How to eliminate Real money gil sale spammers

[therpgfanatic]

1. Characters on brand new accounts cannot send a PM or use Shout until level 15.

2. Exception: if another user has added that new account character to their friend list, the character can PM the character they are friends with.

Problem solved.

[Arkista]

Not fair to legit players. Sorry.

[Doozer]

If someone's a legit player they shouldn't have any trouble getting to level 15. They could even make it level 10 for people who whine about how it's not fair.

But seriously I don't see how that's not fair to 'legit' players.

[BlueMage]

I don't think people should be able to send /tells, or /shout, until they're i85+.

[Synra]

Well, the way I see it, SE is a Japanese company. It is also a multi million dollar company. They claim to be against these gold spammers.

So I have to ask. Why don't they just hire some Ninjas to take these bastards out?

[StouterTaru]

That's not a reasonable method, they need to add a "Report RMT and blacklist" below the blacklist option.

With this they also need to:
-allow blacklist for players offline, to get around the tell and dash
-mute accounts from tell/shout/yell that hit a report threshold pending GM appeal
-scale the threshold up for accounts that have been around longer, more levels, progression in quests, etc
-have a GM verify the chat logs for long term accounts that hit the threshold
-have a system to punish abuse of reporting

[Lyrinn]

We need a more permanent solution and not a bandaid. If you put a level restriction on tell, RMTs will just bot their way to 15 and we'll be back to square one in a few days.

[saber_alter]

Not fair to legit players. Sorry.

not really. elsword is f2p and doesn't allow trading until you have your first job and 3 days have passed. the same thing could be done here.
it would for the most part work. most chars made (unless alt. toons or RMT) are from people with little to know background knowledge and are trying to just get through the main story.

though its a moot point anyway, i would rather live with RMT and have SE crack down on botting and fix their customer support.

[Shref]

That's not a reasonable method, they need to add a "Report RMT and blacklist" below the blacklist option.

With this they also need to:
-allow blacklist for players offline, to get around the tell and dash
-mute accounts from tell/shout/yell that hit a report threshold pending GM appeal
-scale the threshold up for accounts that have been around longer, more levels, progression in quests, etc
-have a GM verify the chat logs for long term accounts that hit the threshold
-have a system to punish abuse of reporting

how they don't do something like this with the current blacklist just baffles me. i looked at my blacklist a few days ago, and only ~4 or 5 of them had been deleted...

[Lyrinn]

i looked at my blacklist a few days ago, and only ~4 or 5 of them had been deleted...

Ban != Delete. I keep my blacklist rolling by filling it up, deleting the oldest 25~50, and repeating. Most of the ones I delete I don't hear from again. Then again, with names like Dsaf Dfgas, it's hard to tell if it's the same character or if it's a new one, but since I don't get spammed by 50 characters all at once, I think it's safe to assume some were banned.