Can you START doing something about the damn RMTS

[Dillia]

Ok, lets set out a few facts to limit misinformation.

1) Trial accounts can not /tell. SE did everything right to allow people to try the game without making it easy for RMTers.

2) RMTers will buy new accounts with stolen credit cards or the credit cards of their prior customers, so it costs them nothing to make more spam bots. Even if the GMs don't ban these accounts, they will be deactivated when the owner of the credit card does a chargeback against the fradulent activity.

3) Putting an RMTer n your blacklist is useless when your world is open to character creation. What they do is run one character on a spambot for 10-20 minutes and then make a new character to get around the people who already blacklisted the first.

4) You can set your status to /busy to block all /tells, friend invites, and other annoyances. You can still talk in FC or LS chat, just not recieve tells.

5) Higher population servers do not have the kind of RMT spam you are reporting. I get maybe 4-5 a week on Ragnarok.

Is RMT annoying? Heck yeah. Is it a game ruining problem? Not really. If you are getting this upset about a few RMT tells you should probably try some yoga.

[KisaiTenshi]

With the exception of Ul'dah and Gridanaia, on Excalibur, the bots tend to be one every hour or so until the free week is up (which ends in 3 days.) During regular subscription time, hours would go by without seeing any tell spam. This is of course, because there is only a very short window to create characters on Excalibur.

And as I said SE could improve upon this by making characters have a cooldown on deletion... but it would then waste further server capacity as they would then never log off.