Chat Channels

Here are my suggestions (probably posted already, but I'm too lazy to read everything) :

1. Resizeable chat box (both width & height)

2. Add options to filter channels (see image below)

3. Add a trading channel (which would be disabled by default, so newcomers don't get spammed. Maybe you could even forbid access to trading channel if level is lower than 10?)

4. (optional) add a separate box for notifications messages, so they don't interfere with player messages (see image below, on top)


This is a pic from Shaiya, a f2p p2w mmorpg :

My biggest concern is trade channels in game. I don't want those people who aren't going to be using the forums to spam a wall of text in global or any other instance text.

Hello,

Not sure if it's been mentioned but chat channels for individual classes such as witch chat or duelist chat channels would be nice and class trade channels as well. So that u could go to the witch channel and talk about your build and then go to witch trade channel and get items for your witch. Just an idea and if it's been mentioned already sorry about that.

Thanks
Tim

IRC Chat for IRC purists our network uses unreal IRCd and epona services. A Java chat client is also available.

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stuart10 wrote:

IRC Chat for IRC purists our network uses unreal IRCd and epona services. A Java chat client is also available.

Is there a PoE IRC channel/server floating around. I'm pretty active on IRC and would be interested.

Trade chat is a must, also class related channels are nice to have

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Heirless wrote:

How about personalized (client-side) regex filters? So beyond the normal chat channels, any individual could tell their client to take any sentence containing "WTB" and highlight it purple or completely squelch it. And since this is all client-side, there's no added strain on the server.

IE:

Spoiler

Actual Chat:
SoAndSo: WTB crazy gold amulet of craziness
SoAndOtherSo: WTT thingy majig
Noob1: This is probably a noob question but,
Noob2: I HATE BEER

Personal Regex Options
'wtb%s' = purple
'wtt%s' = pink
'%snoob%s' = off

Chat Now:
(purple)SoAndSo: WTB crazy gold amulet of craziness
(pink)SoAndOtherSo: WTT thingy majig
(deleted)
(deleted)

It could be made to highlight whole lines or just words. It could be made to change color, underline, bold, italics, etc. The expressions themselves (being small strings) could then be easily stored on the server for those of us who use multiple computers.

This is also great when you don't necessarily want to mute someone entirely, just most of what they say. Eg, for when you no longer want to hear about D3.

This! RegEx options for client side chat! Especially with the filter option of removing certain messages based on player name and message body. I'd love to remove messages from any player writing in caps or having a caps name for instance. Or remove any message containing certain words: 'd3', 'diablo', 'newbie', 'noob', 'n00b'.

This is by far the best suggestion ever! :)

For me, the big chat functionalities that are missing are like this:

- Player created channels with self-moderating tools
- An editable ignorelist. Even if it were a simple locally saved textfile with no UI built around it.
- "Sticking" in one shard of general chat rather than hopping around as you re-instance

Ugh, trade. It's so hard to trade right now. The trade forums don't really cut it. Even in hardcore trade forums I can post an item listing, and it will fall off page one in less than 10 minutes. That's unusable. We need at the very least a special forum skin for the trade forum that lists "shops" in a grid by name of the poster, and allows us to sort by when the OP last made an edit to his first post. Then instead of first 10 thread titles on page 1, we would see a grid of 50 "shops with recent activity" - just showing the seller's name. Sorted alphabetically.

Anyway, as it is now we're forced to wade through tradechat. I don't even know what to do with the concept of tradechat, diablo 2 proved to us that this is an insufficient system. Things may get even spammier.

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Timathus wrote:

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stuart10 wrote:

IRC Chat for IRC purists our network uses unreal IRCd and epona services. A Java chat client is also available.

Is there a PoE IRC channel/server floating around. I'm pretty active on IRC and would be interested.

Sorry for the delay but there is an irc chan on irc.freenode.net #pathofexile and it has approximately 130 users daily with pretty good community and nice features.

On the related note, not sure if this is mentioned, but they really need to make trade chat separate in the sense that my whispers and party chats don't show up in trade chat. I don't want to scroll up in trade chat while having to scroll over all conversations I had with other people and in party while looking at trade items. It gets all clustered. Clicking on hide chat would reveal whispers and party chat and when it is not hidden only trade chat should be visible.

Some chat channel feedback from a new user.

Trade chat needs to much more structured.

Say one trade chat for levels 1-10, another 10-20, 20-30, etc.

Would help people look for exactly the type of items they are looking for.

Also, maybe just a "Currency" trade channel, where people are solely exchaning currency for currency, not items.

General chat also could use more organizaiton like this, like a channel for each class, as well as a channel for noobs to ask questions, etc.

Having 1 big general and 1 big trade chat will not be sustanable as the player base grows.