Counter Attack towards RMT ^^

Reading over the 2.3 notes and Thank you. Hopefully it works to extremely slow down the rate of those rmt tells.

"The number of Say, Yell, Shout, or Tell messages that may be sent per second has been limited."

Praise the Twelve!

It really should probably be per-minute, not per-second, since you can still be pretty annoying just sending out 60 spam tells a minute. But it's certainly a start.

Small step in the right direction but I think it needs to be improved bit more. Dont think 1sec is enough to stop those rmt ads. I think there should be a /tell lock depending on how many tells get sent out after a period of time. Like 20/30 tells in 1min.

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Originally Posted by Ninix

It really should probably be per-minute, not per-second, since you can still be pretty annoying just sending out 60 spam tells a minute. But it's certainly a start.

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If it was per min it would effect normal players.

As far as I can tell, the RMT players send simultaneous tells to several players. How many times do read from your fellow players comments about receiving a tell a second after you received one? With this, they'll reduce the amount of tells they can send per minute and it will probably affect their modus operandi. With that being said, you'll probably won't receive a tell right away when the tell "cooldown" is over.

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Originally Posted by Beetle

If it was per min it would effect normal players.

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Has never stopped SE before, Read:

Can't deliver items to yourself or alts on same account.
Gil Limitations on transfers
EXTREMELY low vendor prices.

This is more of an "in general change", it's not really to attack RMT.

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Originally Posted by Beetle

If it was per min it would effect normal players.

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There are very few legitimate reasons in which a character under level 5 or 10 would need to send tells to more than, say, 10-15 different players in the span of a minute.

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Originally Posted by Ninix

There are very few legitimate reasons in which a character under level 5 or 10 would need to send tells to more than, say, 10-15 different players in the span of a minute.

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Maybe. But again, if they did a crazy restriction that affected normal players, people would flip out. Plus, spammers tend to just fire a batch of tells to people, so this would pick them up.

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Originally Posted by Zaero

Maybe. But again, if they did a crazy restriction that affected normal players, people would flip out.

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SE would ignore those that flipped out. The "protection against RMT" took weird ways.

Why does FFXIV seem to have such a problem with RMT tel spammers? I don't know exactly HOW they did it in FFXI but it worked. In WoW I barely remember of tell spammers (but town shouters, and world channel spammers while it still existed)

a per second thing probably also will impact in FC shouts that go over more than one shout line when macroing (you can put less in a single macro line than in the actual chat line) I got one with 2 and one with 3, with both I get sometimes you need to wait befor you can shout, after the first line, although the second comes with a /wait 2 command, this after zoning into a zone and using the macro.

This will make shout arguments in mor donna weirder :D

They listened to my idea! Well maybe I wasn't the first one to think of it but still. Awesome!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Anti-RMT-idea

I demand a cookie!

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Originally Posted by Darki

They listened to my idea! Well maybe I wasn't the first one to think of it but still. Awesome!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Anti-RMT-idea

I demand a cookie!

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*Noms almost all the cookies and gives Darki only one* ;P

This looks like a great change, though I agree with others that it certainly should have been in place before launch. SE knew they already had a huge amount of RMT bots in 1.xx hoarding gil, did they think they'd just quit at relaunch after all those Cederwood sheep leves? Limiting tell/shout speed is so much more important than limiting a player from mailing their own alts or the other really silly things they've done to "combat RMT".