Spammers/Gil Sellers

[Sophex]

The only idea I have had to get rid of gil spammers, is to make an instant ban on anyone that puts so much text or so many messages in a short amount of time. Like anymore than 3 messages in 5 seconds will get you kicked or make it so you can't use the chat system for so many hours.

[Soterian]

Again seems targeted at "advertisers" but no responsibility or consequences for those that are buying the Gil and power levelling. If no one supported them they would not exist..

[AlphaFox]

I would just like to be able to block them from chat with a simple right click -> Blacklist. Its such a pain to spend time trying to catch "asdsad sdfsad" to block while in a town (I shouldn't have to turn off shout to talk to others who are asking questions). Even more so when you have 2 or 3 in the same area constantly spamming.

[Elim]

I would just like to be able to block them from chat with a simple right click -> Blacklist. Its such a pain to spend time trying to catch "asdsad sdfsad" to block while in a town (I shouldn't have to turn off shout to talk to others who are asking questions). Even more so when you have 2 or 3 in the same area constantly spamming.

Not sure if everyone has this problem or if there's a way to fix it, but when I scroll up to look at a spammers name it forces me to scroll back down every time that spammer reposts his message. It makes writing down/clicking a name difficult, though I suppose if I make the chat bigger(big enough for the whole spam message) that would help... I just don't want to.

[Stoicsquirrel]

For those that wanted a quick way to address the problem with gil sellers sending you /tells:

/blist add <r>

You can add that as a macro to your toolbar, and it will add the last person that sent you a /tell to your blacklist. Haven't found a way to quickly report someone yet, but this is the fastest way to blist them, and then you can freely send a message to S-E at your leisure for the actual report, listing all the ones that did the tells that day.

Hope it helps!

[MoruteAshera]

An easy solution would be to make a puzzle game when you log in... not a captcha, an actual little mini-game with even 9 squares that have to form a picture before you are allowed to load your character in.

We put this into other games, and it works fine.

[oceanne]

An easy solution would be to make a puzzle game when you log in... not a captcha, an actual little mini-game with even 9 squares that have to form a picture before you are allowed to load your character in.

We put this into other games, and it works fine.

Dragon nest game have something like that , you need to add a 4 digit password with the mouse on screen , but the number on the pad change place so you have to be human to know where your digit are every time , seem anoying at start , but end up pretty usefull against auto-log bot and add another layer to the account security

with all the money SE doing with us , the least they could do is have an some emploi to monitor the chat-log in town , that woudnt cost them a fortune to do so , and now RMT start to shout at critical point outside town our serveur have shouter in Mor-dorna and dragon head camp now . soon theure will be shouter everywhere , seriously its is getting over-frustrating, i dont wanna pay for a game that need me to blist 50 ppl/hrs cause SE dont wanna do a move ... if it going to keep that way , i mignt stop SE payment and go play some FREE game that dont have RMT spamer .... i dont pay to be spamed

[oceanne]

a nice solution would be a "vote" system . when enough peoples (300-400) have blacklister somone (shouter or /tell bots) this account get a temporary ban untill a GM get in the case and check if this Worth a perma-ban or an simple warning , that way the whole communauty participate to the effort against RMT

honestly , you blacklist them anyway , might as well use that fonction to help everyone , you blacklist=you vote . easy and simple

[Kelryth]

I like that idea...lol

[KisaiTenshi]

An easy solution would be to make a puzzle game when you log in... not a captcha, an actual little mini-game with even 9 squares that have to form a picture before you are allowed to load your character in.

We put this into other games, and it works fine.

That only works in those games because they also use gameguard/hackshield+exe/memory crypto to prevent the bots from just reading/writing to the memory space. Most of the script kiddies are just using pixel-hunting keyboard-hooks. So the only way something like that works is by making the visual data something that can't be "screen read" eg 3D model.
SE can break the memory/packet hackers just by verifying that the information set is valid.
eg, command speed, idle time, position, repetition.

a nice solution would be a "vote" system . when enough peoples (300-400) have blacklister somone

Only need 4, not 400.
The tell'ing ones are memory or packet hackers, because they somehow know where you are. For example, I can be a fresh login, inside the inn, and get tell'd having never left the room. That was my first clue that they're hacking, not doing something visual.