Chat Channels

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maxor wrote:

I think what you have is fine just add a normal chat which all people stood near you can see but doesnt get broadcast in any way

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Rhesos wrote:

First of all:
I don't understand why an instance chat is needed... Is there any possibility that you are in an instance with people that aren't in your party? If not, than you have everything covered with a party chat.

And as a suggestion:
I would like to have a few ways to see the chat. One overall view, where you can see the what's going on on every available chat channel, in different colors (e.g. general = white, party = blue, guild = yellow, whispers = green, trade = red). Then there should be one option to select the channel you want to be in. E.g. you can select the trade channel and receive only messages from the trade channel (however the colours should stay the same to avoid confusion...)

Here is what i think how it should look like:

Overall | General | Local | Trade | Party | Guild
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Chat is going on here in different colours



Whispers should be available in every chat channel of course!


And for the problem of too many players in the general (= overall) thread: You can simply make different groups of channels e.g. general-1-, general-2-, general-3-, putting people randomly in the channel and creating another one when the critical number is reached.
Alternatively you can try to sort the people by region e.g. over the ip adress or the information they gave you on the character creation page. Then you get the following general chat channels: GER-1-, GER-2-, ENG-1-, ENG-2-, POR-1-, POR-2- and so on...
Maybe it would be the best if you add a chat window that is called local, where you use the second method and the general chat where you can use the first method.

Edit: There should be an option like /join General-1- or /join Local-Ger-1- for example. So you can always get in channels with people you want to.
This would be also possible for the guild channels, if they wanna have people from other guilds in there chat as well... Either with the option /invite playerxy (typed in the guild chat by guild administrators) or by a single player typing /join Guild-RandomGuildName- and every administrator of the guild get a window where they could decide if he can join the chat or not... Of course there should be the possibility to /kick persons as well :)