Upcoming global chat system changes

FINALLY!

I had almost forgotten the joys of global chat in closed beta.
The lengthy discussions about random crap... People whining about the lengthy discussions about random crap...
Who was that guy that wrote very deliberate comments about his testicles or something?
Anyone remember?
Supposedly he had a very nice pair of testicles, which he cared for very much...

Anyway, great stuff.

I was thinking they'd switch to an overflow system where you have something like this:

- 100 chat channels. (Or however many you think is needed)

- As each channel gets full, additional players are shafted to the next available chat channel.

- Each player stays with the chat channel they initially entered upon logging in to the game.

- Exception to previous point: If a chat channel falls below a population of 10 or 20 people, then it will try to merge the existing players of that chat channel as they each enter a new zone, in to a more popular chat channel.

- Party/Trade Chat use separate channels to Global Chat and will instead follow the current proposed behaviour (The behaviour proposed by this threads Op).

Good news - Was a little annoying.

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G07W33D wrote:

Timestamp plz.

Would love timestamps as well.

Finally! I guess complaining really does pay off.

GREAT !!! <3 U know the chat now is so stupid and funny in the same time :P .

combat/damage log please :)
pretty please

one change to chat I'd like to see is your chat channel changing automatically to "party chat" when you join a party

also, currently when you're in party chat and you hit backspace you go to local chat.
I'd like for that to not happen.

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Wisdom wrote:

Yes. Hopefully this also means we'll see private/guild channels in the near future. Providing an easy means of communication between multiple like-minded players and friends is one of the easiest ways to help foster a larger and longer lasting community.

This would be awesome

The ability to separate the tabs would be handy too

1 other thing I find irritating is when in a party and I use a system command (yes i'm looking at you /remaining) it dumps me back to local chat. Would be nice if it remembered where you were last chatting and kindly returned you

Having said this, need to remember the game is still in Beta and the number of positive updates GGG make are far greater than in any game I've played so far


Confidence is High

Hopefully it will be more efficient. When I turn on the trade chat I lose around 30 fps due to logging, which is more than I gained by simplifying auras. I understand logging the game for debug, write the whole chat, not so much

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billyoatmeal wrote:

Language-specific channels are good. What if the only language i spoke is spanish? I wouldn't want to talk to a bunch of English speaking people.

I don't understand the negative feedback on idea like that. It could help improve the game for people who speak different languages.

This is actually good not only for people who want to speak their native language but also for everyone who don't want to see that native language in global chat.

It's also possible that with many numbered channels some will naturally become language-specific for most common non-english languages.