00 Author: xkappax Posts: 2569

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I only have 12 people on my freinds list, who I play with and mail over PSN all the time, most of whom are from here actually. I removed a load offenders a month ago after the same problems. Then again I should have more sense accepting requests from people that simply said "luvd ur lvls". You live and learn though.

2009-03-16 13:49:00 Author: GruntosUK Posts: 1754

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Yes, the people I've met on forums are very nice and practice good invite/join practices. Live and learn is right. I doubt I'll accept any more requests that say "yr levles r teh greatzors !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

2009-03-16 16:30:00 Author: xkappax Posts: 2569

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Well, yes you have to be careful. If that wasn't evident to me a week ago, it certainly is now. Having a level on the front of cool pages was enough to get me about 20 random friend requests, none of whom were from people I actually had met before. I rejected all but one, from a guy who started a conversation with me about LBP creation techniques. But yeah, to all those others, they could have been dangerous.

2009-03-16 17:22:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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I feel your pain, TheGide. I got most of my friend requests when Centralia was on page 5 of Cool Levels (which is weird, cause that one is under my husband's psn). Most of the people were very polite, and said simply "saw the level, I liked it" and i accepted their request. These requests stopped back in maybe like December, when Centralia had been out for a month, and that was all right. Then I would just get requests from other creators, and i'm fine with that... For some unknown reason though, even though Crystal Cave isn't on cool levels, in the past week, I have gotten a veritable flood of requests. I'm wondering if it was from the video review that was done on youtube by LBPreviews. Actually... that would make a lot of sense. ... but anyway, it's been nuts. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but lately the people who have been requesting my friendship have been downright nasty to me when I decline their invite. I don't know if it's that they don't understand that I'm in create mode (even though my status is unavailable) or what... It also seems to me that there's a very different crowd playing littlebigplanet than there was in the beginning. That probably adds to this sort of behavior, but this could just be speculation on my part. Anyway, I actually ended up having to make another screen name, because some of these random people are rather nice, and I don't necessarily want to take those people off completely. I'm sort of hoping that when one of the next patches arrives, it will have some sort of "away" or "invisible" sort of thing. I'm the sort of person who actually does enjoy, from time to time, playing online levels with random cool level people. it's just that i don't want to do it ALL THE TIME.

2009-03-16 17:51:00 Author: xkappax Posts: 2569

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Someone suggested once that there should be modes you can set in LBP. Like a "I'm Busy" mode that will prevent all invites and even tell the inviter you are not available. That would solve many, many problems. I usually write PSN messages if its someone important but that can become a pain if you have to do it frequently.

2009-03-16 18:09:00 Author: Zwollie Posts: 2173

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Someone suggested once that there should be modes you can set in LBP. Like a "I'm Busy" mode that will prevent all invites and even tell the inviter you are not available. I think that should be on the WHOLE PSN because I still have trouble with this on other online games as well.

2009-03-16 18:12:00 Author: olit123 Posts: 1341

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So far this hasn't been a big problem for me. I do have some younger players that will want me to join when it's not the best time but I've discovered if you put your status as unavailable and make a comment that your building a level in your comment area they generally respect it. Good point though to let others know sometimes you just can't play when you're building a level. Thanks for mentioning it. How do you set your status? I cant seem to find that. That will be a timesaver for sure.

2009-03-17 02:48:00 Author: mrjoeyman Posts: 217

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you set your status by i think hitting triangle on your name in your friends list and hit "not available" ... it doesn't work though. I just had a guy try to invite me like 17 times when I was testing gruntos's level with him. I then got a message saying "bye" and he deleted me from his friends list. My status was set as away, and my message said "beta testing, brb" ... but the idiot just kept inviting me! I don't know what to do at this point. This whole thing is getting to be a really super huge problem.

2009-03-20 23:36:00 Author: xkappax Posts: 2569

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Thanks for the testing kappa, I'm fixing up the level now. It is getting a problem I agree. I had the same, people requesting to join etc etc. There should be an "appear offline" setting added in my opinion

2009-03-20 23:46:00 Author: GruntosUK Posts: 1754

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There really should be. Perhaps I"ll write to media molecule about it. ... People dont' seem to understand when I have 4 people in my pod already that you can't join, they don't understand that if they have 2 people and I have 3, it's also not going to work. But, I mean, when you see that little orange "not available" icon, that should send off bells and whistles that say "hey, if this person is playing online, and their away message says "beta testing, brb"... maybe I should believe this person and leave them alone" I didn't want to have to take the people off of my list that I did, and I feel really awful about it.

2009-03-21 11:54:00 Author: xkappax Posts: 2569

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