RMT countermeasure idea (Yes another one just hear me out)

[Darki]

The way I see it, the tells just need to have multiple categories just like an E-mail account. I think 3 categories should cover what's needed:

*Tells from people on your Friend list, Free Company and linkshells.

*Tells from "New Adventurers" (All existing RMTs are in this category)

*Tells from any non-New Adventurers that are not on your friend list, in your free company or your linkshells. (The reason is in case RMTs get wise and build their characters up in order to get around this feature.


The 3 categories can be added to the log filter as the player so desires notification sounds included. This way the tells can be managed into different tabs depending on who it comes from. Example: "General-Battle-Event-Junk Tells."

This way the blacklist and /busy status never needs to be used on RMTs ever again! It is also useful for people who want to receive tells after /shouting in Mor Dhona or some other place for events and don't want to have to take off /busy in order to see them. I know this feature is possible because and grouping system already exists in the game for the friend list.

So what do you guys think?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

People suggested something like this a billion times, yet we get everything else in the game BUT that.

[Riepah]

This solution is very straightforward and very obvious, I've had the same idea long ago. But nothing is done. Spammers spam, botters bot. Go ahead and report an obvious bot. Bring friends, show them the bot, have them report too.
Enjoy watching the bot happily botting away weeks and months later still.

[Natashio]

There is no solution to RMT, none. You don't want to see the spam, filter it. Doesn't matter how many suggestions, ideas, or magic bullets people come up with, the RMT are never going to go away or ever going to stop spamming. The only real solution is shutting the game down, obviously that's not in SE best interest nor in the player base. For as long as there are knuckleheads on the Japanese, North American, and European servers buying gil, this problem will not have a solution.

[Gillionaire]

You're not asking the programmers to do something that
requires a herculean effort to accomplish.

When they can implement FC privilege settings so that a subordinate can't dismiss all his superiors other than the FC leader and promote himself to the highest ranking officer slot.. (yes, if somebody has promote/demote on their ranks, no matter if it's the lowest ranking officer, CAN demote/promote ANYBODY except for FC leader. He can also promote himself..) When SE figures THAT out, I'll have a little more faith in their programming abilities..


YES, boys and girls, you heard it here first! Now go to your FC, kick everybody off, promote yourself to highest ranking officer, and loot the fc chest.

Maybe when SE gets an influx of reports like this they'll implement a more logical FC privilege settings..

Also, why can't we choose how much/many from each tab a specific rank can take out of the chest? I wouldn't mind some of my lower ranking officers to be able to take out 100k or 200k here and there.. but when there are millions in the fc chest, there's no way for me to enforce any of that other than just trust.

[HeroSamson]

You are basically using my idea except mine is a bit better.

1. add a private option that you can invite Free Company's and Friends into that they can only see only trusted Free Company's of your choice, delete option and add option- Do not include Linkshell because RMT would just make them and try to send invites.
2. A option that turns off/on friends invites- If I want to invite someone to my friends list i'll turn it on and invite them other than that nobody is sending me invites.
3. Leave the /tell option there and just go shut it off if you wanna see outside tells then that should be left up to us to decide who we wanna see.

This eliminates Random invites and tells completely

I don't see any other way around this the only thing they would probably do to annoy everyone is to shout but who gives a crap about that.

Though, I highly doubt they will give us these option due to the fact it gives them income and as long as nobody is buying from them and they are just spamming us they aren't breaking rules due to that nobody is buying so they spam spam spam away.

I see those reports how they banned 6000 of them but then you noticed the same bots teleporting or the same rmt running around makes me wonder.

I stopped getting on so much now I just log in to do the jackpot as the golden saucer and log due to random invites I wanna do some of the new fights but stuff like that unmotivates me I don't feel like hitting cancel non stop and well I just log out.

[Radkat]

So, due to the RMT spams, everyone will just filter out the new Adventurer tells permanently right? I don't think SE wants to do that.

[HeroSamson]

So, due to the RMT spams, everyone will just filter out the new Adventurer tells permanently right? I don't think SE wants to do that.

New adventures can use the Say option its not very hard to ask someone right there if they can have a Link shell or free company or post on the forums and get one.

That is why the forums exist and say exist but at this point tells and other means are used for RMT traffic and is bull crap.

[Radkat]

Say will only work if someone is stationary. People are often on the go, it will not be easy. And there are times when you don't want to let everyone near you hear what you want to ask or talk about.

But aren't you guys focusing on the wrong issue here? As long as there is demand, there will always be a supply. RMT sellers will always exist when buyers can buy all they want without repercussions. Not just this game, but all RMOs is the same.

[HeroSamson]

No because the ones who aren't buying the Gil shouldn't suffer because of the ones who are buying.

Being banned is not solving the issue and people who are banned from buying isn't solving it either so why do we have to put up with the spam?

so best to block it out give us the tools to fight back, why should our experience of the game be lesson due to some bad apples.