How to eliminate Real money gil sale spammers

[LunarEmerald]

That's irrelevant. They don't just have 1 character for spamming, they have several.

You don't seem to understand how many missed tells this solution would bring. It would significantly cut it down no matter what they did. Even if they had a bot in every single zone. You'd just have to ignore that one to stop it for that zone.

Not saying it would stop them entirely. That isn't possible. But it would make a huge day and night difference in the amount received.

[Kayo]

Best passive solution Ive seen, by far, for protecting your account is that IP tracking, account lock thing they had with Rift. Sign in from a new IP and it locks your account with a passcode thats sent to your email. Locked accounts can play, but no communicating or mail/bank transactions until you put in the code. It saves the IP as well so it wont pester players repeatedly.

IMO they should do this at least for those who do not have a registered Security Token on their account ... with the option to do both.

[Arkista]

How about an extra option in the settings menu?

Won't receive tells from people outside your zone unless they're on your friends list.

Checking this would cut down RMT tells almost entirely.


I really think this would be the best solution. Most RMTs idle in the starting areas. If you stayed away with this checked, it would cripple their business. There would be no way for them to get around it.

This would work out really well. SE could at least add an option to turn off /tells to anyone that isn't on your friend list. Could always turn it back on when you need to talk to someone else.

Best passive solution Ive seen, by far, for protecting your account is that IP tracking, account lock thing they had with Rift. Sign in from a new IP and it locks your account with a passcode thats sent to your email. Locked accounts can play, but no communicating or mail/bank transactions until you put in the code. It saves the IP as well so it wont pester players repeatedly.

IMO they should do this at least for those who do not have a registered Security Token on their account ... with the option to do both.

If you login at a different IP SE locks you from signing in and you can't play at all.

[Hvinire]

In a general sense, we would like to avoid restricting the ability for new players to communicate with others, so we don't currently have any plans to make changes along the suggested lines. However, we will continue to evolve as we take measures against RMT and in-game spam, and likewise continue to ask for your help in reporting these violations.

[gadzi_h]

In a general sense, we would like to avoid restricting the ability for new players to communicate with others, so we don't currently have any plans to make changes along the suggested lines. However, we will continue to evolve as we take measures against RMT and in-game spam, and likewise continue to ask for your help in reporting these violations.

I stopped reporting GM, after 6 months of continued harassment I give up. Reporting needs to be easier. And you need to ban them in a more timely fashion, the auto ban idea is the best. We are not saying instant account ban but just ban them from using /tell, /whisper, /shout, /say until you investigate.

[MurakumoMillennium]

• Create bait character(s).
• Bait character(s) receive RMT tell.
• Ban RMT account.

It really are no hard for find and stop RMT that advertise through tells...

[Zplinter]

A possible solution would be to instead of targeting the seller, target the receiver. Have a script in the background that scans a player wealth and compares it to the last scanned value and it there is a large change (in the millions) then a sub routine is invoked to check for market board sales. I the players retainers have no market sales to compare to the "sudden" wealth then the system locks the account pending SE review and or the player explain how they "magically" have such wealth.
Once players realize that buying gil targets them by the system the willingness to buy gil decreases, then the market for the gill sellers dries up and they move on to another easier to sell in game. Database scripting should not have that much overhead.

[Shirai]

• Create bait character(s).
• Bait character(s) receive RMT tell.
• Ban RMT account.

It really are no hard for find and stop RMT that advertise through tells...

Eh, they're being banned fast enough.
It's pretty rare to get two or even three tells from the same char before it is banned.

Yes, they are annoying. No, we can't stop them, stop thinking we can.

[Noshpan]

I stopped reporting GM, after 6 months of continued harassment I give up. Reporting needs to be easier. And you need to ban them in a more timely fashion, the auto ban idea is the best. We are not saying instant account ban but just ban them from using /tell, /whisper, /shout, /say until you investigate.

Or at least auto mute/auto blacklist upon right click > Report Spam

[MurakumoMillennium]

No, we can't stop them, stop thinking we can.

No, RMT characters that advertise through tells can most definitely be stopped. This are easy for do.