How do you feel about paywalling chatting?

[Skindiacus]

People often complain about spam bots, but Deca has limited option when the sites can make infinite accounts to spam. A paywall would make it unprofitable to create hundreds of bots. That plus community moderation might fix the problem. The downside is that F2P accounts can't talk. Do you think the tradeoff would be worth it? Would you be willing to pay to chat?

[Chris Mintz-Pie]

Probably the only viable solution to be honest. Either that, or add some cheap-AI algorithm that uses player movement and activity to detect if a player is genuine or not. I mean, the spam bots literally just sit at spawn saying the same message over and over again, if the devs can't write code to detect that, and block those users, they should probably go back to school.

[Pvt. Fernandez]

This is a braindead solution.

[MamiGayming]

Originally posted by Skindiacus:

People often complain about spam bots, but Deca has limited option when the sites can make infinite accounts to spam. A paywall would make it unprofitable to create hundreds of bots. That plus community moderation might fix the problem. The downside is that F2P accounts can't talk. Do you think the tradeoff would be worth it? Would you be willing to pay to chat?

oh for ♥♥♥♥ sakes, this is the same ♥♥♥♥ that tf2 did to "combat bots" but look what happened there, do you REALLY want another tf2 f2p communication block?

[Skindiacus]

Originally posted by MamiGayming:

oh for ♥♥♥♥ sakes, this is the same ♥♥♥♥ that tf2 did to "combat bots" but look what happened there, do you REALLY want another tf2 f2p communication block?

Yeah this was partially inspired by Valve's solution for TF2. It successfully cut down on a lot of the chat spam.

[MamiGayming]

Originally posted by Skindiacus:

Originally posted by MamiGayming:

oh for ♥♥♥♥ sakes, this is the same ♥♥♥♥ that tf2 did to "combat bots" but look what happened there, do you REALLY want another tf2 f2p communication block?

Yeah this was partially inspired by Valve's solution for TF2. It successfully cut down on a lot of the chat spam.

it really didnt, as the bots just had to get some 50 cent item and then it would be able to spam, it cut off all of the people who were F2P from chatting entirely, including voicelines.
id say block RWT links and the like, while scanning the histories of players via realmeye and the like, and if they are an actual bot based upon their realmeye history and the like (the way they talk, amongst others), they would be unable to chat, which not only allows those who are f2p to chat without worry, it would also cut down on the bot problem MASSIVELY, if not completely if done right.

[Skindiacus]

Originally posted by MamiGayming:

it really didnt, as the bots just had to get some 50 cent item and then it would be able to spam, it cut off all of the people who were F2P from chatting entirely, including voicelines.
id say block RWT links and the like, while scanning the histories of players via realmeye and the like, and if they are an actual bot based upon their realmeye history and the like (the way they talk, amongst others), they would be unable to chat, which not only allows those who are f2p to chat without worry, it would also cut down on the bot problem MASSIVELY, if not completely if done right.

Something like that would be great, but that's a lot more effort.

[imag2OOO]

the rank based chat already basicly does that and without ruining the game for f2p ppl

[Great Blue]

actually, it'd only take them two seconds. all they'd have to do is join a lobby, see the bots exact text message, and everytime they send that message of exact words and symbols including the link, they'd get banned. the devs should just add the exact message in like a banned list of chat messages

[Great Blue]

since bots are everywhere doing these transactions and links, it'd be really easy to copy the exact bot spam they're sending and blacklist it, copying the same words and stuff into their very scripts.

[Just Breathe]

Originally posted by Great Blue:

since bots are everywhere doing these transactions and links, it'd be really easy to copy the exact bot spam they're sending and blacklist it, copying the same words and stuff into their very scripts.

better yet they can just make it so anything resembling a link gets the whole message deleted and if you do it more than twice in a set time frame (ofc theres also a pop-up warning) then you just get permanently muted

[Great Blue]

Originally posted by Just Breathe:

Originally posted by Great Blue:

since bots are everywhere doing these transactions and links, it'd be really easy to copy the exact bot spam they're sending and blacklist it, copying the same words and stuff into their very scripts.

better yet they can just make it so anything resembling a link gets the whole message deleted and if you do it more than twice in a set time frame (ofc theres also a pop-up warning) then you just get permanently muted

thats way better than mine lol

[GGcake]

maybe have 2 chats.

world chat and proxy chat

[cesame]

i dont think we should tf2 this game, it would be better if there could be a way for only people that are above a certain level or class to be able to chat