Spammers/Gil Sellers

[FFVII_CID]

Yeah I've wondered many times why they don't just pay 3 people $20k USD per year to just round-robin log in and out of every server and teleport around to the major cities and ban the gold spammers. 3 people with GM teleport and ban privileges could do it if each had an 8 hour shift so the servers were covered 24/7.

Sign me up, I'd do it!!

[KisaiTenshi]

Another way of "crippling" gil sellers would be to simply linearly scale the gil limit/inventory/trade-limit (including retainers) with the highest level of the character. Does nothing for the spam, but I saw this earlier:


Somehow I don't think anyone is going to buy that except a gold seller.

[Rivienne]

Somehow I don't think anyone is going to buy that except a gold seller.

I believe that this is a workaround for transferring gil from one character to another on the same server without having to find or bother a trustworthy person as a go between. While I haven't done it, and wouldn't, it was the pretty obvious solution. Since you can't give stuff to yourself, you sell something worthless for the amount you want to transfer. Go to your character with lots of gil and buy. Go back. Hey presto. Now you have lots of money on the character you wanted, without doing much. You can do the same trick for sending sell-able items once you have all that money, transfer some of it back. This way you can create new accounts, farm the early level stuff for gold, transfer. Delete. Repeat. I am not condoning it since I think it is a violation of the user agreement. But just pointing out it may not be a gil seller.

[KisaiTenshi]

I am not condoning it since I think it is a violation of the user agreement. But just pointing out it may not be a gil seller.

Money Laundering is still illegal

My opinion is that this is really the case, then SE needs to prevent listing retainers from your own account.

[Vahlenteer]

This is for Midgardsormr.