Not happening for The Division. Relax.Originally Posted by Robert.de.Bruce Go to original post
Robert, I used to help new players level up a lot. I have stopped doing that at least for their first play-thru. Reason being, I have found they hit the end game without learning the fundamentals within the game. I'll still give players a bump or two if they are behind the curve. I'll also still help level additional toons for experienced players in my friends list.
Sorry OP, I am going on a semi-related tangent...
Maybe that ban would hopefully be the case for the the "Pay for Play" people who are charging to level people up. That is what those $@!&#$@%& Chinese spammers are offering. I still can't believe they haven't got a filter set up to prevent, or at least be more discouraging and slow them down. If it were an email system, I could send them a bunch of information on how to do it as that is what I spend a portion of my work days doing. They send the exact same message every time and reference a name (something like Yaun Lididi). They obviously get banned at some point. They change their username and are back to it in no time. I can report and ignore in 2 seconds, but new users try to ask something and it quickly gets pushed off the screen and they don't know how to report and ignore them.
To Ubi, possible solutions for spam might be:
Restrict spam by things like number of posts limit on new players for xx levels, or for a certain amount of XP. Of course I'd exclude from such a filter like "LFG" or "Looking for Group", etc. Something that will require them to play the game a bit before just restarting their spam bot. The aforementioned message about the same message over and over could at least make them change their message every time they get banned. Or, have an increasing countdown for posts. Say, after hitting 100 messages, it starts an increasing but variable timer that blocks post attempts until a random time has passed. Even this forum requires 60 seconds between posts.
Have the option set a regional and/or language filter. I haven't seen an English speaking spammer on TD1 for a couple years. While I understand why there isn't one for the actual gameplay (though I still wish there was), it does no one any good to see languages you don't know how to read. It often leads me to either ignore it, or turn it off.
Is there a way to track how/where they keep getting the game. I doubt they are paying retail price as it doesn't seem that would be cost-effective. I also have seen the username is often just a different number added to the same base name.
It's the same. No ban for helping someone lvl up.Originally Posted by Robert.de.Bruce Go to original post