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IcarusFlewTooHigh
07-12-2008, 11:43 PM
This is a question aimed primarily at Outspark's development team, but players are free to respond as well.

I know spamming is an inevitable part of any online game. With dozens of competing gamer dormitories throughout China offering powerleveling and gold selling services, it's impossible not to see any of it. But what troubles me is that every time I log into Fiesta, I get about five whispers right off the back from spambots and general chat is flooded with it.

I propose a couple of solutions.

1. Limit the amount of times you can say something in the same channel over a set duration of time. Another MMORPG called <removed> will start decreasing your stamina and energy if you repeatedly use the general channel too often within a short duration of time. Other MMOs will dispense a penalty on spamming players which will disable that channel function for a certain amount of time.

This will encourage more frequent use of Guild, Party, and Whisper channels, perhaps even the community tab. Less spamming will occur. Even if spammers create alternate accounts, they can only create so many. If there is a time penalty imposed preventing spammers from talking in general for a certain amount of time (heck, you can even implement a warning before the penalty is imposed) then players will have to create multiple accounts to keep spamming, which Outspark will be able to detect far more quickly than if the user creates and deletes characters on the same account, especially if the channel ban occurs across all characters on the same account.

Alternatively, Outspark can give players a word filter option that enables players to screen such words or phrases as "cheap gold", "powerleveling", or even URL website addresses, thus auto-ignoring these horrible spambots.

Do either of these seem like real options?

MOVE TO FEEDBACK SECTION, MODS!

mulberry
07-12-2008, 11:53 PM
Yeah, the gold spammers are a pain. Outspark is looking for ways to get rid of them, so I guess we will just have to be patient with them. You have some really cool suggestions. Maybe you should have this thread moved to the "Feedback" section?
I think the decrease stamina thing would not really work for the gold spammers, though, since they don't actually fight anything, and I have seen some that were actually resting in a mushie while shouting.
Darn spammers seem to have an endless source of e-mail addresses, or something. As soon as the GM/CSR's get rid of them, they create new chars and just start all over.
The spammers that whisp you are just....creepy

IcarusFlewTooHigh
07-13-2008, 12:02 AM
Yeah, the gold spammers are a pain. Outspark is looking for ways to get rid of them, so I guess we will just have to be patient with them. You have some really cool suggestions. Maybe you should have this thread moved to the "Feedback" section?
I think the decrease stamina thing would not really work for the gold spammers, though, since they don't actually fight anything, and I have seen some that were actually resting in a mushie while shouting.
Darn spammers seem to have an endless source of e-mail addresses, or something. As soon as the GM/CSR's get rid of them, they create new chars and just start all over.
The spammers that whisp you are just....creepy

Good idea, Mulberry. I tagged the post to be moved to Feedback. I'm guessing the whispering spammers are not just spammers, but spambots, because those guys whisper me the second I log in. There must be some code that recognizes a login and automatically whispers that player.

Erbian
07-13-2008, 01:28 AM
O.o lmao creepy......

Anyway wheres Nel?? I thought he was undefeated champion against spamming bots...

I think we need more [GL] to go against spambots

darksoulenvoy
07-13-2008, 07:30 AM
Yea...it's soooo annoying! I'll be in Elderine and there will be a bot with 30hp saying the same thing over and over again!!!

kalone
07-13-2008, 07:40 AM
No! Don't do that, I can't spam buff plz anymore.