SE: Please add cooldown between shouts

[LloydShade]

A cooldown on shout seems interesting to me.

Gilspammer use dirty tricks to avoid getting easily blacklisted. If ever there was something useful in the chat window meanwhile, forget about finding it without again scanning through the spam they create.

For the "conversations" across the landscape using shouts... May I bring up the roleplaying concept of "immersion". Crystal clear conversations over long distance is really breaking immersion. A cooldown could represent your character actually catching their breath. The game is big sure, but there are quite a few zones which make sense to have conversations (the kind you actually see the character you are talking to) and meeting places. Normally, when I'm talking to someone, I enjoy seeing said person.

Another annoying factor about these conversations is their content. It really quickly gets out of hand, which really hamper useful information (like request for life, request for party, valid questions/answers). May I also bring up the level of maturity of these "conversations".

Finally, a cooldown will encourage people to think before writing and significantly decrease SPAM (not only gil sellers produce SPAM). At the very least, there will be a 5 minutes gap between the SPAM of a single player.

My opinion,
Lloyd Shade

[Elkwood]

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Nicely put Lloyd, you explained this a bit more eloquently then i did. For those roleplayers they can use say since they should be in a fixed small area. I think the 300 second cooldown may be a bit extreme but a cooldown of sorts would alleviate the massive amounts of spam we currently have.

[Tari-F]

Nicely put Lloyd, you explained this a bit more eloquently then i did. For those roleplayers they can use say since they should be in a fixed small area. I think the 300 second cooldown may be a bit extreme but a cooldown of sorts would alleviate the massive amounts of spam we currently have.

If nothing else, it would certainly make it easier to right-click on the RMT names.

I doubt that a mere cooldown would actually stop the spam, though.

[Elkwood]

If nothing else, it would certainly make it easier to right-click on the RMT names.

I doubt that a mere cooldown would actually stop the spam, though.

It would in regards to it would not be back to back constantly like it is now, it would give us time to get the names blist and report tho so we would not see it again.

[Sandpark]

A shout cooldown could be needed to alleviate shout log spam period. It won't really solve the rmt problem and blacklist won't either because there is a limit to how many people you can blacklist.

I think the best solution is just to provide more filters, that function just like the profanity filter does.
Here are some possible filters:

Shout spam limiter timer:
From same person- 5min, 10min, 30min, permanent, off
Global shout- 5min, 10min, 30min, permanent, off

Tell spam limiter timer:
Tell from same person- 5min, 10min, 30min, permanent, off
Tells from anyone- 5min, 10min, 30min, permanent, off

Personal word filter: Any word you type in this box, you can't see tells or shouts from players who use those words.
Examples you could type- buy gold, power level, PL, specific websites, etc.

[Obreck]

If there's going to be a cooldown, it should be something that's based on number of posts in a certain time frame. And a rate no human player having even the biggest gossip fest could possibly crank out. The idea would be to slow the bots so they're easier to block WITHOUT meddling with the players.