Chat Channels

No point in a class-based discussion channel if you ask me. Why would you ever have it on?

Act chat sounds reasonable. I don't see a friends chat channel in the OP's options. What if you're in a random party but also want to talk to a group (or all) of your friends on the side?

Another option could be to have chat channels by separated by character or networth level.

Ill just support the idea that an opportunity of creating your own private channels with so huge amount of players online would be really nice.

It was already said, but I would like to underline it again: A trade chat would be nice too.

I still believe strongly in a formal auction house... however trade channels are always welcome.

As far as a trade channel goes, it'd be really nice if it had officially supported syntax to format offers so they would both look nice and be functional.

It should just be possible to link items in the chat by SHIFT or CTRL - clicking on them in the inventory or char-screen.

Hey guys my first post although I've been checking the website daily for quite a few months now. Game looks amazing. Chris, the chat channels that you mentioned in your original post are really all a player needs imho. I check out all kinds of online rpg's and the trade chat is usually more of a spamfest than anything helpful. As long as there's an auction house we're good to go. I would find it helpful to have 2 seperate looking for group channels. One for dungeons, the other for quests. You could even have it auto-log into a certain lfg level range for questing groups.
Whichever way you end up doing it will be great though as long as it's simple to navigate.

There should probably one help channel per major language. Not only will that automatically distribute the player but they will also be able to help each other in their native language without disturbing the others.

As for how many players are too many: I'd say that depends on how much they write. In general channels (not guild or party) I'd split it when a certain amount of messages per minute has been reached.

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Runeword wrote:

I check out all kinds of online rpg's and the trade chat is usually more of a spamfest than anything helpful.

Yes that's why it's important to have it, so the spam doesn't pollute the other channels.

why not add a type of in-game chat that people can set up which is for specific topics (eg. Joining guilds/parties etc) which you need certain requirements for (eg. you could make a level 10 only one etc).

Hello,

Adding channels for specific profession could be useful.

Channels for each instances (Looking for group channel) *

* This could avoid lot of spamming on main channels when people are trying to find group.

Maybe a low level, mid level, high level channel? This could be easier for peoples to find mates around their levels to play with.

Maybe a trivia channel? When people are bored after a long day of questing, grinding , roleplaying. Could be awesome to relax on a channel that could ask questions about POE Could be used to help people know more about the lore and the content of the game.

This was some ideas i had going through my brain!

Enjoy!