It is time to level-block mails and /tell's - Page 9

Glerg · 05-15-2007, 02:21 PM

Players should definitely be given the option to block tells and mail based on the adventure or crafting level of the sender. It's minutes of work to implement since it's just a slightly different form of the /ignore feature. Would you miss some tells that you wanted to get? I don't think I would have missed a single one in 2+ years. Even if I did it would be my choice to risk it.

It solves the spam problem for the players that don't want the spam. Players that don't care about the spam would not be affected by the option at all. It would cut way down on the reports and petitions that customer service has to deal with.

There's also no reason to allow anyone to send out tells to hundreds of different players in a few seconds like the plat seller scripts do.

Illuminator · 05-19-2007, 04:45 PM

This issue will never die. I want my fucking level blocker. Or somebody will make a packet filterer that fixes the problem with or without SOE's vote.

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(1179466639)[Fri May 18 01:37:19 2007] \aPC -1 Zslqupsrl:Zslqupsrl\/a tells you,"Safe gold,Fast power leveling,Special service of gold farming.Enjoy the fun we give you and your guild at www. ******** .com"
(1179479737)[Fri May 18 05:15:37 2007] \aPC -1 Dfsfd:Dfsfd\/a tells you,"www.gamenoble.com handles powerleveling service(1-70,$695.99)in competitive price,professional team with high efficiency .  win bonus points for 1250 gold  for  free !cheapest platinum with fast delivery and top-ranking service.pls visit www.g"
(1179481703)[Fri May 18 05:48:23 2007] \aPC -1 Jfqposriu:Jfqposriu\/a tells you,"Safe gold,Fast power leveling,Special service of gold farming.Enjoy the fun we give you and your guild at www. ******** .com"
(1179484732)[Fri May 18 06:38:52 2007] \aPC -1 Sdfss:Sdfss\/a tells you,"www.gamenoble.com handles powerleveling service(1-70,$695.99)in competitive price,professional team with high efficiency .  win bonus points for 1250 gold  for  free !cheapest platinum with fast delivery and top-ranking service.pls visit www.g"
(1179485421)[Fri May 18 06:50:21 2007] \aPC -1 Utwlfrirt:Utwlfrirt\/a tells you,"Safe gold,Fast power leveling,Special service of gold farming.Enjoy the fun we give you and your guild at www.*************"
(1179489467)[Fri May 18 07:57:47 2007] \aPC -1 Pcwtqzaop:Pcwtqzaop\/a tells you,"Safe gold,Fast power leveling,Special service of gold farming.Enjoy the fun we give you and your guild at www. ******** .com"
(1179493756)[Fri May 18 09:09:16 2007] \aPC -1 Sadadfsdf:Sadadfsdf\/a tells you,"www.gamenoble.com handles powerleveling service(1-70,$695.99)in competitive price,professional team with high efficiency .  win bonus points for 1250 gold  for  free !cheapest platinum with fast delivery and top-ranking service.pls visit www.g"
(1179601191)[Sat May 19 14:59:51 2007] \aPC -1 Xrhxacluf:Xrhxacluf\/a tells you,"Safe gold,Fast power leveling,Special service of gold farming.Enjoy the fun we give you and your guild at www. ******** .com"
(1179607571)[Sat May 19 16:46:11 2007] \aPC -1 Sdfsdf:Sdfsdf\/a tells you,"www.gamenoble.com handles powerleveling service(1-70,$695.99)in competitive price,professional team with high efficiency .  win bonus points for 1250 gold  for  free !cheapest platinum with fast delivery and top-ranking service.pls visit www.g"

Jenarie · 05-19-2007, 06:19 PM

I'd rather see something that doesn't punish new players for being new.

What if there was a "report spam" command similar to /report but only for plat selling sites? Then if 10 people reported the same person (I guess to avoid griefing it would have to actually be responding to a tell) in one hour the account would automatically be suspended until customer sevice could investigate?

Your proposed solution is probably easier to impliment but almost as many threads are started saying we need more advertising etc to bring new people into the game as there are complaints about plat tells and it seems that your solution would be very unfriendly to what newbies the game does get.

Illuminator · 05-19-2007, 06:56 PM

The burden is upon you to explain to me then what a level 1 player, who I've never met in my life, is going to say to me, a level 70 player, that I will want to hear.

Glerg · 05-19-2007, 08:46 PM

The option to block all tells is already in the game and nobody is complaining about that causing problems. Having an option to block some tells is just a less extreme version of that. There's no real downside to adding the option, anyone who doesn't like it can choose not to use it.

Jenarie · 05-19-2007, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Illuminator

The burden is upon you to explain to me then what a level 1 player, who I've never met in my life, is going to say to me, a level 70 player, that I will want to hear.

Level 1? Nothing. And what you would want to hear I have no idea so that's an unfair question.

Seriously though if this was in wouldn't everyone block levels 1-10? So then wouldn't the plat spammers just level up to 11? And then wouldn't you put your block up further? And then wouldn't they level further? It takes no time for someone to PL to a level which could reasonably be wanting to send you a tell.

Snark · 05-19-2007, 11:55 PM

Let's just hope you never become a game designer.

Blocking plat tells that simply annoy you is the laziest solution possible. And there are plenty of lazy solutions.

The plat tells will still reach potential buyers, who will still pay money.

Turning a blind eye to a problem is just another way of admitting defeat. If you can't realize that, then perhaps you should re-think the whole situation.

Talonis · 05-20-2007, 01:07 AM

At lower levels, we are restricted to the amount of weight we can carry. Now seeing that there is no legitimate reason a lvl 1 toon would need a few hundred plat, why not restrict the amount of money a low player can carry/have? It wouldn't make it impossible for the plat sellers, but it would certainly be inconvenient. We gotta start somewhere...

Something like plat capacity on person + in bank =

lvl * 2 (lvls 1-10)
lvl * 3 (lvls 11-20)
lvl * 5 (lvls 21-30)
lvl * 10 (lvls 31-40)
lvl * 20 (lvls 41-50)
unlimited if > lvl 50.

Or something like that. The check on lvl could be on adv or crafter.

However, I think the real efforts should be toward finding a way to identify the buyers. Find 'em and add some gallows in game that people can go up to and inspect to see the names of the banned buyers.

Illuminator · 05-20-2007, 01:37 AM

You guys are going for the authoritarian solutions. I'm giving player choice. You're going for every solution to the problem possible except for one thing:

THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM

Your ring-around-the-rosie problems are as politically correct as I've ever heard. What am I to thank you for when I still get the same damned plat seller tells, but can't use tells for raid macros and can carry only less plat?

Illuziun · 05-20-2007, 03:12 AM

They won't add this because SOE wants new players coming into the game to be able to interact with higher level people.

Let's be honest, if they put this feature in 95% of the higher population would have lvl's 1-30ish on ignore. It's never gonna happen.