RMT Out of hand

[Elusana_Celah]

Or perhaps they need to see a lot of threads so they can grasp just how irritating it has gotten for us players. As it stands, if I remove busy I get 10 /tells or MORE an hour. I have friends I like to talk to and not all of them can be in my linkshell. So having to keep busy up or turning tells off is quite awful a solution.

[AsahinaMyLove]

<--- found a CLAN full of RMTs gilfamer - 61 members. that alone makes me sad... -.-

[Defmetal]

By the time I block many of the NPCs, or try to at least, they say the character doesn't exist. RMT spam a bunch of people then delete the character and make a new one.

[Vrankyl]

Honestly I get maybe four tells from RMT in a three hour period, so I guess my server just isn't that bad off, especially since I don't even receive any of those friend requests. I can also say with certainty this is the lowest amount of RMT I have ever had to deal with ArcheAge was the worst with WoW coming in close second, and on WoW they could just flood your mailbox since they didn't have to be on your friend list. At least here they have to trick you into accepting a friend request before maxing out your mailbox. I do agree reporting should be done easier, and at least for a time activate a character deletion timer. The only other thing they can do is to also prevent someone before lvl 15 from sending tells, but that won't do much as it can be done quickly and would only hurt newbies.

[Amenian]

Honestly I get maybe four tells from RMT in a three hour period, [...]I can also say with certainty this is the lowest amount of RMT I have ever had to deal with [...]

I don't get how, with all the threads we've already had on this, that people still don't understand that high pop servers like Hyperion aren't going to have the same problems with RMT that low pop servers will have. Hyperion is often closed for character creation. No character creation = no new RMT spam. I thought this was already covered.

[NinjaTaru72]

They are getting smarter also. My roommate plays in another server till her account to will let me transfer her to balmung. And while she's playing she's had hundreds, but last night they started sending friend requests then bombing her with tells between friends requests. Because apparently you can't blacklist someone while there's an active freida request from them.

Took me 4-5 tries of quickly deleting the friend request and trying to select the name for black list before I got it because they kept re sending the friend request right after I'd delete and reject the last one for her.

Ended up having it happens 3 times with the whole friend request/tell bombing.

[Seig345]

I gotta admit the friend request thing baffles me... I would figure their goal was to advertise as widely as possible, but this is like insulting someone and then asking them to buy your wares. It's more like griefing than gilselling...

[RyuDragnier]

Why haven't they adjusted it so the blacklist is blocking accounts yet? That alone would fix the majority of the problems, since most of the RMTers are on the same account. Blocking an entire account from your blacklist would make it infinitely easier to shut them down.

[Sandoria]

Why haven't they adjusted it so the blacklist is blocking accounts yet? That alone would fix the majority of the problems, since most of the RMTers are on the same account. Blocking an entire account from your blacklist would make it infinitely easier to shut them down.

So much this!

Wait rmt are sending you friend requests? Wow I was gonna say Idk why people are so upset i might get one, maybe two tells in a day ignore and they don't actually bother me at all.(this while being logged on almost all day everyday) perhaps its the server? On Balmung like i said i might see 2 rmt tells a day and it doesn't really bother me, I just ignore them.

I wish all our servers were like that but Balmung is locked for character creation almost 24/7. They can't make new characters to spam people. On Faerie and other smaller servers it's a total nightmare. Ignoring them does no good because they make a character, spam the world, delete and remake all day long. By the time you blacklist them, they've made a new character to hit the world again. If I don't have /busy up, I'll get a tell every 2 minutes or less. Because I like talking to people and making friends I don't want to have to filter tells or keep /busy up. I've thought about giving up my main and just playing on Balmung because of this but there has to be a better answer.

[SCUBA_Instr]

Hi RyuDragnier,

Why haven't they adjusted it so the blacklist is blocking accounts yet? That alone would fix the majority of the problems, since most of the RMTers are on the same account. Blocking an entire account from your blacklist would make it infinitely easier to shut them down.

I wrote a full functional description on how to do this (minus the Lua code), and how to implement a global
blacklist. I posted it to a non-Square Enix FFXIV website. I was immediately "shot down" and flamed
by a RMT spammer sympathizer, who argued that such changes would "break the Lua source code and
crash the networks."