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HEllo everyone.. am i the only one that is SO p!ssed of thoose trial accounts at Mos E spamming all that time? dude im getting so tired of them.... i think we should discuss some kinda way to ban them.. i know we wont be able to ban them all the time cuz they are using trial accounts... but i think that there should be some restriction like when u say F(_)ck and all that and it just shows @$€£$€ and that.. should we make some restriction that gives a warning when u say powerleveling and that ****? im soo tired of them.. im not joking when im saying im happy i dont know were they live.. or i woulda killed them_!

They dont use trial accounts for the most part(for example they could be tied to an active players account who's mains on another servor and when theyre not online the spammer gets logged in on another spare toon slot)....There has been constant posts on the main swg forums about differant ways to deal with them.

Restrict macro's to paying accounts... remove the ability to spam, remove macro's, kick afk players from the servor after 10mins, GM's travelling servors and flagging spammers attackable to everyone. Personal favourite, sit a level 1000 rancor outside eisley sp that attacks anyone that repeats the same lines of text 5 times in say 10 mins. Those and a lot more similar ideas. (uncheck the box for viewing chat from afk players in the options can help cut down the spam to a certain extent).

What youve really got to ask yourself is why are they still here when there has been numerous ideas to combat them.

Take soe's stance on players that found a way of removing them with the treasure map npc's themselves... They classed that as "griefing" and made it suspendable or even bannable.

Is it because from SOE's perspective there paying for the accounts?

Edited, Aug 9th 2007 12:12pm by DrGircenstein

Not sure how but they where getting treasure map npc's to spawn outside eisely space port... they then turned on anyone near...

They killed the spammers... and im sure for anyone that did get incapped they'd be willing to take that over the spammers anyday (i mean what quests are around eisley? what real grief did it cause that wasnt a click to fix?).

When ive seen it happen its also lead to the most actual players congregated around eisley ive seen on my servor in a long time. None of them complaining.
Most stuck around and helped clean up the jedi's

(i mean even the devs do spawn jedi or high level npc's there on rare occasions).

So why when in reality its a public service would that constitute griefing? lol

Throw this into the mix... what happens when some poor new player logs in sees all the adverts for buying credits and after getting sick of the legacy decides to use one? For the most part they get there accounts deleted... That means they can start again but with the added cost of having to buy a new game (after maybe paying extra money to get through to anyone in customer service to help or not as is normally the case).

I see more to support both of those thoughts than anything happening to get rid of the spammers.