Limiting 1 shout a min

blacklist AND report them.

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Originally Posted by CorwynnMaelstrom

I can have an entire conversation with someone in 30 seconds that involves questions, answers, followups, and clarifications.

Blist the gil spammers when you hear them. I do.

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They like to delete and re-create characters over and over. So they get removed from the Blist every once in a while.

Not a bad idea, OP. A lot of MMO's I've played have had some kind of anti-flood mechanism in place to prevent spamming. Perhaps 1 minute is a bit much... but maybe something along the lines of 30 seconds would be appropriate. I can log into the game inside the Inn and the moment I step out, before the screen has finished loading, my chat log is being spammed with RMT scroll. It's literally like a macro or something that is set to auto-repeat a dozen times within the span of 15-20 seconds.

It's disgusting. We have posting limits here on the forums, but RMT can spam all day long with nothing to limit them except blacklisting (which so far is unnecessarily complicated for such a simple thing).

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Originally Posted by azphyxxxiate

They like to delete and re-create characters over and over. So they get removed from the Blist every once in a while.

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Well, then report them, once they start getting accounts banned, it will become too expensive for them to keep doing this. I am happy that on adamantoise, after preaching to people every time I am in a starting city, that I now hear them saying the same thing. Get them reported and off the game.

Well first of all, the spammers in general are not RMT, they are account hijackers. They make THEIR money from simply stealing your account and existing gil. Then they place a bot to shout their trap links to get more accounts to shout on. This includes adding random numbers to the end if they want to have unique shouts every time.

I don't think you can actually code a system to prevent them, since they'll just code around it. A GM or something being present and banning in starting regions would be better.

No. That's a horrible idea. You do not punish your legit players to somewhat mitigate a slight annoyance.

/blist. It's your friend. Then, when you have time, report said player.

shout off
scream off
private messages off
private messages sound alert off
useless reporting* off
var say
if spam=false
say on
else
say off
team chat on

*as mentioned, gil sellers do not buy accounts nor pay suscribtion, they hack with keyloggers and zombify the toons after they pillaged them. they'll have a constant flux of new account to use, and they use port hack to the coords they wish, so they barely loose a tiny bit of their time.