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

[Bebekurenai]

We all can give SE sugestions on how to deal with RMT and improve our spam experience, or SE could just instantly ban anyone who sends 100 tells to ppl at the same time. Let's be honest, if a RMT bot can be programmed to send 100 simultaneous tells to certain playes in a certain map every 5 minutes, then SE can program a countermeasure or at least detect this kind of comunication and stop it. I would have guessed with the cash shop at last they would have enough money to hire staff to be in charge of this, but apparently not. 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.

[MiniTofu]

We all can give SE sugestions on how to deal with RMT and improve our spam experience, or SE could just instantly ban anyone who sends 100 tells to ppl at the same time. Let's be honest, if a RMT bot can be programmed to send 100 simultaneous tells to certain playes in a certain map every 5 minutes, then SE can program a countermeasure or at least detect this kind of comunication and stop it. I would have guessed with the cash shop at last they would have enough money to hire staff to be in charge of this, but apparently not. 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.

Even a whisper to 10 different characters is enough to flag as bot. Who in the world as a person is going to select 10 different characters and spam messages?

[Jonny_Tapas]

I'm over it, it seemed to improve for a while and then free trials happened and now it's just horrible.

I gave up on blacklisting because there was so much blacklisting (and removal as in the post listed above) that it was becoming a chore.

I'm to the point where I'm just going to turn off tells...

So my apologies in advanced dear community members who are trying to send me a legitimate tell. I'm now deaf to them.

[Dualblade]

I'm over it, it seemed to improve for a while and then free trials happened and now it's just horrible.

I gave up on blacklisting because there was so much blacklisting (and removal as in the post listed above) that it was becoming a chore.

I'm to the point where I'm just going to turn off tells...

So my apologies in advanced dear community members who are trying to send me a legitimate tell. I'm now deaf to them.

[Chat Restrictions]

- The chat options /shout, /yell, and /tell cannot be used by Free Trial characters.

http://support.na.square-enix.com/fa...70929&ret=main

At best a coincidence, but it isn't the free trials that caused it to go up.

[Giantbane]

I played EVE online for a few years. One of the best features for dealing with RMT:

Right click, report RMT. Removes all messages of that player from your chat log and you don't see any more messages from them, but the block is separate from the blacklist so it doesn't fill that up either.

Can we get something like this in XIV?

this, so much this

[Ryamatsu]

I filtered /tell finally myself. I just made a comment in my name saying I'm sorry but I filter /tell so hopefully they can reach me another way, maybe my moogle mail or something.

[Leowilde]

2) Don't allow the sending of tells until someone is at least X level (probably 15 or so) - not sure if this would help, they'd probably just speedgrind those few levels. For the rest of us, the limitation would be a nuisanse.
5) Give us more settings about what tells we'd like to block (tells from strangers, tells from people not on friend list, not in FC, not in LS, etc.) - This one I definetly approve of!
6) Don't allow the sending of many tells within short time frames. - Not really supportive of this, unless we're talking 1 sec. time frame. It reminds me too much of the forum limitations, and could hamper fast paced FC chat.

[myahele]

It was a bad move for SE to allow players a maximum of 32 characters (I think 8 per world)

[Mishini_Dracoto]

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I liked your post, and I'm re-stating my acknowledgement to give further support.

I was thinking this a long time ago. If you send tells to 50 different people within the span of a minute, you're blocked. Your account is flagged. Something.

Also circling back, I think that SE uses these tells as part of their tracking methods to track large gil transacitons and they ban large groups at a time. Really, I think they need to just start banning anyone who BUYS gil.

If you have no history of tells and are not in a LS/FC with somebody, and they give you 10,000,000g or more, you just got banned.

If this was implemented, I would expect less people to buy gil.

Less people buying gil = less demand for RMT. Eventually, RMT becomes non profitable and goes away.

[SekhmetM]

Busy status goes away too easily, I'm pretty sure changing zones takes it off.

I just have tells filtered out in chat log.

It doesnt come off until you logoff. It even stays on you when you enter and leave a duty.