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Only be able to buy new ships with merit which cant be traded i am bone tired of geting goldseler spam in my mail box :(
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Agree!! I BLAME THE CHINEESE!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    lajkalove wrote: »
    Only be able to buy new ships with merit which cant be traded i am bone tired of geting goldseler spam in my mail box :(


    Great idea, but they'd still spam you about the power-leveling. I think any account found to be a "seller" should automatically become a Ferengi, speak in another language, be forced to sell latinum and be open PVP targets. To hell with banning them, let me spawn camp them for hours on end and I am happy :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Keeith wrote:
    Agree!! I BLAME THE CHINEESE!

    More of these companies are based in former Soviet Block countries now. The Chinese Government cracked down on the export of an unlicensed goods/services trade and a lot of those companies got axed (and in China, that might mean literally).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Change to anonymous. No more spam, whispers or mail.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Change to anonymous. No more spam, whispers or mail.

    Oh? That setting is in the game? Bloody hell... wish I would have known earlier! Danke, my friend.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Honestly I don't know why we would need gold sellers, I mean it's not like credits are hard to com by. last night I made 7000 credits off one mission. No gold buying for me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    simply add a BLOCK ALL feature with check boxes to allow friends and fleet to send u mail. Done and done.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Best way to stop them would be to block their IP addresses so they wouldn't even be able to log into the game.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    MAdMaN wrote: »
    Best way to stop them would be to block their IP addresses so they wouldn't even be able to log into the game.

    Proxies and re-routing take about 10 seconds.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    MAdMaN wrote: »
    Best way to stop them would be to block their IP addresses so they wouldn't even be able to log into the game.

    /facepalm

    At least know a little about computers before you make more posts like this.. Please?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Great idea, but they'd still spam you about the power-leveling. I think any account found to be a "seller" should automatically become a Ferengi, speak in another language, be forced to sell latinum and be open PVP targets. To hell with banning them, let me spawn camp them for hours on end and I am happy :)

    This solution would satisfy me SOOOOO MUCCCH!!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    lajkalove wrote: »
    Only be able to buy new ships with merit which cant be traded i am bone tired of geting goldseler spam in my mail box :(

    Yeah .. I had like 8 e-mails all gold spammers ! I only reported a few.. but frankly there were so many I thought I might get into trouble for reporting so many at one time !

    IMHO this is the one thing oI hope we can see fall by the way side. I know it's impossible to get all of them .. but I really don't like the gold spammer garbage ! YUK !
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Proxies and re-routing take about 10 seconds.
    And once they start spamming again those proxies will be blocked. Yes, there's ways you can get around it, but it'd be more effective than just blocking accounts as the spammers can easily make more.
    tedgp123 wrote: »
    /facepalm

    At least know a little about computers before you make more posts like this.. Please?
    Been using IBM-compatible PCs for 15 years, been using Linux on and off since Red Hat 5, currently running Gentoo Linux as my main OS, have worked for my local borough council fixing the Millenium Bug. Need I go on?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Great idea, but they'd still spam you about the power-leveling. I think any account found to be a "seller" should automatically become a Ferengi, speak in another language, be forced to sell latinum and be open PVP targets. To hell with banning them, let me spawn camp them for hours on end and I am happy :)

    Was it Age of Conan that was going to implement a prison sentence, where you would have to do several pointless quests in a pit, visible by other players until you were released? Why not have the spammer sold off to an Orion slaver and be made to fetch tea and what not for hours before you could "escape" to be able to use your mailbox or starship again?

    I'd be willing to "buy" a few slaves with cryptic points if this were ever considered.

    EB
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    MAdMaN wrote: »
    And once they start spamming again those proxies will be blocked. Yes, there's ways you can get around it, but it'd be more effective than just blocking accounts as the spammers can easily make more.


    Been using IBM-compatible PCs for 15 years, been using Linux on and off since Red Hat 5, currently running Gentoo Linux as my main OS, have worked for my local borough council fixing the Millenium Bug. Need I go on?

    Well thats great... But still.. Learn a little about computers before you post, wont you?
    Blocking an IP will NOT work.
    1) Using a proxy will get around the block
    2) Some use a shared IP. If my IP was blocked, it would mean that my appartment complex would be blocked. That's around 800 appartments. (It's called NAT or Network Adress Translation. Look it up)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Darkwing wrote: »
    Well thats great... But still.. Learn a little about computers before you post, wont you?
    Blocking an IP will NOT work.
    1) Using a proxy will get around the block
    2) Some use a shared IP. If my IP was blocked, it would mean that my appartment complex would be blocked. That's around 800 appartments. (It's called NAT or Network Adress Translation. Look it up)

    gonna throw my two cents in here...Yes IP blocking could be done....but why...

    let them log on...let them buy a copy, let them pay for a month or three, blam, that's a quick 65 dollars for cryptic, then they ban the account.

    Usually gold sellers, will go out and but another copy and get another account and keep going. So once again, blam more money for cryptic.

    Blocking by IP gets other people caught in the cross fire, if you are not lucky enough to have a static IP, most ISP's have anywhere from a 48 to a 72 hr lease set up for their DHCP servers.

    So unless Cryptic wants to do Mac Address filtering, which even then can be gotten around by some fairly unenterprising script kiddies....Acct Banning will probably be the most economical way to go, and will probably earn Cryptic more cash to do so.....
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