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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 6:28PM RogueJedi86 said

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Maybe Aion should do what that one MMO did a few months back. Let players buy an item they can use on other players that forces the target to input a CAPTCHA sequence. If they don't enter the CAPTCHA in a certain amount of time, they're kicked out of the game for 30 minutes. Then all you gotta do is get a few players who're annoyed by bots to go stand around the place where the bots start, and start using the items to filter out the bots from the real players. Hard to spam when you're locked out of the game for 30 minutes.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 7:59PM (Unverified) said

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That would be an awesome exploit for use during PvP. Imagine a fortress defense: All of the attackers select a defender they can see and hit them with this device then, while they are trying to figure out the puzzle, hit them hard while an annoying, possibly modal, window blocks their view/controls.

To make it work in Aion the device could only be used against character of the *same* faction since you can just kill bots of an enemy faction.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 8:07PM RogueJedi86 said

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Well making it not work on hostile players seemed obvious. The worlds of Light and Dark are separated out so neither side can visit the other's newbie area anyways, right?
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 10:26PM Ivasen said

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What game was this in?
It was little "bombs" they could buy right?

Anyway, you are not able to AutoHuntingReport the opposite Race/Faction in Aion.
So I don't think that will be an issue.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 11:02PM wjowski said

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Sounds like an awesome griefing tool. Wait 'til someone's in combat then stick a goddamn window in his face.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 11:42PM Dblade said

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Y's online and Mabinogi both use these. In Mabinogi it's useless because it cant stop the spammers, who just stay in town and spam the say channel, where the bombs wont work.

The best thing to do is very simple. Advertise jobs paying roughly $10 per hour to go and manually ban each gold spammer. Any form of automation can and will be defeated, so the best thing is to use human intelligence to repeatedly ban each whispering main account over and over till the RMT get sick of it and leave.
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