It's not rocket surgery

[Mishini_Dracoto]

this was made for that

*Dies laughing*

[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.

[myahele]

It's not rocket surgery

/busy to prevent rmt tells

[AdamFyi]

The team still investigates every single report for RMT spam and bots. Which is why it takes so long for the offending account is dealt with.

Not the banning - the muting. RMT is difficult to get rid of entirely. The best the developers can do is to slow them down. Significant changes are hard to take place because they may most likely affect the player base. RMT will eventually find ways to bypass any filters or fixes no matter how strange it is.

[Aerowaffle]

It's not rocket surgery

/busy to prevent rmt tells

/busy actually blocks all tells, not just rmt ones. And trade requests, friend invites, party invites, fc invites, linkshell invites.

So by using /busy, yes you're blocking rmt spam, but it's hardly a solution since it's shutting off all those other things that you might actually want to use.

[NaliaBrown]

nope. RMT tells are bad on the servers where people are buying gils. But congrats for being on a gil buying server I guess

(I was on balmung before, and switched to Cerberus for 2.4 patch, and I may have had a dozen of RMT tells at most since I started to play, in august 2013)

Well, I'm just saying that this week has been way worse than it usually is. This week also has a free login thingy. It's always happening, but this week has been close to intolerable. Normally I'm pretty good at ignoring them, but the other day I almost put up my /busy status.

[Nalien]

So are RMT on other servers really that bad, or have streaming services and ad blockers just given everyone the thinnest skins ever?

Seriously. I see a RMT trying to contact me, roll my eyes and get on with my day, multiple times a day. The exact same way I'd be watching TV, get to the ad break, roll my eyes and channel swap for a minute. Sometimes there are even hilarious ads, and that's true for RMT as well given they occasionally put odd comments in ("Lets make things better!", yes I find watching their messages evolve vaguely amusing). I really don't get why some people get so damn worked up over them...

Don't get me wrong, it would be great if they didn't exist at all, but I'm not going to get my panties in a bunch when I have the (apparently super) power to just consciously ignore them. Should I be offended that people buy Gil or something? I mean I guess I am offended that there are people that stupid (Gil in this game is hardly rare), but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the stupidity of humanity as a whole. I'd rather just roll my eyes and continue to enjoy the game rather than get worked up over something that's fairly easy to ignore. Busy status works just fine when they're rapid firing me.

Honestly, RMT tells, to me, are like walking down the street and hearing someone praise homeopathy. Do I hear such stupidity often? Absolutely. Do I want to go eviscerate their skull to prove there is nothing inside? Yes. Does it suck that I can't? Sure. Am I going to care for more than a second? Hell no.

/busy actually blocks all tells, not just rmt ones. And trade requests, friend invites, party invites, fc invites, linkshell invites.

So by using /busy, yes you're blocking rmt spam, but it's hardly a solution since it's shutting off all those other things that you might actually want to use.

I usually just switch Busy off when it's going to get in the way. Someone shouts that a Hunt mob is up? Turn Busy off, join a party, turn it back on. Various invites? I know when those are coming, the ones I care about at least. The only Linkshell/FL/etc. invites I'm missing out on with Busy on are the random ones I get just walking around out of the blue, the ones which, in my opinion, are just as bad as RMT spam (so not hard to ignore, but yeah). Spam is spam.

[CYoung187]

This just became my favorite phrase.

And yeah RMT will always be in MMOs, learn to ignore it.

[Hyunckel]

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.

Effect is the noun, to affect is the verb. You can't interchange them. You don't say "To effect" nor do you say "An affect".

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/st...t-grammar.html

You're welcome

[Anneliese]

Why not provide us a solution if you want it solved, if it's so easy? And what are these "dozens of other MMOs" that you talk about?

Also what the hell is rocket surgery?

Ability to make custom filters? (ability to enter strings that would be automatically blocked)
Make it so blacklist affects entire accounts?

SE can't stop it completely but there are ways to mitigate the spam to a significant degree.