Aion: Patch 1.5.0.11 is Now Available!

[Zeli]

Patch 1.5.0.11 is Now Available!
Oct 22, 2009 at 6:53 AM - Sprawl-zero1eye- - 0 Comments
It is time for another update patch to thwart spammers. The following was posted to the front page of the official website:

We are bringing the NA servers down at 3 a.m. PDT (more), October 22, 2009 for scheduled maintenance. The maintenance may take up to 4 hours.

A number of translation improvements, misspellings, and the like were fixed with English update 1.0.0.3 in addition to the following spam filter upgrades:

* All chat channels now have a level 10 restriction, both to join and participate
* Whispering now has a level 10 restriction.
* Players can receive whispers but cannot respond below level 10
* Players cannot send in game mail until level 10
* Players under 10 can still receive in game mail
* Players cannot search for ’who’ in game until level 10
* Players are now limited at the amount of in game mail you can send per hour
* If players exceed this limit, they will not be able to send mail. There is currently no message saying players have exceeded your limit
* Legion Abyss ranks have been fixed and will now display properly

aion.ign.com/articles/news/4477/Patch-1-5-0-11-is-Now-Available



Is it just me or does this just punish players instead of dealing with the problem? I’m getting annoyed that real players are being restricted while bots and spammers are in game obvious to all. So like Bacchus won’t be able to /tell anyone for a guild invite tonight? Use Vent for guild invite Bacc…

[Bacchus]

Word...

Edit: I'm guessing the game has a small problem with Gold sellers?

[Slurm]

Is it just me or does this just punish players instead of dealing with the problem?

Exactly, it's like they sat around and said, hmmm....how can we get rid of these guys without booting their asses

[Takzenen]

Yeah, they seem to be apprehensive to banning gold spammers.


Not gonna lie, that's a big deal to me. I realize that they're never going to be able to get rid of them, but this makes me question their ability to problem solve.

Aion is otherwise, in my opinion so far, great. The end game may be a completely different animal though, so time will tell.

[Winin]

Yeah, so much for being able to talk to high level characters in order to see what class you should pick. Or find your friends. Etc. And the gold spammers will just power to 10 and keep going with it.

All the game companies need to pool their resources and work together to make effective spam blocking in game.

[Kaarenyth]

Biatch of it is that Say Bach will have to get into vent to get a guild invite instead of /tell Zeli he's around.

Kinda shitty that too.

you think it would be kinda easy to setup a monitor on a log file/database to track number of tells to different perople an individual toon makes, if that number is greater than say 5 individuals in a 3 minute period you get silenced. (ok throw in a level check too) but hell -- put in a damn name check at that point (if no vowels you can't do shit...)

Maybe if people would stop being douches it wouldn't matter but hey thats a topic for another conversation.

[Dachartach]

Right, but people just spontaneously ending the douchebaggery is about as likely as Earth getting smacked by a mountain of white hot ice. Again. It will eventually happen, but it may take an extinction level event, that's all I'm saying. I really don't know what NCSoft could be doing, other than what they are doing. And as someone pointed out somewhere, these gold sellers are paying customers, buying their hourly playtime cards at the PC centers all over Asia, and maybe Japan and some of those other little archipelago nations. Commerce makes the world go 'round, after all. Love really just makes it dizzy.



aww, poor thing, you've been hurt before, haven't you?