Quote Originally Posted by Laraul View Post
As of now, if a character is banned for spamming after ten minutes, they just turn around creating a new one. One that's instantly capable of starting where the other left off. Obviously this is overwhelming the staff responsible for keeping the servers clean of this stuff. So, putting a time wall up to slow down the flood of new RMT SPAM-Ready characters will help!
The time between bot-character creation and that bot beginning it's spam would increase, but the rate at which new bot-characters are created wouldn't change. The bots just beginning to spam people might be ones created a couple hours ago and the ones being created now wouldn't start their spam for another couple hours, but if the same number are being created at the same rate, then the overall amount of spam stays the same. The time they spend online before beginning their spam wouldn't be an offence they could be banned for, nor would it get them on anyone's blacklists, so that extra time simply doesn't count towards the time needed to eliminate them.


Quote Originally Posted by Laraul View Post
They are doing something about it! And you screaming any different isn't HELPPING. I'm offering a possible solution! You're just screaming "SQUARE-ENIX! DO MORE!"
What they're doing is what I directly referred to, in the very next sentence after the one you quoted. Those bans occur far too late to prevent the spam from reaching RMT customers. As long as that remains the case, they're not going to work. Bans have to come immediately, so that the spam doesn't make the RMT companies enough money to be worth continuing. Only when it becomes unprofitable will it stop.

And as to your solutions and mine, I did offer a real solution. (Or actually, as far as this thread goes, the OP offered it and then I elaborated a bit on it.) They just need the proper tools. It's a solution that we've been asking for since the game came out, because it's the one (and probably only) solution that would actually work. If SE would implement it, then there would be no more RMT spam. There spam exists because SE hasn't given us or the GMs the tools needed to stop it.