Anyone finding RMT tells getting really excessive now?

[Bishop81]

I have disable tells all together. It's plain insane now.

My blacklist was full of RMT spammers. Blacklisting is worthless when there are so many that your blacklist can't even hold them. Hence I have done the above and cleared my Blacklist - so it can be used for its actual purpose; blacklisting players who are pricks.

There are also bots operating in plain sight on my server. Reported them umpteen times. They are still there. I don't bother anymore now.

Not sure why I tolerate SE's sloppy enforcement of their own ToS - heck they even "got in on it" *cough*cash shop*cough* in a way - when they don't even fulfill simple player requests that have been asked for over a year (see signature).

[Chiramu]

I get no /tells on Tonberry, I have to check shard nodes to see if we have an RMT botting.

I think all the gil sellers are concentrating their efforts on the servers that buy the most gil.

[HeroSamson]

Just blocked 5 RMT tells, 3 of them from the same site in less than 1 min. Today alone, i have blocked about 30 tells today that I have to play with /busy on. Its starting to get ridiculous. Have to clear my blist daily now.

Are the filters working or its starting to get overwhelmed? Anyone getting the same issues on other servers, I know its getting bad on my server of Adamantoise.

No because I go into General Option, Uncheck /Tell because its useless, its not made for players its made for RMT Sales.

I haven't seen a single RMT /Tell also I rarely get Friends invites once every so while I just decline blist that person but not bugged by RMT anymore.

When players begin to stop using that /Tell option you will see RMT Fade out.

Only thing they could do probably would shout in towns but that would put them in the open.

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It's very bad on Leviathan, to the point where they have multiple advertising for the same site at once.

[LunaHoshino]

I get one, maybe two tells a day on Gilgamesh. Used to get a lot more back when I first started playing in August; back then it used to be one or two an hour.

[Ditto]

They gotta go in hard now that SE essentially made gil sites obsolete by creating a legal way to trade cash for gil. (I'm looking at you cash shop dyes, and wedding bands)

[Buff_Archer]

I just turned off the game because I'm sick of the cycle of Blacklisting RMT tells, hitting Blacklsit full error, removing some older names from Blackkist so I can Blackkist the new RMT's I'm getting, over and over. Probably gotten RMT's from 30 unique names this weekend.

THS IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!! I'm paying a monthly subscription to still have to deal with this same mitagatiible QoL issue as a year ago. How about working on a better solution for this and then worry about coming up with new stuff to try and sell me in the cash shop.

[Airget]

It's possible that RMT tells increase based on when RMT are banned. When mass bans occur it's possible that the RMT go into panic thinking that the funds they have saved up will soon freeze up so they rush to get rid of it as quick as possible because the queen is eliminated. Since the last mass ban occured on the 11th, let's say there are 3 groups of RMT.
A B and C
A didn't get hit by the mass ban
B got hit with the mass ban but they only lost mules for gathering
C got hit the hardest and lost some gil holders along with mules

Because of the above, A doesn't worry, B acts a bit more cautious with how they launder gil and C goes into a panic because they've realized that if one of the characters that was holding gil got hit then it's only a matter of time before they lose more of their gil holders.

That's my guess anyway, since it is a major hit to their profit margin if their gil is frozen, so they are left trying to sell what they have left before they lose more gil and that could be the chain reaction that increases the amount of RMT tells after a banning.

[NozomiKei]

In the last week or two I've noticed an increase on Sargatanas.