RMT spam fixes need to happen sooner then later

[Astralis]

Rmt keeps on coming because players keep on buying


Currently we all know that making gil in this game is impossible unless you do crafting and some people is just not into it. What do they do? Buy gil from this rmt people.

How did I know? I see people selling crafted items for around 300-400k, so i was thinking noone has that kind of money i will wait for it to go down. Then poof it has been sold the player who bought it doesnt have money and just became 50. I see him in mhordana

[Vahlenteer]

This gilseller has an ever-changing number in his message: at the very end, it starts with /// and has unique letters and digits following it. it is MUCH too fast to be hand-typed. What does that mean???

As you can see, this was some serious spam, absolutely overwhelming the game. What rl player would pay money to such a [fill in with appropriately vehement and obscene label]? To support this you have to have some serious narcissistic issues. ugh

[Lapulapu]

Greetings,

We would like to apologize for the inconveniences that RMT spam has been causing. We are diligently investigating any incoming reports or sightings of RMT shouts and banning them as soon as possible. In addition, we are working on speeding up the investigation flow.

We understand that the current RMT shout/spam reporting procedure can be improved so we are working our hardest to implement a system that is faster and easier to report/block violators. With that said, we sincerely appreciate the assistance from those of you who have been submitting reports as we work towards improving the system.

Edited for character limit

Maybe an RMT/spam/block/report all in one right click choice would be something to consider?

[Scorpius]

One way to stop them: Free Roaming PvP.

RMTers become the new FATE's

Would be a blast to watch...


eta: just realised, i seriously gotta change my sig..lol

[Cegiana]

Just make the ability to send shouts require being lvl18 like getting a retainer. Yeah that works, when you unlock retainers, you unlock shouting. Also give us a config option that can turn off /tells from anyone under lvl20.

[Kraggy]

Just make the ability to send shouts require being lvl18 like getting a retainer. Yeah that works, when you unlock retainers, you unlock shouting. Also give us a config option that can turn off /tells from anyone under lvl20.

Which of course screws-over those at 15 and 17 trying to do their first dungeons. While DF exists many are 'shouting' for groups.

Try THINKING before making stupid suggestions like this.

[Robobandit]

Would be nice if you guys would ban the teleporting mining bots and fix the exploits they are using to teleport between nodes, too. I realize that these things can take time to track down and devise a fix for, but an acknowledgement that you guys are looking into the problem would go a long way to assure players that you're doing everything you can to combat this.

Seeing all of the gil spam every day when I log in and seeing twice as many teleporting bots as people running normally between nodes is depressing and doesn't make me feel good about the state of this game.

I realize you guys have banned 800+ accounts for RMT activity, but it isn't nearly enough. That number should be over 2000 by now with the number of reports you're likely to have been getting.

[Xenor]

They should just filter any shout with mention of certain keywords such as the name of gil selling websites.

[DivineOracle]

Well and here i thought they were doing nothing to help this problem, RMT remain the most obnoxious people in online gaming, they like to make sure you can't get away from their spam, i even now am starting to see the spam shouts outside, at one point i decided to listen to music for 2 hours, i go over to my tells bar and my entire wall is filled with the same RMT..

It's a like a salesmen knocking at your door none-stop. You keep telling him no but he keeps shoving his product in your face, constantly. none-stop...all day, everyday. How does this NOT want to make you think about murder? except here we have a blist. to keep some temp peace. but that has it's limits. I don't want these viruses to ruin my gaming on this but there is only so much i can take.

I used to enjoy random shouting shout convos when my server was closed off, now that is pretty much impossible.

[thesamrtwun]

I think a right click/square button press in the chat log field on the name should produce an option called "(spam on/off)". This wont blacklist anyone, but temporarily disable the said character chat for that zone. This would then reset and go back to normal upon entering a different zone.

I think this just might be the fastest and easiest fix to help people with what we all desire.

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