Tells only from friends?

[Demonjustin]

Due to the rampant amount of RMTs that are constantly spamming me with tells, I've opted to turn them off completely. This however, means friends have no way to get my attention besides sending me a party invite out of no where or getting ahold of me outside of the game.

I am curious, would it be possible to add a filter so that you can only receive tells from players on your friends list? This would make it easy to choose who exactly you can get them from and prevent the RMT from spamming us from being nearly as much an issue as it is currently.

[Tiva]

I think this is a great idea. I'm tired of having to set myself to "busy" all the time. The ideal situation would be if they could just control gold spammers better, but clearly that isnt happening. Adding a UI option for this would be a nice compromise.

[KaneKendryn]

I have often thought this would be an excellent way to circumvent the many RMT tells I see on a regular basis. To take this a step further, I would also like to see an option to to turn on and off Friend requests. I'm sure we have all seen the RMT's friend requesting, which is a major pain to decline. So having the option to accept tells from friends only as well as turn on and off friend requests, would ensure that only those legitimate people on my friends list could communicate via tells, and the RMT 'friend requests' would also disappear.

[rjspencer4]

I want to filter tells by level since all the rmt is from lv.1 characters.

[Niwashi]

would it be possible to add a filter so that you can only receive tells from players on your friends list? This would make it easy to choose who exactly you can get them from and prevent the RMT from spamming us from being nearly as much an issue as it is currently.

Well, I guess it would be marginally better than /busy, but only slightly. It still cuts off conversations with random strangers, which means the game still loses most of the social aspect of being an MMO. I'd prefer text filtering of spam, a proper reporting feature, and SE actually banning the bots as soon as they're identified. Those would work towards removing the problem rather than towards letting us better isolate ourselves to hide from it.

I want to filter tells by level since all the rmt is from lv.1 characters.

The only reason it's coming from level 1 characters is because there isn't any level requirement. They'll be whatever level they need to be, and currently that happens to be 1, so that's what they are. But it could be any other level and there would be just as many of them. Would you really be happier getting tells every couple minutes from level 15 bots than getting tells every couple minutes from level 1 bots?

[Whiston]

The only reason it's coming from level 1 characters is because there isn't any level requirement. They'll be whatever level they need to be, and currently that happens to be 1, so that's what they are. But it could be any other level and there would be just as many of them. Would you really be happier getting tells every couple minutes from level 15 bots than getting tells every couple minutes from level 1 bots?

While the RMT's will always find a work around, currently, to circumvent the immediate blacklisting and potential banning of accounts the RMT's create a character, spam tell everyone in a zone, then delete the character and create a new character and repeat the process.

If they were required to level up to 10 or 15 levels, then that process suddenly takes a significantly increased amount of time.

[Sida]

If they were required to level up to 10 or 15 levels, then that process suddenly takes a significantly increased amount of time.

Initially, yes.. For as long it takes to level the first patch of characters to 15 which is about.. few hours if not even that much. Then they'll just have an ongoing process of creating a character, putting into the leveling pipe and then spam telling and exiting, and getting new leveled character out of the pipe.