Mailing stuff to alts

[Twilite]

You know. XI used to have the same amount of rmt spam at one point. I wonder what they did to control it because it suddenly died off after a period. They were like really bad in XI though for a while, shouts/tells/everything.

There was a HUGE gilseller site that ran dry when SE implemented large restrictions on the amount of gil traded in all forms in the game. This combined with mass changes to HNM/NM stuff(RMT was hording spawns and camping EVERYTHING 24/7, etc) had hurt RMT very badly and they retaliated with several DDoS attacks. That task force team was also decently sized. Eventually RMT began given up as their "supply lines" were severed. Oh man, I remember it all, RMT used to MPK whole shells that were camping(this lead to SE implementing measures to address that, hence you can't "train" mobs into players anymore). You name it, they done it/tried it.

Before that, the RMT pretty much owned every server's economy for a number of years.