Quote Originally Posted by Eriane_Elis View Post
Spam continues to be a problem but from I hear less-so than many years back. I propose that many of the chat features to be limited while under level 30.

Why?

Simply put, when you're under level 30 you likely don't need to use shout, ever. Party chat, local chat, yes... But shout/yell doesn't seem very useful at a low level.

Level 30 seems like a good number because it takes some time to get there on a new account. Which begs the question, is it even possible to do this on a trial account? I'm not sure but mayhaps it should be disabled entirely except local/party chat.

My two gil~
Trial accounts cannot use any of the chat features (shout/tell); they cannot even form their own parties, though they can be invited.

If the spam you are seeing is RMT-related, they get away with that because those accounts are bought and paid for. You can now right-click and report RMT spam that you see in chat. I personally do not have /say or /shout in my normal chat log that I have up; it mostly has /party, /alliance, /FC, and my Linkshells in it. And /tell.

I don’t really see the need to limit the chat functions under a certain level, to be honest. If they did, all the RMT bots would have to do is bot up to the minimum level required, which doesn’t require much.