I'm done reporting gil spammers.

[AduroT]

They need to let players make blacklists of phrases that will hide messages.

[Bacent]

They need to let players make blacklists of phrases that will hide messages.

Sounds simple enough in theory. But it's not. They use too many special characters (Go look up other languages and look at all the letters that look like other letters, even just accents over letters gives you another 30+ characters alone). All they have to do is change one thing, and you're back to square one.

The 'best' they could do it make it where people with free accounts can't talk at all, but that creates a problem for people wanting to try the game out and wanting to ask anything to nearby players. And if they did keep free accounts from talking outside of dungeons, all the spambots have to do is roll a heal/tank, and then queue for the first dungeon and spam the chat for the 5 min there before they could be kicked, only to possibly be refilled by another bot.

Again, if people never bought gil, it'd never be an issue. There's only so much you can do when some people are being huge lazy idiots.

[SamSmoot]

They need to let players make blacklists of phrases that will hide messages.

This.. If I'm seeing hundreds of posts containing "xyzgold.con", I can just select that bit of text in chat, right click, and select "block: and never see it again. Additionally, if, say 1000 players block the exact same message text, then the system should remove ALL messages containing that text.

[Kleeya]

This.. If I'm seeing hundreds of posts containing "xyzgold.con", I can just select that bit of text in chat, right click, and select "block: and never see it again. Additionally, if, say 1000 players block the exact same message text, then the system should remove ALL messages containing that text.

Maybe you did already see RMT add some strange characters in the middle of their url, or random letters/nombers at the end of their sentence ? That's a way to get around what you are talking about. All it takes to make blacklisting of a chain of characters useless is to change one letter, while keeping the whole readable. There is even already some messages where they tell you what to change to get the whole url, in case people dont get it. You will quickly get tired of blacklisting xyzgold.con, then xyzgMld.con (M=o), then xyz-gold.con [minus the -], then "xy zg ol d.c on" (without spaces), etc. The possibilitys are endless. In the end you will just switch back to battle mode again to not see another add with a slight variation from the previous one.

Even tho its almost impossible to make RMT disappear completely, i just don't see why they don't use any anti-cheat protection at all.

If you are talking of client side anti cheat, it is useless against RMTs. They use customised clients to get around this kind of things. All it will do is making players who dont bot annoyed and angry at the anti cheat bugs and false positives, while the RMTs will still be here in full force.