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[TheSquishy]

Just wondering how's the spam situation on Valk since Oda got his new beat stick?

[CheddarJack]

TheSquishy, on 01 November 2011 - 12:28 PM, said:

Just wondering how's the spam situation on Valk since Oda got his new beat stick?

It is going fine. Things are much more clean now in pront. Now if we can organize the vendors that would be awesome

[WateryGrave]

How about a new town for vending only!?!?!??!?!?

[sv003]

Or restrict vends from the streets and keep em on the sidewalks.

[Okii]

sv003, on 01 November 2011 - 01:26 PM, said:

Or restrict vends from the streets and keep em on the sidewalks.

Would take kRO
I wish we could have that!


I still see goldcentral,org spamming on Ymir btw. they're changing it to ,org now lol.
Clever bastards.

Edited by Okii, 01 November 2011 - 01:34 PM.

[Heimdallr]

It is a war, each day is a battle we will upgrade our weapons continuously.

[Fureedo]

Heimdallr, on 01 November 2011 - 01:47 PM, said:

It is a war, each day is a battle we will upgrade our weapons continuously.

Don't forget to spam HD, or they might break D=

[chasko]

Wait... we have an anit-spam bot? I noticed the bots are unable to spam as much now, although I don't see the red silence bubbles. They kind of just stop spamming soon after I see them on screen. Or is this a client side countermeasure? I'd like to know what method the GMs used.

[kite24]

I update my antispam.cfg (or something like that) whenever they come up with a new name.

[chasko]

Oh, I see there is a "nospam.cfg" file and a "nospam.dll" file in our RO's data folder. Interesting. Seems to work nicely!

[morphine]

I love the anti-spam so hard. It makes the game so much more enjoyable when we aren't spammed to hell. <3
I have added 2 phrases to the cfg file when unblocked things came up in town, but compared to right-click muting, it's infinitely easier. Hopefully the GMs can check it now and then and update the file when necessary.

chasko, on 01 November 2011 - 02:08 PM, said:

Wait... we have an anit-spam bot? I noticed the bots are unable to spam as much now, although I don't see the red silence bubbles. They kind of just stop spamming soon after I see them on screen. Or is this a client side countermeasure? I'd like to know what method the GMs used.

There was a small addition to our clients to keep us from seeing the offensive advertisements.

[TheSquishy]

I'd really like to thank the GM team, these sort of things makes it easier to convince new people
to give RO a try.

[Kuwano]

Okii, on 01 November 2011 - 01:33 PM, said:

I still see goldcentral,org spamming on Ymir btw. they're changing it to ,org now lol.
Clever bastards.

I don't quite understand though, why not to block just all kinds of "goldcentral" word variations but without paying attention to dots and "org", why "org" is even supposed to be in a filter
Also what I didn't like about the filter is that you can see many lines of spam again after losing a spammer from your field of view and then coming back to him. RCX's filter was blocking them without letting any single line to come through.

Edit: oh, I didn't see the .cfg file in a client folder. Can try to play around with it

Edited by Kuwano, 01 November 2011 - 02:52 PM.

[CheddarJack]

Heimdallr, on 01 November 2011 - 01:47 PM, said:

It is a war, each day is a battle we will upgrade our weapons continuously.

Pssssst Heim...Ive got a guy. He can get us all the anti bot weapons we could ever want. Stuff like this:

Like the fairly new Chainsword


Or your Classic Brass Knuckle Revolver


All the way to the "Way out there" awe-inspiring Whale Cannon

[Ralis]

They're trying to keep the list updated so users don't have to, so be aware that your own changes might need to be redone after every patch.

[Agahim]

i don't mean to complain. i'm glad GMs bother to do anything at all, but the spambot situation hardly improved. it was nice for a few days but it was only a matter of time until spambots figured out how to get around the filters. at least the situation on yggdrasil is pretty much the same as it was before except they spam a bit slower.

i gladly embrace little improvement over no improvement at all but yet i wonder, is this the often mentioned "gadget" GMs had up their sleeve to make the spampots live a harder life? you know the one that was awaiting approvement of the developers?

please say it isn't.

Edited by Agahim, 01 November 2011 - 03:25 PM.

[ButtardToast]

TheSquishy, on 01 November 2011 - 12:28 PM, said:

Just wondering how's the spam situation on Valk since Oda got his new beat stick?

[GuardianTK]

Agahim, on 01 November 2011 - 03:25 PM, said:

i don't mean to complain. i'm glad GMs bother to do anything at all, but the spambot situation hardly improved. it was nice for a few days but it was only a matter of time until spambots figured out how to get around the filters. at least the situation on yggdrasil is pretty much the same as it was before except they spam a bit slower.

i gladly embrace little improvement over no improvement at all but yet i wonder, is this the often mentioned "gadget" GMs had up their sleeve to make the spampots live a harder life? you know the one that was awaiting approvement of the developers?

please say it isn't.

It is, but be sure to take a screenshot(s) of the spam bots that are bypassing the filter and PM Oda about it. They'll update the filter when they can if you let them know that certain spam bots are bypassing it in some way.

[Kuropi]

Well, I personally go in and edit my nospam.cfg file. Every time the GMs update the patcher, I wind up getting a bunch of spam again cause they still don't have like, gridgolds and some of the other phrases in there. I finally god fed up and added USD at a value of 3 too, so I don't see ANY spam anymore. I doubt most people bother though. I'm happy to just HAVE the file so I can update it myself though. I don't mind the 5 minutes it takes me to walk around pront, see what the spambots have come up with to get around the filter, and go in and add new phrases. I keep a copy of it in my gravity folder so that I can just paste over the inevitably inferior nospam.cfg that always gets put in with every patch

Edited by Kuropi, 01 November 2011 - 10:00 PM.

[IronPlushy]

I had not noticed any spam filter, considering I see spam bots all over prontera still. Is this a troll thread?

[GuardianTK]

IronPlushy, on 01 November 2011 - 10:04 PM, said:

I had not noticed any spam filter, considering I see spam bots all over prontera still. Is this a troll thread?

The spam filter is in your RO directory inside the "data" folder. It only blocks those annoying All Chat ones though.

[Kuropi]

IronPlushy, on 01 November 2011 - 10:04 PM, said:

I had not noticed any spam filter, considering I see spam bots all over prontera still. Is this a troll thread?

This is not a troll thread. You must be blind. There is still spam, but it's literally a FRACTION of what there used to be, and if you know how to edit your C:\Program Files\Gravity\Ragnarok Online\Data\nospam.cfg, you could actually remove ALL spam. If you would like to learn how to do this properly, send me a PM and I'll walk you through it.

[Branny]

Bothered by spam? Play on Ymir, the free chat slot is disabled now.

[Wiggles]

Branny, on 01 November 2011 - 10:38 PM, said:

Bothered by spam? Play on Ymir, the free chat slot is disabled now.

Yes but the gold farmers had 1 month of constantly making accounts and characters....

[DeltaRay]

what exactly did the GM do for valk?did they actually add some sort of anti bot farmer filter?