How to eliminate RMT ads set through tells.

[zenmetsu]

Every time someone thinks they've come up with a brilliant solution to solve RMT I come to debunk it... so here we go.

RMT becomes aware of 50 tell threshold... they program a bot to send 49 tells... delete itself and recreate under a new name.

Got any more new ideas? .... This isn't an "easy fix" type of deal... when there is a will there is a way...

Just look at anti virus software vs. malware in general. It's the same type of situation... an arms race in a sense

DING! Someone that gets it. The only solution is for S-E to get off their asses and start dropping the ban hammer. I've blacklisted 170 players. I've reported each and every one of them. Since the game went live, i've seen 3 (DELETED) show up in my blacklist. SE has banned 1.76% of the players that I have reported, players that were very obviously botting or advertising RMT.


The problem will not go away until it becomes worthwhile for the player to report RMT. Right now, it is a colossal waste of time. I've stopped reporting, and in my eyes, that means that RMT is winning.

SE: 0 RMT: 10000 and counting


That said, a good solution would be to block all Chinese subnets; there is no need for them to be playing, doing so is against the law in their country anyways. Second, engineer the game so that you cannot play it through a proxy or anonymizing service like Tor. Ultimately, S-E could verify the owner of each account by sending a voucher code via post every month instead of just having automatic electronic renewal. Sure, this would cost money, but once they ban someone, they ban the billing/mailing address and it becomes very hard for RMT to operate. Draconian, and not impossible to circumvent, but still vastly better than a lot of the bird-brained ideas that I've seen people pass around.