So I had some fun with a GM while reporting RMT activity...

[chrillix]

You might want to take the gil seller advertisement out of that post...

[Altera]

Gotta love a GM with a sense of humor
I have had help from GMs as well, and I am very pleased with their service. ^^

[Inzoum]

You might want to take the gil seller advertisement out of that post...

Indeed. redacted part of the website address, character name and USD "value". I left some characters in, as part of the fun is how they swapped out some letters, numbers and other symbols to bypass spam filters ("skewed sounds")

[NaliaBrown]

I love this. So, so much. Thank you for sharing this. It's my new favorite. And to the person who bumped the topic, thank you, too.

[Arielyanna]

My response to this entire thread:



My thoughts on all those idiot RMT:

[Jingai]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Dragon Slaying Team

Where can I sign up to be a part of this?

FOR EORZEA!!

[VoltaAsura]

So, I take it that I have to start talking like a pirate in my reports to get a response or action?

That's kinda crazy. Seriously.

It was a good read, but....really?

[Inzoum]

I've always received a generic response for reporting RMT tells. In fact this morning I had another to report, and didn't have the time to get creative, so I just thanked the team for their work and submitted the details and got the usual copy/paste response in return.

It's part of the process. If you use the "Report RMT advertising" feature in the Support Desk menu and submit your report with the "File Report" button, you'll receive a response which you can either "Close" or "Reply" to. Until you close the ticket, you'll keep getting reminders from Support.

Formerly, we'd either have to submit these using the "Ask a question" feature or "Report Cheating", both of which had different procedures and didn't always follow-up correctly. The process has been greatly streamlined since.


While these Game Masters have been amazing sending personalized responses like the ones in this thread, I can imagine this takes up a lot of their time. I'm sure the distraction is very welcome, but we should also respect these people's work time and keep these roleplayed amusements occasional.

[Inzoum]

Reported 4-5 RMT tells in a normal, concise fashion over the past few days. Then I got bored and thought I would write just a small text in a different fashion, nothing too lengthy. This is what I came up with (corrected a few typos here):

Captain's Log
Star Date 10245014

We have been hailed via private com by an alien entity. The being attempted to strike a bargain with us. Our universal translator identified the request as an offer to exchange Old Earth artifacts known as USD for sizable sums of our current currency, G.I.L.

Our Ethics Advisor counseled against it and recommends retaliative action.

Godspeed.

- Captain Inzoum Zimia of the S.S. Gondwana


== Report Details ==

Character to report: REDACTED
Time: 8:03 PM GMT+1
World: Masamune
Message:
RMT Message identical to previous

Here's the response I got:

Greetings Captain Zimia,

Thank you for contacting this sector's space authorities and sending us your Captain's Log.

The hieroglyphics used by this alien race are indeed rather peculiar ones. We will have them forwarded to our linguistics department and try to confirm the meaning of these riddled signs.

Should the alien creature have been swallowed by your personal black hole (list), you may now try to extract what is left from it, although this may prove to be a rather delicate process. Whatever you do, try not to harm yourself. We recommend maybe sending a rookie member of your Crew in first, since it would be a shame to lose such a fine captain as yourself to a silly incident like this.

Should you encounter any other extraeorzean currency advertisement, we would be pleased if you could inform us about it as well.

Unfortunately, nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad RMT news, which obey their own special laws. At least there is usually an abundane of them.

Don't Panic,

- FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Space Authorities

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This is so much more elaborate than what I expected in return T_T. I feel ashamed and honored both, though I don't know in which order.

[Laughlyn]

Reported 4-5 RMT tells in a normal, concise fashion over the past few days. Then I got bored and thought I would write just a small text in a different fashion, nothing too lengthy. This is what I came up with (corrected a few typos here):



Here's the response I got:



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This is so much more elaborate than what I expected in return T_T. I feel ashamed and honored both, though I don't know in which order.

lol atleast they have a good sense of humor such as yourself inz! ^^

This i find promising!

<Good Job!> on both parts!

Report & reply get's 10 out of 10 !

- Noomy Approves!