RMT Solution?

[LeonBlade]

There is no easy solution to RMT, people always come up with these ideas and think how great they are. Or, ask for the blacklist to be unlimited, which is not feasible. The thing about getting /tell only from certain members is an okay idea, but it's too much work to have to verify against your friends list/FC list/LS lists just of hundreds of players just to match one name. Even with a more sophisticated search algorithm it's something that's just messy at this point.

The easiest solution is to allow for a chat filter which can block all incoming messages with simple filter syntax that players can use for RMT and non-RMT messages the same. This would allow for the players to control what they want and don't want to see, and Square Enix won't have to worry about punishing the wrong players from a potential wrong match that a player might catch with their own syntax.

The main problem is that not everyone will know how these things work, or wouldn't know how to update them. Only certain people would benefit from this.

More importantly, however, even through all of this RMT will STILL be an issue. The only true solution is, as someone already said, to stop supporting them. Unfortunately, this isn't something we can control.

So, because there isn't really a solution that anyone can easily use besides blacklisting and reporting RMT messages, I wouldn't expect to see anything like a filtering system implemented any time soon, that's just how it works.

[Pandastirfry]

The problem with even a syntax filter, the RMT already alter the format of their /tells, as many games have tried that route and it too has failed.

It's an arms race. The developers create a countermeasure, the RMT adapt and create a countermeasure to the countermeasure, with the only people being affected by the developers efforts being legitimate player (eg. Not being able to mail stuff to your alts). In many cases the "cure" winds up being worse than the "disease". I'm not trying to defend RMT, but there is no way to "solve" the problem, even band aid solutions will only be effective for maybe a week tops until the bad guys build a work around. Then it's back to the status quo.

The only way that RMT spam finally dies off is because they infest another game that is more lucrative for them.

[Sylve]

How do I get players to stop buying from them?

This is one way: http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/ga...usiness-model/

Making fantasia potions saleable would be another way. That way, people like me who don't have time/interest for farming massive amounts of money can buy Gil from SE, essentially. (DISCLAIMER: I have never and will never buy Gil from RMT) I just kick around with about 40k gil ~_~

[Titor]

I would LOVE to be able to write my own regex filter. It would be best if the things that match the filter would have the option of going into another chat window tab (that I can refuse notifications from and don't have to look at, but if I was expecting a message from someone could check in case it got filtered)

And people could share their regexes with people who don't know regex and it would be great.

Oh, I can dream.