Limiting 1 shout a min

[RahlZul]

blacklist AND report them.

[azphyxxxiate]

I can have an entire conversation with someone in 30 seconds that involves questions, answers, followups, and clarifications.

Blist the gil spammers when you hear them. I do.

They like to delete and re-create characters over and over. So they get removed from the Blist every once in a while.

[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).

[RahlZul]

They like to delete and re-create characters over and over. So they get removed from the Blist every once in a while.

Well, then report them, once they start getting accounts banned, it will become too expensive for them to keep doing this. I am happy that on adamantoise, after preaching to people every time I am in a starting city, that I now hear them saying the same thing. Get them reported and off the game.

[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.