RMT Enforcement - Something Interesting is happeneing

[Paladinleeds]

They've changed strat on Odin. Now they're standing around the aetheryte doing nothing and saying nothing but have their gil selling website in the name. I just reported one now (had to report under Cheating)

[Kosmos992k]

They've changed strat on Odin. Now they're standing around the aetheryte doing nothing and saying nothing but have their gil selling website in the name. I just reported one now (had to report under Cheating)

That's a bit desperate of them. I wonder how long it will be before SE applies their RMT word filter to character names?

[Dustytome]

They've changed strat on Odin. Now they're standing around the aetheryte doing nothing and saying nothing but have their gil selling website in the name. I just reported one now (had to report under Cheating)

Same on Sargatanas, just reported one.

[Kosmos992k]

That decrease in bans for the future I mentioned was mostly referring to GMs/STF just becoming either demoralized or just unable to keep up. I mean, it's usually bots we're dealing with when it comes to RMT, not real people actively at their computers remaking characters (maybe even the accounts). Machines don't get tired of doing the same thing over and over.

Again, this is just from first-hand experience with companies like Blizzard and SE (during the XI era) and their approach to, along with results of, their efforts to combat RMT.

That's what makes it important for the STF to use their databases effectively to identify likely bots and RMT accounts, in addition to reacting to player reports. Also, doesn't the new reporting system include an automated component that after a certain number of reports suspends the character for review?

I'd think that one of the bigger roles that the STF will use, is using smart technology to find suspect activity in the game logs and rate it on a scale so that they can investigate the most likely cases first.

[Dustytome]

Great, now the advert named ones are inviting me to a party if I'm not in one.

[Kalinas]

Yeah...they are doing that now on Sargatanas as well. Was away from keyboard and came back to a party invite from a character with a seller website as their name. You can't even right click to report them this way. You have to go back and use the slow loading report window menus.

[Mature]

You have to report them for the system to work. Don't wait for someone to do it for you.

As soon as I see RMT I'm on it.

I haven't had a single tell since about 5 weeks?

[JunseiKei]

They've changed strat on Odin. Now they're standing around the aetheryte doing nothing and saying nothing but have their gil selling website in the name. I just reported one now (had to report under Cheating)

Joke's on them for players like me that play with all player names turned off. :P Only friends show up.

That being said, it's so nice to play this game without using something to filter out keywords or phrases from being sent in /tell, or sitting on busy just so you don't get spammed. Whoever thought of this needs a raise. Seriously.

[Dargondarkfire]

oh so this is why I rarely see a gil sell spam message anymore. +1 SE

[NefarioCall]

Regarding gil buyers...

I've always been a little bit mystified that there's even a market in this game for the sellers to operate. I mean, not surprised in the sense that they operate everywhere, but speaking as a player who spent the better part of a decade in Gusgen Mines and Ifrits Cauldron... I'm Mystified.

I've got so much gil i don't know what to do with it. I literally can't give it away fast enough. Not joking here. I pitched 40mil gil to buy my FC a house, and then left that company and joined another and pitched 15Mil gil to them to help with the house fund and i've still got 45Mil in hand and i'll probably be back over 50Mil by next week. There's nothing to spend it on... I've been thinking about those old naked mule races that people used to run in 1.0 for a million gil xD

But seriously... Gil has no real use in this game... You're handed all the gear you could ever need for nothing, and all the rest of everything you get for free sells for so much on the markets that it's a constant flood of gils incoming that can't be spent. Obviously the sellers are finding buyers, but i mean, there has to be a certain kind of niche to the idea of buyers in a game where gil is practically useless.

Back in FFXI i scraped and clawed through the epic dangers of the Cauldron or got destroyed by a skeleton in Gusen and lost an hours worth of exp all for the hope that maybe this time i'd strike a Darksteel and make a few gil and then load up my sack and spend an hour running back to town and then back to the mines for a new load... and unless i had my smithing skill really high so i could make ingots, it was tough... i mean, in that game, Gil was necessary and extremely hard to make. There was a pressure there.

But in FFXIV? LOL NO. I can't stop the gil waterfall. There's too much. And it's all completely useless.. x_x