RMT Deleting characters before blist add?

Has anyone else seen this recently ? It appears RMT have either found a way to send tells cross world or have some how found a way to shield themselves from blist options. Yesterday I received several RMT tells and immediately following the tell went to blist the character using right click send tell and change from /tell to /blist add "character name" could not have been 30 seconds and I got a message the character could not be found. A few minutes later same character another tell, SE really needs to fix this as I am now resorting to turning tells off almost completely even while playing just to avoid the RMT spam.

They enter an instance right away to avoid the blist. They come back after a min or so.

You can't blacklist if the character is logged off I think so most likely they are sending mass-tells then logging off immediately.

Actually, what Acyd said could also be possible. In Gridania, I see a group of 8 RMT enter an instance and come back 30secs-1 min later constantly. I sat watching them for an hour one day while bored and this was non-stop.

I blacklisted 3 of them last night and didn't have the issue you had.
Best command to blist without checking their name is /blist add <r>
<r> is command to get name of last /tell to you

They logged off, then logged back on.

You can't blist if they're not logged on.

I'm not surprised at this, what with many people actually replying to these tells with such gems as, "Enjoy your GM report." Destroys the whole anonymity and, most importantly, out-of-nowhere-ness of a GM report. Can't ban what's not there anymore.

Having a macro for this helps, I catch them the moment the text loads on my screen, no escape for those rmt's

I imagine most just blist and dont bother with the GM reports anymore.

There are no GM in ffxiv I and several others reported 3 guys on my server that had their character bot for 5 days straight their chocobo ranking and now they show off their chocobo in revenant toll with white mage barding. Reporting is bullshit cause there are no GMs.

What is the actual utility of this from the gil seller perspective, people who block them aren't interested customers anyway.

Well, that's nice and all, but blacklisting =/= reporting.

I blacklist them too to be able to check if they got deleted.
Lately, reported characters who send RMT tells get deleted rather quick. If by SE or by themself, I don't know.

Something I do know, is that bots and hackers don't get penalized at all.
I report every bot or teleport/speed hack character I come across. So far it's about 30 over the past ~10 weeks and none of them are gone.

Regarding the OP post, I came across something similar just recently in Coerthas at the Merchant & Mender in the Observatorium.
Suddenly a character with a strange name like "Ychrsot Grusnat" (just an example) would pop, stand there for about 10-15 seconds and then vanish again.
A few minutes later another character with strange name pops and depops again.
I noticed 4 of them, all lvl50 archers (not bards) with gear around lvl40-45 (all got the same gear), same race, character model and looks.
Checked them on the Lodestone, no mounts, no pets, no other classes, no faction, no free company.
One more thing I noticed is that they were in party as soon as they spawned and at least 2 of them were party leaders.
When they vanished character search couldn't find them anymore.

Reported all of them with a clear description but nothing happened, as usual.

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Originally Posted by Elkwood

Has anyone else seen this recently ? It appears RMT have either found a way to send tells cross world or have some how found a way to shield themselves from blist options. Yesterday I received several RMT tells and immediately following the tell went to blist the character using right click send tell and change from /tell to /blist add "character name" could not have been 30 seconds and I got a message the character could not be found. A few minutes later same character another tell, SE really needs to fix this as I am now resorting to turning tells off almost completely even while playing just to avoid the RMT spam.

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I've had some like that. I figure they're logging off asap, but if I heard correctly and read the notes right, you will now be able to blist directly from the chat log like we've been asking for.

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Originally Posted by Sakasa

I imagine most just blist and dont bother with the GM reports anymore.

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Yes, the volume of RMT tells is now so heavy, and it takes so long for SE to get around to doing anything about all the (long ago reported) bots I see running around that I have mostly given up on reporting.

Problem with blisting is I'm 3/4 full and then what? I go through to see if any names have been (deleted) to remove them but the names that remain far outnumber the ones that show (deleted).

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Originally Posted by Yoruichi4478

Problem with blisting is I'm 3/4 full and then what? I go through to see if any names have been (deleted) to remove them but the names that remain far outnumber the ones that show (deleted).

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Just delete names from the top of your blist. They have probably long ago been banned by SE (assuming there is anyone left in the game still reporting rmt barkers, though if they are bots they will of course still be around).

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Originally Posted by Yoruichi4478

Problem with blisting is I'm 3/4 full and then what? I go through to see if any names have been (deleted) to remove them but the names that remain far outnumber the ones that show (deleted).

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Just delete them. (Deleted) means the character has been deleted by creator, or moved servers. It doesn't include banned as near as I have been able to tell. Delete everything a week old, and move on. Most of those in your list are long since banned and just a waste of BL space. I keep hoping SE will add a feature to automatically clear blacklists of banned accounts though...

You may have forgotten to delete the space after their name after doing the /tell function from chat log.

I made myself a hotkey for blisting. /blist add "<r>"
click, hit enter, done.

Happened to me as well.

S.E seriously needs to deal with RMT faster. My blacklist is full and they spam me all day. RMT is more annoying in this game than any other mmo I've played including Neverwinter which is f2p.


p.s stop buying gil, it's pathetic.

The solution to this issue is not blist but a way to report them. Having the ease to right click, and select "Report As Spam", will go a long way to solving this issue. The report gets sent to the right hands so they can investigate. When you blist it just stays there and nobody is the wiser. The other MMO's I have played recently all have a way to report these spammers, and they hardly have a problem; this is the worst MMO I've sen in a while. You got to hit them fast, and make their pocketbooks hurt when their accounts get banned and they have to create a new one.

Would it be more effective for us and maybe even SE to go after the websites listed in the tells? Technically it is unsolicited messages, and the frequency at which we receive them from the same account within a short time frame could be harassment? They can make new accounts faster then SE can ban them, but what about hitting them outside the game where different rules apply.

What they do is group and que for a dungeon, when the commence window pops up they spam their rmt tells, then immediately click commence and que into the dungeon. They just alt f4 while they are in there and log on some other characters and do it again.

Just make a macro

/blist add <r>

Put it on your hot bar and press it instantly when you get tells, they can't commence that fast.

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Originally Posted by Tazytiggy

Would it be more effective for us and maybe even SE to go after the websites listed in the tells? Technically it is unsolicited messages, and the frequency at which we receive them from the same account within a short time frame could be harassment? They can make new accounts faster then SE can ban them, but what about hitting them outside the game where different rules apply.

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Those different rules would be in china where they don't care if they are harassing people outside their country.
so that would be pointless.

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Originally Posted by Ryios

Just make a macro

/blist add <r>

Put it on your hot bar and press it instantly when you get tells, they can't commence that fast.

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Yep, never had a problem blacklisting any spammer using this macro. No escape!

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Originally Posted by Kikosho

You can't blacklist if the character is logged off I think so most likely they are sending mass-tells then logging off immediately.

Actually, what Acyd said could also be possible. In Gridania, I see a group of 8 RMT enter an instance and come back 30secs-1 min later constantly. I sat watching them for an hour one day while bored and this was non-stop.

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what were they doing going in and out of an inn room?

you could also add some text in your BL macro. why not return the wall of text favor?
http://www.ascii-middle-finger.com/

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Originally Posted by Kyana

Reported all of them with a clear description but nothing happened, as usual.

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I'll second that. SE are not enforcing this at all. Drives me insane since I actually farm everything I need to craft and see these assholes every single time.

I haven't had to blacklist anyone in about a month did they finally crack down on the shouters and tells or is the blacklist really working.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

I haven't had to blacklist anyone in about a month did they finally crack down on the shouters and tells or is the blacklist really working.

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Teleport into a main city or area where people do lots of fates, you will get messages from djfdkj fjdklajf almost before the screen loads up.

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Originally Posted by Tazytiggy

Teleport into a main city or area where people do lots of fates, you will get messages from djfdkj fjdklajf almost before the screen loads up.

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Most of the time.
It's something I noticed a while back. They hit you when you instance and they hit you when you craft. In places you would not be able to simply blist or ignore them. It's why I have a default channel with no tells. The macro spam seems to react to what I am doing in game.