How to eliminate Real money gil sale spammers

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

how does it take too much time to report? takes like 15 seconds to do.

highlight and copy(with CTRL+C) the content of the RMT ad. name, message and all. open up the Support Desk in-game. and look at the FAQ. click the one about RMT ads. click Ask Question. enter 'Your World Name' RMT. so for me is Exodus RMT. then just paste the content in the field below. send the report. throughout the whole day you couldn't possibly spend more then 2minutes reporting RMT ads.




@Square Enix
or
@Camate
or
@Hvinire

OR WHOEVER


it would be a good idea to have two separate types of blacklists. so when we flood our blacklist with RMT names. then go to clear it out. we don't accidentally remove people we want to be there.


just need a simple option in the context menu. one that only shows for a /tell. have it report the previous /tell received. and automatically add that name to a blacklist. the blacklist doesn't need to be automatically cleared when you make the ban. but it would be a plus

[Rex]

1. Characters on brand new accounts cannot send a PM or use Shout until level 15.

Nice, let's give people the impression in their first 15 levels that the game is just a solo fest. Because I'm pretty sure a lot of people who don't have friends playing probably already feel that way. This suggestion will only make them feel even more strongly about that.


Disclaimer: I do not personally feel like this is a solo fest, but those first few levels are sort of tutorial -ish and I know back in the beginning a lot of people complained. People probably still do.

[Vladislav]

• 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...

This is fantastic idea for real lol

[Kayo]

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

They HAD it ... I think. I believe I read they had something like that during beta but it was removed sometime before release. Ill have to try it when the PS4 is released or something to make sure (easier to move to a friends). Regardless, it worked great for Rift (though not perfect)! Either SE isnt doing this anymore or not doing it right, because RMT has never been this bad for me.

[Doo]

RMT is terrible for a pay to play game.

If you could add 300 more spaces to the blacklist that would be nice.

Also is there a way to just block private messages from players that's not on your friendslist or fc/ls? That would be nice too.

[Lithera]

That still exists. Only way around it is to have a security token. Otherwise you need to change your password to access your account from the new location.

[gadzi_h]

Right, because there's no way that would be abused by griefers.

As stated before by others with a number of say 100 black lists on one user an auto ban would be effective. I'm not talking one B-list here. This isn't a suggestion for another "dungeon kick" abuse tool, or party ready abuse, this would be an effective way of gauging and eliminating RMT. And I hate to say if you are a regular player who is on 100 peoples b-list I personally don't want to hear from you either.

Edit (Additional Comments):

This feature could even be an opt-in filter. If you are concerned about really needing to hear from people who are excessively black listed this could be a viable solution.

[Tanama]

• 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...

[Yshnal]

The problem is that, even if they implement severe chat restrictions, RMTs will always find a new way to spam us. I'm not talking just about them spamming in cities and the likes, but with more annoying things like flooding the PF list, and whatever else they could come with. We can't end up with more restrictions everywhere, it would be more annoying to play than to be spammed... and there's no guarantee that they wouldn't find a way to bypass them.

As someone said, if we really want to get them out of the game we need to kill what's making them come and waste resources here: the buyers. If you detect that a player suddendly gets a large ammount of money over a short period of time, and said money didn't come from selling several things with his/her retainers, it should be marked for investigation (there should be a server specific database with automatically updated prices for every item, to compare them with what people sell and flag any suspicious transaction... oh wait, it already exists: the item transaction log). Once said investigation concludes, if that money/item came from a suspicious source (i.e. it was originated from a bot, and was passed along by barely played/spamming characters), the player should be banned for good.

On another note, I agree that there should be a separate black list for spammers, even if it still had its limits. It would prevent us from deleting anyone that we added to said list because of trolling/griefing/whatever. Also, there should be an option to automatically fill the RMT report (report spam) upon right clicking a name. Even if doing so manually is easy and requires just a couple of minutes, it makes us stop doing whatever we're doing at the moment. I've not reported many RMT tells because I was actually busy doing something else in-game and I couldn't spare those minutes (combat, leves, accepting the Duty Finder pop-up and entering a duty, organizing my FC, etc.).

[lackofwords]

I know there's a blacklist macro,
which is simply;

/blist add <r>

You can put quotes around <r> but I think the parser accepts it either way.
Blacklist someone with two buttons presses

1. activates macro
2. confirm blacklist action

Is there a macro to fill out a report?
like

/support [para]...

Obviously it's not /support since that only opens up the Support Desk interface and doesn't go any further than that.

/supportdesk, /support
USAGE: /supportdesk
Opens and closes the Support Desk interface.