2 Requests to Improve the Novice Network's Traffic

[Joe777]

1. If a sprout is kicked out, make them require a new invitation to rejoin after their kicked out cooldown expires. That way repeat offenders and RMT advertisers cannot automatically rejoin.

2. Make it so a Mentor cannot send anyone invitations into the Novice Network if they are not actually in the Novice Network. If they want to send the invite they can join the Novice Network to do so and if the Novice Network is full then someone in it should have it covered.

Also to ensure both requests actually have an impact it could be made so sprouts, returners, and mentors alike cannot voluntarily leave the Novice Network for 5 minutes after joining it. This does not include idle timeouts as mentors.


In case anyone is wondering yes these requests are mainly to stop this particular RMT advertiser that keeps getting invited into our server's Novice Network no matter what we do every day at least once a day, but are not limited to just that. However, this issue with that damn advertiser has been going on for about a month now and it needs to stop...

[Masekase_Hurricane]

You will find if you go into one of the 3 cities you will see gilsellers shouting to get into the novice network. I dont think it's any of the mentors that are inviting gilsellers. Well unless they are trolling.

[Joe777]

You will find if you go into one of the 3 cities you will see gilsellers shouting to get into the novice network. I dont think it's any of the mentors that are inviting gilsellers. Well unless they are trolling.

Yeah they shout for an invite and get 1 immediately, despite the numerous times we have said don't do it or interview them first if they are Lv1. It's hard to say if it is a mentor or few's intent or always innocent invites since a recent one a mentor admitted in the network they let them in without knowing it was them but normally it's safe to say they are invited by a mentor not actively in the Novice Network.

[NolLacnala]

1) Someone doesn't like someone and kicks them out, the kicked cannot rejoin for X amount of time. /no

2) Mentors can rejoin at any time, in the odd event that they've left NN. Moot point.

The solution already exists. Kick the gil seller.

[Rakiria]

1) Someone doesn't like someone and kicks them out, the kicked cannot rejoin for X amount of time. /no

2) Mentors can rejoin at any time, in the odd event that they've left NN. Moot point.

The solution already exists. Kick the gil seller.

It may not be the best solutoin but being in nn myself those gilsellers are awfully annoying. They leave themselves as soon as they are done sending their message so kicking them is not an option.
But I do think only letting mentors invite who are in the nn is not a good solution either. It would become much harder for new players to get an invite as they would no longer be able to just ask a mentor, but would have to find one in nn. And yes, mentors can rejoin, but the nn does get full at times so this is not always possible.

[Vasala]

The big issue with these RMT spammers is they leave immediately so you can't kick them. One thing that would help would be if an account has an outstanding RMT report then it would be autoblocked from the Novice Network until the report was dealt with. If they would just make that change it would help with the RMT in Novice Network problem. It would also be nice if X number of reports would auto squelch these vermin so their spam would clear up that much quicker.

[Joe777]

The big issue with these RMT spammers is they leave immediately so you can't kick them. One thing that would help would be if an account has an outstanding RMT report then it would be autoblocked from the Novice Network until the report was dealt with. If they would just make that change it would help with the RMT in Novice Network problem. It would also be nice if X number of reports would auto squelch these vermin so their spam would clear up that much quicker.

That is assuming they aren't using a new account because their old one got permabanned for the advertising.

[worldofneil]

The big issue with these RMT spammers is they leave immediately so you can't kick them.

Actually they don't leave, although I can certainly see why it seems that way.

Originally when a sprout was kicked from the novice network, it broadcast in chat who kicked them and the reason. But for quite some time now (6+ months?) it no longer says that and instead it *always* says about unable to kick because they're no longer in the channel and nothing is broadcast to the channel.

The kick does actually work though and the sprout is still removed from the channel as expected, sort of. Even more confusingly, to the kicked sprout, they still think they're in the channel, they just no longer see any chat. Worse, if they try and actually type in the NN, it looks like it works, but of course no one will reply (as they're not actually in it any more) so they probably just think they're being ignored. Not a problem for a bot, but terrible if an actual player was kicked. Not only do other mentors not even know it happened, nor does the sprout themselves. If the kicked person relogs though, they're instantly back in the actual network, with no cooldown.

It has been reported as a bugs multiple times (here, here and here are some examples). SE has actually moved the first link to "Confirmed/Planning to Address", so possibly it'll get fixed at some point.

Depending on how active your NN is, this is all easily verified and instead of kicking them, simply load up the list of people and quickly jump to the last page. Unless someone has kicked them, they'll still be there and will remain there indefinitely. We've done multiple tests on my NN by kicking test accounts etc to confirm all this.

Hope that all makes sense, I have a talent for explaining things badly!

[Furiea]

is this like a NA server only issue? I barely see any on my server... (of course.. I don't even visit Nov. Network anymore)

[miraidensetsu]

The solution already exists. Kick the gil seller.

To me the true solution are:

1. SE bans ALL Gil sellers.
2. SE bans ALL the bots.
3. SE includes ways to prevent more botters in-game.
4. SE fills a lawsuit against every site that's selling Gil.