PLEASE change level requirement to whisper ....

[Gunspec]

We need GMs that have the power to lock an account (followed by a review of the account) whenever RMT activity is reported and the chat logs show reasonable evidence. That's all it would take.

Currently, they log and monitor RMT spam and send it off to the anti-RMT task force, which flags accounts and bans them roughly once a month. That gives the spammers a long time to operate per paid account. It's $15 (sale price for Realm Reborn) to have unlimited ability to spam your RMT website to players for a month.

If ordinary GMs had the ability to automatically lock accounts that were clearly sending hundreds of spam messages (but not actually terminate the account until it had been reviewed), then RMT websites would see their advertising costs skyrocket as they are forced to buy and acquire more accounts. This would lead to less overt spam, because every spam message would run the risk of account lock and termination.

SE needs to stop snooping on the RMT and just lock them out.

[Bishop81]

They should make a quest to get your linkpearl, just as you meet Minfilia, and before getting it you can't whisper nor receive whispers.

[MageBlack]

You cant whisper until you have a full fleged account, the trial stage of the first free month you are unable to send tells. I think that is sufficient.

[Titor]

Or just limit the number of unique people that you can whisper per day that is not on your friends list. Maybe increase with /played time and character level.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Then won't RMT just go back to spamming friend requests?

[DracotheDragon]

theres still RMT bots o...o i haven't seen a single one since heavenward started

[KaiKatzchen]

This is horrible and a bad idea. Why not just make it so the character has to be 40 hours of age to send tells?

My friend and I were discussing the same thing - they usually don't unse the same character a lot - they jump around which is how they stay 'hidden'. They should make it that as long as you have that sprout beside your head you can't message unless you are messaged first. This would still allow friends to talk to their friends by messaging them first but RMTs couldn't message randoms.

Plus bigger blacklist - yes please. XD

[Sapphic]

You can't /whisper at any level.

[worldofneil]

As much as I hate receiving RMT spam, I have to disagree with ideas of adding even more limits to accounts because I believe it would just hurt genuine new players.

It's already harsh enough than when someone is in a trial they are already very isolated (they can't really message anyone, can't join a FC, can't shout and they can't even create their own party (someone has to invite them), but right now if someone puts down money for the game then those restrictions are lifted and punishing new players (who need help the most) just to try and combat RMT spam seems very unfair and will only give them a negative impact of the game.

Someone in this thread (sorry can't remember who) said about not being able to send messages until level 10, but I'm afraid that's nothing more than a 15 minute deterrent for RMT (I've ran in parties with my own FC where we've power levelled other FC members up to level 10 across all combat jobs and that takes no more than an hour to do every job they have!). But for a real, first time player, it'll probably take them hours to get to level 10, if not more. They won't know where they're going/fastest way to level up, they're also running around doing all the quests (probably). It basically just punishes the real player and is just a tiny inconvenience for the RMT.

Someone else (sorry also can't remember who!) said about having to have 40 hours (which would be end of new adventurer flag) before you can whisper, but I think that's also just going to cause more problems for real players. RMT could literally log on and just wait/idle 2 days (do things with other characters in the meantime?). For them it's no bother, for real players...?

It'd be nice if SE could be more proactive in dealing with RMT and not batch them up each week, but actually investigate the reports as they come in (not saying act on every report instantly, but if the same person is reported 10+ times then they should be moved up the queue of people to look at). It'd also be nice if there were an easier way to actually report someone as right now it seems like a lot of hoops to jump through and most people probably just blacklist and (try to) move on.

[maelor]

The most simple fix to this WHOLE issue is changing the blacklist to a whitelist. Then letting us not only whitelist individuals by name but also organizational whitelisting. For example, whitelist my whole FC, WL my whole grand company, WL all Gridania citizens... so on and so forth. I know some of these group WL choices I posted make no sense what so ever, but its just to make the point. We should at lease be able to WL whole FC's by name, oh and WL whole LS's also....

WHITELIST SE WHITELIST! :-D