Megaphones and Shout Chat in general is flooded by Players and Gold Sellers. Even if you hide the ticker the data is still being filtered through the server causing major lag and crashes to maps. Pretty much every suggestion has highlighted a few common things:
- Level and/or Rank requirement to use the Megaphone.
- Limit Shouts to # of characters.
- Cooldown for Megaphone usage.
- Make Megaphones a Premium/Token only feature.
- Increase TP amount in the Cash Shop
- Premium Servers
- Remove Megaphones from the game all together.
(I may have missed something).
The first three suggestions are OK. However these are temporary or not fixes to the spam, even when combined together it won’t stop the spam and lag.
The last three suggestions are, realistically, a way to stop the spam. Locking the Megaphone behind the Token would make it so you can’t simply just make an Account, come in, and spam. Increasing the amount of TP required to buy the Megaphone from the NPC would also make it so you can’t continuously obtain “free” Megaphones. Removing Megaphones (which is probably the most appealing option), would fix the entire thing, but probably wouldn’t be received well. Premium Servers would be ideal as well, but Gold Sellers aren’t as easily discouraged as the player base thinks.
tl;dr - Unfortunately there isn’t “One Solution” to the Megaphones spam. A combination of the suggestions from the forum will probably be likely.