Gold Sellers

[Abenstern]

There is a blacklist. Use it It helps a lot!

That isn't a good solution. While yes it stops the chat, it doesn't address the problem at the roots. SE needs to swiftly take more action against these Gil Sellers. Not to mention the hackers teleporting from gathering node to gathering node, which is also a very serious problem for the economies right now.

[Maza]

The spammers haven't been as bad as a couple of weeks ago on my server. Whats driving me crazy is when I'm doing botany and some little weasel (in a FC with over 120 people) is teleporting to the nodes right in front of my face. Yes they aren't stealing the node from me (if they could do that I wouldn't even play the game anymore) but I'm farming crystals because one person in the ah has 15 stacks of 1000 shards each for 35000 and I refuse to play that much. 15 stacks of 1000 each.... how long would an honest gamer have to farm to get that many. I don't know how the game economy will turn out but this can't be a good thing. I report them in game, in help forums and anywhere I can but people laugh and say "the one I reported last week is still out here teleporting". They can just laugh at us and keep on going.

[Kayanarka]

Macro /blist add <r> This macro will auto Blist the last spammer to send a tell. Then turn off shout and yell (move to a seperate window) and enjoy game this way untill they figure something better. I am sure they want to fix it as much as we want it fixed. It probably cause strain on servers and makes them look bad too.

[ClockworkSpectre]

The spammers haven't been as bad as a couple of weeks ago on my server. Whats driving me crazy is when I'm doing botany and some little weasel (in a FC with over 120 people) is teleporting to the nodes right in front of my face. Yes they aren't stealing the node from me (if they could do that I wouldn't even play the game anymore) but I'm farming crystals because one person in the ah has 15 stacks of 1000 shards each for 35000 and I refuse to play that much. 15 stacks of 1000 each.... how long would an honest gamer have to farm to get that many. I don't know how the game economy will turn out but this can't be a good thing. I report them in game, in help forums and anywhere I can but people laugh and say "the one I reported last week is still out here teleporting". They can just laugh at us and keep on going.

You should still report them. SE is slow to respond with things like this but they do ban people for the teleporting to nodes/targets thing. Some times it can take them a couple weeks. Yes it sucks that they don't respond faster, but you should still report each one you see.

[Billie21]

I've reported every single person I saw boting/RMT advertising for the first month of the game. My BL reached about 150 names, then it got old.

Now I just BL and have stopped reporting. Even if some of those I've reported were actually banned, more keep comming, it never ends, it feels useless. It's been about 3 weeks now, and I've just added a 90th name to my BL since then. If I hadn't rerolled, my BL would actually be more than full by now. That's scary.

SE banned a few thousand accounts? Great, they only need to pay one guy to stand in Ul'dah's Quicksand for one week, normal working hours, and I'm sure they'll get as much done effortlessly. I mean, I stood there for 10 minutes, saw a good 30 cheaters, more even, since I couldn't report them all, didn't have the time to copy/paste them all, fast as they were to teleport.

I'm really worried about the future of the game's economy if they can't find a way to get the boting under control. A good deal of which is due to RMT. That concerns me far more than the flooding of /sh and /y channels in the Cities.

[Rosy]

You should still report them. SE is slow to respond with things like this but they do ban people for the teleporting to nodes/targets thing. Some times it can take them a couple weeks. Yes it sucks that they don't respond faster, but you should still report each one you see.

Getting the name of the botters is a chore in itself, as they are porting from node to node underground, so most of the time you can't a) target them or b) see the whole of their name, so whilst you spend 5 minutes chasing round trying to get their name and another two using the cumbersome reporting method, you could have actually been playing the game! Make it easier to report please!

[Zebyxus]

There's a quick solution, but it's a case of harming all to punish the few: Ban gil trading (save for repair costs/meld costs), place an upper limit on how much can be set for items on the Market Boards, and set limits to how much can be removed from FC coffers.

I realise that this is perhaps one of the most extreme solutions, but really, everything else hasn't even slowed down these companies who advertise gil/power levelling long enough to be noticeable. Yes I know it will most likely never happen but I'm sure I'm not the only one who would see that as perhaps one of few ways to give gil spammers pause, if not stop them outright.

[DragonHunterG]

unfortunately i have given up on even reporting them anymore. it breaks the atmosphere of the game though and seeing advertising like that makes a bad experience.

i get tells all the time. blacklist one, and another one takes their place within an hour.

[Akio77]

The current way of reporting Gil sellers is too cumbersome in my opinion. Square Enix should make it easier. Like when you get a /tell from a gil seller, put an option to right click on its name and have an option to "REPORT AS RMT or SPAM". Once that option is clicked, let the system do an internal snapshot of the last /tell you have gotten from the RMT as evidence, then BAN the account right there. Also, let the system add that player on our Blacklist automatically, when that option is selected.

[Jediman]

I like the dungeons scheme that forces you to do 100+ runs to get the gear, point blank not right. I rather do different dungeons that give you more gil also items. right now they have only given us gil below 50- for each trash mob, due to RMT again not our problem. Not every player is RMT that wants to sell gil to 3rd party. They are just making it hard for players that are genuine trying to make gil. Also Stop with the crafting bull shit we hear all the time lol.

SE needs to stop botters/hacks that are destroying the economy by putting everything for 1gil on AH when you can sell it to the merchant for that much lol.
Its the same fate diablo 3 gone through (what did they do blizzard took out AH lol).