It's not rocket surgery

[ConstantlyVexed]

I've played Star Trek online since it launched. There used to be a lot of spammers in there and now I hardly see any. In fact it's been prob well over a year since I've seen one. I don't know how they stopped it though unfortunately

[Lemuria]

I know OP probably ment rocket "science" but....

How and why does this image exist?! Is 'Rocket Surgery' a commonly used term? o.O

[Hyunckel]

How and why does this image exist?! Is 'Rocket Surgery' a commonly used term? o.O

http://6dollarshirts.com/t-shirts/Ro...t-p-12166.html

Guessing it's a pretty often misused idiom, like how often you see people spelling rouge instead of rogue, recieve instead of receive, effect instead of affect, your instead of you're (you are), their instead of they're (they are) or there (opposite of here) etc.

[Kuwagami]

http://6dollarshirts.com/t-shirts/Ro...t-p-12166.html

Guessing it's a pretty often misused idiom, like how often you see people spelling rouge instead of rogue, recieve instead of receive, effect instead of affect, your instead of you're (you are), their instead of they're (they are) or there (opposite of here) etc.

this was made for that

[Atmora]

effect instead of affect

Effect can actually be defined as "a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause" and in actuality is what most people mean when they say affect.

[Mimilu]

...Guys, I think the OP is trolling you all. >w>

[Blindheart]

I don't ever remember seeing this problem when I played Everquest... Just gotta go old school

[Airget]

I don't ever remember seeing this problem when I played Everquest... Just gotta go old school

Different era, have to consider the range and accessibility of internet at the time. Everquest started during an age in which you had to connect to the internet and when you were connected to the internet you couldn't make calls or anything, it was either be on the internet or have your phone open.


With that in mind I believe routers weren't as wide spread as they are now now was the technology efficient in a means to profit off something like an MMO.

The reason why RMT is the way it is now is because of technology advancements in the internet and a better understanding of computer knowledge in general makes it easier to RMT. Think about this those 4-8 BLM you see being followed by one person. You think 4-8 people are playing those characters? Odds are it's one person with a tool that allows him control of all the characters through scripts specifically designed for the game.

It's things like that which were not accessible during the age of Everquest and since Everquest was one of the first of it's kind people wouldn't jump at the idea of trying to profit off it since it was something that was never done before it could of flopped and been a forgotten relic of gaming history but it stuck and now RMT attempt to profit off that market.

[Kiara1]

Rocket surgery made me giggle :$

[Hyunckel]

Why do I receive spam gil-seller messages practically every minute when I'm logged in? Solving this problem is not incredibly difficult; dozens of other MMOs have managed to resolve the issue.

lol rocket surgery



Only way to avoid receiving RMT tells is /busy & being in dungeons, trials, raids. Or being in a closed server 99% of the time like Ragnarok. Since I moved on that server 2 months ago, I only received 3 RMT tells, whereas I was receiving 3-4 per day on Odin (and that one is closed 50% of the day)