Give us an option to stop low level characters from sending us /TELL

[Delsus]

Raising the level at which you can send /tells will likely not result in any change in account hacking. I'm pretty sure folks in the business of gilselling are not necessarily the same folks who hack accounts; to assume so is akin to assuming that someone who sells marijuana is also into human trafficking.

There is however a direct correlation between account hacking and RMT, it doesn't have to be the RMT groups that hack accounts, hackers will compromise the accounts, then sell said accounts to RMT. Restrictions on /tell activity would make compromised accounts much more valuble to RMT, therefore they put their prices for accounts up, making hackers want to hack more accounts to make more money.

[Kimikryo]

A repeat but this is my idea:

Players cannot send tells to anyone not on their Friend list, Linkshells, or Free Company until they reach level 15 (or any other number).
However, players may respond to tells sent to them regardless of level.

But it'd also be a good idea to allow players to set up custom filters to automatically block tells.

Yeah and we need to reach level 5 to use emotes. and level 10 to use the marketboard and level 13 to use /say and level 25 for /shout and /yell


An MMO where people are allowed to talk to you, what an insane idea. NOBODY wants that.

If you people want to play alone, buy an offline game and play that. Shut yourself in, no telephone, no going outside, you might have to interact with someone.

[Errors]

Ugh I'm on the fence with this idea. On the surface it sounds like a great idea. I get /tell's from Gil sellers just like anyone else. It's become a blind reaction of right click add to blacklist. I don't even think about it much anymore. So, taking the one or two times that I do that when I'm online away would save me about 5 seconds of annoyance?

However, I'm not to keen on the idea of restricting speech/tells/says/shouts/yells of anyone. It hurts the new players who are trying to start out either solo, or with friends/family. Sure they would know each others character name when they start off, ie like coordinating what server they want to start on, and just add each other to their friends list. But that just feels off? Something about joining a brand new game and being muzzled just doesn't seem like a good fix. I don't know really what I'd suggest as a fix.

[SummonerSenah]

Some of the best conversations I've had in the game were from random people sending me tells about one thing or another. RMT is annoying but I don't think this is a good "solution." For people that have a lot of issues with RMT, maybe move to a legacy server. I've been playing since launch and my blacklist is only at 60 out of 200.

[Gandora]

Lets be more antisocial guys, really its the solution.

[Farah]

Blocking low levels is not the answer. It sounds really tempting, but it's not a good idea. So for example, i was running around Uldah and a new player /tell me to ask me where a certain spot was in the city because I was standing near them. I showed them, they said thanks, and left. Interactions like this would be blocked if we blocked low levels. I wasn't going to add the player to my friends list to talk to them, or how would i even know if they wanted to talk to me in the first place?

We can't be antisocial just because of RMT. RMT would just bot to 15 or 20 or whatever level and continue to spam. We would only be harming new players. I suggest doing what i did for now...i have a macro that just blacklists the last person to tell me. I stuck it on my hotbar and anytime a RMT /tells me, one click and done. The only thing I could see to fix it would be making the reporting easier somehow and make sure that the GMs respond in a timely manner to get rid of them.

[CrystalRainbow]

You can make it a slider.
do not accept tells if player doesn't have a level of XX

[Laf]

"We are sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause and ask to continue with your cooperation"

[Moheeheeko]

Aion has a game option to stop any mail from characters lower than lvl 10, m sure something could be figured out.

[Sapphic]

Doesn't /busy stop tells?

Yep, Was a saniity saver in the first months XD

Blocking based on levels. No thanks. As always happy to give advice to low level players who appraoch me in game. BListing account instead of the character? Oh yes! One it would stop spammers, spamming, the deleting/remaking another char to bypass the blist. Also would give repercusions to anyone making alt chars to grief or troll XD