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Aethyia
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Kind of like what other MMO games have done to prevent the number of problematic players in chat, as well as those advertising gold sites..

I think there should be a restriction on F2P accounts much like the trade limit, Where an account that hasn't been a member at least 2 weeks has a public chat cooldown, or is restricted to quick-chat. (Friends Chat, Clan Chats, and Private Messages should be fine)

The amount of accounts that get made purely for trolling or advertising would be greatly reduced.

24-Jul-2023 00:10:30

Tomato 56789
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No support. Believe it or not ftp has actual communities, and there are players who either cant afford membership or have returned after a long time and are seeing if they want to play again.

The ignore list and report features in the game are a thing.
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24-Jul-2023 00:36:50

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Tomato 56789 said :
No support. Believe it or not ftp has actual communities, and there are players who either cant afford membership or have returned after a long time and are seeing if they want to play again.

The ignore list and report features in the game are a thing.

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24-Jul-2023 16:35:13

Rikornak
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Looking at OS and the sheer amount of spam bots you have on any given populated location without some advanced locks on any given p2p world without a total level restriction - membership alone certainly isn't a good (or even something that could be called remotely working) mechanism to prevent this.

What would work better is a total level and/or quest points restriction - not so high, it would negatively impact regular players, but forcing bots to spend some time first - giving jagex the opportunity to get rid of them in some timely fashion. Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
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25-Jul-2023 06:34:14 - Last edited on 25-Jul-2023 06:42:35 by Rikornak

Aethyia
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Rikornak said :
What would work better is a total level and/or quest points restriction - not so high, it would negatively impact regular players, but forcing bots to spend some time first - giving jagex the opportunity to get rid of them in some timely fashion.

Fair point, I'd agree some sort of a total level requirement would probably work better.

25-Jul-2023 15:13:40

SlR
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Or they could just work on the system they have in place (that is letting so many links slip through the net). When I say "so many" there really aren't that many to be fair. I check every now and then (f2p worlds) and it's mostly just mining and store-run bots that I see at the G/E.

The guys doing drop parties and then advertising their twitch and discord are the worst; they get players off of the game first, where what happens next is behind closed doors. And since it's hard to prove whether or not they're legit, I assume reports don't have as much effect. Bob says:
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25-Jul-2023 18:31:58 - Last edited on 25-Jul-2023 18:39:48 by SlR

Aslon Dak

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Rikornak said :
Looking at OS and the sheer amount of spam bots you have on any given populated location without some advanced locks on any given p2p world without a total level restriction - membership alone certainly isn't a good (or even something that could be called remotely working) mechanism to prevent this.

What would work better is a total level and/or quest points restriction - not so high, it would negatively impact regular players, but forcing bots to spend some time first - giving jagex the opportunity to get rid of them in some timely fashion.
I couldn't agree more.

Having a total level and/or quest point restriction in place would effectively make throwaway spambot accounts worthless, without unfairly punishing legit free players.

The only downside I can see with this option is that it would also prevent new legit players from asking questions in-game, aside from using quick chat - which might not cover their specific questions. Aslon Dak: Still 'Scaping after 19 years!
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26-Jul-2023 06:02:24

Aslon Dak

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SlR said :
Or they could just work on the system they have in place (that is letting so many links slip through the net). When I say "so many" there really aren't that many to be fair. I check every now and then (f2p worlds) and it's mostly just mining and store-run bots that I see at the G/E.

The guys doing drop parties and then advertising their twitch and discord are the worst; they get players off of the game first, where what happens next is behind closed doors. And since it's hard to prove whether or not they're legit, I assume reports don't have as much effect.
I would support this.

I hardly ever see links being spammed in-game, except when I hop over to World 3. Any links I do see I automatically assume are scammer sites. Aslon Dak: Still 'Scaping after 19 years!
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26-Jul-2023 06:10:12

Rikornak
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Aslon Dak said :
Rikornak said :
Looking at OS and the sheer amount of spam bots you have on any given populated location without some advanced locks on any given p2p world without a total level restriction - membership alone certainly isn't a good (or even something that could be called remotely working) mechanism to prevent this.

What would work better is a total level and/or quest points restriction - not so high, it would negatively impact regular players, but forcing bots to spend some time first - giving jagex the opportunity to get rid of them in some timely fashion.
I couldn't agree more.

Having a total level and/or quest point restriction in place would effectively make throwaway spambot accounts worthless, without unfairly punishing legit free players.

The only downside I can see with this option is that it would also prevent new legit players from asking questions in-game, aside from using quick chat - which might not cover their specific questions.

That's why it's important to find something reasonable. OS locks its poll system behind 300 total levels and 25 hours of game time (+membership), which would be too much for something as essential as the chat. RS3 - when it finally did something to protect its raffle - had something like a 125 total level restriction (+membership), which wasn't effective at all to keep riggers out. So it needs to be some middle ground probably.

I think 200 total levels and 10 quest points wouldn't be too insane, albeit sure - it could hit that new player who needs help with something before that point. Probably worth checking out other systems for that matter. Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
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26-Jul-2023 09:06:31

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