Chat Channels

I think that certain leagues should have an extra chat option. So say you have the default instance chat for normal games of up to 8 players. Party chat, guild chat, and private chat. But then for leagues like iron man and the attrition league there should be a world chat to talk to all players since there will be up to a 100 players in an attrition game. Instance chat might be able to take care of this but if the game has different loading zones then instance chat could be fore the people in a certain area and world chat for all 100 people in that attrition game.

It would be nice if there was one trade channel always open when in town, but is automatically disabled when you enter an instance - but can be enabled again by '/trade' or something if the player is wanting to view the trade chat whilst killing and doing quests.

My reasoning behind automatically disabling it when in an instance would be because players wouldnt really want the massive wall of text on their screen, but would choose to if looking for a perticular item to buy or offers for something they are trying to sell?

Trade Chat definitely, very useful in a game where bartering is a necessity

Go with your 4 generic worldwide channels, and then give people the ability to create their own channels.

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tpapp157 wrote:

A dedicated trade channel is definitely a good idea. Make it so it can only be accessed from town so that way trade can be focused in the town instances.

depending on how the forum trading links into the game item trading and how this is all handled, i might like to see an in-game trade channel as well...

I would hope when exploring that I can talk to other people in the area that I am in. I agree world chat is difficult, but I think a zone(area) chat channel would be beneficial.

Friends chat channel and a dedicated trade channel would be good i think, can't think of too much more really

Perhaps a Party finding channel, like a looking for group thing

If you put in a trading channel please limit the possible posts per account or char. A 1 Minute cooldown or something like that comes to mind.

Im not a programmer or anything like that, just a guy that plays good games and doesnt waste time on lame ones. Having said that i absolutely cant wait to get my hands on Path of Exile.

I thought it would be totally cool if, as in steam you could have the same type of chat system that comes with voice optional. I know theres software out there that does this, but maybe it could be incorporated.

Well when you say chat channel in a way is a little vage. Do you mean just text chating or do you also mean voice chat.

Becase if you dont or do eather way, I think a voice chat system built in to the game would be realy realy convenient. know need to go grab vents for the game.

It be a form of party chat allowing easy coordination between players. So during intece fight sceens, theres that point where you need to tell them something but typeing just not fast enough. It can get you and your party killed.

Like say your the healer you stop healing to tell range dps to back off some more becase there taking too much dmg and tank ends up dieing.

I hope i made my point.