Enough RMT!

[Set-Abominae]

Here's another suggestion for a built-in anti-spam system: If a character gets blacklisted by five recipients of tells who are not in ls/fc/friends list in a day, the character who sent the tells loses the ability to send tells to people not in ls/fc/fl for a week. It's a community vote system that gets unwanted communications silenced quickly. I don't see how it could be abused. Such a system could cut down the RMT tells by a large percentage.

You don't see how this can be abused? Seriously? How 'bout 5 friends send abusive tells to a random target to bait a reply once received proceed to blist and bring the ban hammer down on an innocent person. Never under estimate the lengths trolls will go to. Enough of these half ass suggestion threads RMT is RMT every MMO has to deal with RMT and if there was a "final solution" to be rid of them they wouldn't invest so much money to start racketeering in the first place.

[Tauu]

Those abusers would have a hard time finding someone who actually takes the time to reply to five people in a coordinated attack. They'd get bored quick, and even if an innocent person can't send tells to random people for a week, so what? Most players rarely do that anyway.

[lokinmodar]

Excalibur is rmt and bot paradise. If SE says that using outside programs to macro stuff is a violation, why North shroud bots still prevail? Why are shard farming bots still there even after many ppl reporting? They ban accounts? Not the Inês i blisted then. Rarely i see a "deleted" there... Not to day the ppl spamming holy all day long in gold saucer triad area

[Zoy]

I know on my server ppl sell primal runs coil runs pony drops whatever they can, so ppl run to Gil sites but what they need and reenforce the cycle. I'd would wether give the drops away vs have Gil spams win.

[Franchesca]

A lot more people have either turned off their /tell chats or have gone into 'Busy' status in my server. This tells you how bad things have gotten with the RMTs. Yesterday was extremely bad, worse than I have experienced. I have gotten friend requests from RMTs none stop all day. When players tried to cut ties with /tell chats communciation, RMTs resort to friend request spamming. SE has got to do something about this, this is longer advertising, this is abusive. It shouldn't be a chore having to manage my blacklist everyday, this isn't fun at all.

On a different note, I have seen legitimate FCs using bot programs to level up and gathering. I have reported on these people but nothing is being done about it.

[Malevicton]

If that's what it takes to get some stuff done, yup.

Except actually they're more likely to pay attention to one large thread than a million tiny ones. So this thread is actually far more harmful to its own cause than helpful.

[Aerowaffle]

Except actually they're more likely to pay attention to one large thread than a million tiny ones. So this thread is actually far more harmful to its own cause than helpful.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...4-Gold-Sellers
That thread has existed since 2013, with people asking for something as simple as a rightclick->report also as far back as late 2013.

It's been sitting in "Being Addressed/Currently Reviewing" for a very long time, remaining near the top of the front page if not the very top.

We still don't have something as simple as rightclick->report.

[Gemma]

Can I just ask why people use the /busy to not receive tells from RMT?
I can't stand the stupid face by the name, so why don't people just filter the /tells out of chat?
That's what I did, go to your chat log (the little gear symbol) uncheck tells from your chat windows and uncheck the notification sound.

Problem solved and no stupid face by your name! And no need to reapply the stupid /busy

[lokinmodar]

Excalibur is rmt and bot paradise. If SE says that using outside programs to macro stuff is a violation, why North shroud bots still prevail? Why are shard farming bots still there even after many ppl reporting? They ban accounts? Not the Inês i blisted then. Rarely i see a "deleted" there... Not to say the ppl spamming holy all day long in gold saucer triad area

[Gillionaire]

Excalibur is rmt and bot paradise. If SE says that using outside programs to macro stuff is a violation, why North shroud bots still prevail? Why are shard farming bots still there even after many ppl reporting? They ban accounts? Not the Inês i blisted then. Rarely i see a "deleted" there... Not to say the ppl spamming holy all day long in gold saucer triad area

I thought all those shard farmers were bots but you'd be surprised how many of them are actual players.. I've run into quite a few whom I was suspicious but turns out they just gather a loooooooot