RMT Solution?

[Wobble]

So I know some of them are either hacked, stolen or sold accounts but the ones that aren't maybe there is a small fix? I'm thinking that at the account screen when naming your character that SE make the system flag to watch or kick back names as being unacceptable when they are something like Asdffg Fdsas. Make them have to put thought and work into coming up with real and unique names, not just a Bunche of letters they slide their fingers across. Just my two cent on the matter.

[Fluttersnipe]

It's kind of hard to make a system that would flag names like that, it would end up flagging people whom create characters with odd names from another language. I've seen tons of people with almost unpronounceable names that pretty well look like they tossed a KB at the wall to come up with it.

They need to impose chat restrictions. Luke you need to be level 15 to use /shout, or can't use PM unless you were whispered first.

[Wobble]

They need to impose chat restrictions. Luke you need to be level 15 to use /shout, or can't use PM unless you were whispered first.

I would be on board with this or at least make it so you can check an option to stop /tell from anyone under 15

[Diavolo]

It's kind of hard to make a system that would flag names like that, it would end up flagging people whom create characters with odd names from another language. I've seen tons of people with almost unpronounceable names that pretty well look like they tossed a KB at the wall to come up with it.

They need to impose chat restrictions. Luke you need to be level 15 to use /shout, or can't use PM unless you were whispered first.

I suggested this in another thread and people acted like I was the devil for doing so.

[Fluttersnipe]

I suggested this in another thread and people acted like I was the devil for doing so.

Well people ain't smart... It's a bandaid solution at best though, not like it takes long to get to 15, but it would help for a bit.

[Blackweaver]

Well I think from SE's end, if they catch someone spamming people, not only should the account be banned, but the IP address used to access that account be blocked permanently as well. That would go a good way to putting an end to that. Secondly, they should add an invisible mode for everyone else. These spammers are using the player search function to get names to whisper. If we the players can invisible mode ourselves off of the player search function, that would help us too.

[Sove92]

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IP bans have been quite worthless for like 10 years and can lead to innocents being locked out (most private customer IPs change based on ISP's DHCP settings), not to mention the practically endless amount of proxies there are. The search invisibility feature could work for a while, after that, they'll simply send their bots in crowded areas and start reading up player names from RAM. Either way, when you put in a countermeasure, the spammers will find another way. For the first month or so, they were spamming shouts, but then, presumably due to STF presence in zones and many players disabling shout channel in cities, they started using /tells and have been doing so ever since, no more shouts.

The best and least headache inducing solution is a /tell filter, where you can restrict who can send you messages (FC, party, linkshells, friends, no one, everyone, same zone). This is pretty much the only countermeasure that cannot be bypassed. This will, however, most likely cause them to spam in shouts and yells again, but that simply means the STF has to patrol the zones and players can easily thwart that method, with the inconvenience of not seeing other shouts and yells either (you're not missing much).

[LalaRu]

Don't buy from them. Business no more profitable, rmt goes to another game, problem solved.

[Doo]

Don't buy from them. Business no more profitable, rmt goes to another game, problem solved.

How do I get players to stop buying from them?

[LalaRu]

How do I get players to stop buying from them?

My sentence was a form of irony.

You cannot stop them. The irony is that you cannot do a thing, that when done, will solve a problem that cannot be solved otherwise.