so much RMT!

[Atomnium]

Huh, I guess Balmung is an awesome server. I haven't seen any RMT spam in a looong time personally, and I'm in the main cities a lot. Though maybe it because it's hard making new characters here.

I think since it is so full it is hard for new characters to be created so they just can't get in

Same on Ragnarok, been weeks since the last time I saw a RMT tell, world is full not only to legit players but to RMTs also xD Funny.
Thinking of it, I'm sad for low populated servers :x empty/ghostly towns and housing areas AND spammed by RMT tells, no wonder why OP is becoming crazy, aw.

[Fenseven]

While I see that SE does ban some RMT, I'm really feeling that STF needs to step it up. I really would like a report button that contains an "auto-add-to-blacklist"

This plus an unlimited black list please.

[Luvbunny]

this does not happen in the Japanese servers hehehe...

Yeah indeed, I hardly get any tells there, but there are TONS of army of black mage being created over there where the gill sellers are creating massive materia production to be sold in market. And SE does absolutely nothing, since technically these "bots" are not spamming any shouts nor tell...

[Aerowaffle]

I've given up reporting RMT tell spam. When my black-list filled and I spent many minutes just clearing it out, I decided that I was spending far too much of the time that I paid for just reporting these level 1 bots.

So now all my tells go into it's own separate tab, and I disabled my tell notification sound.

I hate the RMT. I hate what it does to the economy, I hate that some players buy their way to the top with it, and I hate the spam that the bots send to the players. But the amount of effort to report simple RMT bots is ridiculous. Judging from the number of "(deleted)" in my blacklist, and the number of times I see the same farming bots continuously farming many days after being reported, SE is making a dent, but not nearly enough of a dent.

[Elusana_Celah]

I don't know what the deal is, but our server, Midgardsormr, seems to be the absolute worst by far when it comes to this stuff. I also really wish I had taken screenshots of the OVER FIFTY BLACK MAGES on search named Gjhjia Zcnzcbv with no grand company or free company. Lately I've also noticed a LOT of bots underground, attacking stuff and teleporting around.

I'm starting to wonder if SE is making money by some of these gil sellers / botters some sort of agreement where they don't ban them and they pay out a portion to SE for it. The fact that this is literally out of control and never really dealt with leads me to believe there's some underground agreements by SE to allow them to operate. I mean these people gotta buy a copy of the game, register an account and subscribe for a month just to send a tell, if SE was seriously stomping them out proactively there's no way it can be profitable for them to continue operating their business.

[Katlyna]

Why hasn't this been addressed yet zomg. There are so many different solutions which deeply reduce this problem. I personally have to gyrate between disabling tells and turning them back on because its so freaking bad.

I also don't understand why they haven't handled teleport bots yet? That's an absolutely shame their client isn't secure enough to deal with. Sigh.

[Jandor]

I don't really see much of it on Cerberus... don't know what to tell you guys unfortunately.

[TThibi]

Was on a few hours this morning before work on Faerie Server, it was rediculous 13 tells in 6 minutes average often from the same spammer 3 in a row. There was even one spammer that was just 345Z or some other nonsense. As I screamed profanities in game and irl about them I came to a realization. I no longer care if SE cripples communication. The only way to beat them is to cripple their communication permanently let them gather as much gil as they want I don't care it's worthless if they can't sell it just eliminate their advertisements. I shouldn't have to pay to play then view their adds constantly, so SE stop them being able to communicate stop watching for the gil source and other nonsense when it piles up they will be fairly obvious.

[OMEGA_HACK]

It comes and goes on Leviathan, sometimes its back to back (different companies though), but its not too bad. However I don't understand why they don't make it where only people on your friend's list can send you a tell. I mean a tell is also known as a whisper on many other MMOs and quite frankly the only people who whisper things in my ear are people I know...not random strangers.

[Hiruke]

Forget filters, maybe just throttle tells if you generate an unusual amount. If you are seconding 10 tells a second, maybe you aren't a real person. Maybe. Certainly not 100 tells in 10 seconds. And yeah, I get hit by the same character a lot. Every 10 minutes as they cycle through the WHOLE WORLD. Also maybe people pre-level 5 or pre-level 10 or 15 shouldn't be able to sends tells. Who knows.