RMT are now advertising crystal/shards - Shards need changed

[Huginn]

She's saying in general. Right now, there's no reliable way for anyone except gathering classes to get shards/crystals/clusters. And it's a huge hassle to level DoL at the moment. And, as a level 50 miner and botanist. I have to agree. Even for us, it takes a good while to get 1k shards for 1 element.

This exactly. No matter your level, it is not like you can just farm shards with ease. And when levelling a DoL, you do not usually go after shards, because they are worth less than 10 exp. getting up to 15 shards per gathering point when using a 400GP ability is tough, getting 4 shards per point is mind numbing.

[Camate]

Greetings,

The Special Task Force is not only combating RMT solicitation, but they're also taking action against users who use teleport cheats to gather and battle over and over. The team has been looking over every report submitted and taking action against users found to be involved in RMT activity, so we greatly appreciate you continued efforts in reporting these players.

[Noroi_Kisaragi]

Greetings,

The Special Task Force is not only combating RMT solicitation, but they're also taking action against users who use teleport cheats to gather and battle over and over. The team has been looking over every report submitted and taking action against users found to be involved in RMT activity, so we greatly appreciate you continued efforts in reporting these players.

And how large is this "Special Task Force"? It's been weeks and I still see the same old people spamming my /tell and /shout. My blacklist is getting larger by the day.

If you're seeing shouts and tells by the same old people, then they are obviously not in your blacklist...

Yeah sometimes they have really weird names and othertimes i'm too busy to have to open a blacklist, memorize the complete gibberish these guys PUT in their names, and type said gibberish into blacklist. If im getting spammed by tells i obviously have to take the time to do that, but if Square Enix would simply add an option to right click -> blacklist i wouldn't be experiencing this problem.

[Phogg]

Greetings,

The Special Task Force is not only combating RMT solicitation, but they're also taking action against users who use teleport cheats to gather and battle over and over. The team has been looking over every report submitted and taking action against users found to be involved in RMT activity, so we greatly appreciate you continued efforts in reporting these players.

Thanks for the laugh Camate. Myself and the telehack bot 4 other people and I reported over 24 hours ago with no action taken got a good giggle. I personally without cheating can get around 500-600 shards per hour. So Im sure a bot can beat that but even if not, they will have farmed about 12,000 shards in that time and still going strong for who knows how long.

[Mireille]

I saw a dev comment that RMT activities are being responded to with a permanent ban, but the same report also mentioned that many such account were in fact real player accounts that had been hacked. Are you perma-banning legitimate players whose accounts are hacked and then used to spam rmt ads? I understand that password protection is a user responsibility, but banning someone who had the misfortune to have their account hacked seems to me to be pretty unfair.

[Lycanar]

Greetings,

The Special Task Force is not only combating RMT solicitation, but they're also taking action against users who use teleport cheats to gather and battle over and over. The team has been looking over every report submitted and taking action against users found to be involved in RMT activity, so we greatly appreciate you continued efforts in reporting these players.

Honestly, doesn't seem like the task force is doing much to combat the SPAM every time you enter a city state you get bombarded with 3 or 4 people shouting with names like "Aasdfsdadadf Iililiiliili" which take forever to figure out to /blist add "xxxx" them. You have to do it 3-4 times because they are cycling through their multiple accounts and their names float off the screen before you are done typing. Also, they are sending /tells to people zone wide now as well.

Why is it so hard to add a report button on the right click menu? And, why is it so hard to set up filters that can block this kind of crap. There needs to at least be a limit set so someone can't send infinite messages in shout. Perhaps after 5 shouts in 15 seconds you have to wait a minute to shout again.

Just do something.

[Alousolu]

Greetings,

The Special Task Force is not only combating RMT solicitation, but they're also taking action against users who use teleport cheats to gather and battle over and over. The team has been looking over every report submitted and taking action against users found to be involved in RMT activity, so we greatly appreciate you continued efforts in reporting these players.

Yeah but how long does it take for them TO RESPOND because I have seen the same bot mining for 13 days. Hes gone from lvl 12 to 31 in that time and I bet all he has done was harvest crystals so your guess is as good as mine on how many he has collected. Also the day after I reported him for the first time he had 3 more friends with him so I reported all of them at the same time. So besides just stopping these people vary slowly it seems is the STF also removing items from the market board or do they leave them?

[Caligamy]

Greetings,

The Special Task Force is not only combating RMT solicitation, but they're also taking action against users who use teleport cheats to gather and battle over and over. The team has been looking over every report submitted and taking action against users found to be involved in RMT activity, so we greatly appreciate you continued efforts in reporting these players.

Why I have been reporting the same people for botting and position hacking while mining all week long?

I could name 6 hackers/botters right now off the top of my head without even thinking about it on the Behemoth server. That is how often I have come across this.

And after doing a quick player search... surprise! They're still at it!

[Ksenia]

Greetings,

The Special Task Force is not only combating RMT solicitation, but they're also taking action against users who use teleport cheats to gather and battle over and over. The team has been looking over every report submitted and taking action against users found to be involved in RMT activity, so we greatly appreciate you continued efforts in reporting these players.

It would be nice if Alch 30 had a recipe to revert crystals to shard and later, clusters to crystals. This would allow for the experience and level based farming of the three variations and at cap a speedier process. Part of what the OP pointed out is the quality of game time dedicated to returning to low level areas to mash the insert button for 2 hrs a week for no reason other than to collect a core resource and a very fixed rate based on real time and with no consideration for skill sets or levels in the game.

I'd understand if there was no alternative but we know there is. There is no need to convert even two hour a week of game time to such a blunt and tool. You will be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks shard farming is quality time in the game.

[EdwinLi]

shards are not hard to farm.

In 1 hour I can gather about 200 or more shards depending on the level of my Gathering class.