Gil sellers and how to stop them.

I've had like one rmt in the past 7 months PM me, and it was only once. So if you really are annoyed by them, move to one of the legacy servers, guessing it's a lot less there.

Here is what SE needs to do:
1. Create a chat log option right next to blacklist to "report" and have it pull up the form with all the information loaded up. This could be done for tells, shouts, yells, etc.
2. Trigger automated actions to happen when an account receives enough of these within a certain period of time, such as lengthening the amount of time that has to elapse between tells, blocking communication for a certain amount of time, or straight up freezing the account. Spammers will very quickly hit those thresholds and get restrictions as players report them.

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Originally Posted by SekhmetM

It's easy to see who's RMT. They all look the same, wear the same cloths, have the same class, stand in the same area, and have jarbled names.

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The farmers, maybe. The "mules" actually logging in to covey the gil have names which would never raise an eyebrow...that's yet another reason they get away with it for so long.

I agree with cracking down on gold buyers in order to remove the market for the sellers to profit from. However it becomes a gray area in regards to how to tell the difference between a legitimate trade and a bad trade. In WoW, gold sellers would just throw in some stupid item to make it look like a legitimate trade and, for further measures, would spread out the payments so it wasn't just one lump sum. OR transfer the money via the market where the gil sellers would buy some stupidly priced item in order to transfer the money to that player.

What SE needs to do is stop banning seller accounts and, instead, find them, verify they really are seller accounts, and flag them for monitoring. Then whenever someone takes gil from them or any of the above happens, SE will know who the buyers are. Even then it COULD result in accidental bannings if the sellers were making legitimate market transactions... it still becomes a gray area that has to be handled carefully. I've suffered a false ban in an MMO once and it was awful =/

There's only one true way to stop RMT, yet my mention of it just gets me banned haha. It's quite simple though... Considering that most RMT come from a certain country... SE could just block all connections from said country and voila. Sure, there will be innocent people who end up screwed over, but oh well.

Stop Buying Gil !!!!!!!!!!!

Chinese players shouldn't be playing on the NA/EU servers anyway. They will get their own servers.

Not even sure if servers are region-locked, but they should be. If you aren't from the americas, you should be rejected from playing american servers. Likewise respectively, J and EU.

Simple, follow the money. Found out who is having large amounts of gil mailed or traded to them then follow the trader and tradee. Also wouldn't hurt to have a weekly "We banned X amount of players for buying gil."

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Originally Posted by NoahArks

I've had like one rmt in the past 7 months PM me, and it was only once. So if you really are annoyed by them, move to one of the legacy servers, guessing it's a lot less there.

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That's false. I've been on Hyperion for a couple weeks now and I've gotten 15 tells from gil sellers already. I would say I get more tells on a legacy server compared to a normal one.

Really? Cause on Balmung I barely get gil seller tells.