A fix in a minute

[Valente]

I trust that Square-Enix has talented programmers. Being a professional programmer and game designer myself, I know this should be a ten minute or less coding assignment.

Why have you not put in any anti-spam code? There is no legitimate reason for a person to be shouting, emoting or saying, at such a monstrous rate that most spammers are doing. More than five messages in ten seconds on a 'public' channel, you get locked out for five minutes and a small log is written with the last ten things you said on that channel for eventual review.

Done. Effort: Minimal.

Positive(?) side effect, if gil spammers really REALLY want to spam that bad, they'll buy a second account to, more slowly, spam with. More money for you!

Edit: Shout should also have a length limit. There is no good reason for shouts to go on that long. People are shortening their recruit shouts, not lengthening them.