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    Player
    ScrumpletonTheThird's Avatar
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    Dec 2015
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    Character
    Nhagi Chalakho
    World
    Balmung
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 60

    Bot prevention measures?

    I got to thinking recently, Balmung (and a few other servers) seem to have an issue with bot populations (and also bot spamming of new characters) which makes it difficult to make new legitimate characters on those realms (people don't really like having to make a character and wait three days to migrate)

    So here's what I'm thinking. Software keyboard captchas on the character creation screen, input via the software keyboard ONLY so you can't macro spam the characters in, meaning real players get a look-in on being able to join their friends on the realms of choice.

    Randomised key software keyboards should be fairly easy to impliment (after all, the old type DELETE to delete seems fairly straightforward) and would at least serve to hinder the ridonkulous amounts of spam that macros can do, after all it's merely numpad 0 to blast through the creation screen with a few other keypresses to select a class. finding a way to break macros like that would be good, no?
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    Djinnrb's Avatar
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    Aug 2011
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    Character
    Edward Elric
    World
    Coeurl
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 80
    They could station a GM at the beginning of every major city around the clock on every server. When you see jsolhglkd slkhsa;hg spawn from just being created the GM instantly bans/deletes it.

    Sure its a bit of man power but why not?

    EDIT:

    Could also give us a quick way to report bots who send /tells with the rightclick of a name. When one character gets enough it reports it will get an automatic /tell ban for 24 hours and in that time a GM will review that character to make sure its a bot then appropriately handle it.
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    Last edited by Djinnrb; 12-26-2015 at 11:41 PM.

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    Oopsy's Avatar
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    Oct 2014
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    Character
    Oopsy Hiero
    World
    Malboro
    Main Class
    Fisher Lv 100
    You can file a report by using the in-game command [System Menu] -> [Support Desk] -> [Contact Us] -> [Report Cheating]
    It is not hard and a response is usually really quick. Telling you to black list them....

    But a captcha after a certain number of tells to different people would be nice.

    Example
    /tell person 1 asd
    /tell person 2 sdw
    /tell person 3 dfefc
    /tell person 4 vadfa
    /tell person 5 r4sdfs
    /tell person 6 dfgsdf
    /tell person 7 sdfgsg
    /tell person 6 >>>>>>>> You are asked to enter a captcha to continue - Counter resets if intered correctly -- if failed 3x account is reported and blocked from /tell for 24 hours - banned for good after investigation
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    Last edited by Oopsy; 12-30-2015 at 02:17 PM.

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