Quote Originally Posted by Kuurei View Post
Two things can be done to prevent it far more readily since Bans/Deletions don't seem to be doing much at all. We need to make it significantly more costly for RMT to operate on our servers.

--Require finishing the Level 20 Main Scenario quest to use the Marketboard, Trade only allowed with Friends or Free Company members until that point as well.
--Accounts flagged via player report for tell spam or suspicious activity (I.E. these weird 99 stacks of Tin Ores/Bat Wings for 1 gil apiece on broker) will have Mail, Marketboard, and /tell functions disabled pending an investigation.
Back in the day, RMT used free accounts to get what they wanted and it wasn't anything to get banned on them or whatever. Since SE implemented a change to how the free accounts work, there hasn't been any change at all...except that it got worse depending on server. The current restrictions for free accounts is:

- Class levels are capped at level 20 for Free Trial characters.
- Gil (in-game currency) is capped at 20,000 for Free Trial characters.
- The chat options /shout, /yell, and /tell cannot be used by Free Trial characters.
- The Market Board cannot be used by Free Trial characters.
- Trades cannot be made with or by Free Trial characters.
- The Moogle Delivery Service cannot be used by Free Trial characters.
- Retainers cannot be used or hired by Free Trial characters.
etc etc etc
So if all of that isn't enough to stop them, when they have their actual accounts or stolen ones, how can anything else stop them? RMT spam is a thing in MMOs. Always has and always will be until the game ain't rolling anymore.