There are limited ways at the moment to deal with spammers DateTime:8/18/2010 5:52:58 PM
The most efficient method you can use to deal with these spammers immediately is setting yourself aside some time before you start adventuring and blocking every user that spams in chat. Sure, it may work but the spammers will be back the next day and the day after with different names. Hell, sometimes they've seemingly (to put it in relative terms) 'respawned' even if you only log off for a few minutes! The 'I don't care' option: Go ballistic in the area and kill all the mobs the bots are programmed to kill. Just go nuts; slaughter everything in sight. Soon enough the bots will be thoroughly confused and will run around aimlessly. This is a pretty huge disrupting in the pattern a bot is programmed to carry out, so a big high-five for you if you choose to carry this out. Unfortunately that's about all the gratification you get out of this method; a smug sense of anarchic justice and accomplishment.
The good news is, NCSoft have begun to crack down on the spammers, swinging the banhammer around and kicking these disrupters out of chat. We are encouraged, as players, by NCSoft GMs, to keep reporting these spammers and indeed we should be. Every reporting is a tiny step on the way to spam-free chat. Although not technically operated by a human player whilst in-game, the bot was definitely programmed by an idiot. Bots are easily identified by their keyboard-mashy names like 'fdfdg' and 'lkljl'. They prance around; sometimes solo, sometimes in groups of two or three, killing, killing, killing then resting simultaneously before killing again. They're getting kills real players should be getting and, most painful of all, getting loot real players should be getting.
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