Gold spammers are taking advantage of SEs limits.

[Delrosa]

Honestly even an easier way to report them won't help because SE won't ban them any faster. With the amount that these assholes are spamming players should not even have to report them, if SE would get off their lazy asses and just monitor the chat they could really cut back on this problem. At this point they need to try something, anything. I'm very close to giving up on this game because every time I log in I've got 10 pages of spam in my log before the zone even loads.

[Bearskjold]

Sorry but I don't agree with the idea that charging per character will solve the problem. I've been playing MMORPG's for years, since before gold selling was even an issue and none of the other games I've played charged per character yet none of them had the problem to the extent I'm seeing in this game. Lets face it, when the same person can spam a channel for hours on end without being stopped, the problem is with game moderators (or a lack thereof). I don't think anyone expects SE to suddenly cure the gold selling problem that plagues all MMORPG's, but right now I think most of us would be happy just being able to use public chat channels without having to keep adding to our blacklists.

1. There needs to be an easier way to report spam
2. SE needs to actually do something about these people

[DivineOracle]

Honestly even an easier way to report them won't help because SE won't ban them any faster. With the amount that these assholes are spamming players should not even have to report them, if SE would get off their lazy asses and just monitor the chat they could really cut back on this problem. At this point they need to try something, anything. I'm very close to giving up on this game because every time I log in I've got 10 pages of spam in my log before the zone even loads.

I'm actually in the same boat, on my server Ul'dah is heavly infested with them, to where i can't even finish loading and my entire chat log is spammed from top to bottom, and there is usually 2-3 of them doing it. tells are near impossible to get if you don't blacklist fast. My server was closed off at 1st and we had peace,

[DivineOracle]

"continued because of your awful character limit"

Now it's getting to the point i am thinking about not even playing anymore cause i'm tired of having to keep black listing a new patch every few hours i zone into a town. If SE is even reading this forums you guys seriously need to do something and fast or you will lose customers. i love this game to death but even i have my limits if i can't enjoy it.

You can't even go outside, because they are there as well, shouting to make sure you can't get away from them. the only safe zones are the high level ones low levels can't easily get to, and then you get tells from them, if you don't blist them asap they will keep sending you tells. the same ones. this is getting absurd to the point where i no longer feel like playing anymore because i'm tired of this.

[Anyendryyl]

It would greatly help...Make the "Blacklist" Option blacklist the entire account. Not simply individual characters.

[Amnesia]

Just limit /shouts to one per 5 minutes. That way people at least have a chance to see the gil seller's name so they can blacklist them.

[Mihana]

Just limit /shouts to one per 5 minutes. That way people at least have a chance to see the gil seller's name so they can blacklist them.

I agree with this, but make it something like players without a class over a certain level and quest completion incur chat restrictions.

Under Lv.5
Cannot use /tell, /shout, or /yell channels. /say is limited to 5 per every two minutes.

Under Lv.10
Cannot use /shout or /yell channels. /tell limited to 3 every 5 minutes. /say limitations are lifted.

Under Lv.15 + Completion of Primary Class Quests up to Lv.10
Limitations on /shout and /yell channels. No more than 3 per 3 minutes. That's a limit of 1 per minute. Attempting a 4th will incur a 5 minute lockout from using either channel again. /tell and /say limitations are completely lifted.

Above Lv.15 + Completion of Main Story and Primary Class Quests up to Lv.10
All limitations are removed.

Once the RMT problem is more under their control, chat restrictions can be completely lifted or reduced. This won't completely deter RMT but will give them extra work to do every time an account is banned. Unfortunately it also impairs new players a bit so I took that into consideration. By Lv.15 you should have unlocked the Armoury System and completed up to the Lv.10 Main Story Quest.

[Kirea]

yeah no, the limiting of tells and stuff screws over new players who want to contact friends when they join a server.

Many games have succesfully implimented a report rmt spam button, after so many reports the account is auto-banned from game. while difficult to impliment it's also extremely effective, and players caught reporting real players (to try and get them banned) can receive a short suspension.
Aka: player 1 doesn't like player 2 so they report them as an rmt to get them banned, this provides a snapshot of the chat log or the gm's can just pull up area logs, find player 1 was abusing it, player 1 receives a 1-2 day suspension. you people can think of the details. but limiting shout, tells etc hurts the real player base more than the rmt as many of the rmt spamming accounts are actually stolen and using level 25+ classes to do it

[Acretia]

Just don't allow shouting or yelling until you're level 15 with any class. That'll solve most of the problem.

This I think is a good idea.

Most the problem I agree, It does not take that long to get to 15. I agree that it will definietly slow them down and it would solve how fast they can repopulate into the Shout-spam, but the gil sellers will still be there. There is always /tell too... albeit is slower to spam in /tell that /shout or /yell.

The draw back would be actual new/low level players could not seek help via shouting/yelling. How much that would really matter....? Idk.

[Amnesia]

Under Lv.5
Cannot use /tell, /shout, or /yell channels. /say is limited to 5 per every two minutes.

Above Lv.15 + Completion of Main Story and Primary Class Quests up to Lv.10
All limitations are removed..

One of the legitimate uses for /shout is to get help. ("Where are the spriggans?") Low-level players are the ones who most need this.

There's no legitimate reason to spam shout. Whether you think the limit should be one shout per 5 minutes or 1 per minute, there ought be a limit.