Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Niwashi]

Recently I have not recieved any Friends Invitation from RMTs, do you? ^^;

I haven't received any Friend reqs from RMTs.

When 3.0 released, SE made a change to Friend requests to block anyone on a Free Trial account from sending them. I haven't gotten any RMT ones since that change. The RMTs' Free Trial spam-bots now just stand around Aetherites spamming the /say channel while their paid account spam-bots spam /tell messages. But at least the Friend Request spam was addressed.

[Nicobo]

I haven't received any Friend reqs from RMTs.

When 3.0 released, SE made a change to Friend requests to block anyone on a Free Trial account from sending them...

Thanks for the information!

[Callence]

SE needs to do this little number - (Send the banhamanator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcggXXoKCXw
Enough said - and give us a report click button for petes sake.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

I like the right click report function idea with the added comment feature to put details in. So many situations require explanation and it also helps them in deciding why the report was sent.

[Wobble]

To much work to report so I stopped

[Leshpar]

I am a relatively new player with a history of playing MMOs for almost a decade. I am used to RMT tells, and can ignore them. That said this MMO has by far the WORST RMT tell problem of anything I've ever played. Something needs to be done. It won't make me quit as I can ignore them (and sometimes they are funny to read), but it would improve my game time significantly if they didn't exist.

My number one recommendation that I can think of: add a right click report spam button. Put in some code to prevent accounts from sending whispers to ANYONE or talking in /shout if they receive 10 or more report spam clicks within say 15 minutes. This would not only stop RMT rather quickly but it would also eliminate public channel trolling (which I haven't seen at all in this game).

[Lucke]

Anyone else notice the RMT bots in Coerthas spamming FATEs now? Must have gotten the idea from players botting FATEs in North Than.

-They use classes, not jobs.
-Their gear is 20-30 levels lower than them.
-They don't have a FC or GC.
-Their names aren't jibberish, but instead 2 word sentences.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they are not a legit player.

[EZ5902]

Anyone else notice the RMT bots in Coerthas spamming FATEs now? Must have gotten the idea from players botting FATEs in North Than.

-They use classes, not jobs.
-Their gear is 20-30 levels lower than them.
-They don't have a FC or GC.
-Their names aren't jibberish, but instead 2 word sentences.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they are not a legit player.

Yeah, ive seen them too, but they'll most likely "need investigating"

[Nalfein]

-They use classes, not jobs.
-Their gear is 20-30 levels lower than them.
-They don't have a FC or GC.
-Their names aren't jibberish, but instead 2 word sentences.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they are not a legit player.

About those Bots seeking non stop the duty finder, they are even easy to track if you do a "/sea all" they are all side by side. I was wondering if maybe Square-Enix could employ someone in game to check and take countermeasures against them or maybe the Special Task Force staff are not enough for the huge amount of works that requires to hunt them I don't know, anyway I do think that a right click report would makes thing faster as well.

[aesteval]

Something struck me as amusing last week but I couldn't find this thread to chime in. It's about those Black Mage / Thaumaturge bots running around.

1) they're really kind of creepy
2) they're amusingly appropriate given FF9's use of Black Mages

That said there was about a week in which I didn't see much in the way of spam. Now it's back with a vengeance. Was easier to ignore by disabling the sound effect for /tell. But recently I've been trying to keep an eye on the log for certain things. Really difficult to watch the log when there's constant spam coming in so I had to disable /tell logging. Hope nobody uses /tell for something useful in this game because it's not feasible to pay attention to it with all the spam.