I think its useful when a guild has many guildmasters (like 2-3)Sometimes i want to talk only with the gms in the guild..It would be great if they made a guildmaster chat with the command /m or /gm.I think it will be easy to make it...+1 or -1
What about a guildmaster chat?
Lun, 06/18/2012 - 03:10
Lun, 06/18/2012 - 05:25
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We already have /o to talk to officers and GMs :p. If you want something even more private than that, there are /tells or mails.
Lun, 06/18/2012 - 05:30
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Tabs
Yes. Having a way to separate the chat types would be a welcome thing.
Lun, 06/18/2012 - 10:58
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Off-topic: I think that is probably the largest, most substantial post I've seen Asukalan make.
On-topic: It is also one of the few Asukalan posts that I can basically agree with.
Lun, 06/18/2012 - 13:33
#5
@asukalan
Im not quite liking the tab idea. I feel that the color system ( white for near people, pink for talking to people privately, and green for guild chat) works great it lets me easily identify who is telling me what. This game requires sharp movements and blocks so if I was to have to flip between my chat types it would take my focus off the game. I would support this tab system if it was optional.
to the OP:
I really think there isnt a reason to make guildmaster chat. Officers are higher rank people who make changes and effect the guild. You shouldnt be promoting everyone to officer only the people who will make a difference and try to move the guild foward. I think that putting another layer is unnecessary , the reason officer chat was created was so that the higher ranks could talk about the guild and who joined, ect.
super mega ultimate point: I feel this addition is unnecessary.
Lun, 06/18/2012 - 19:43
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And now I realised.... It can work in one direction (you telling somethign to them). But how will they reply to you and only you?
What if many members are trying to have this 'private chat' with their GMs?
It can't be done so easily.
The current chat system is messy and unreliable. What we need it TABBED chat, a whole new system. This is the true suggestion which (unlike nerf/buff weapons etc. ) will benefit ALL PLAYERS since EVERYONE have contact with chat system.
Thats why chat should be divided into separate tabs, not just one big river of guild/tells/general/zones/trades
There will be separate tab for all of those channels. Like in chatbox. You click General and you see just what ppl talk on the speaking distance (no other thngs). You switch to trade and you have plain trade offers WTS/WTB/WWT. You go to tab guild for guildies.
There could be even tabs for /tells so you will keep conversation with certain person in one place. It would also eliminate problem when multiple persons are telling to you and you constantly keep /reply to wrong peorons.
Also we should be able to expand chat window. When we are not doing clockwors and we are in game just to chat or to track trade channel looking for things we want it would be good if we would be able to expand chat window.
Currently its too smal and claustrophobic. It seems that devs assumed that only thing that will appear on chat is "xxx winks" "xxx waves" from preconfigured commands/animations.
If one wants to have real conversation, one chat piece can cover more than half of current chat window, and to go back in conversaion you have to click the hell out of that small "go up" button. Which leads to next point:
- chat should have scroolbar
http://i39.tinypic.com/15oj6ah.png
This ^^ is just a simple sketch how it could look like. There would be a tab for every existing channel we have now, general, guild, trade. Also you would be able to open chat channels to certain persons (instead of using constantly tells or reply - useful when making conversation with multiple ppl at once). Also there should be possibility to add custom chat tab like /join Player1, player2, player10,trade,guild to open a chat tab that would show tells from players 1,2,10 and also posts from guild chat and trade chat.
Every tab could be closed and opened again. Instead of current up/down buttons there would be a scroll bar to prevent clicking in order to reach top of chat window. If chat window would be scolled all the way down to newest msge, it would stay that way tracking newest chat pieces. If you would start scroling up, it would now move and it wont go to newest chat piece unless you will scroll it all way down back to newest chat.
Also the little arrow directed to upper right corner just under scroll bar would be and "expand chat" button. It would be for those that are not really intrested about what is happening in game, but rather what is happening on chat. It would double the size of chatbox or even make it full screen to make it that most of longest chat pieces would take just one line instead of taking whole chat space (which is happening now).
The tab where you would recive a msg could blink somehow. It could be annoying for trade/general maybe guild chat but very helpful for multiple tell/private tabs opened. The appropriate tickbox for turning this on or off could be in settings/options.
Also the little tab with > arrow mark could be used to scroll tab bar, when you would have too much tabs opened to see them all at once.
And just like its now, if you join channel, you have to leave it manually, in TAB chat system the tabs you open once would not close (even if you log out) untill you close them by yourself (excluding /tell tabs with certain players).