Persistent "Unstoppable" RMT Spam-Bot

[Nyalia]

The GM teams need to log in the game as actual players, just like we do. That way they would get the same multi RMT spam tells we do. They might also get out to those locations where the bots port in & out of duties... or see the plasmoid spirit binding bots.

The GM team DOES log in like regular players do... That's one of the nice things about this game - Yoshida actually plays it. But, he doesn't play on NA servers. I doubt any of the dev team does (though most of the localization and NA community teams almost certainly do). I have no idea what the spam situation is on the JP servers.

[Saseal]

If you want to see way past ridiculous, you should go check out the official server for Ragnarok Online. The instant you walk in to prontera. You won't even have time to read the gold spams. Its like a perma-slot machine.

YES. oh gad the memories are flooding back. The red headed novies all over the city in the sea of venders and the chat log spammed for miles the moment you step into Pront.
They were in Payon for a while, too So annoying, since that was my guild's sitting spot, as well



But on topic, I've noticed a dramatic increase also. I really don't like to play with the busy on, but some in the FC have resorted to it, and rightfully so. It just makes it difficult to party (right clicking from the chat) if you move to do so while they're in the middle of something/haven't taken it off, etc. I'll sometimes get spammed by the same bot twice in the same 5ish seconds (or maybe it's two just one with a changed letter in their facerolled first names). -_-

[Elusana_Celah]

The solution is for SE to include a lot of customized /tell filters and filters on friend requests like not allowing someone below certain levels to friend / tell you and not allowing people who aren't on your friends list to /tell you or in your fc to /tell you or /friend you.

The list goes on really. There's so many ideas for customization that can make it so we only get the /tells we actually give a damn about then these gil sellers can simply bugger off.

[Reiryuu]

The GM team DOES log in like regular players do... That's one of the nice things about this game - Yoshida actually plays it. But, he doesn't play on NA servers. I doubt any of the dev team does (though most of the localization and NA community teams almost certainly do). I have no idea what the spam situation is on the JP servers.

Not a single tell from gold spammers for me on Valefor since I came back in 2.4 ** knock on wood **

[SekhmetM]

How about letting us turn off friend requests, tells, invites, etc individually so using /busy makes it difficult for everyone?

Hell, give us the ability to disable tells from non-friends or linkshell members or something. Disable friend requests so RMT dont get smart either.

[Niwashi]

Hell, give us the ability to disable tells from non-friends or linkshell members or something. Disable friend requests so RMT dont get smart either.

If you disable Friend requests from people who don't arrange it with you in advance through tells so that you can open it up for them, while also disabling tells from people who aren't already on your Friends list, you've just made it impossible for anyone to Friend anyone else or talk to anyone else. They could implement such rules in one direction or the other, but not both.

At any rate, when there's far more effective ways of dealing with the issue without interfering nearly so much with normal, desirable interaction, I'm against them blocking the conversations we want happening. SE could stop all the RMT spam if they decided to do so. So far, they just haven't chosen to.

[FyrmurlFloerasksyn]

The spam situation on JP servers (tonberry at least) seems to be pretty much non existent. Probably because there isn't much of a market on jp servers i guess lol

[Elusana_Celah]

The spam situation on JP servers (tonberry at least) seems to be pretty much non existent. Probably because there isn't much of a market on jp servers i guess lol

I guess the Japanese people play games for the sake of playing whereas the NA servers would rather pay to reach the top as fast as possible so they can go full epeen on everyone.

But in all seriousness, why are people paying monthly for a game they don't really want to play? Earning money and defeating your own content is literally 90% of the game... unless what I said really IS the case and it's a matter of epeen. Then I'm just sad.

[Hayward]

There absolutely has to be a way to find these folks' true IP addresses (whether they're in China, Eastern Europe, or wherever) and permanently ban them.

[SCUBA_Instr]

There absolutely has to be a way to find these folks' true IP addresses (whether they're in China, Eastern Europe, or wherever) and permanently ban them.

Hi Hayward.
Yes, all sorts of information can be found...
http://whois.domaintools.com/
From there, just type in the URL that the spam-bot demands you go to.

If, for example, you do a search-engine search for
the spam company that starts with the letter "x"
using search arguments like "x" criminal background, or "x" cyber-crime, etc.
there are roughly 50,000 websites describing the cyber-crime
background of this unstoppable* spam-bot owner.

Courteous and polite efforts, to inform the GM staff
of spambot owners' criminal backgrounds, have all
failed, as far as I can tell.

*They can be stopped, if network security is taken seriously.