Limiting 1 shout a min

[HitoKirin]

/agreed limit shouts to one a day. if you want to have a conversation , join a LS. no one else wants to see all that random bullshit.

god forbid a person wants to actually build a group with server mates, you can't even have shout on in towns because RMT, and the rest is senseless ramble

[Pavise]

/agreed limit shouts to one a day. if you want to have a conversation , join a LS. no one else wants to see all that random bullshit.

god forbid a person wants to actually build a group with server mates, you can't even have shout on in towns because RMT, and the rest is senseless ramble

How about YOU make your OWN LS for your LOOKING FOR GROUP SPAM that nobody wants to see in their shout chat conversations aye?

[Luther]

I get whispers every 10 or 15 minutes from these spammers so even if you nuke the shout channel its not a solution to the current problem.

If I was an IT for SE I would do as follows.

1) Limit how many times you can say the same thing in any chat to 3.
2) Add Left click report player to names.
3) Setup a limit to a single delete of a character per week per account.

Doing this should give SE 7 days to read the reports made by players left clicking names, find the spammers since they can't delete there characters and perm ban there accounts, plus it gives us time for allowing the black list to keep these guys blocked so we don't have to re block every single time we enter the city.

[oberonQA]

Not a bad idea, OP. A lot of MMO's I've played have had some kind of anti-flood mechanism in place to prevent spamming. Perhaps 1 minute is a bit much... but maybe something along the lines of 30 seconds would be appropriate. I can log into the game inside the Inn and the moment I step out, before the screen has finished loading, my chat log is being spammed with RMT scroll. It's literally like a macro or something that is set to auto-repeat a dozen times within the span of 15-20 seconds.

It's disgusting. We have posting limits here on the forums, but RMT can spam all day long with nothing to limit them except blacklisting (which so far is unnecessarily complicated for such a simple thing).

[Malamasala]

Well first of all, the spammers in general are not RMT, they are account hijackers. They make THEIR money from simply stealing your account and existing gil. Then they place a bot to shout their trap links to get more accounts to shout on. This includes adding random numbers to the end if they want to have unique shouts every time.

I don't think you can actually code a system to prevent them, since they'll just code around it. A GM or something being present and banning in starting regions would be better.

[Kaedan94]

No. That's a horrible idea. You do not punish your legit players to somewhat mitigate a slight annoyance.

/blist. It's your friend. Then, when you have time, report said player.

[Deathgasm]

shout off
scream off
private messages off
private messages sound alert off
useless reporting* off
var say
if spam=false
say on
else
say off
team chat on

*as mentioned, gil sellers do not buy accounts nor pay suscribtion, they hack with keyloggers and zombify the toons after they pillaged them. they'll have a constant flux of new account to use, and they use port hack to the coords they wish, so they barely loose a tiny bit of their time.