Increase in RMT tells :(

Any other servers getting more RMT spamming? Leviathan seems to have an influx of them as of late. Went from crazy to almost none for a while. Then for the last month or so, I end up b-listing around 10-20 a day from a ~4hr play session. Might as well permanently leave myself on a Busy status.

It might help if no one under level 10 could message anyone except friends and FC mates.

Siren is getting worse too. The new tactic it seems for RMT is for two tells back to back. That, coupled with the sudden influx of more of them, I end up logging on and immediately getting flooded with 8-10 tells of nothing but RMT. My blacklist is capping weekly at this point, and it's getting very tiresome.

There should be a filter in your character settings that allows you to block tells from players in certain level ranges.

I smell another round of account bans coming along it around that time again.

Really wish they would implement something like that, Alazier. A little unfortunate for new players, but it's not like they wouldn't have communication options like say/shout/etc.

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Originally Posted by Velox

Siren is getting worse too. The new tactic it seems for RMT is for two tells back to back. That, coupled with the sudden influx of more of them, I end up logging on and immediately getting flooded with 8-10 tells of nothing but RMT. My blacklist is capping weekly at this point, and it's getting very tiresome.

There should be a filter in your character settings that allows you to block tells from players in certain level ranges.

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Same on seeing that changed tactic. Occasionally it's the same site being advertised simultaneously, other times it's different ones... which are probably still run by the same people. Today, I encountered a 4x tell spam though. 4 different accounts advertising through /tell at the same time (or within a couple seconds of each other). Dat wall of pink text.

I played the beta last weekend onJenova and didn't get any tells but they were shouting like crazy in the beginning areas.

Just give us an option to choose to filter tells already...

I have absolutely no reason to receive tells from people not in my LS, FC, or party members. I want to be able to completely filter out tells that aren't from those sources.

ps4 launch upcoming , lots of new potential scam victims

Help!! They must have me on a script when I delete to make room they come right back then I'm full again ._.

Can't they file a lawsuit against those sites they have the website listed in their tells.

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Help!! They must have me on a script when I delete to make room they come right back then I'm full again ._.

Can't they file a lawsuit against those sites they have the website listed in their tells.

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They can but most of the time the servers for those sites are hosted either by the company themselves and are always in places that really don't give a rats behind about shutting down those types of sites.

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Help!! They must have me on a script when I delete to make room they come right back then I'm full again ._.

Can't they file a lawsuit against those sites they have the website listed in their tells.

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International laws are extremely difficult to work with, particularly if it involves places like China. The cost to even file a suit may not be worth the time and money to only have a small fraction of a chance for it to go through.

This is getting really obnoxious. Today I logged in and got three in a row.

This is seriously stupid. It has been 7 months since launch, how have the devs not done anything to seriously combat this problem yet? Other games have done amazing jobs of shutting these jerks up, so what is taking SE so long? And is it really so hard to get a court to send a C&D order to these people? What they do is illegal.

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This is getting really obnoxious. Today I logged in and got three in a row.

This is seriously stupid. It has been 7 months since launch, how have the devs not done anything to seriously combat this problem yet?

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Post like these are whats obnoxious, you put one block in and they will find another. You will never 100% stop them, I would give you my secret in how I deal with them but don't want them by off chance reading this and working around it, and no I don't turn tells off or hide tells.

Really, MY post is obnoxious? I am just a paying customer who is entirely sick of seeing this every single day I log in for the past 7 months.

You don't think there's a solution? Here's one.

Player controlled tell blocking. I will call it the "Tell Threshold"


The idea is simple. In my character options screen, I have a setting called Tell Threshold. I can set this anywhere from 1 to 50. This is the minimum level for any person sending me a tell.

So, if I set my Tell Threshold to 30, the game will automatically block / ignore any and all tells that come from players who's highest level class is below 30. If I set this to 50, then I will ONLY be able to receive tells from players who have at least one level 50 class.

Just return an error message to them that says something like "you are not high enough level to contact this player", so that they know they are failing to spam me.


Problem solved.

The only way for the spammers to get around this is to invest the time to level up high enough to get past my Tell Threshold, which could very well be level 50. No more unwanted tells from disposable level 1 characters all throughout my day.

And in the future, whenever someone starts a topic like this, complaining about RMT, we can just tell them to go into their options and turn up their tell threshold.


New players? Tell Threshold starts at level 1 by default, so new players can still communicate with each other. Or if you have a friend just starting the game, you can temporarily turn your's down so that your friend can contact you. As they level up, you can turn your Tell Threshold back up.

I sometimes wonder if they target crafters specifically. Its aweful how much spamm I get =/

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I sometimes wonder if they target crafters specifically. Its aweful how much spamm I get =/

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I think they just have multiple accounts active for different advertising purposes. Some are parked in crowded areas (market boards, Mor Dhona, etc) to advertise to anyone that is within the zone/target range. Some will collect data off of generic searches. Maybe other accounts are active as backup advertisers and name collecting. Either way, frequency increases if you stay in a town it seems.