Has Anyone Noticed a Decrease in RMT tells?

[Kimiko]

Guys, I've just noticed this on Siren, but I haven't gotten a single RMT tell in the last 3 days. Also a cursory check of Bastok Mines yielded only 1 or 2 of the random named characters afoot. Lastly, water crystal prices have dramatically dropped (back to 500-1k a stack). Did SE ninja ban a shitload of RMT?

edit: And with good reason, cording to http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/rule/specialtask.html, 16,230 accounts banned from 6-1/6-30 with 2.1 billion gil removed from circulation

[Goldencarnage]

Yeah me and a few friends on Diabolos have talked about this recently. Have not gotten a tell in like 5 days. Feels great

[thebearofscience]

I think you're on to something

[ronin sparthos]

I sure have.

[Tyroch]

a quick pole of my LS reveals that nobody got a single RMT /tell today.

[Laude]

Hmmm, I didn't get one yesterday or today either. Interesting.

[Kimiko]

Holy shit, yes they did...

FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

16,230 accounts banned. 2.1 billion gil removed from 6-1/6-30

[Aristio]

Holy shit, yes they did...

FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

16,230 accounts banned. 2.1 billion gil removed from 6-1/6-30

I just checked brogame.com. The last tell I got was advertising for 18$/M(A week ago). Now it's $46.59. Guess supply went waaaaaaaaaay down.

[Kimiko]

Nice, looks like they got pwned pretty good then.

[Rasantath]

also see this thread which may or may not have an effect

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/77457...-bans-rmt.html

[Thorshammer]

wow.. now that you say it... 3 - 4 days ago since i got last RMT /tell .... were 4 tells at 1 day..... pretty annoying...

[Kipling]

Do you guys just not know about Aikar's RMT filter in chatmon or just don't care enough to use it?

[Arximiro]

I just checked brogame.com. The last tell I got was advertising for 18$/M(A week ago). Now it's $46.59. Guess supply went waaaaaaaaaay down.

Wow that is one hell of a jump, that's awesome that they got hit so hard. I haven't been getting any tells the last few days either.

[stewie]

Do you guys just not know about Aikar's RMT filter in chatmon or just don't care enough to use it?

I'm too lazy to use it ! I like to see their price jump all over the place too so meh.

[The Q]

Yeah a lot of people would complain that SE wasn't doing anything about the Bastok face-smashes that were obviously RMT but SE have said that they like to wait, watch, tracce and honeypot RMT and this seems to be exactly what they did.

LOL at the sudden price jump.

[Kipling]

I'm too lazy to use it ! I like to see their price jump all over the place too so meh.

I just figure if people make a thread and seem to care it'd be worth the 5-10 minutes (If that?) of downloading chatmon and putting it in your init.txt and maybe tweaking the features a bit.

I did it the day Aikar released the feature and I've never gotten a single tell since.

[Kimiko]

Do you guys just not know about Aikar's RMT filter in chatmon or just don't care enough to use it?

Yes we're well aware of it, but I usually don't turn it on less I started getting spam messages.

[Aksannyi]

Do you guys just not know about Aikar's RMT filter in chatmon or just don't care enough to use it?

It's not 100%. I have an "A" name, and I still get plenty of tells that the filter doesn't pick up. It's nice and it did cut back on them a bit, but I still got enough tells to be annoyed by them.

[rog]

I actually had my first tell since chatmon yesterday !

[ringthree]

This has all been discussed in the other RMT thread. It was because SE did their normal monthly ban. The Chinese RMT ban doesn't have anything to do with it (it didn't really ban RMT at all).

I guess people weren't paying attention when SE announced it, but they explicitly said they are not doing the monthly announcements on the main POL page anymore. They are only covering them on the STF website. This isn't a ninja ban of RMT. It's just their normal monthly ban.

This should probably be merged with: http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/77457...-bans-rmt.html