RMT spam is getting to be absolutely absurd. My thoughts and suggestions.

[Mapleine]

It's getting really bad lately, at least on my server. Over the past 15 minutes I've gotten over a dozen tells from four different bots. Yesterday I got three in a row, drowning out my conversation and forcing me to scroll up.

There seems to be so many places to begin, but little progress seems to be made outside of a call for player security, which is great, but we need to combat it mechanically, as well.

[Mapleine]

Personally, I would like to see:

-A limit on tells in some regard and by extension posting to /shout, /yell, etc. . No one needs to send tells like this, or flood any public channels, really. Putting a limit on the system is a great start and with the amount of volume and it's targets seems like it'd be an easy blockade to erect. If you've ever stumbled across a bot in town, you can see their mouth animation go off when they send tells and it's just pure, unchecked spam.

-A limit on player searches. Bots locate you and whisper you the moment you log on in a lot of cases. Again, no one needs to use this system in this regard and putting a limitation on it, like the above, would reduce server strain and help alleviate the problem bit by bit.

[Mapleine]

-Privacy features. There are some mild (slightly unwieldy) ones currently, but adding simple check boxes like to avoid being /tell'd outside of people in selected relation (linkshell, free company, friend list, etc) would be lovely.

-Finally, it'd be really nice to see a real report spam feature, ala World of Warcraft. The report spam feature works like blacklist via the chat window does now, only report spam instantly files a complaint and puts a session block on the offender instead of blacklists them. My blacklist is utterly crammed with bots, and having to continuously purge it while trying to tip toe around legitimate players I do not want to associate with is frustrating.

(PS: 1000 characters per reply is silly and way too constricting)

[Lazypete]

Mapleine for prez !!!
Great idea in my book.

[Fizzy]

This has been really aggravating because as soon as you blacklist one, it changes to a new name and does it again. As a temporary fix, I just turned off that particular yell/shout/say or whatever it was in the options menu. I'm probably not missing out on anything really important but hey, no more spam!

[KratosSoloelite]

ya its bad when u getting 2-3 RMT tells per syth