Yet another tired of Credit Spammers thread

Yes, it's another one. In the past few days I have gotten several in-game mails from credit sellers. Not to mention fleet being spammed by them. Whispers from out of the blue. Etc. The same 'person' spamming for DAYS. I simply don't understand EA/BW's lack of response to this.

One method of fixing the in-game credit seller mail issue is make it so anyone not on your friends list gets charged a fee that you can set from 0-1000000 credits in addition to the measly 5 credit fee the mail system already charges. Make sales from the GTN and system exempt. (that additional fee goes into the credit sink, not to the actual player). That can/will reduce one side of that issue.

Next thing that can be done is set up a cpl of algorithms in the software that you can add website addresses too. if a 'banned' website is entered into chat, or whisper, or mail.. the account (not the character) is perma banned, so sorry, suck it up.

Finally... there is no excuse at ALL for credit sellers to be able to use the same name to spam their garbage for days on end. Perma ban the accounts, and e-mail addresses associated with them. This is seriously getting ridiculous and if something doesn't change soon.. will be a game breaker for me and i'll take my happy backside somewhere else.

And yes, I add them to my ignore lists after reporting them for spam. EA/BW still needs to get off their lazy asses and do something about this garbage.

Happens in every F2P game. Spammers come out with new tactics all the time. It takes a while for the devs to catch up. Be patient.

Just give us a way to block chat messages with certain strings. Why is anyone who begins a chat message with "SO Cheapest" not immediately banned?

Patience isn't my strong suit with this kind of stuff. It's a fast way to get me to cancel my account if something isn't done in a half way timely manner. Been playing P2p and F2p games for a long time. I have zero patience with this particular subject when there ARE things they can do fairly quickly and easily if they got off their dead asses and did them.

And all that will accomplish is that the spammers will change the opening message.

The only successful anti-RMT spam features I've seen in a game were in CoH. Free accounts were restricted to specific chat channels that either weren't serverwide or weren't standard channels and had their own tab which was easily ignored.

a hide feature with several options that allowed players to block tells/PM's, hide from general searches or could be customized to hide from everyone but select groups of people.

And an email filter that blocked all emails except from people in your guild or on your friends list.

They also had a report/ignore feature that petitioned spammers and added them to your ignore list.

After that the only people that complained about RMT spam were the ones that refused to use the features that blocked spammers.

Now that type of system would be nice to have implemented in SWTOR.

I don't understand why they don't add the web site addresses to the dirty words filter, it is such a brain dead simple fix.

This would be interesting but the people would being *********** all over the chat That would be kind of cool.

Reporting from ToFN:

Got only one in-game mail from a credit spammer. Not a single chat message witnessed.

Yes but I don't want to start on another server I all ready have I think More then 10 characters across 3 servers >.<