Regarding RMT and their new use of Friend Requests

[Sove92]

I think these RMT are full blown retarded.

They are in a game that doesn't require their services that they mention when spamming since everything is so easy to get in the game.

Believe they are in the wrong game, maybe they should hit up a MMO that is very hard to make money and grinding is a pain like secret of solstice <---- go rmt there is your new home get lost.

If they were in the wrong game, we wouldn't see them anymore, but because we do, it means they do have enough customers to be worth the investment of buying the game for every single bot they use (the whole service account gets banned, not just the character).

Back to the same OLD suggestion ... disable TELL for low newly created characters and make it a GC quest given ability or something.

Will cause more bots to run dungeons. Many of the spammers are compromised accounts anyway, most likely already having completed the required GC quest, if such a thing was added. The RMT can and will progress their spam accounts as far as it is necessary to be able to spam, that ability cannot be kept very far away from the beginning. Besides, SE doesn't want to cause more harm to players than it would cause for the RMT.

[AttacKat]

Back to the same OLD suggestion ... disable TELL for low newly created characters and make it a GC quest given ability or something.

It will not remove everything, but it will get rid of all those sdswad tjwah BFF wannabes.

Yeah yeah, new players cannot talk, but heck, there is still SAY, YELL and SHOUT for real players.

Will cause more bots to run dungeons. Many of the spammers are compromised accounts anyway, most likely already having completed the required GC quest, if such a thing was added. The RMT can and will progress their spam accounts as far as it is necessary to be able to spam, that ability cannot be kept very far away from the beginning. Besides, SE doesn't want to cause more harm to players than it would cause for the RMT.

Make them work harder, is better then just giving them free rides with those hsde hyhbnwh BFF wannabe characters. Remember, they want they bots to be making money, not wasting time. If the game makes it hard for them to make money, then the profit sign goes dark.

[dcdistro]

stop /tells and /shout /friend requests for anyone who hasn't done the lvl 10 jobquest.... problem resolved they dont have time to sit and do that all day long .. also add a delay timer between shouts and tells might help a little

[Violyre]

Maybe add an option to disable friend requests if you haven't sent the person a tell? It doesn't fix the initial tell from them, but if you don't reply, they can't send a friend request. Or just disable friend requests from under 10, but allow the higher levels to friend the new people.

Or just give us a macro for reporting them without having to go through menus. "/report <why you're reporting> <r> would be nice, and auto blacklist. They'd need a warning box though so you don't report a friend!

[Taliph]

Makes ya wonder how they can make so many accounts when my friends have been trying to join my server for weeks.

[HeroSamson]

Makes ya wonder how they can make so many accounts when my friends have been trying to join my server for weeks.

I wonder the same thing.

Like when cactaur was locked down nobody could create and SE said they banned a lot of rmt but some how tons of RMT kept joining server and spamming everyone with warp bots.

its fishy.

[Kio]

Some games have various privacy settings, so that you can disable messages sent to you (/tell) and various invitations. Or only allow such things from those on your friends list, and within your guild. It would be nice if these were options available to us.

[TsubasaHana]

Makes ya wonder how they can make so many accounts when my friends have been trying to join my server for weeks.

It's really easy to join any server, you just need to know the players that play there and create you char in the sleep times for them. Done.

[Alukah]

At this point I just ignore their request, they hardly ever send more than two tells and the request goes away in around 5 mins, hardly an inconvenience for me.

[HEC-]

Makes ya wonder how they can make so many accounts when my friends have been trying to join my server for weeks.

Well - then they were doing something really wrong. You can join any server in less than 8 - 12 hours max. All you need to do is to create character at off peak hours (usually from about 1:30 am to 10:00 am at majority of the servers) for the given (most common) time zeone on that server.