I basically idle on dota all day and I almost never plan to play most of the time I'm on. I also have 300 steam friends 90% of which are from dota. I don't mind when people continually invite me as long as they know I will decline 90% of the invites and it's not personal. There aren't that many people I accept invites from unless I really feel like playing and I'm bored.

dravernor

Netherlands6192 Posts

May 22 2014 18:35 GMT

#42

On May 23 2014 00:20 ahswtini wrote:
I always give a reason when I decline Facebook event invites, unless it's one of those 1000 people events...

I do too normally, but 95% of my invites are from people in other countries, which is a pretty self explanatory reason for me declining.

*looks at KAG*

rebdomine

6040 Posts

May 23 2014 00:57 GMT

#43

I usually just tell them the truth (in a full party already, not playing at the moment).

The only time I don't respond is if I was afk when I was invited.

betaflame

175 Posts

May 23 2014 01:00 GMT

#44

Was it just me, but I thought this was about being invited to a real life party, then turns out it was dota party...

thOr6136

Slovenia1775 Posts

May 23 2014 14:05 GMT

#45

Yo moreno, for me, whenever i invite i never expect an answer from anybody. I kinda get mad a bit if someone says anything LOL. Like if you don't want to play there's no obligation for you to say i cant because of X. No need to explain anything, no need to say anything, just decline and ignore :D. I invite and whoever comes comes. Even if i invite you 10 times (sorry for that i do that often D).

Like i hate it so much when someone wants you to explain why you cant...

Somteimes i explain myself and i should stop, it's retarded

OuchyDathurts

United States4588 Posts

May 25 2014 02:20 GMT

#46

On May 21 2014 23:16 ahswtini wrote:

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I've tried this before but one friend of mine has gotten very good at finding me out. He won't reveal how though.

If you go to your friends list in the steam client (through your profile and not using the friends list bar) you'll show up wrong. Like it'll say "Last online 20hours 17mins ago", considering I saw you online 45 minutes ago that's clearly a lie and you've actually just set yourself to offline without logging out.

I've got a smurf if I want to be left alone entirely and just solo queue in peace. For the most part people have learned to leave me alone until a certain time since I won't play before then because I have real life obligations. With a certain group of friends I'm always the one leading the party so I invite them, they don't invite me when we're grouping, and certain people don't invite me because I don't like playing with them. People don't really get butthurt over things if they're not children. Someone doesn't want to play? That's cool. Their group is full? Not a big deal. Just because you have someone on your friends list doesn't mean you can expect them to want to play with you.

climax

United States1088 Posts

May 25 2014 05:12 GMT

#47

I think honesty is key. Just don't be a dick about it.

tadL

Croatia679 Posts

May 25 2014 05:17 GMT

#48

Just do this if you get an invite "do we scrim against other teams?" and if they say no and just want to get some achievment feelings of "stomping" solo que people you can tell them you really would like to scrim against other teams. And the people that tryhard on ladder and think it means something will stop inviting you.

Firebolt145

Lalalaland34510 Posts

May 26 2014 08:55 GMT

#49

I'm too popular and get too many invites that I just stopped responding at some point.

Seriously though I usually respond and say 'not available for X reason' unless I'm afk, which does actually make for a rather large portion of the invites.

Dubzex

United States6994 Posts

May 26 2014 23:18 GMT

#50

Just be like choco and say "i have to eat soon" and then go play dota instead of csgo with you.
;_;

CountChocula

Canada2068 Posts

June 06 2014 03:23 GMT

#51

On May 26 2014 17:55 Firebolt145 wrote:
I'm too popular and get too many invites that I just stopped responding at some point.

Seriously though I usually respond and say 'not available for X reason' unless I'm afk, which does actually make for a rather large portion of the invites.

w0w when I invited you, I never got a message "not available for X reason"

On May 27 2014 08:18 Dubzex wrote:
Just be like choco and say "i have to eat soon" and then go play dota instead of csgo with you.
;_;

When I go eat, I set it on auto-spectate in Dota 2 in hopes of winning tournament drop.

dravernor

Netherlands6192 Posts

June 06 2014 04:20 GMT

#52

Hang on, there is someone who always says this besides Choco. Hmmm
EPOXIDE!! It is Epoxide. He is always 'going to eat'

Firebolt145

Lalalaland34510 Posts

June 06 2014 08:42 GMT

#53

On June 06 2014 12:23 CountChocula wrote:

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w0w when I invited you, I never got a message "not available for X reason"

Show nested quote +

When I go eat, I set it on auto-spectate in Dota 2 in hopes of winning tournament drop.

You always invite me at like 6-9am when I'm either asleep or out.

Half the Sky

Germany9029 Posts

June 10 2014 16:56 GMT

#54

Depends on the reason. In nearly all cases, I tell it like it is. Party capacity, ranked v unranked, etc are all pretty straightforward gameplay reasons. I also decline invites if a party goes for ability draft, which I absolutely hate.

If I want to solo queue/daily challenge/watch a pro game, etc, I actually put a message describing this (e.g. Solo MMR atm/watching Na'Vi v EG, etc) as my tagline underneath my name. Have not gotten a single invite (or any hassle) when I've been proactive this way.

Just be straightforward and say something reasonable, there will probably be a day when you'd want to party and don't want to be ignored either.

Only exception to this rule is if you're in a party with a friend who may not like another one of your friends (who may have just invited you). Then I might say from the off that the party is full, etc.

Regarding people you might want to ignore, I've amassed a load of friends over the last year, both sides of the Atlantic, and ocassionally I've had to delete friends that I haven't seen or played with in a very long time (> 6 months). Had a rude awakening once when I invited someone I hadn't played with in awhile and the experience was less than optimal.