Game needs more ways to deal with RMT

[Aerowaffle]

Yes, I know we can already report RMT through support and that GMs are doing their best to ban these bot accounts for both RMT advertising and/or bot farming, but some more options really need to be given to the player.

RMT bots are always going to outnumber the GMs trying to handle things, giving some better options to the players would both make it easier for the GMs to locate and ban the bots, but also alliviate some of the annoyance to the players that don't like to be spammed by RMT ads.

1. Give players an option to turn off prompts for friend invites. Allow friends to still pop up on each other friend's list if both parties add each other as friends.

Reason: These friend invites from bots are probably one of the more disruptive advertising, since it takes several steps just to remove the message, and you can't add the bot to the blacklist until you deal with the friend request.

2. Have a right-click "report RMT related" option. This option would file a report on the person, and set the person to be forever-blacklisted from the player (not on the standard black-list).

Reason: The reason is three-fold. Making the process to report an RMT would help out the diligent players that report the advertisers. Making it easier would also increase the number of players that actually report these bots, giving the GMs larger signals to investigate the players with high number of RMT reports against them. Finally, adding these RMT advertisers to a separate black-list would free up the first black-list for real players. The 200 limit on the standard blacklist forces players to clean it out every so often if they use it for RMT advertisers. And while it's safe to assume that almost all these RMT bot players don't exist anymore, the real players that you've added still do. It's annoying that real-players that I've added to the black-list (because they were dicks, etc) are also removed.

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I really hate having to go busy all the time as it blocks people that are on my friends list that I wouldn't mind them contacting me so maybe they can create a filter that allows tells from people on your friends list. Another drawback with busy is if I forget to turn it off when I enter a duty I can't participate in ready checks and there is no way to turn busy off when you are in a duty(at least no way that I know of)

Another idea that I have seen being tossed around is have a global blacklist for rmt

Post any other recommendations (or discuss the ones posted). But I believe square-enix needs to add some more options directly into the game, rather than only dealing with a small percentage of the RMT manually.