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Megaphone is just pointless

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#1

No one wants a Megaphone to shout. Their are more better solutions to allow players to use the shout chat.
Make a trade chat with a time period and remove this useless shout chat.
Or make it just avaiable for Token Players.
But I think the best solution is:

  • remove megaphones
  • set a cooldown on the shout chat of 5 minutes
  • only avaiable for token players
  • make a trade chat with a cooldown for every player.

And to guys who thinking “whats about the gold spammer”. Their is no solution for gold spammers. You can just bann them but no defeat.

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#2

The solution for gold spammers is just putting a level requirement to any form of global chat, they will get tired and use the general chat instead, you’ll see(if they implement it).

Something around level 50-100 would work.

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#3

Ok that’s right ^^
But It’s bad for new players. If she have questions about the game or some problems, no one can help. But to prevent gold spammers, is this a good sacrifise :smiley:

#4

Reddit, these forums and even just using the normal chat is plenty for starting players.

They really need to put a level restriction on shouts

#5

Limiting the megaphone usage to a level restriction is just gonna delay them for a short while, then it will be back to how it was before.

BnS did it quite well, they added a report button especially for reporting spammers so they could be banned quicker, i think a feature like that would work very well for ToS aswell.

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#6

Solution would be to add level restriction to Megaphone (100). And get rid of running line on top completely.
And add a zone chat to non-city locations with level restriction of (Zone level -10).

#7

This is BnS forums all over again.

People asking for level restriction.
Bots level up to the restriction.
Bots spam again.
Players complaining again…

Its impossible to stop bots. How do you think they farm the silver? Sitting in chat? No! They actually play the game (or at least the bots do).
Throw a lvl 100 restriction on shout and they will level up accounts before spamming again or even worst, whisper you…
Megaphones? No problem. Stolen CC is the way!

The bots only stop when the game is not worth the time (hype is gone, better game released etc) but even then, some spammers will pop up to remind the players they have the option to buy from them.

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#8

There are ways to protect the average player you know. Chat filters, more chat options, such as “Only recieve whispers from friends”, make /shout only available to people who have quested far, far into the game so bot grinding doesn’t help. If you force gold sellers to actually play the game, and lots of it, I doubt they will be inclined to stay.

Plus when their account is banned, it hurts that much more.

It’s all about the developers motivation to actually combat it.

#9

Didn’t they patch it to 150 chars? I still see thoe bots spamming 20 lines per megaphone. I lag everytime i see one of their messages i lag like hell, so basically all the ime. It was fine just after patch/maintenance i could play flawlessly untill the spam came back.

So i’m all for deleting those stupid megaphones.

#10

just make megaphone cooldown. 1min or 5 min + min lvl.
god pls just do that

#11

Not only delaying, but it will be easier to track down.

With such limitation the gold sellers will require more effort to advertise their phishing by having to level up their bots. Getting them banned after or during their grind can be troublesome for them.

The only issue it is possible to foresee is they having their bots spread throughout the channels and spamming in common places such as Klaipeda and Orsha.

#12

If level won’t solve it, lower the character limit of shouts to about 50-80 and make each shout have a cooldown of 2 minutes.