Can you restrict /tell to people who have completed the level 5 job quest yet?

[Antanias]

What you're asking for is technically impossible since there are no job quests at level 5, but there are class quests at that level.

[Lemuria]

What you're asking for is technically impossible since there are no job quests at level 5, but there are class quests at that level.

Well, at least until Dark Knight comes out. After all, it'll be the first level 1 'job' in the game

[Lexxuk]

A more simple solution would be to limit the number of people you can /tell per hour to level *2, so at level 1 you can /tell 2 people, level 2, 4 etc. At level 50 you'd be able to send /tell's to 100 people an hour. RMT bots for level 1 chars would be wiped out, they wouldn't risk an account just to spam two people, low level chars will still be able to send tells to their friends, at level 10 they can /tell 20 different people an hour, so it doesn't affect actual players but does screw over RMT /tell bots.

[Felis]

There is no job quest at lv 5. The first job quest is at lv 30.
Do you mean class quest or story quest?

[Chiramu]

Restricting this is really bad for new players who are actually new players. If you get your friends/family to join and you /tell them, and they cannot /tell you back... That is not good to see if you are completely new to this game.

[Antonio_Xul]

One solution I had thought of is restricting the ability to /tell with only people on your friends lists, FC, LinkShells, and people within your area up to a certain distance. Since most Spammers just hang out in a single spot, it seems like Ul'Dah, they won't be able to reach as many people that way.

[Mirron]

A more simple solution would be to limit the number of people you can /tell per hour to level *2, so at level 1 you can /tell 2 people, level 2, 4 etc. At level 50 you'd be able to send /tell's to 100 people an hour. RMT bots for level 1 chars would be wiped out, they wouldn't risk an account just to spam two people, low level chars will still be able to send tells to their friends, at level 10 they can /tell 20 different people an hour, so it doesn't affect actual players but does screw over RMT /tell bots.

Honestly no idea how difficult this would be to code, but this seems like the most reasonable idea I can think of. It seems like it'd make it a lot more difficult without directly impacting people playing too much. Only issue is it'd make carrying on conversations in /tell a pain, since I have done that a bit at times. But it seems like it'd impact them a lot more than not having completed the class quests bit.

[Vorpal_Spork]

The amount of RMT spam is getting ridiculous.

That wouldn't help. Lv5 takes like 5 minutes to get to.

[PEANUT]

I think a little of everything would work. RMT tells are really annoying, and should not need to be dealt with regularly in a game. They should give the option to turn tells off period, or to only receive them from friends. That way new players can keep in touch with friends as well as old players. If people like having tells on to receive them from other players, it would help that you can only send tells to other non-friend players at lvl 15. Or lower if that is too drastic, that way gill sellers will have to work harder to be able to send tells to non-friend players and gives the game security(whatever you call them) more time to hunt them down!

[Rawrrawr]

Just restrict tells to people only on your friend list, in your FC or a mutual linkshell until you've reached level 5 or 10.