RMT are now advertising crystal/shards - Shards need changed

[tyrianna324]

Yeah the problem with RMT's seems to be growing rather than decreasing its getting to a point where reporting them is becoming extremely pointless and tedious. Spending half my day reporting people and adding them to my blacklist is NOT why im paying for this game. Something really needs to be done about this RMT business. But then again if they just removed the market board and only allowed trading between people on your friends list for items or gil then the RMT's would dissapear soon enough. I for one would gladdly suffer without trading and a market board if it would help get rid of those annoying spammers. And they dont just post once or twice every half hour no no they have to post the same message over and over and over ever single second so that the shout chats are no longer useful and /tell and /yell are even being compromised. I turned /shout /tell and /yell all off because of this nonscense.

[Jampol]

Couldn't Square-Enix patch in a system where they messages from being displayed that containing gil selling website address. Seems like it'd cut down a lot of the shouts and whispers.

[Conradus]

Couldn't Square-Enix patch in a system where they messages from being displayed that containing gil selling website address. Seems like it'd cut down a lot of the shouts and whispers.

They're already scanning messages for gilselling websites. The problem is: how do you define what a gil selling website address looks like? The RMT spend a lot of effort obfuscating the web address so that humans can read them but the filters don't recognize it. That's why the addresses always look so weird.

[Amiarah]

Is there even a point to report them? None of the ones I report seem to stay on my blacklist. They are there, but I can still see their spam about their sites.
The reporting seems to not being noticed, as I get answers, but no action. The spammers are still here, and I can still see the "blocked" ones =)

[Mooshywooshy]

I'm totally confused how they can just spam all day, when in FFXI if you were to use shout too much people would report you and you'd be taken to jail within like 30 minutes? Are we saving money not hiring GMs or what?

[Callence]

So here is what I could suggest in trying to curve this issue:
First off - to solve the whole spamming teleport thing, why can't a cd be implemented? The benefit would be that it would put a holt to alot of bots spamming port to port. However would this pose a risk to the game as a whole?

Secondly - We need to be able to Blist and report in 1 click - just like they implemented in AION. Can this be implemented ? What would be the risk in implementing/not implementing this feature. Would this be a major risk to the database or a minor risk?

Third - Are you planning to beef up staff to help asssit in combatting the RMT?

[davidbowie]

i say bring back mpk

[DarkAngel200]

The players Bing Bing and Marina Chelewae are also both using the mining hacks to be under the terrain and teleport as well in my server (Coeurl). I've reported Bing Bing every time I've seen him and it's been 3 weeks so far and he's in the game still. Marina Chelewae is a real player that's just cheating by the same manner that I reported just a few moments ago. I took video of it, do I need to send it somewhere as proof if they need proof of it?