It's a well known fact that the game is plagued with tons of adena spamming bots, it doesn't take a genius to know or understand that the complete removal of adeana spamming bots would greatly harm Lineage II but the spam is beyond terrible...
As a programmer myself I know that from a coding aspect it really isn't that hard to work out a few ways to limit and block spam bots, the lack in effort is just shocking.
The following 5 methods should be in play to reduce spam...
Weekly Filter Updates
- NCSOFT should be pushing small updates on a weekly basis that simply updates a filter list which has gold spammer phrases or website names that when someone sends a chat message or creates a shop with that phrase every other user will NOT see it.
Regular Expression Filters
- It's easy to make a few easy and simple regular expression rules to detect and capture gold spammer phrases/sites, from this you should MUTE the gold spammer so their messages only show for themselves, not others. (Same applies for stores, inbox messages, party matching)
Custom Filters
- NCSOFT should provide a file inside the Lineage II installation folder for advanced users to be able to either edit manually AND/OR add phrases/words to from in-game that will act the same as /block
Duplicate Filters
- If someone tries to post the same message more than three times in 1 min then their 4th attempt will be blanked, if they reach 10 messages in 5 mins then they should be muted for 1 hour.
Total Limitations
- If a user does the exact same message 25 times in an hour then they should be muted for an hour, if in the following hour they try to post the same message a further 10 times then they should be muted for 24 hours. Includes same messages in different chats (whisper, trade, normal...etc)
Level Limitations
- You introduced some limitations but didn't do it how you should because normal chat should also have a limitation of needing to be level 20 or higher to use normal chat.
Misc Limitations
- You should add petty, annoying limitations for example...
- To use Trade & Shout & Party Matching the character must have pants, gloves, boots, something in one of their hands, hat, chest...
- To use Trade & Shout & Party Matching you must have 1 million gold or more.
It's a well known fact that the game is plagued with tons of adena spamming bots, it doesn't take a genius to know or understand that the complete removal of adeana spamming bots would greatly harm Lineage II but the spam is beyond terrible...
As a programmer myself I know that from a coding aspect it really isn't that hard to work out a few ways to limit and block spam bots, the lack in effort is just shocking.
The following 5 methods should be in play to reduce spam...
Weekly Filter Updates
- NCSOFT should be pushing small updates on a weekly basis that simply updates a filter list which has gold spammer phrases or website names that when someone sends a chat message or creates a shop with that phrase every other user will NOT see it.
Regular Expression Filters
- It's easy to make a few easy and simple regular expression rules to detect and capture gold spammer phrases/sites, from this you should MUTE the gold spammer so their messages only show for themselves, not others. (Same applies for stores, inbox messages, party matching)
Custom Filters
- NCSOFT should provide a file inside the Lineage II installation folder for advanced users to be able to either edit manually AND/OR add phrases/words to from in-game that will act the same as /block
Duplicate Filters
- If someone tries to post the same message more than three times in 1 min then their 4th attempt will be blanked, if they reach 10 messages in 5 mins then they should be muted for 1 hour.
Total Limitations
- If a user does the exact same message 25 times in an hour then they should be muted for an hour, if in the following hour they try to post the same message a further 10 times then they should be muted for 24 hours. Includes same messages in different chats (whisper, trade, normal...etc)
Level Limitations
- You introduced some limitations but didn't do it how you should because normal chat should also have a limitation of needing to be level 20 or higher to use normal chat.
Misc Limitations
- You should add petty, annoying limitations for example...
- To use Trade & Shout & Party Matching the character must have pants, gloves, boots, something in one of their hands, hat, chest...
- To use Trade & Shout & Party Matching you must have 1 million gold or more.
And likewise, it doesn't take a programmer to realize these kind of tools need to be implemented to cure us of the spammers. What it truly takes to rid us of this filth would be.....are you ready?......2 things......wait for it...........care and effort! <--Neither of which have been displayed in some time, at least not enough.
Hey,it doesn't take a genius to know or understand that the complete removal of adeana spamming bots would greatly harm Lineage II
And likewise, it doesn't take a programmer to realize these kind of tools need to be implemented to cure us of the spammers. What it truly takes to rid us of this filth would be.....are you ready?......2 things......wait for it...........care and effort! <--Neither of which have been displayed in some time, at least not enough.
You know an ellipsis consists of 3 dots (periods)?
Of course it doesn't take a programmer to realise that, but as a programmer I could do what needs to be done fairly easily.
Give me a day and I'd have all of that implemented if I had the source :P
You know an ellipsis consists of 3 dots (periods)?
Of course it doesn't take a programmer to realise that, but as a programmer I could do what needs to be done fairly easily.
Give me a day and I'd have all of that implemented if I had the source :P
The only problem with some of this is due to the nature of how L2 was coded, many of the chat restrictions are client side.
Which is why these spammers can unload such a huge amount of spam without getting chat banned. The custom chat filters would be GREAT if you could do that, but it would need far more capability than they have shown the client to have as yet.
Moving the cat restrictions server side would solve a great many headaches, but I believe that is beyond the level of effort they are willing to provide outside of major game updates.
The only problem with some of this is due to the nature of how L2 was coded, many of the chat restrictions are client side.
Which is why these spammers can unload such a huge amount of spam without getting chat banned. The custom chat filters would be GREAT if you could do that, but it would need far more capability than they have shown the client to have as yet.
Moving the cat restrictions server side would solve a great many headaches, but I believe that is beyond the level of effort they are willing to provide outside of major game updates.
My comments about any or all of things I mentioned would work just as good client side or server side.
If your client blocks incoming messages based on any of the things I mentioned, problem is solved and the spam bots will have a slightly (very very slightly) harder time of known when their messages have been blocked.
NCSOFT could add the easiest of them all "custom filters" within 30 mins (regardless of what language) as just a file in your Lineage II folder that would suffice more than enough for the main users of the game.
NC Soft is a big company,
They have money to hire best developers to stop bot / rmt.
The question is, why they don't do that?
Simple, because they don't want.
Example:
Big private server block zr. Total cash for each month in big private server is U$5.000
Oficial NC server don't block zr. Total cash for each month in NC oficial server is U$50.000
I dont know how many years are you playing here... but a simple advice.. click the spammer name, y write /block.. forget the spammer, be happy and go play.
It is the prayer we pray every day .. like it or not ..
I dont know how many years are you playing here... but a simple advice.. click the spammer name, y write /block.. forget the spammer, be happy and go play.
It is the prayer we pray every day .. like it or not ..
This routine is like any other daily we've gotten used to. You do your Kartias...you do your Baylors, your Espez, your HF, your EGs, your /block spammers, etc.. the list goes on. I'm so used to /block 'ing spammers, I don't get too annoyed with it anymore unless I miss an important message. I don't know what's sadder, the spam, or the fact that I'm used to it.
Cancel all chats and leave only clan party ally hero and world chat or delete the adenna of the players that keep adena to sell goldceo. Find the bots warehouse and delete. 1 month now we cant use chat for nothink. Is pathetic do something