I finally did it... disabled tells with busy status. RMT unbearably bad.

[Aerowaffle]

If the planets align properly and SE finally does something to limit and/or ban RMT based off tells in some way, they better be sure to do something about friend invites as well.

The only reason that we're not always getting bombarded with friend invites, is that we can deal with them without ever seeing the advertisement that the bot is trying to push to us.

So although tells are easier to deal with from the perspective of a annoyed player, the bot still gets the message out. If SE does something to block/auto-ban based off these tells, prepare yourself for a massive strike of friend invites from bots.

[Ryuukishi]

"Existence is reasonable. Let's make things better."

What does that even mean??

[aisustrong]

"Existence is reasonable. Let's make things better."

What does that even mean??

it means the chinglish has evolved
it can spell now

[Yutsimaki]

In my opinion I don't think tells annoy me, just the noise of getting one. If I could disable that noise without effecting anything else, I wouldn't mind the spam.

[Reimia]

In my opinion I don't think tells annoy me, just the noise of getting one. If I could disable that noise without effecting anything else, I wouldn't mind the spam.

character configuration > Log window settings > notification sounds > uncheck tell sound effect

[Yutsimaki]

character configuration > Log window settings > notification sounds > uncheck tell sound effect

Now I can fish in peace. I would give mil gil but we're in different worlds you and I.

[kyuven]

I've been thinking...maybe the option to automatically truncate messages longer than a certain length. Though I don't see how implementing it would be easier than a right click->report spam option. Even F2P games have that option.
TBH, along with the absurdly anachronistic and antiquated linguistics used by the localization team, the lack of right click->report is my biggest beef with the game itself.

[SCUBA_Instr]

Hi Bebekurenai,

It is really not our job as players and customers to report RMT, keep track of our blacklist, and if that doesn't work, block tells and not being able to talk to our friends, it's SE's job.

Thank you, Bebekurenai
Subscribers, of this website, have presented lots of workable anti-RMT,
anti-spam suggestions, that have been successfully implemented by Square Enix competitors.

-- Network Security - Many (or most) developers are ahead of Square Enix in
protecting their networks from the RMT criminal threat.
-- Source Code Vulnerabilities - A low gaming-industry priority. The Square Enix
priority is for customers to cope with continuous exploits promulgated by
the RMT criminal organizations.
-- Numerous in-game (easy to code) RMT Countermeasures have been well articulated by customers right here in this website.

[Cyrusskorrey]

disable the /search function or bar its use

[Tiggy]

-- Network Security - Many (or most) developers are ahead of Square Enix in
protecting their networks from the RMT criminal threat.

Lol, What? The servers aren't being hacked. This isn't even remotely part of the RMT problem at all. The entire RMT problem is from RMT using proper in game tools or minor exploits. Not hacking the servers.