Filter chat of known gold farm sites.

[AverageJoe]

Can you raise the level threshold needed to post in public channels from level 5 to 10?

That will at least slow down the time it takes to create a new spam toon.

^ This. And for trade channel aswell then, else they can just dabble their way into a city... /2 WTS Golds papi.

The staff did this in a previous patch and players were unhappy with it, citing the public chat channels are an integral part of the social/community experience, especially when first creating a new character and chatting in the starting zones. It was eventually reverted from level 10 down to level 3. See the thread link below.

https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6425

[Mobi]

yes,
that is why it is pretty hard to enforce it.
They will just change to w w w. a b c d. (om
or abcd.com
or @bcd

So that is the thing, you would need to make a huge list of possibility's and when that is done there are a lot of people will also be blocked, when the amount of items to block or to not display increases it automatically increases the false positives also.
I will put this on my discussion list

Aye this is true, but there are only so many characters to replace other characters with before the message becomes an unintelligible mess that isn't effective advertising because no one can decipher it, and no one should be using the characters of a gold sell site in regular conversation in sequence even with other characters in between; ie a filter of "susanismyname" should automatically include *s*u*s*a*n*i*s*m*y*n*a*m*e* and prolly some substitutions as well like c and ( and a and @ etc. It would make most sense to have it reference a database table as well for easy additions to the filter, and if really fancy, could have a GM of certain level able to add to the filter manually via command as they attempt to adapt their spam.

Just some ideas.

[Arise]

Can you raise the level threshold needed to post in public channels from level 5 to 10?

That will at least slow down the time it takes to create a new spam toon.

^ This. And for trade channel aswell then, else they can just dabble their way into a city... /2 WTS Golds papi.

The staff did this in a previous patch and players were unhappy with it, citing the public chat channels are an integral part of the social/community experience, especially when first creating a new character and chatting in the starting zones. It was eventually reverted from level 10 down to level 3. See the thread link below.

https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6425

I think lvl 10 requirement should be added for trade channel. Lvl 5 can remain for General.