A big Thank You for the Report Option

[Culfinrandir]

After the first few days of 3.4 there's been no RMT tells at all for me on Leviathan. I keep logged in 24/7 for genuine reasons (if I get a stable connection it's a good idea to keep it) & my chat box was using almost all tells when I'd sit down to play, now there's none. It seems to have made a huge difference already.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

On my server, RMT embed themselves in the ground in Limsa around the aytheryte and spam in /say to avoid being blocked via /tell. This feature is a nice work around for the annoyance and I have seen a huge reduction in tell spam. I can go off busy now! Thank you so much SE!

Also SE please notice the pos hacking bots flying in dozens across the air from npc to npc and back under the ground in Quarrymill/Shroud.

[Mature]

Now you have the power to report this rmt without so much hassle. In 2 clicks and report have been sent.

Ive been using it and I see less and less spam.

Thank you

[Niwashi]

I'd imagine one way around it is going to be akin to their way around blist this whole time, which is to brute force their advertising. Program bots to create new characters every short period of time (or until the mute takes effect, assuming there's a notification).

Well, the blacklist is character based, and though the description wasn't very clear about it, I'm really hoping that this RMT muting is account based. Continuously creating new characters would be a whole lot more expensive if they have to establish new accounts for each of them. The trick to genuinely getting rid of them (rather than just delaying them a bit until they re-work their bot scripts) is to make it more expensive than the little bit of advertising they're able to get out of it is worth.

For that matter, though, I'm really not sure why the blacklist itself isn't account based, and it's possible that this isn't either. If it's just the individual character that gets muted and not others on the account, then yeah, this would be as easy to get around as the blacklist. They'd just have to speed up the rate at which they recycle characters.

[aesteval]

I've actually been wondering how it was working out. I haven't reenabled tells yet myself due to concerns that the bots will just end up switching characters frequently to bypass the reports. There always seem to be some that frequently change characters to keep spamming while others stay on one character for long periods of time.