RMTs killed Tell chat channel

[LatisFarsight]

First of all I know I only speak for my self , this post is addressed to the developers of this game. Seriously the game already been online for over 6 months now. why the spam of tells from RMTs isn't being addressed already?!! tbh it feels now its worst than before, I have completely removed tells from my general chat... thats how bad it gotten.

really why would you not put a limit on the number of tells anyone can send in 5 mins... or why would a new lvl 1 character is allowed to send me tells... or why don't i have an option to block all tells from non-friend list members...

there is so many solutions or at least to reduce the amount of spam, and yet I don't see any action is being taken... , this isn't my first MMO but in all many MMOs I played nothing comes as close as bad as when it comes to tell spamming...

P.S: sorry for the rant , logging on and getting 5 RMT tells before you character loads can get to ya...

[Alistaire]

Not even just that, but the reply function is inferior to ffxi's reply....how can this even be when SE could've just copy/pasted the format from ffxi?

As it is you can /r type out whatever, hit send, and get "unable...character is on your blacklist", due to these rmt tells.

Can SE give us the ability to cycle through last several people who sent us tells like ffxi has?

[Docj]

Not even just that, but the reply function is inferior to ffxi's reply....how can this even be when SE could've just copy/pasted the format from ffxi?

As it is you can /r type out whatever, hit send, and get "unable...character is on your blacklist", due to these rmt tells.

Can SE give us the ability to cycle through last several people who sent us tells like ffxi has?

we can actually cycle through all the people who sent us a /t when replying. you have to use the hotkey combo. alt+r is the reply shortcut; just hold in alt and tap r until you have the name you want to send a reply to in the chat box.

[Galactimus]

Can SE give us the ability to cycle through last several people who sent us tells like ffxi has?

You already can. I believe Control+R cycles through the last 5 or so people and Control + Shift + R cycles through the same people in reverse. Those may not be the correct hotkeys but you can change them to whatever you wish.

[Docj]

I also have resorted to filtering /t from the chat log I use (custom 4th tab). I have even taken it a step further and turned off the sound alert for /t messages. I do still allow /t to come into my "general" log; I only flip to that log once in a while for the sake of checking if I missed a /t from someone other then RMT.

Personally I find it unacceptable that SE doesn't implement measures to combat this problem. Many suggestions have been made that would help but the problem continues.

Q: Why can't they implement limits on number of /t a player can send per minute?

Q: Why can't a GM have a character logged into game and ban RMT upon receiving /t.

Q: Why can't players have the option for a whitelist they can toggle on/off?

Q: Why is the blacklist only 200 players? This is too small with the amount of RMT.

Q: Why can't SE give an easy way to report RMT same as they added /blist option.

Q: Why not track the delivery system for millions sent by players named i.e.GHGGDDS.

Q: Why can't we even get developer responses to all of these questions?

I don't have the answers, of course. Why not act with simple changes? I have heard responses saying most suggestions are too extreme. That may be true but what about the reasonable suggestions?

RMT are a detriment to virtual society.

[Amnesia]

Q: Why can't they implement limits on number of /t a player can send per minute?

You forgot about limits on the number of different players a person call /tell per minute.

Seems like SE could do simple things that would make things 10 or 20 times more expensive for RMTs while not affecting real players at all.

The goal is not to make is so that RMTs can't see a profit from spamming us---the goal is to make it so that they are better off spending their resources on another game instead.

[Rhas]

how can this even be when SE could've just copy/pasted the format from ffxi?

No they couldn't, not the same game engine. Its like trying to put a moped engine onto a motorcylce. They look similar... but not the same functionality.

[Doo]

Feels like a Free to play game doesn't it? The amount of rmt spam you get and the terrible system of blocking them.

[Shirai]

Feels like a Free to play game doesn't it? The amount of rmt spam you get and the terrible system of blocking them.

I'm pretty sure karma's going to come back to bite me in the scrotum, but I haven't recieved a tell in weeks.
As for blocking them, the blacklist works fine.

[Elim]

Feels like a Free to play game doesn't it? The amount of rmt spam you get and the terrible system of blocking them.

Actually, the last F2P game I played(SWTOR) had a much better spam blocking system. lol.

@the thread in general: if you don't get constantly bombed with spam it doesn't mean people on other servers don't. Two seconds after I log in I always get a spam tell, then continue to get them every ten or so minutes apart unless I'm in an instance.